Category: Content Series

Orbital Plus ATK Means Focus for Innovation

By James Hasik

Cost savings and consolidation can’t explain investors’ enthusiasm. Investors love the pending merger between Alliant Techsystems (ATK) and Orbital Sciences (ORB). In overnight trading after Monday’s announcement, NYSE:ATK increased 5 percent, and ORB increased fully 19 percent. Together, that’s an expectation that this tie-up is worth over half a billion dollars to the combined owners. Whence that value is flowing […]

Transcript: Atlantic Council Captains of Industry with Thomas Enders, CEO, Airbus Group

Welcome: Brent Scowcroft, Chairman, International Advisory Board, Atlantic Council Moderator: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Speaker: Thomas Enders, CEO, Airbus Group

Webcast: Captains of Industry Series with Thomas Enders, CEO, Airbus Group

Please join us on April 30 from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. for an address and discussion with Thomas Enders, CEO of Airbus Group. An introduction will be offered by Brent Scowcroft, Chairman of the Atlnatic Council’s International Advisory Board.Frederick Kempe, President and CEO of the Atlantic Council will moderate.

Cooperative or Competitive?

By James Hasik

Lessons on restructuring the defense industry from the Virginia submarine program The price of American submarines is coming down. As announced early this week, the US Navy has signed a contract with General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) to deliver, from now through 2023,  ten Block IV Virginia-class submarines for $17.6 billion. What’s remarkable […]

Zurich Insurance Group and Atlantic Council Release New Recommendations from Pioneering Report on Cyber Risk, Shocks, and Resilience

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2014 CONTACTS Taleen Ananian: press@AtlanticCouncil.org, 202.778.4993 Robyn Ziegler: robyn.ziegler@zurichna.com, 847.212.6231 Zurich Insurance Group and Atlantic Council Release New Recommendations from Pioneering Report on Cyber Risk, Shocks, and Resilience Sector-Specific Recommendations for Automotive, Construction, Healthcare, Information Technology, Large and Small/Mid-sized Businesses and Governments to Help Risk Managers Prepare for Future Cyber Shocks and Help […]

To Fight Inequality, Let’s Focus on Education

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

By many indications, the world has finally left the worst of the 2008 economic crisis behind. Growth is looking to pick up in the U.S. and Japan, spurring what the OECD labels as a moderately positive global economic environment. Unemployment is slowly but surely retreating, and investors are regaining their confidence in the markets.