Big Tech Conference Draws Big Crowd
On October 2, 2020, LRI held its first online conference: Big Tech: Monopoly’s Second Moment? The Evolution and Trajectory of Government Policy and Corporate Strategy.
Big Tech: Monopoly’s Second Moment? The Evolution and Trajectory of Government Policy and Corporate Strategy
Our next event is themed Big Tech: Monopoly’s Second Moment? The Evolution and Trajectory of Government Policy and Corporate Strategy, cosponsored with the Wilson/Currie Chair in Canadian Business History, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and keynote by The Hon. Dr. Kevin G. Lynch.
LRI & CLI Webinar – Precedents in an Unprecedented World: Insights for Pandemic Era Leaders
A panel of business and economics historians, will discus how a long-run perspective helps them think about how Covid-19 will affect business, the financial system, inequality and globalisation.
Confronting the Productivity Challenge Roundtable Synopsis
The Long Run Initiative hosted a roundtable at Queen’s Management School Belfast on Confronting the Productivity Challenge. The event brought experts and scholars together from academia, government and corporate sectors.
The Globe and Mail Editor-in-Chief David Walmsley Appointed to Long Run Initiative (LRI) Board of Governors
The Long Run Initiative (LRI) is pleased to announce that Mr. David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto The Globe and Mail Canada’s national newspaper, will be joining its international Board of Governors, effective immediately.
Learning from a Different Past
Professor Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School (HBS), is the founder of Creating Emerging Markets, an extraordinary initiative that aims to level the playing field in the study of business history through the study of the long run development of emerging markets.
Confronting the Productivity Challenge
For 250 years, consistent improvements in productivity have created an engine for economic growth, greater prosperity and better standards of living. Since the Global Financial Crisis, that two-and-a-half century winning streak has stalled: productivity has flat-lined. Productivity – how to generate it and sustain it – constitutes one of the most complex and serious challenges facing contemporary economies. It is also the focus of LRI Roundtable No. 2, to be held on 8 November 2019 at Queen’s University Belfast.
An Economist’s Guide to Economic History
The LRI are delighted to support the launch of the new book, An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, Edited by Dr Matthias Blum and Dr Chris Colvin, colleagues at Queen's University Belfast, and with chapters contributed by LRI Directors, Professor John Turner and Dr Michael Aldous. The book will be formally launched at an event at QUB on the 18th January with a Roundtable Discussion including contributions from Prof. Wendy Carlin, Prof. Nicholas Crafts and Paul Winfree.
BMO Financial Group Chief Talent Officer Mona Malone named to Long Run Initiative Board of Governors
The Long Run Initiative (LRI) is delighted to announce that Mona Malone, Chief Talent Officer for BMO Financial Group, will be joining its international Board of Governors, effective immediately.
Why History?
The Long Run Initiative has been established to help guide executives and policymakers understand the importance of history to their decision making. Why should business leaders and policymakers care about economic history? Can the past really help us make decisions in the present and for the future? A study of the economic past is useful for at least four reasons. Trajectory First, economic history helps us understand trajectories. In other words, it gives us an insight of where the economy has come from and where it is headed. Demographic changes have major effects on markets and public policy, but [...]