| As you might expect of somebody who once spent six months alone in an Arctic cabin studying Kant, Hegel and Heidegger, Yngve Slyngstad is something of a corporate philosopher. The chief executive of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway's oil fund, is not content with trying to make more money for the local population. He is also thinking deeply about how companies and markets work.
"Where do we actually see the public company going forward?" he asks in an interview in his office in Norway's central bank, which manages the fund. "How can we make sure that the public company is actually able to put together a profitable proposition and appropriate flexibility in the way they run their business?" ..............................................Full Article: Source
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