World Economic Forum

Sorrell on running a multinational

A good ad man can summarize complex thoughts in a way that's understandable to anyone, even a journalist. Martin Sorrell, CEO of advertising conglomerate WPP, did just that Wednesday morning in explaining his approach to global investing for WPP's business. As part of a panel on the economy on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sorrell likened WPP's world view to the way U.S. football clubs MORE

Rogoff on the economy: Not my biggest worry

One consensus so far from the World Economic Forum is an unsurprising one: The global outlook is better this year than last.

I found a perversely upbeat assessment of the economy today when I talked to Kenneth Rogoff, the Harvard economist who co-wrote the well received tome "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly." I asked him the same open-ended question I'm asking everyone in Davos: What's the biggest MORE

Of green tech, white snow and red-hot air

Critics like to fault the Davos conference for being a lot of hot-air conversations that might just as well take place somewhere else. This is fair, but incomplete.

It began snowing Tuesday evening as I rolled into Davos, Switzerland, from Zurich, and it doesn't appear to have stopped. For even a mediocre skier such as myself the sight of gently falling snow and the sound of snowplows MORE

E&Y CEO on what makes global leaders successful

Many corporate leaders believe diversity helps their global organizations, but too few of them actually put those beliefs into action by including foreign executives in their management teams.

By James S. Turley, CEO, Ernst & Young

The World Economic Forum put talk of diversity -- of which there is much in global organizations -- into action this year by requiring its strategic partners to bring at least one female member MORE

A pre-Davos primer

There are several reasons why the World Economic Forum's annual conference in Davos merits the attention it receives. Here's what to look for at this year's event.

The World Economic Forum, the stunningly successful gathering of global business and non-governmental leaders and heads of state, popularized the notion of "pillars," or themes around which a chin-scratching conference is organized. Fortune.com Managing Editor Daniel Roth ably describes one of the pillars of next MORE

At Davos, tackling risks -- and making sure Davos doesn't risk its future

This year's global discussion is all about handling, preventing (and winning in) melting markets.

The big brains at the World Economic Forum — the people who put on the annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, of top CEOs, heads of state and NGOs — have one official goal in mind for this year's event:  tackling risk. And by that they mean risk everywhere: in the financial system, in the environment, with the MORE