Our economic system revolves around consumption. For our wealth to grow, we have to consume and thus produce more. It is a model that created massive wealth for a huge amount of people, but also a model that stands at the basis of a coming environmental disaster. Our planet is polluted, our resources depleted and
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On Tuesday, January 15th, Feike Sijbesma will visit Room for Discussion. Mr. Sijbesma is the CEO and Chairman of DSM, a Euronext-listed Dutch company that employs over 20 000 people around the world. In their own words, DSM is a “global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials” with a keen focus on sustainable
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Mass media has expressed the benefits of immigration for recipient countries. However, are the gains for developed and developing countries equivalent? According to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, around 85 per cent of international displaced people live in low or middle-income countries. A receiving country experiences both advantages and disadvantages as a result of immigration.
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While “luck” is probably one of the most underrated words in the market, concepts like “hardworking”, “talented” or “persevering” seem to be perceived as variables that explain most of the variation in one’s success. Putting it differently, had you had to regress success on a number of factors, luck would probably not be one of
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