Reputation.com CEO Michael Fertik has been sharing regular updates from the World Economic Forum in Davos via his Twitter account, but if you’re looking for more than 140 characters of insight, the place to go is the Harvard Business Review.

Michael has already written two articles for the Harvard Business Review (a Beginner’s Guide to Davos and a Day One Davos Recap) and today he has shared two more. Because of the time difference between Davos and the United States, both Michael’s Day Two Davos recap and Day Three Davos recap were published this morning. Check out the full text from both below.

Day Two Davos Dispatch

The World Economic Forum is in full swing. Thursday is the “Governors” Day, which means that key industry sectors, and especially key leaders from those sectors, are spending the day together in deep discussion on the direction of their fields.

Meanwhile, there has been a huge amount of discussion in the hallways, and a number of sessions, about socially responsible work. There seems to have been something of an uptick even since last year in the amount of attention being paid to these topics.

In particular, talk of food prices has been gaining momentum. The most moving moment I’ve had so far while in Davos was when I turned on the BBC a couple of nights ago and watched a fisherman in an African country respond to a question by a reporter. The journalist asked “what would you like to say to the people meeting in Davos?” He said, quite simply, “please bring down the price of food.”

If you care about nearly any topic on the global agenda, there is something here for you. Right now, as I write this, I’m sitting in the Partners Lounge in the Congress Center. Tables are in short supply, so I’m sharing one with two guys from the healthcare nonprofit space. They are having a wide-ranging policy and science discussion about AIDS. They’re in the fight. It’s awesome to hear.

Day Three Davos Dispatch

I’m sitting here in the Partners Lounge on the Mezzanine Level of the Congress Center. As usual, seats are in short supply, so I grabbed the first one I could find. It turns out I’m sitting next to three editors of one of the largest news magazines in the world. They are deep in conversation, so I type away for a while. Then they reach a pause and ask what I do. It turns into a 60-minute conversation. Pretty soon they’re deep into sharing their points of view of social media, the Tunisian revolution, the democratization of the world, the essential frailties of China, the essential strengths of (most of) the West, and the wisdom (in their view) of reducing fiscal deficits immediately rather than later.

The conversation takes a more urgent turn when Morgan Tsvangirai, the much-abused and -suffering Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, sits down three feet away at the next table.

And then the head of a huge bank sits down right next to us. And then the CEO of a huge biotech on the other side. It’s crazy.

It continues. Now I’m talking with Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN and author of How, whom I’ve gotten to know through the WEF. I am listening to him share his comprehensive findings — soon to be released — on the power of values-based, self-governing corporate cultures as a driver of sustainable growth, innovation, and resiliency.

Here’s the totally essential and not-to-be-missed point: Listening to the conversations all around you, and participating in a few, it becomes clear that the meetings here are not just to say hello and catch up and enjoy being on the scene. The people in room are engaging in hard conversation all around you. They are grappling with the topics of food, health, finance, commerce, privacy, security, democracy, and war.

Let’s hope that the conversations translate into action, and that their best aspirations are filled.