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The official website of Dr. Peter Lorange, Honorary President, IMD and Chairman, S. Ugelstad Invest
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Takeaways from Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño and Kazuo Ichijo’s Business Despite Borders
This book’s editors asked 29 leading academicians to address various reasons why business largely remains global, or “open” (i.e.,...
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Takeaways from Bernanke, Geithner, and Paulson’s Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons
The three people who were the most centrally involved in attempting to mitigate the fallout of the financial crisis of 2008, perhaps with...
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Profile: Carl Elsener, CEO of Victorinox, by Peter Lorange
Carl Elsener is the fourth-generation leader of the family firm Victorinox, a world leader in producing the iconic Swiss Army knife (35%...
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Takeaways from Roy Williams and Vic Pressier’s Preparing Heirs by Peter Lorange
In this short book, authors Williams and Pressier share a series of practical suggestions for how to successfully transmit family wealth...
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Takeaways from Yvon Chouinard's Let My People Go Surfing by Peter Lorange
Striving for quarterly profits and short-term performance may often come in conflict with environmental and social aspirations, such as...
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Profile: Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the NRC, by Peter Lorange
Right now, nearly 70 million people are fleeing violence and conflict. Millions more are displaced by climate change and disasters. Not...
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Take-aways from R. A. Baassiri's Interrupted Entrepreneurship: Embracing Change
This short book by Lebanese family business entrepreneur Raméz Baassiri stems from a compelling statistic: even though family firms make...
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Profile: Morten Hannesbo, CEO AMAG Group AG by Peter Lorange
Morten Hannesbo is the CEO of AMAG Group AG, a position he has held since 2009. Before joining AMAG in 2007, he held several positions at...
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Profile: The Nestlé Youth Initiative and Laurent Freixe, EVP Nestlé, CEO Zone Americas
When the global crisis started in 2007, Mr. Freixe was in charge of Nestlé Iberia. At that time, much of the economic growth in Spain had...
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Takeaways from Bradley Tusk's The Fixer – My Adventures Saving Start-ups from Death by Politics
Bradley Tusk’s The Fixer is a controversial book about the interplay between individuals and politics. As the title suggests, the book...
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Takeaways from David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth by Peter Lorange
This book deals with the major effects that we can expect from climate change and global warming. It was written by the departing editor...
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Takeaways from T. McCullough and K. Whitaker’s Wealth of Wisdom: The Top 50 Questions Wealthy
McCullough and Whitaker spent more than a year questioning wealthy individuals about their major concerns; as a result, they identified...
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Profile: Peter Brabeck by Peter Lorange
In April 2017, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe was appointed chairman emeritus of Nestlé SA. He was CEO of the Nestlé group from 1997 to 2008. He...
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Takeaways from George Magnus’s Red Flags: Why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy by Peter Lorange
George Magnus is an associate at Oxford University’s China Centre, a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies,...
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Profile: Dennis Jönsson by Peter Lorange
Tetra Pak is a privately held company, founded by Dr. Ruben Rausing in Sweden in 1951. It now forms part of the Tetra Laval Group,...
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Profile: Dr. Klaus Wellershoff by Peter Lorange
Klaus W. Wellershoff is a highly esteemed economist; he is Chairman of the Board at Wellershoff & Partners, which he founded in 2009....
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Takeaways from Tim O’Reilly’s What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us and from K. F. Lee's AI
Software entrepreneur, Tim O´Reilly, and entrepreneurial academician, K. F. Lee, have written thought-provoking books on artificial...
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Profile: Kristian Jebsen by Peter Lorange
Shipping is by nature an international business, and the shipping business has been known to create – and destroy – large fortunes around...
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Takeaways from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and one of the world’s most influential thinkers in the field of...
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Takeaways from Michael Lewis’ The Undoing Project - A Friendship That Changed the World
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman can be counted among the world’s more famous psychologists and modern thinkers. Their collaborative...
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