Since 2004, Bain has been a partner of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, held yearly in Davos, Switzerland.The meeting brings together global leaders—of business, government, culture, society and religion—to discuss the most pressing issues facing the global community.
2012 Annual Meeting
The 2012 meeting of the World Economic Forum convened under the theme of "The great transformation: Shaping new models." Orit Gadiesh was a contributor to "The global growth context." Read the session summary
Ms. Gadiesh also hosted the Bain Davos breakfast, an annual private event. The topic of this year's breakfast was "The power of repeatability."
Complexity can be a silent killer of profitable growth. Successful companies endure by maintaining a form of simplicity at their core. They don't stray from, or regularly discard, their business model in pursuit of radical renovation. Instead, they build a "repeatable business model" that produces continuous improvement and allows them to rapidly adapt to change without succumbing to complexity. Companies combining a core differentiation model with speed, adaptability and simplicity are likely to land at the top of the competitor chain for long periods of time.
Featured speakers:
- Pius Baschera, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hilti
- Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook
- Chris Zook, Co-Head of Bain & Company’s Global Strategy practice; author of the growth trilogy Profit from the Core, Beyond the Core, and Unstoppable; author of Repeatability, to be published by Harvard Business Review Press, March 2012
Read about our previous work with the World Economic Forum
