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Interview: Ms. Alisée de Tonnac, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Seedstars Group, Geneva

Introduction Seedstars is an investment holding founded in 2012 in Switzerland and focused on impact investment. Its mission is to impact...

Summary Lorange Network Headspring Financial Times Online Workshop - Environment 13th October 2020

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Summary Lorange Network Headspring Financial Times Online Workshop - Environment 13th October 2020

Panelists: Pilita Clark. Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on...

Effective Due Diligence – often harder than you think!

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Effective Due Diligence – often harder than you think!

To undertake due diligence (dd) when considering investing in a new project is paramount. However, in reality, to do this well can often...

Interview with Jan Jenisch, CEO, Lafarge Holcim by Peter Lorange

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Interview with Jan Jenisch, CEO, Lafarge Holcim by Peter Lorange

This interview took place on 4th September, with Jan Jenisch, CEO of Lafarge Holcim at the company’s headquarters in Zug, Switzerland....

Interview with Ms. Brigitte Baumann, Founder of GoBeyond Investing and efino by Peter Lorange

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Interview with Ms. Brigitte Baumann, Founder of GoBeyond Investing and efino by Peter Lorange

The GoBeyond Approach Ms. Brigitte Baumann, the founder of GoBeyond Early Stage Investing, has 17 years experience as an angel investor...

Summary: Lorange Network & Headspring Online Workshop: Digital, 15th September 2020,

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Summary: Lorange Network & Headspring Online Workshop: Digital, 15th September 2020,

Panel members were: Janine Gibson, Assistant Editor, Financial Times (FT) and Head of FT’s Digital Platforms and Projects Bruno Giussani,...

Book Review: Plender, J., Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets, Biteback Publishing,

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Book Review: Plender, J., Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets, Biteback Publishing,

Introduction This is a well written book from a few years ago, which is still highly relevant today. Above all the author addresses two...

Book Review: Hill, A., Ruskinland: How John Ruskin shapes our World, Pallas Athene,

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Book Review: Hill, A., Ruskinland: How John Ruskin shapes our World, Pallas Athene,

Introduction John Ruskin’s motto was: “To-day, to-day, to-day”, and he also said “things are either possible or impossible. If things are...

Summary Lorange Network Webinar: Investing in Growth/Future of Business. 1st September 2020

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Summary Lorange Network Webinar: Investing in Growth/Future of Business. 1st September 2020

Panelists: Nina Portier Reinhart (NPR), Reinhart Capital Co.; Primary investment focus: High-tech start-ups Jeremy Deal (JD), JDP...

What are relevant Investment Criteria today, reflecting the Corona Virus threat? By Peter Lorange

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What are relevant Investment Criteria today, reflecting the Corona Virus threat? By Peter Lorange

Introduction In this note we shall discuss how the relative importance of various investment criteria seems to have shifted, in light of...

Takeaways from Andrew McAfee’s “More From Less” by Peter Lorange

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Takeaways from Andrew McAfee’s “More From Less” by Peter Lorange

Investments in projects that reduce our usage of Earth’s natural resources and help address climate change - are commonplace....

Hidden Champions. Takeaways from Hermann Simon’s presentation at the WHU Family Business Conference.

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Hidden Champions. Takeaways from Hermann Simon’s presentation at the WHU Family Business Conference.

“Hidden Champions” is a term coined by Hermann Simon, a German academic and business leader, and used later in the title of his...

Book Review: David Epstein (2019), Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialist World by Dr. Peter

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Book Review: David Epstein (2019), Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialist World by Dr. Peter

David Epstein was previously a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and has a master’s degree in environmental science and journalism....

Lorange Network & Headspring. Online Workshop: Investments. Summary, 15th July 2020

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Lorange Network & Headspring. Online Workshop: Investments. Summary, 15th July 2020

Panel: John Plender, Financial Times Chris Mayer, Woodlock House Family Capital Also in attendance: Gustaf Nordbäck, CEO Headspring...

Takeaways from Robbie Kellman Baxter’s “The Membership Economy” by Dr. Peter Lorange

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Takeaways from Robbie Kellman Baxter’s “The Membership Economy” by Dr. Peter Lorange

Introduction Although Robbie Kellman Baxter’s book “The Membership Economy” is not new, it represents, in this reviewer’s opinion, the...

Takeaways from Nir Eyal’s “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” by Peter Lorange

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Takeaways from Nir Eyal’s “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” by Peter Lorange

How to create a product or a service that can become so essential and form a habit in the life of the customer?, To put it in business...

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Summary, Online Workshop 29th June 2020

Panel: Bjørn Johansson & Andrew Hill Participants from Headspring: Gustaf Nordbäck & Michael Skapinker 1) Major changes regarding...

The Corona Virus Threat – The issue of re-opening our economies or continuing the “lock-down”

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The Corona Virus Threat – The issue of re-opening our economies or continuing the “lock-down”

Over the last few months almost all countries in the world have been faced with the challenge of how to handle the threat from the highly...

Key changes in Management: Implications from the Corona Crisis, Particularly on Family Businesses

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