 | PETOSKEY POINTE UPDATE - DOWNTOWN MANAGEMENT BOARD DOWNTOWN MANAGEMENT BOARD AND CITY MANAGER GEORGE KORTHAUER |
 | Anger Management Board Game Night Written By Joey Vinci, Thomas Laurie, & Sean Marus. Produced By Joey Vinci. Camera Shots By Joey Vinci, Sean Marus, and Jacob Pipke. Directed By Joey Vinci |
 | Global Competitiveness Forum - Saudi Arabia - Bruce Fenton The Global Competitiveness Forum ("GCF") is an annual meeting of top business executives, international political leaders, selected intellectuals, and academics who share an interest in global competitiveness. For the 2008 GCF, Saudi Arabia celebrated its new ranking in terms of "ease to do business" --rated as 23rd country worldwide and 1st in the Middle East and in the Arab world. Saudi Arabia has also greatly improved rankings by the World Bank and the World Economic Forum. In 2007, more than 500 of these key leaders participated in the first annual GCF which included a keynote address by Bill Gates of Microsoft. The event is held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia right before the Davos Economic Forum. In 2008 and under the patronage of H.M. King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, the forum gathered 1,000 internationally recognized leaders. The program is designed to create a discussion platform for experts, corporate leaders, political leaders, NGOs, academics and other stakeholders. GCF Speakers included the following people: Mohamed Ali Alabbar Chairman of Emaar Properties PJSC James (Jim) F. Albaugh Executive Vice President, The Boeing Company President and Chief Executive Officer Integrated Defense Systems H.E. Amr Al-Dabbagh Governor & Chairman, SAGIA Khalid Al Gosaibi Minister of Economy and Planning, Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia HE Eng. Khalid Abdullah Almolhem Director General, Saudi Airlines HE Dr. Mohammed Al-Suwaiyel President, King Abdullaziz City for Science and Technology Henry Azzam CEO Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) - Deutsche Bank Mr. Alan L. Boeckmann Chairman of the Board & CEO, Fluor Corporation Dr. Werner Brandt Member of the Executive Board & Chief Financial Officer, SAP AG Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland former Prime Minister of Norway & former Director General of the World Health Organization. Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Prof. Herwig Brunner Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, Professor at the University of Stuttgart Mr. John T. Chambers Chairman & CEO, Cisco Systems, Inc. Mr Victor Chu Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group Mr. Dick Evans President & CEO, Alcan Inc. Mr. Bruce Fenton Founder & Managing Director, Atlantic Financial Inc Mr. Mark B. Fuller Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Monitor Group Gail D. Fosler President and Chief Economist The Conference Board Prof. Stéphane Garelli Professor at IMD and at the University of Lausanne, Director World Competitiveness Center Mr. German Gref RF Minister of Economic Development and Trade Anant Gupta Founding Partner and CEO, HCL Mr. Jean-Michel Halfon Area President Canada / Latin America / Africa / Middle-Est Dr. Axel Claus Heitmann Chairman of the Board of Management, LANXESS AG HE Eng. Mohamed Jamil Ahmed Mulla Minister of Information and Communication Technology Mr. Tapani Järvinen President & CEO, Outotec Mr Lee Yi Shyan Minister of State for Trade and Industry Republic of SingaporeMr. Franklin Pitcher Johnson, JR. Founding Partner Asset Management Company Prof. Michio Kaku Theoretical physicist, best-selling author & popularizer of science Mr. Younghoon David Kim Chairman, Daesung Group Mr. Nemir A. Kirdar President & CEO, Investcorp. Mr. Mikael Mäkinen President & CEO, Cargotec Sir Terence Matthews Chairman, Wesley Clover Mr. Hartmut Mehdorn Chairman of the Management Board & CEO, DB AG Mr. Yasuyuki Nambu Group CEO of Pasona Group is from Japan and its official site is original Japanese site http://www.pasona.co.jp English site is also available http://www.pasona.co.jp/english Mr. Aref Naqvi Executive Vice Chairman & CEO, Abraaj Capital Prof. Jane Nelson Senior Fellow & Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University Dr. Michael E. Porter Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School Azim Premji Chairman, Wipro Dr. John Quelch Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School. Dr. Hector de J. Ruiz Chairman & CEO, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Mr. Frank John Sixt Executive Director & Group Finance Director, Hutchison Whampoa Limited Mr. Don Thornhill Chairman, National Competitiveness Council of Ireland Mr. Nigel Turner CEO, BMI Prof. Laura Tyson Professor, Haas Business and Public Policy Group at the University of California Berkeley Dr. Daniel Vasella, M.D. Chairman & CEO, Novartis AG. H.E. Dr. Hashim Yamani Minister of Commerce and Industry Philip Yeo Special Advisor for Economic Development |
 | Senate hearing: GDP fails to measure progress More at http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080301YT Martin Collier: We are what we measure and GDP does not measure what we value Wednesday March 19th, 2008 Martin Collier is founding Executive Director and a Managing Board Member of the Glaser Progress Foundation, created by Rob Glaser, CEO and Chairman of RealNetworks. At the Foundation, Collier oversees initiatives to: create new and better measures of national progress; support independent and progressive media; and strengthen the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is the Treasurer for Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media, a Board Member of ProgressNow and FUSE and an Advisory Board Member of Free Press. He is a past Board Member of the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture. Before joining the Foundation, Collier was an analyst for the Washington State Senate and an attorney focused on environmental and consumer interest class action litigation. |
 | World Economic Forum Pre-Davos 2008 Press Conference http://www.weforum.org/annualmeeting 16.01.2008 Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum and Managing Board members Richard Samans and André Schneider answer journalists questions about the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum held from 23-27 January 2008 under the theme: "The Power of Collaborative Innovation". |
 | CEO Climate Recommendations to G8 Leaders - Press Conference http://www.weforum.org 07.06.2008 CEO Climate Policy Recommendations to G8 Leaders Top executives of Shell, Alcoa, and RusHydro highlight the 3-year work on shaping business recommendation to the G8 on climate change. A global group of top business leaders is nearing completion of a comprehensive set of business recommendations on a post-2012 framework for global climate policy. The "CEO Climate Policy Recommendations to G8 Leaders" will help inform G8 leaders' climate change discussions at their Hokkaido-Toyako summit this July. Press Conference on Climate Change and Gleneagles CEO Statement: Business Recommendations to the G8 on the post-Kyoto Policy Framework Speakers Alain J. P. Belda, Chairman of the Board, Alcoa, USA Vyatcheslav Sinyugin, Member of the Management Board, Unified Energy Systems of Russia (RAO UESR), Russian Federation Sir Nicholas Stern, Special Adviser on Economic Development and Climate Change, HSBC Holdings, United Kingdom Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell, Netherlands Moderator Richard Samans, Managing Director, World Economic Forum |
 | Davos Annual Meeting 2007 - The Shifting Power Equation http://www.weforum.org 24.01.2007 Opening Plenary: The Shifting Power Equation The Co-Chairs of the Annual Meeting react to G8 priorities as outlined by Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany, Chair of the German G8 Presidency, Chair of Germany's European Union Presidency. Michelle Guthrie, Chief Executive Officer, Star Group, Hong Kong SAR; Young Global Leader E. Neville Isdell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, USA Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Group Managing Director, Bharti Enterprises, India James J. Schiro, Group Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Group Management Board, Zurich Financial Services, Switzerland Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer, Google, USA Chaired by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum |
 | Urban Age Summit Berlin Part 3 "Berlin's Future: Different Perspectives," "German Cities," and "The Future," are discussed at the Urban Age Summit Berlin, 11 November 2006. Footage includes interviews from: Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institute, Washington D.C.; Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C. 1999-2007; Enrique Norten, Architect, TEN Arquitectos; Xiangming Chen, Director, Graduate Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai; Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE and Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism, Olympic Delivery Authority; Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Society; and Wolfgang Nowak, Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank. (for more details please visit www.urbanage.net) Urban Age's principal aim is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders and sustainable urban development. Initiated by the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society, Urban Age is structured around international and multidisciplinary events and research supporting the creation of a new urban agenda for global cities. |
 | Davos Annual Meeting 2007 - Closing Plenary http://www.weforum.org 27.01.2007 Closing Plenary Michelle Guthrie, Chief Executive Officer, Star Group, Hong Kong SAR; Young Global Leader E. Neville Isdell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, USA Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Group Managing Director, Bharti Enterprises, India James J. Schiro, Group Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Group Management Board, Zurich Financial Services, Switzerland Chaired by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum |
 | Swedwood - Wielbark - otwarcie Największa w Polsce fabryka mebli z litego drewna otwarta została dziś w Wielbarku, w województwie warmińsko-mazurskim. Swedwood Poland, którego 100 proc. właścicielem jest szwedzka IKEA, będzie docelowo produkować w Wielbarku 2 miliony mebli z litego drewna rocznie, eksportowanych do sklepów IKEA na całym świecie. W fabryce zatrudnionych zostanie 900 osób. Wartość inwestycji wyniesie blisko 300 milionów złotych. Na świecie Swedwood ma 46 fabryk, z których 14 zlokalizowanych jest w Polsce. O wyborze Wielbarka zdecydowała przede wszystkim dostępność surowca oraz dobry układ komunikacyjny tu krzyżują się szlaki drogowe i kolejowe. Kolejnych informacji chętnie udzielą: Lennart Orsander, Managing Director, phone 508 004 349, e-mail:lennart.orsander@swedwood.com Tobias Arvidsson, Project Manager, phone 603 719 350, e-mail:tobias.arvidsson@swedwood.com Marek Wróblewski, Member of Management Board Swedwood Poland, phone 601 972 266, e-mail: marek.wroblewski@swedwood.com |
 | Davos Annual Meeting 2007 - Manifesto for Globalization http://www.weforum.org 26.01.2007 A Business Manifesto for Globalization Post-war global economic integration, built on an architecture allowing for the free flow of capital, goods and services, has been central to combating global poverty and creating wealth, prosperity and stability. However, the combination of growing protectionist sentiments and rising nationalism has put the onus on leaders, particularly from business, to make a renewed case for globalization. 1) What should a business manifesto for globalization entail? What could the potential impact of such a manifesto be? 2) How can business and national governments work more closely to shore up the global market system? 3) What economic realities and political considerations must business take into account in articulating a policy approach in support of globalization? Patrick Cescau, Group Chief Executive Officer, Unilever, United Kingdom Ian E. L. Davis, Managing Director, Worldwide, McKinsey & Company, United Kingdom James Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan Chase & Co., USA Carlos Ghosn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Renault, France; President and Chief Executive Officer, Nissan, Japan James J. Schiro, Group Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Group Management Board, Zurich Financial Services, Switzerland Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University, USA Chaired by John Micklethwait, Editor, The Economist, United Kingdom |
 | World Economic Forum Pre-Davos Press Conference http://www.weforum.org/annualmeeting 16.01.2008 André Schneider, COO of the World Economic Forum and Managing Board member answering a question about the Davos Climate Alliance and offsetting carbon emissions at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum held from 23-27 January 2008 under the theme: "The Power of Collaborative Innovation". |
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