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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.
Read MoreBig Tech: Monopoly’s Second Moment? The Evolution and Trajectory of Government Policy and Corporate Strategy
2 October 2020 | Online Conference
The digital behemoths of the 21st century are increasingly viewed as the new monopolies. How do we create policies that balance the needs of innovators, consumers, and national jurisdictions?
Read MorePRECEDENTS IN AN UNPRECEDENTED WORLD: INSIGHTS FOR PANDEMIC ERA LEADERS
4 June 2020 | Online Briefing
How might Covid-19 affect businesses, the financial system, inequality and globalization? What can leaders learn from past pandemics, economic depressions and national crises?
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreConfronting The Productivity Challenge Synopsis
Since the Global Financial Crisis, productivity – a 250 year-old engine of economic growth – has flat-lined. How do we tackle such a serious and complex issue?
Read MoreLearning 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.
Read MoreConfronting the Productivity Challenge
8 November 2019 | Roundtable, Belfast, UK
Since the Global Financial Crisis, productivity – a 250 year-old engine of economic growth – has flat-lined. How do we tackle such a serious and complex issue?
Read MoreAn 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.
Read MoreBMO 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.
Read MoreWhy 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.
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