Today’s chief executives are the last generation to manage all-human workforces as companies increasingly adopt artificial intelligence, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Thursday.
On the first day of this year’s Davos, three Greenpeace campaigners evaded the tight security checks to scale a balcony in the main congress centre and unfurl a banner saying: “Tax the super-rich”. Activists had earlier blocked the Davos heliport.
C.E.O.s, policymakers and billionaires at the World Economic Forum’s conference have long pledged to fight climate change. Has it done any good?
Larry Fink, Ray Dalio and Marc Benioff are among a group of billionaires worth a collective $124 billion set to join the annual pilgrimage of the rich and powerful to the Swiss Alps next week.
“Rachel Reeves is thinking the right way but she’s in a difficult position,” said a senior UK bank executive in Davos . “Labour in the UK have made a lot of good decisions but it is very hard for them and the [bond market] challenges of last week reinforce that issue.”
A new U.S. president’s promise to expand fossil fuels that is at odds with global ambitions to combat climate change will be a topic of discussion at the World Economic Forum.
US President Donald Trump stages a virtual appearance Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will deliver his first major speech, via video link, to global business
The party scene may be in full swing, but the mood is far from festive as some big political hitters reacted to the head-spinning news coming from Washington following Donald Trump’s inauguration.
US president name has consistently come up in almost every conversation at the World Economic Forum this week.
Trump already gave Davos a taste of what is to come since his inauguration on Monday, which coincided with the WEF’s first day: tariff threats against Mexico and Canada, the US withdrawal from the Paris climate pact,
Last year, Mark Rutte attended the Davos gathering as Dutch prime minister while angling for his current job as secretary general of NATO, praising Trump for pushing Europeans to step up defense spending. That view — somewhat controversial then — is now widely accepted.