Right now, somewhere out in the world is a paragraph, chapter, or book that would change your life forever if you read it. I call this kind of information “breakthrough knowledge,” and mastering the…
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The Brexit negotiations have started and a lot is at stake. According to a FTI Consulting study business leaders in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain are rather optimistic about Brexit’s consequences. Surprised?
Some highlights
- Just under 90% of the 2,500 senior executives of large companies surveyed by the firm expect stable or rising turnover in the first year following the UK’s departure from the EU in March 2019.
- Three-quarters of them want clarifications before June 2018, a crucial deadline for planning “irreversible changes” in company’s strategy.
- Two-thirds of British businesses believe that the United Kingdom will keep free of customs duties for goods, 59% that free circulation will remain in place and 52% that the European Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) will keep its authority.
Not so optimist after all
- Businesses are a little less optimistic about the future of the British “financial passport”: 71% of British financial companies think it will be maintained, but only 59% in Germany, 56% in Spain and 51% in France.
A strategic path ahead
The EU and the UK began their discussion in February on a transitional period of about 20 months. Both sides hope to complete this part of the negotiations by March, before talking about the future relationship, especially commercial.
The United Kingdom has already announced its intention to leave the single market and the Customs Union after Brexit. The EU has made indivisible respect for the four freedoms of movement (goods and services, people, capital) one of its subjects of concern.
The survey and the source
The survey was conducted on the internet between 4 and 19 December 2017, and collected 2,568 responses from senior officials in large companies in the United Kingdom (642), Germany (632), France (646) and Spain. (648). Source: Capital
Some questions for debate
- At the end of the day, what will change for companies?
- Would this change the balance of power in the EU?
- Is there a visa to travel or work in the UK?
- What consequences for students?
- Will English remain the working language of the EU if the UK comes out?
- What would become of EU-funded programs in the UK? Would the subsidies stop?
- What free trade agreement could the United Kingdom negotiate?
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Professor Malkawi will talk about the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities’ HouseZero project, which aims to retrofit of its headquarters, a pre-1940s stick-built house on Harvard campus in Cambridge, into a prototype of ultra-efficiency. The structure will use no HVAC system, no electric light use during the day, 100% natural ventilation, almost zero energy, and produce zero carbon emissions.
HouseZero will feature an ultra-healthy, flexible, comfortable indoors that works to fundamentally redefine how a home connects with and responds to its natural environment to promote health and efficiency. All components of the building contain sensors that essentially turn HouseZero into a living lab, generating data that will allow the building to adjust itself and fuel further CGBC research focused on actual data and simulated environments.
The challenge is to retrofit existing houses to gain sustainability, more ecological, cost effective, and higher efficiency. Malkawi uses existing technologies with a new design approach to construct and operate buildings. He expects not only to implement sustainable practices but he advocates that this can lead to billion of dollars in savings per year.
DATE: Monday, July 10, 2017
LOCATION:
Amphithéâtre Urbain,
Ecole Supérieure de Chimie et Physique Industrielle
10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris
TIME: 19:30 – 21:00
TICKETS:
HCF 2017 members, non-members, guests: 10 euros
PSL staff, students and guests: 10 euros
This is joint event HCF and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) event.
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Presented at the Economic Intelligence workshop, this slide of the evolution of the Graduate education system in France gives as a clue of the complexity of the French education system. Is it efficient?
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Regulation? Big corporations? Android and iOS?
This is an interesting question raised at the OECD Forum
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First let me say: The food is French, the cleaning is japonese, the language is English.
But there are other countries marketing their image pretty well.
Colombian coffee:
Australian booth:
Danish way of life
And yes, I had some fun exploring globalization 🙂
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According to Strategy+Business, Rodin has adopted the concept of resilience as a core focus of the Rockefeller Foundation. She is deploying the philanthropic organization’s US$4.2 billion in assets to promote and develop the resilience of cities and organizations, preparing for crisis situations and promoting inclusive economies.
In a world of change and conflict “the capacity of any entity…to prepare for disruptions, to recover from shocks and stresses, and to adapt and grow from a disruptive experience” becomes even more important.
Judith Rodin talks about the power of resilience in her book ,The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong (PublicAffairs, 2014). She has served as the president of the Rockefeller Foundation since 2005.
Rodin’s required readings can be checked out at: http://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Judith-Rodins-Required-Reading
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