McCullough and Whitaker spent more than a year questioning wealthy individuals about their major concerns; as a result, they identified...

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...

George Magnus is an associate at Oxford University’s China Centre, a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies,...

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,...

Klaus W. Wellershoff is a highly esteemed economist; he is Chairman of the Board at Wellershoff & Partners, which he founded in 2009....

Software entrepreneur, Tim O´Reilly, and entrepreneurial academician, K. F. Lee, have written thought-provoking books on artificial...

Shipping is by nature an international business, and the shipping business has been known to create – and destroy – large fortunes around...

Steven Pinker is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and one of the world’s most influential thinkers in the field of...

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman can be counted among the world’s more famous psychologists and modern thinkers. Their collaborative...

Guy Spier is an investor of Israeli, German and South African descent. He runs the Aquamarine Fund, which has produced outstanding...

Zurich-based investor and fund manager Guy Spier recently published The Education of a Value Investor. In this short, succinct book,...

In his new book, Thomas R. Köhler discusses the critically important issue of cyber risk and how corporations can mitigate this growing...

Once-dominant US retail chain Sears filed for bankruptcy earlier this month. This demise might have surprised some: As of early October,...

Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness provides insights on how to handle ten common misconceptions that are pervasive in Western countries....

Although the maritime shipping sector might generally be characterized as conservative, at least eleven relatively recent innovations are...

This book discusses geopolitical challenges in 10 different parts of the world. Although published in 2016, Tim Marshall´s perspectives...

Introduction We have previously discussed aspects of investing in ventures and private-equity business projects several times. As we...

Introduction In this paper, I will share my philosophy on the real estate business and on how to successfully invest in this sector. As I...

Graham Allison, the former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has written an insightful and thought-provoking book on the...

When I owned the shipping company S. Ugelstad, we were almost constantly strapped for free cash, even though the company was running well...