A renewed attempt to revamp global partnerships appears to be promising, but at a time of overlapping global emergencies, the pitfalls are numerous.
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Leaders must find new ways to measure development and economic progress and to co-operate on prioritising human and environmental security over profits.
Business schools have vast and diverse expertise to contribute to rebuilding better in a post-pandemic world, but the problems it has laid bare require business schools to change too.
When Joe Biden is the great hope for global change, it’s hard to feel overly optimistic.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution failed to deliver; it’s time that we put our faith once again in hard science.
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos put environmental risks at the top of its agenda, while the world’s CEOs see overregulation as their biggest threat.
Business leaders are beginning to take the global climate issue seriously by setting science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Making sport accessible to ordinary people can be achieved if communities take control of their organisations.
The World Economic Forum in Davos must change its ethos from ‘idea sharing’ to one of democratic accountability and justice.
The high-profile absence of several world leaders including Trump from the World Economic Forum has led some to suggest its influence is in decline. A philosopher who has seen Davos up close disagrees.
Cyberattacks are in the top five global risks, behind extreme weather events and natural disasters. But global cooperation remains deeply problematic.
The billionaires, business leaders and other elites who gathered in Davos praised the president’s policies, yet research on the politics of economic growth suggests it’s too soon to celebrate.
Will young Germans remember their history – and will older German embrace the digital future?
French companies will no longer be ‘forbidden to fail’ and ‘forbidden to succeed,’ the French president tells the World Economic Forum.
It will be the private remarks between senior Australian business leaders and foreign investors at Davos that will likely be the most consequential for the Australian economy in the coming few years.
The movement against globalisation has shifted from developing to developed countries.
China’s actions in the South China Sea are getting scant attention at Davos. But if the Chinese set a precedent for other rogue nations, there will be a profound impact on global free trade.
The shake up at South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, sends a good signal about where Cyril Ramaphosa is taking the country.
Crunching the numbers on 14 years of trading shows one of the assumptions about global markets is looking fragile.
China’s bid for an infrastructure blitz to drive overland trade through to Europe will end up being overshadowed.
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Professor of Responsible Innovation, Arizona State University
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Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
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Professor of Ethics and Business Law, University of St. Thomas
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Chair & Professor of International Business, University of Manchester
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Visiting Professor, Imperial College Business School, and Emeritus Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University
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Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Reader in Economics, University of Sussex
