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If that be the case, HutchisonWhampoa has
immense contact with the unknown.
With some 260,000 employees constantly
pushing at the boundaries of knowledge,
HWL is encountering the unknown and
finding a path forward.
The revamped
Sphere
aspires to capture
the knowledge within HWL at the frontier
of discovery and make it known. Our thirst
for knowledge aligns with the tradition
of exploration of the Dutch. The home of
merchant-explorers like Schouten, Tasman
(yes, of Tasmania fame), and Hartog has
been fertile ground for the merchant-
explorers of our Group. Ports, retail and
cutting edge waste-to-energy firms are
part of the Group’s success story in the
Lower Countries. Find out what it means
to be Going Dutch in these pages.
The benefit of past exploration also means
we can sit solidly inside the sphere – like in
our control rooms around the world. From
ports to power, HWL’s Control Rooms
monitor and guide the resources needed
by billions of people every day. The people,
equipment and software deployed are all
derived from our vast collective experience
in massive operations.
HWL expands the sphere through worldly
experience; universities from the ivory
tower. But today’s universities are reaching
around the globe to find new partners.
Our Chairman makes it possible. This year,
the Li Ka Shing Foundation enabled major
academic partnerships between schools
from Israel to China to Canada.
Wherever Pascal’s sphere is being
expanded by Hutchison Whampoa, this
Sphere
wants to know. Tell us with your
letters to
Sphere
, and never shrink from
the boundary with the unknown.
“Knowledge is like a sphere, the greater its volume, the larger its
contact with the unknown.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
The revamped Sphere aspires to capture
the knowledge within HWL at the frontier
of discovery and make it known.
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Sphere Magazine #34
December 2013
Cover Illustration
By Gareth Leyshon
The cover illustration
conveys the notion that
the control room of any
organisation requires
both the head and the
heart. Having a vision for
the present and the
future, and the unique
ability to always see
the bigger picture with
every small detail –
all at the same time – it
implies the idea that to
control is to understand
the alchemy of inter-
connected processes.
Expanding thE
SphErE
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