European Companies and the Great Recession: A View from the Trenches

European Companies and the Great Recession: A View from the Trenches
By Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
With Paul Laudicina and distinguished panel

5 October 2010
Carnegie hosted three premier business and thought leaders for a unique glimpse into how Europe’s private sector is coping with the crisis—and how it plans to move forward.

Europe has been especially hard hit by the Great Recession and the subsequent debt crisis. With much of the focus recently on the public sector, how are private companies coping? How has the European private sector been reshaped by the crisis? What can we expect from European companies in the years ahead as they adapt to a drastically altered business environment at home and aboard?

Panel discussion on the implications of the Great Recession on European businesses:

Moisés Naím, Senior Associate for International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment, moderator
Carlo De Benedetti, founder and former CEO and chairman of CIR
Paul A. Laudicina, Managing officer and chairman of A.T. Kearney
Gianni Riotta, editor-in-chief of Il Sole 24 Ore