New Directions For Global Economy
New Directions For Global Economy
New Directions For Global Economy
The U.S. Administration has shaken the global economy, aggressively applying tariffs to seek advantages in trade, domestic manufacturing and geopolitical leverage. These actions have led to economic and political turbulence throughout the world. As a result, trade alliances, capital flows and investment decisions are in a state of flux. The consequences to global growth and asset values have roiled markets. The question looms: Where is this all headed?
The U.S. Administration has shaken the global economy, aggressively applying tariffs to seek advantages in trade, domestic manufacturing and geopolitical leverage. These actions have led to economic and political turbulence throughout the world. As a result, trade alliances, capital flows and investment decisions are in a state of flux. The consequences to global growth and asset values have roiled markets. The question looms: Where is this all headed?
The U.S. Administration has shaken the global economy, aggressively applying tariffs to seek advantages in trade, domestic manufacturing and geopolitical leverage. These actions have led to economic and political turbulence throughout the world. As a result, trade alliances, capital flows and investment decisions are in a state of flux. The consequences to global growth and asset values have roiled markets. The question looms: Where is this all headed?
Strategic Pivot: CEOs As Capital Allocators
Strategic Pivot: CEOs As Capital Allocators
Strategic Pivot: CEOs As Capital Allocators
As AI accelerates innovation, it also brings more disruption. Savvy CEOs will look past the turmoil and see distressed opportunities for deeper fixes, fresh capital allocation, new governance structures, and restored growth. Which business sectors will see the biggest changes? Will mergers and buyouts boom in the coming years? What new (or enhanced) risk capital structures will emerge to help drive business renewal around the world?
As AI accelerates innovation, it also brings more disruption. Savvy CEOs will look past the turmoil and see distressed opportunities for deeper fixes, fresh capital allocation, new governance structures, and restored growth. Which business sectors will see the biggest changes? Will mergers and buyouts boom in the coming years? What new (or enhanced) risk capital structures will emerge to help drive business renewal around the world?
As AI accelerates innovation, it also brings more disruption. Savvy CEOs will look past the turmoil and see distressed opportunities for deeper fixes, fresh capital allocation, new governance structures, and restored growth. Which business sectors will see the biggest changes? Will mergers and buyouts boom in the coming years? What new (or enhanced) risk capital structures will emerge to help drive business renewal around the world?
The Global Investor View
The Global Investor View
The Global Investor View
For the last few years, U.S. megacap tech stocks have led global equity markets. That changed when U.S. policy began disrupting tech’s global supply chains with tariffs. Is big tech’s reversal temporary, or will other stock sectors (European, emerging markets, etc.) rise to the front? As happened during the early 2000s, could non-stock assets take the lead, from gold to commodities? What effect will shifting trade alliances and global power plays have on global investment? And is inflation about to make a comeback?
For the last few years, U.S. megacap tech stocks have led global equity markets. That changed when U.S. policy began disrupting tech’s global supply chains with tariffs. Is big tech’s reversal temporary, or will other stock sectors (European, emerging markets, etc.) rise to the front? As happened during the early 2000s, could non-stock assets take the lead, from gold to commodities? What effect will shifting trade alliances and global power plays have on global investment? And is inflation about to make a comeback?
For the last few years, U.S. megacap tech stocks have led global equity markets. That changed when U.S. policy began disrupting tech’s global supply chains with tariffs. Is big tech’s reversal temporary, or will other stock sectors (European, emerging markets, etc.) rise to the front? As happened during the early 2000s, could non-stock assets take the lead, from gold to commodities? What effect will shifting trade alliances and global power plays have on global investment? And is inflation about to make a comeback?
The Art Of Growth Leadership
The Art Of Growth Leadership
The Art Of Growth Leadership
Business schools around the world have proved adept at teaching rational management techniques. But what happens when rapid innovation, faster growth rates and organizational agility become more important than mere efficiency? As global businesses must pivot to pursue new opportunities while avoiding sudden existential dangers, CEOs will have to evolve nimbly to meet the new challenges. What will effective growth leadership look like in the years ahead?
Business schools around the world have proved adept at teaching rational management techniques. But what happens when rapid innovation, faster growth rates and organizational agility become more important than mere efficiency? As global businesses must pivot to pursue new opportunities while avoiding sudden existential dangers, CEOs will have to evolve nimbly to meet the new challenges. What will effective growth leadership look like in the years ahead?
Business schools around the world have proved adept at teaching rational management techniques. But what happens when rapid innovation, faster growth rates and organizational agility become more important than mere efficiency? As global businesses must pivot to pursue new opportunities while avoiding sudden existential dangers, CEOs will have to evolve nimbly to meet the new challenges. What will effective growth leadership look like in the years ahead?
Real Estate Gets Real
Real Estate Gets Real
Real Estate Gets Real
Real estate is booming and busting at the same time. While traditional office buildings are in a slump, warehouses and data centers are thriving as never before. Hospitality and tourism are surging as they expand their offerings to new customers. Retail is being repurposed to accommodate new shopping trends. Younger adults around the world are leading the way to new workplace and living styles. Governments around the world face urgent demands to allow faster affordable housing construction. A panel of industry experts will discuss the latest trends in real estate.
Real estate is booming and busting at the same time. While traditional office buildings are in a slump, warehouses and data centers are thriving as never before. Hospitality and tourism are surging as they expand their offerings to new customers. Retail is being repurposed to accommodate new shopping trends. Younger adults around the world are leading the way to new workplace and living styles. Governments around the world face urgent demands to allow faster affordable housing construction. A panel of industry experts will discuss the latest trends in real estate.
Real estate is booming and busting at the same time. While traditional office buildings are in a slump, warehouses and data centers are thriving as never before. Hospitality and tourism are surging as they expand their offerings to new customers. Retail is being repurposed to accommodate new shopping trends. Younger adults around the world are leading the way to new workplace and living styles. Governments around the world face urgent demands to allow faster affordable housing construction. A panel of industry experts will discuss the latest trends in real estate.
Growth’s Demand Machine—Electricity
Growth’s Demand Machine—Electricity
Growth’s Demand Machine—Electricity
Global electricity demand is expected to grow 7% per year over the next decade—twice the rate of global GDP growth. Even this growth projection might be too low, as power hungry AI transforms more industries. Where will all this electricity come from? Can the world meet its insatiable power demands while keeping its commitments to the Paris Climate Accords? Can governments streamline regulations that govern power generation for faster buildouts? Are data center operators the new players to watch in electricity generation?
Global electricity demand is expected to grow 7% per year over the next decade—twice the rate of global GDP growth. Even this growth projection might be too low, as power hungry AI transforms more industries. Where will all this electricity come from? Can the world meet its insatiable power demands while keeping its commitments to the Paris Climate Accords? Can governments streamline regulations that govern power generation for faster buildouts? Are data center operators the new players to watch in electricity generation?
Global electricity demand is expected to grow 7% per year over the next decade—twice the rate of global GDP growth. Even this growth projection might be too low, as power hungry AI transforms more industries. Where will all this electricity come from? Can the world meet its insatiable power demands while keeping its commitments to the Paris Climate Accords? Can governments streamline regulations that govern power generation for faster buildouts? Are data center operators the new players to watch in electricity generation?
The Age Of Health Miracles
The Age Of Health Miracles
The Age Of Health Miracles
From wearables that monitor blood sugar, blood pressure, BMI and VO2 max, to new miracle drugs managing weight and addictions, the affluent world is stretching the possibilities of a healthy human life span. Can cancer be defeated? Can AI speed up vaccine development from months to days? What is possible? What is investable? What new technologies and practices are bringing higher quality healthcare at affordable prices?
From wearables that monitor blood sugar, blood pressure, BMI and VO2 max, to new miracle drugs managing weight and addictions, the affluent world is stretching the possibilities of a healthy human life span. Can cancer be defeated? Can AI speed up vaccine development from months to days? What is possible? What is investable? What new technologies and practices are bringing higher quality healthcare at affordable prices?
From wearables that monitor blood sugar, blood pressure, BMI and VO2 max, to new miracle drugs managing weight and addictions, the affluent world is stretching the possibilities of a healthy human life span. Can cancer be defeated? Can AI speed up vaccine development from months to days? What is possible? What is investable? What new technologies and practices are bringing higher quality healthcare at affordable prices?
Fast-Pivot Innovation
Fast-Pivot Innovation
Fast-Pivot Innovation
When the world pivots, quicker innovation is required, for both defense and offense. Constant improvements to your business—in operational efficiency, faster product development, smarter marketing—will be table stakes, necessary just to survive. Even long-standing market leaders will be pressed to improve their game or lose ground. This panel discusses how established companies can become innovation machines.
When the world pivots, quicker innovation is required, for both defense and offense. Constant improvements to your business—in operational efficiency, faster product development, smarter marketing—will be table stakes, necessary just to survive. Even long-standing market leaders will be pressed to improve their game or lose ground. This panel discusses how established companies can become innovation machines.
When the world pivots, quicker innovation is required, for both defense and offense. Constant improvements to your business—in operational efficiency, faster product development, smarter marketing—will be table stakes, necessary just to survive. Even long-standing market leaders will be pressed to improve their game or lose ground. This panel discusses how established companies can become innovation machines.
Entrepreneurs: Proven Ideas Face Major Pivots
Entrepreneurs: Proven Ideas Face Major Pivots
Entrepreneurs: Proven Ideas Face Major Pivots
For seasoned and successful risk-takers, what motivates them to double down on their past triumphs? What lessons from their previous companies are applicable today? Has recruiting and managing talent changed over the years, and how so? How are they navigating geopolitical risks in today’s rapidly changing world? How has their approach to entrepreneurship evolved to meet today’s challenges of rapid tech acceleration, instant global competition, and skeptical investors?
For seasoned and successful risk-takers, what motivates them to double down on their past triumphs? What lessons from their previous companies are applicable today? Has recruiting and managing talent changed over the years, and how so? How are they navigating geopolitical risks in today’s rapidly changing world? How has their approach to entrepreneurship evolved to meet today’s challenges of rapid tech acceleration, instant global competition, and skeptical investors?
For seasoned and successful risk-takers, what motivates them to double down on their past triumphs? What lessons from their previous companies are applicable today? Has recruiting and managing talent changed over the years, and how so? How are they navigating geopolitical risks in today’s rapidly changing world? How has their approach to entrepreneurship evolved to meet today’s challenges of rapid tech acceleration, instant global competition, and skeptical investors?
Family Business: Looking At The Next Frontier
Family Business: Looking At The Next Frontier
Family Business: Looking At The Next Frontier
Corporate management fads change with the season. But family businesses have proven both durable and organizationally consistent throughout time. How can family businesses keep pace with startups seeking disruption and corporate rivals with massive resources? What about the internal challenges of generational change? How can you plan and execute a successful succession? How can families expand and evolve without weakening core values that guided their success in the past?
Corporate management fads change with the season. But family businesses have proven both durable and organizationally consistent throughout time. How can family businesses keep pace with startups seeking disruption and corporate rivals with massive resources? What about the internal challenges of generational change? How can you plan and execute a successful succession? How can families expand and evolve without weakening core values that guided their success in the past?
Corporate management fads change with the season. But family businesses have proven both durable and organizationally consistent throughout time. How can family businesses keep pace with startups seeking disruption and corporate rivals with massive resources? What about the internal challenges of generational change? How can you plan and execute a successful succession? How can families expand and evolve without weakening core values that guided their success in the past?
Sustainable Philanthropy
Sustainable Philanthropy
Sustainable Philanthropy
Corporate sustainability initiatives have lost some of its previous PR value, as the world pivots from high-minded global sentiment to sharper competition and hard results. But CEOs and business families are wise to keep an eye to the longer horizon. How can sustainability reinvent itself and reengage the hearts and minds of investors? As AI brings the wonders of detailed metrics and projected scenarios and outcomes to every business activity, can AI do the same productive work for sustainable philanthropy?
Corporate sustainability initiatives have lost some of its previous PR value, as the world pivots from high-minded global sentiment to sharper competition and hard results. But CEOs and business families are wise to keep an eye to the longer horizon. How can sustainability reinvent itself and reengage the hearts and minds of investors? As AI brings the wonders of detailed metrics and projected scenarios and outcomes to every business activity, can AI do the same productive work for sustainable philanthropy?
Corporate sustainability initiatives have lost some of its previous PR value, as the world pivots from high-minded global sentiment to sharper competition and hard results. But CEOs and business families are wise to keep an eye to the longer horizon. How can sustainability reinvent itself and reengage the hearts and minds of investors? As AI brings the wonders of detailed metrics and projected scenarios and outcomes to every business activity, can AI do the same productive work for sustainable philanthropy?
Revolutions In Risk Capital
Revolutions In Risk Capital
Revolutions In Risk Capital
During the last decade, a glut of venture capital has resulted in too many funded startups, bloated valuations, and poor capital returns for limited partners. How is the VC industry responding? Where is VC going big—i.e., expanding into full-service financial firms—and where is it downsizing into small elite firms with greater focus? What new modes and management techniques are emerging for innovation risk capital?
During the last decade, a glut of venture capital has resulted in too many funded startups, bloated valuations, and poor capital returns for limited partners. How is the VC industry responding? Where is VC going big—i.e., expanding into full-service financial firms—and where is it downsizing into small elite firms with greater focus? What new modes and management techniques are emerging for innovation risk capital?
During the last decade, a glut of venture capital has resulted in too many funded startups, bloated valuations, and poor capital returns for limited partners. How is the VC industry responding? Where is VC going big—i.e., expanding into full-service financial firms—and where is it downsizing into small elite firms with greater focus? What new modes and management techniques are emerging for innovation risk capital?
Startups And Unicorns: A Survival Game
Startups And Unicorns: A Survival Game
Startups And Unicorns: A Survival Game
It’s a tough time to be a startup. Although venture capital continues to grow globally, so does the size of the deals. Successful serial entrepreneurs tend to get disproportionate investor attention, leaving most first-timers struggling for investment. With low-interest money gone, exciting ideas must be supplemented with executable plans. Growth is good, but generating profitable customers and healthy cash flows are the top priorities. How can even promising startups survive long enough to win?
It’s a tough time to be a startup. Although venture capital continues to grow globally, so does the size of the deals. Successful serial entrepreneurs tend to get disproportionate investor attention, leaving most first-timers struggling for investment. With low-interest money gone, exciting ideas must be supplemented with executable plans. Growth is good, but generating profitable customers and healthy cash flows are the top priorities. How can even promising startups survive long enough to win?
It’s a tough time to be a startup. Although venture capital continues to grow globally, so does the size of the deals. Successful serial entrepreneurs tend to get disproportionate investor attention, leaving most first-timers struggling for investment. With low-interest money gone, exciting ideas must be supplemented with executable plans. Growth is good, but generating profitable customers and healthy cash flows are the top priorities. How can even promising startups survive long enough to win?
Profiting From AI Acceleration
Profiting From AI Acceleration
Profiting From AI Acceleration
AI is our generation’s challenge, and it is two-branched. One branch is the physical realm of smart machines—drones, robots, autonomous vehicles and intelligent supply chains. The second is the digital realm of smart workforces—the use of GenAI to supercharge white collar productivity. How fast are these two AI branches improving? How should you prioritize your AI smart machine and smart workforce investments? And critically, how do you pick the right partners and vendors to help you on the AI journey?
AI is our generation’s challenge, and it is two-branched. One branch is the physical realm of smart machines—drones, robots, autonomous vehicles and intelligent supply chains. The second is the digital realm of smart workforces—the use of GenAI to supercharge white collar productivity. How fast are these two AI branches improving? How should you prioritize your AI smart machine and smart workforce investments? And critically, how do you pick the right partners and vendors to help you on the AI journey?
AI is our generation’s challenge, and it is two-branched. One branch is the physical realm of smart machines—drones, robots, autonomous vehicles and intelligent supply chains. The second is the digital realm of smart workforces—the use of GenAI to supercharge white collar productivity. How fast are these two AI branches improving? How should you prioritize your AI smart machine and smart workforce investments? And critically, how do you pick the right partners and vendors to help you on the AI journey?
Closing: New Pivots, Timeless Lessons
Closing: New Pivots, Timeless Lessons
Closing: New Pivots, Timeless Lessons
Free-market capitalism succeeds over other systems for a reason. It is a learning machine. Every product launch and capital investment is an experiment. Each yields results that are good, bad or somewhere in-between. Now add accelerating technology and political pivots into the mid-2020s mix. Our future is guaranteed to be complicated! But one thing will remain true: Who learns fastest wins. Our final panel discusses what timeless lessons can be applied to a future arriving at lightspeed.
Free-market capitalism succeeds over other systems for a reason. It is a learning machine. Every product launch and capital investment is an experiment. Each yields results that are good, bad or somewhere in-between. Now add accelerating technology and political pivots into the mid-2020s mix. Our future is guaranteed to be complicated! But one thing will remain true: Who learns fastest wins. Our final panel discusses what timeless lessons can be applied to a future arriving at lightspeed.
Free-market capitalism succeeds over other systems for a reason. It is a learning machine. Every product launch and capital investment is an experiment. Each yields results that are good, bad or somewhere in-between. Now add accelerating technology and political pivots into the mid-2020s mix. Our future is guaranteed to be complicated! But one thing will remain true: Who learns fastest wins. Our final panel discusses what timeless lessons can be applied to a future arriving at lightspeed.
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