At this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, 3,000 leaders from government, corporate and non-profit institutions debated themes including global collaboration, wealth inequality and technological change. Many of the discussions revealed that global elites are struggling to respond to important economic and environmental challenges, in a highly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.

Our key takeout

The narrative for the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos was markedly different than that of the 2019 meeting, which was centered on the upside growth potential for th...