The state of your health that day . [laughter] one of the most powerful women in the Business World today is ruth porat. She started as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and rose to be the cfo of Morgan Stanley and rose to be the cfo of google and now alphabet. In that role she has enormous influence at that company and has done a terrific job in making certain that the Balance Sheet works well and that they really are much better organized. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for a long time unless the next president says i would like her to be secretary of the treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for that position. During this period of time, google and alphabet have done quite well. Your stock is up more than 20 this year and from the time you became the cfo, the stock is up over 200 and the market cap is up over 200 , so its done quite well under your leadership. Im curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 period of time tha
Just how do Companies Manage to deal with human diversity i fits to improve on that front a reality well mainly lip service thats our topic today on made data we use business magazine whoever and however you off welcome to the program. Companies should be adapting to the realities of an open and Diverse Society however ensuring tolerance and respect for others in the workplace is perhaps easier said than done firms usually have to adopt a range of strategies to address the issue hirohito when you were an extremely diverse bunch with people from 60 countries working together and over 30 languages and the differences with celebrating go beyond just where we came from as my colleague. Has been finding out. Women and men young and old people of various ethnic backgrounds with different religions and world views different sexual orientations with and without disabilities the dont develop team in berlin is a colorful mix. Wanted to know how does it work at other companies how big a variety i
Been living through an unprecedented health, economic and social crisis. A global catastrophe many have predicted and index of which are living around the world, a vaccine which has been hailed threat as the only solution to this crisis to the covid pandemic, and there has been investment in the site and manufacturing a developing such a vaccine rolling about in record time and getting it ideally to everybody around the world. A few of us get together a few months ago building upon in may this year to try to understand this journey to characterize the vaccine for polio, scaling up of such a product. And to reflect on what this means for policymakers and for society all over the world. What are the chances of getting a successful vaccine the next 12 months on how long will it take to manufacture it to scale, how good a job have government, collisions of government, donors and supranational organizations done in designing their vaccine portfolios why does any of this matter . National pe
David one of the most powerful women in the Business World today is ruth porat. She rose to be the cfo of google and now alphabet. In that role she has enormous influence at that company and has done a terrific job in making certain that the Balance Sheet works well and that they really are much better organized. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for a long time unless the next president says i would like her to be secretary of the treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for that position. During this period of time, google and alphabet have done quite well. Your stock is up more than 20 this year and from the time you became the cfo, the stock is up over 200 , so its done quite well under your leadership. Im curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 period of time than ever before, or are people not spending as much time searching . Ruth no, people are spending a lot of time searching. We have trillions of searches every year, precode
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