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An Exciting Time For The Developing World

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on December 15, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , , , , , ,

As I have mentioned before on this blog, one of the most pressing questions of our time is leadership – and the lack of it. Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion on this topic at (…)

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Seeking Stability in an Unstable World

by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 14, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: , , , , ,

“In this connected world, we are all in the same boat. If part of the boat has a hole in it you cannot say afloat.” The words of the chief executive of Hong Kong SAR, Donald Tsang, spoken at the (…)

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Leadership in the Era of Jobs

by Richard Attias on October 7, 2011 • 10 comments • Tagged as: , , , , , , ,

With the tragic death of Steve Jobs yesterday, American business lost one of its greatest ever leaders. Jobs was not just a brilliant innovator, but in the words of Apple, “a visionary and creative genius.” He had the unique qualities (…)

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Cindi Leive On Women In Leadership

by NYF Team on August 15, 2011 • 2 comments

Memorable Quotes from the 2011 New York Forum

by NYF Team on June 24, 2011 • Leave your comment

“When we look at talent, and particularly capabilities, around the world, we have a lot more places to look for it today than thirty years ago. There’s the fall of the Iron Curtain … and great institutions are being built. (…)

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America, the ordinary?

by Speakers and contributors on June 21, 2011 • 2 comments • Tagged as: , , , , , , ,

The first session of Day 2 of the New York Forum was a hot, flat and crowded panel with a half dozen heavy hitters on the inexhaustible topic of America in decline. Has the U.S. lost its edge? asked CNBC’s (…)

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The Chinese Model: Finding its Internal Balance

by Frieda on June 21, 2011 • One comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , , ,

China’s massive expansion over the past three decades has made for tremendous international as well as domestic ramifications. So far there has been stability in this economic growth, but it’s hard to know if that will last with the proliferation (…)

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Different sensibilities, different results

by Speakers and contributors on June 21, 2011 • One comment • Tagged as: , , , , , , , , ,

The afternoon session, “Different Sensibilities, Different Results,” brought together Cecilia Attias, Founder, Cecilia Attias Foundation for Women; Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young; Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank; Laetitia Pichot de Cayeux, CEO and Portfolio Manager, (…)

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The Rise of MultiLatinas

by Speakers and contributors on June 21, 2011 • Leave your comment

The media loves to tell the tale of the fairy tale recovery of Latin Tiger economies, which have risen up from the scourge of runaway inflation and odious debt that cursed the continent in the 1980s. But at the New (…)

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Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

by Speakers and contributors on June 20, 2011 • One comment

What is the number one way to fast-track job creation in the United States, where 14 million people are currently unemployed? At the New York Forum, Chrystia Freeland of Thomson Reuters posed this question to a few of the business (…)

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