IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond weighed in on the Sony hack, saying theater owners got a bad rap.
“Theater owners were portrayed in a worse light than they should have been,” Gelfond told HuffPost Live at Davos.
“I think the theater owners got screwed… they didn’t really get a seat at the table in all of this,” he added.
Gelfond also spoke with HuffPost Live about IMAX’s decision to screen HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” He said the reaction to the announcement exceeded his expectations, with the company’s servers crashing twice from people flooding to the IMAX website for information.
Below, the latest updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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“It took us 13 years to get lead out of gasoline because of our children’s brains. When are we going to get the carbon out of the atmosphere? It’s a toxin… It’s obvious to anybody with half a whit.”
“This is a fundamental issue of human rights and of intelligence for the future,” he added.
McDonough spoke about creating biodegradable packaging made from corn stalks.
“Why wouldn’t corn flakes be in a package made from corn stalks?” McDonough said.
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“We think it’s about a ,000 a year savings,” Bertolini said, noting his company’s health care costs actually went down after implementing mindfulness practices.
Mark Bertolini said a number of CEOs at Davos have asked him how he made the major changes at his company.
“Not everybody should be at an hour, there may be people who need to be higher,” Bertolini said, noting people’s lifestyles are directly impacted by how they are paid.
Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, explained how he increased wages for his workers, arguing that taking better care of his employees would in turn lead to better care for Aetna’s customers.
“We started to say, well, that’s going to take away some of their benefits… so we also made a benefits change,” Bertolini said.
“I think it is useful and important for people to imagine, ‘where’s my food coming from?'” Mack said.
“What people don’t appreciate is just how intensive agriculture is around the world,” Mack added.
“Transparency.. is getting pretty tightly wound together with labeling,” Mack said.
Mack said people in the U.S. have “failed to appreciate” that labeling was always done for the purposes of safety, and argued that GMO labeling isn’t typically done because GMOs aren’t deemed unsafe.
Michael Mack, CEO of Syngenta, said some of the debate over food technologies like GMOs is “Western luxury.”
