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World Economic Forum in Davos, the leaders of the world s largest chemical companies placed biotechnology among the key drivers of change for the decade ahead. 

On January 23,2008 the World Economic Forum announced the "pollution ranking" of 149 countries and the United States was listed in the bottom tier when greenhouse gas emissions were considered and also at the bottom on regional smog. 

Increasingly, excellent companies are expected to perform socially as well as economically. The CEOs of leading companies understand this as their responses to a recent World Economic Forum CEO survey on Global Corporate Citizenship indicate ... 

From Responding to the Leadership Challenge Findings of a CEO Survey on Global Corporate Citizenship, conducted by the World Economic Forum in partnership with the Prince of Wales Business Leadership Forum, January 2002.)... 

PwC 2003 Global CEO Survey released at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. 

World Economic Fomm, (2005). Development-Driven Public-Private Partnerships in Health Emerging Priorities from Roundtable Discussions. World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland. 

Gyimah-Brempong, K., Ondiege, P. (20 ). Reforming higher education Access, equity, and financing in Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Tunisia. Geneva World Economic Forum, the World Bank and the African Development Bank. 

World Economic Forum, Global risks report 2014. Ninth ed.. Insight report, www.weforum.org/ risks (accessed 05.04.14). 

M. Burnett and R. Welford, "Good for Goose, Bad for Flock," World Economic Forum, 2012. 

WEE 2008. Global Risks 2008 - A Global Risk Network Report. World Economic Forum. 

World Economic Forum (2010) The Future of Industrial Biorefineries. Available at http //www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF FutureIndustrialBiorefineries Report 2010.pdf. (last accessed 1/21/2014)... 

World Health Organization and World Economic Forum. From Burden to "Best Buys" Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Geneva, Switzerland World Health Organization and World Economic Forum 2011 [cited April 15, 2014]. Available from http //www.who.int/nmh/publications/best buys summary/en/. 

FIG. 12. World Economic Forum s assessment of the status of institutional prerequisites for economic development for 104 countries [26]. 

PORTER, M., SCHWAB, K., SALA-I-MARTIN, X., LOPEZ-CARLOS, A., The Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005, World Economic Forum, published by Pal grave Macmillan, New York, NY (2004). 

Bruno, G., Watson, T., Lee, A. (2011). A vision for managing natural disaster risk. World Economic Forum. http //www3.weforum.org/docsAVEF VisionManagingNaturalDisaster Proposal 2011. pdf... 

Bhatia, Gurpriya, Charles Lane, and Adrian Wain. Building Resilience in Supply Chains. World Economic Forum Reports, 2013. http //www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF RRN MO BuildingResilienceSupplyChains Report 2013.pdf. 

The financial markets have increasingly shown interest in catastrophe reinsurance operations as a source of diversification for investment portfolios. Through a series of new instruments, investors have traded in catastrophe risks thus acting as an alternative source of reinsurance capital. These alternative risk transfer (ART) solutions are today a common way to interact with the convergence market, the space where finance meets insurance (World Economic Forum 2008). 

Now claiming a broad coalition of MBA students, graduates and advisors, representing over 250 schools from around the world, the organization partners with the Aspen Institute and the World Economic Forum. 

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