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So far, the healthcare sector has held back from digitalization, but it is about to change.  Expenditure on healthcare is rising rapidly in developed and emerging economies. People are paying more money not only because they can afford it, but also because healthcare gains in importance as...

Robert J. Gordon, an American economist and university professor, in a conversation with Credit Suisse contemplates if roboadvisors could eliminate jobs and whether Facebook could become the new Ford. We often think of progress as gradual. Yet in his recent book, "The Rise and Fall of American...

120 UHNWI guests from around the world gathered in London on November 30, 2016 for the 18th Credit Suisse Salon on the topic Can Europe reinvent itself? Consequences for the global economy. The event was hosted by Tidjane Thiam, Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Group AG. The day commenced with the Salon Members' Luncheon hosted by Thomas Gottstein, Chief Executive Officer, Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd on Impact of the US election on the global investment horizon. Panelist...

Published: Thursday October 06 2016Born in Brescia in 1963, Piero Gandini looked to be an unlikely candidate to succeed his father as head of Flos, Italy’s leading designer lighting producer. He describes his teenage years as a wild time, in which his school attendance was irregular and he devoted his life to socialising with his friends. Today, however, he is CEO of the family company, working with many of the world’s greatest designers to create innovative lamps sold across the globe. ‘My...

Paper, gunpowder, the compass – China has a history of disruption that extends back thousands of years. In the digital age, however, the Middle Kingdom’s technology startups gained a reputation for quickly copying their Western peers, rather than coming up with their own world-changing ideas. All that is changing, though, and in 2016, innovation itself is increasingly being “Made in China”. China’s Internet giants are coming up with ingenious homegrown products, services, and business models,...

Published: Tuesday December 29 2015 The Director of Geneva’s Campus Biotech is creating a new biotechnology and medical technology centre, bringing together different disciplines to find treatments that will save lives and improve the quality of life for patients. Since the beginning of modern pharmacology, the treatment of patients has relied on advances in medicine and biology to devise therapies that can cure or alleviate their conditions. Today, new approaches focus on specific biological...