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Dr. Gillian K. Hadfield, Internationally Renowned Economist, Law Professor and AI Governance Expert, Joins Board of Governors
The Long Run Initiative (LRI) is honoured to announce that Dr. Gillian K. Hadfield, Professor of Law, Professor of Strategic Management and Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto, will be joining its international Board of Governors, effective immediately. For more details and a downloadable press release, click HERE.
Read MoreDe/Re-Industrialisation: Link to Full Discussion
In association with the Chief Executives’ Club at Queen’s University Belfast, Dr Michael Aldous, Senior Lecturer in Management at Queen’s chaired a thorough discussion of the issues and implications of de/reindustrialisation. Panel members included Dr Graham Brownlow, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Queen’s University Belfast; Dr Judy Stephenson, Associate Professor in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment, University College London; Dr Tirthankar Roy, Professor in Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science; and Rose Mary Stalker, Chair of Invest Northern Ireland. The complete discussion is available HERE.
Read MoreDE/RE- INDUSTRIALIZATION: LEGACIES, CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
13 January 2021 | Online Briefing
Industries are relocating and employment needs are changing. How should corporations and governments handle the negative fallout on economies, societies and political systems? Should we – could we? – re-industrialize?
Read MoreBig 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?
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