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Ian Fletcher, Director IBM IBV: The Trust Economy – What’s My Data Worth?
How Do Organisations Ensure We Get a Fair Return? The driving force behind “stakeholder capitalism” – the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum meeting at Davos – is the conviction that businesses should balance the needs of all their
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Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: SDG Awareness and Action – A Report From the Global Exchange Community
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems by the year 2030, but progress has been slower than necessary and scattershot in impact. Certain SDGs tend to attract awareness and action from companies if
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Joseph Stiglitz: The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History
At the end of the Cold War, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called “The End of History?” Communism’s collapse, he argued, would clear the last obstacle separating the entire world from its destiny of liberal democracy and
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Q&A with the Executive Secretary of the UNCDF: Judith Karl
How would you sum up in three single words what characterises your team at UNCDF? Innovative Nimble Trusted What are you trying to accomplish? We aim to make finance work for the poor. In the current global financial ecosystem, finance
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Ana Palacio: Europe on a Geopolitical Fault Line
Two months ago, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his fear that a “Great Fracture” could split the international order into two “separate and competing worlds,” one dominated by the United States
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UK Won’t ‘Move On’ After Brexit: It Will Move Forward
Many of the existential issues that have driven a period of prolonged introversion in the UK, hampering its international engagement, have now been laid to rest. Brexit will continue to be the defining prism through which the world views the
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Jim O’Neill: A Living Wage for Capitalism
At 3.6%, unemployment in the United States remains near its lowest level since the late 1960s. There are even signs that people who had previously dropped out of the labour force are being attracted back into it as employers scour
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Water to the Rescue? Danish Firm’s Solution to Energy Generation Riddle
By Lúcia Carvalho Andersen New Integrated Energy Sustainability Technology Ready for Africa Solar and wind energy are widely used and produce amazing results. The problem — until now — has been that the energy produced has to be immediately consumed.
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Tactical Management: Global Goals and Expertise, Specific Focus on Looking After Client Needs
Tactical Management provides — as the name suggests — strategic management support. In today’s competitive landscape, businesses operate in an ever-evolving environment of cross-border challenges. Tactical Management is dedicated to helping enterprises seeking to venture into overseas markets to find
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It’s not Nuclear Physics: Pension Fund Chief Champions Ethics and Balance
Matthew Eyton-Jones is the CEO of a pension fund with a difference: it provides benefits to the staff and fellows of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. That’s right, the same organisation which led the search for
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