The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday 15 October 2024 | 17:00 - 18:00 | Webinar

Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong.

The twentieth-century corporation was characterised by physical assets, rigid hierarchies, and standardised output. But today’s corporations are fundamentally different. No longer defined by their tangible capital, they are now best understood as dynamic networks of human capabilities and collective intelligence.

Leading economist Sir John Kay, FSIP contends that while the nature of the corporation has evolved, our language and thinking about it have not. Join us for an insightful discussion as we explore how our perceptions and attitudes toward the modern firm need to be reshaped for this new era.

Timings

Registration: 16:55

Event: 17:00 - 18:00

Speaker

Sir John Kay, FSIP

Sir John Kay, FSIP is one of Britain’s leading economists with wide practical experience in business and finance. A Fellow of the British Academy and Royal Society of Edinburgh, he was the founding dean of Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and held a chair at London Business School.

He is a winner of the Senior Wincott Award for Financial Journalism for his Financial Times columns. Other People’s Money won the Saltire Prize for non-fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. His other books include Obliquity, The Long and Short of It, Greed is Dead (written with Paul Collier) and Radical Uncertainty (with Mervyn King).

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