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Welcome to the World Business Forum 2009 Bloggers Hub

The World Business Forum Bloggers Hub brought together more than 50 top business bloggers to report directly from this year´s event at the Radio City Music Hall. The Hub included frequently updated video highlights together with photos from inside the event.

Click here to take a look at all the blog coverage from the two days of the event.

By Hank Wasiak

An Afternoon of Concern and Contrast at the World Business Forum

The beginning of the afternoon at the World Business Forum can best be summed up as a sobering barrage of the pitfalls, perils, and problems ahead of us. David Rubenstein, founder of the Carlyle Group, the world's largest private equity firm, presented a non-stop litany of facts to drive home his admonition that "just because the recession will be ‘over’ soon doesn’t mean it’s all going to be OK." His command of the numbers and their implications was simultaneously amazing and numbing.

By Stuart Miniman

Connections make the event

What pulls people into conferences? Big name speakers, a nice location, and all of the trinkets that you can fit while not going over your luggage weight limit (or in yet another conference bag)? Of course not, it is the information that is important. At the World Business Forum this week, it was the connections to ideas and people that made the event worth attending.

By economistmom

What Makes for a Tough Choice

Last Wednesday at the World Business Forum (where I was a “featured blogger” and where I “tweeted” for the first time) President Bill Clinton was asked during his post-speech conversation a very interesting question, which went something like this: “What was one of your toughest decisions as President–i.e., as the chief decision-maker for the country?”

By Steve Todd

World Business Forum 2009 Wrap-up #WBF09

Last week I attended the 2-day World Business Forum at Radio City Music Hall in New York. I was covering the event as part of the WBF Blogger's Hub. The list of guests at the event was impressive, and in summary the speakers provided the audience with advice and insight into the following different areas:

    * Trends and directions in managing people within global corporations
    * Must-have qualities for corporate leaders
    * Trends and directions in corporate marketing
    * Economic outlook from outside of the US
    * A call to action by former US President Bill Clinton

By Don Peppers

No Rockettes at Radio City This Week

My first job out of the Air Force was as an economist for an independent oil company. We were based in New York City at 50 Rockefeller Plaza, which is the building that backs up onto Radio City Music Hall. I spent a little over a year in a shared office on the fourteenth floor at 50 Rock, before being promoted and transferred to Houston. Our office had a great view over the roof of Radio City, and we became a prime destination for lunchtime meetings and get-togethers during spring and summer, because on clear days we could usually spot several of the Rockettes out on the roof, tanning their legs.

By Amber Hunnicutt

Live from the World Business Forum: International Insights Panel

Last week Kathy, the founder of the Hot Mommas Project, presented me with the amazing opportunity to attend the World Business Forum. I, of course, took her up on her offer and early this morning I headed to New York City for the big event. Today was the second day of the forum. Due to my class schedule, I was not able to make it to any of the first day’s events. Kathy, however, was in attendance and blogged from the forum on the Hot Mommas insider’s blog

By Kelly Evans

Kraft CEO: With or Without Cadbury, ‘We’re Ready to Take That Next Step’

Irene Rosenfeld, chief executive of Kraft Foods, was probably signed up to speak at this year’s World Business Forum before news broke of her company’s bid to buy U.K.-based candy confectioner Cadbury PLC — an offer Cadbury’s board rebuffed last month. But now, as Kraft faces a Nov. 9 deadline to make a sweetened, formal offer, it’s certainly made Ms. Rosenfeld’s appearance here more buzzworthy

By Renee Lewis

#WBF09 Day 1 – Experiencing the World Business Forum

I’m new to this – being an official blogger at a conference. I have to tell you I love it. Hear ye, hear ye. Anyone who needs an official blogger to share the conference with the outside world live and real-time, just let me know. These are the fastest two days of the year!

By Paul Glader

Future Always Starts on the Fringe

Borrowing ideas from singer Sheryl Crow, business-strategy guru Gary Hamel suggests change will do you, and your company, good

By Hank Wasiak

All-Star Morning Wisdom from the World Business Forum

Sitting in the front row in the Bloggers Hub at The World Business Forum. Wired, ready to go and surrounded by 50 of the best bloggers on the planet. A bit intimidating. These are some of the most savvy social media folks around, smart thinkers, great writers and they type a lot faster than I do

By Don Peppers

WBF, Day Two: Hamel Promotes Network-Based Management Technology

It seemed to me that the message brought to us by the several international business leaders during HSM's "International Insights" segment of the World Business Forum provided an interesting counter-position to the heavily pessimistic views of both Jeffrey Sachs and David Rubenstein, yesterday afternoon. The other bloggers and people I talked with all agreed, that it seemed these business people, when they were talking about the future as it looks now, were fairly optimistic about their own prospects for growth. They each acknowledged the challenging environment, and the fact that margins are still under pressure, and the economy is still sluggish, but they each also felt that the worst was now behind us, and prospects are decent. Not super, but decent.

By Ellen Weber

Gary Hamel’s New Management Model

Here in Radio City Hall, we are challenged to consider innovation as a way of life where we work.
Gary Hamel invites live, 5000 top global business leaders at Radio City Hall, to rethink a new management model where you work. He also questions why we change so little. Have you seen it too?

By Margery Weinstein

Live from World Business Forum: Is Your Company See-Through?

Not to be overly titillating, but the most successful company going forward may also be the most see-through. That's what Dennis Nally, global chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers said, anyway, at today's opening presentation at the World Business Forum.

By Jim Estill

World Business Forum 09 - Day 2 coverage

Dennis Nally (PWC Chairman) says "We have lost trust at all levels" "This causes investment to grind to a halt" He calls for increased transparency. "Transparency is the lifeblood of investors".

By Hank Wasiak

Bloggers Hub At The World Business Forum Opens To Rave Reviews

Reporting live on Day 1 as a featured blogger at the World Business Forum (#wbf09) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. A beautiful day in the Big Apple for a Big Idea business conference.

By: Terry Starbucker

Leadership Means Sitting Tall in the Saddle (WBF, Day 1)

I’m part of the “Blogger’s Hub” covering the World Business Forum in New York City, and focus during the morning sessions was on Leadership. Three well-known speakers, Bill George, Bill Conaty, and Patrick Lencioni, talked about Leadership in the context of crisis, performance, and effective team building.

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Interested in what happened in Day 1 of the Forum?

Visit our online archive of blog postings from Day 1 of the World Business Forum by the featured bloggers of the event.
Click here to visit the Day 1 Blog archive

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