Global Business Network

Global Business Network

Global Business Network, or GBN, a part of the Monitor Group, is an American consulting firm that helps businesses, NGOs, and governments plan strategies for multiple possible futures. Its approach to uncovering futures consists of tapping insights from networks of remarkable people, and then forging innovative, original, subject-specific methodologies for integrating these insights into actionable visions of the future.

GBN was founded in Berkeley in 1987 by a group of friends including Peter Schwartz, Jay Ogilvy, Stewart Brand, Napier Collyns, and Lawrence Wilkinson.

Members of The GBN Network include:
* Pierre Omidyar
* Laurie Anderson
* Esther Dyson
* John Perry Barlow
* Mary Catherine Bateson
* Stewart Brand
* Napier Collyns
* Douglas Coupland
* K. Eric Drexler
* Freeman Dyson
* Brian Eno
* Francis Fukuyama
* Peter Gabriel
* William Gibson
* Paul Hawken
* Danny Hillis
* James Hillman
* William Joy
* Kevin Kelly
* Jaron Lanier
* Lawrence Lasker
* Amory Lovins
* Michael Murphy
* Nancy Ramsey
* Paul Saffo
* Brian Sager
* Russell (Rusty) Schweickart
* Alexander Singer
* Bruce Sterling
* Sherry Turkle
* Peter Warshall

GBN is based in San Francisco.

External links

* [http://www.gbn.org/ GBN Global Business Network]
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.11/gbn.html?pg=1&topic=/ Conspiracy of Heretics: 10 page profile on the GBN in Wired 2.11]


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