The corporation in the 21st century

21世纪的巨头企业

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2025-05-12

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Contributor(s): Professor Sir John Kay | Join us as John Kay, one of Britain’s leading economists, discusses his new book The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong, a radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business - what it is for and how it works.
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  • Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

  • Welcome to the LSE for this hybrid event.

  • My name is Francesco Caselli and I'm a professor at the London School of Economics.

  • I am very pleased to be here to welcome Professor John Kay,

  • both our online audience and our audience here in the Old Theatre today.

  • John Kay is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

  • He was the founding dean of the Oxford Business School and has held chairs at London Business School and the LSE.

  • He is a winner of the Senior Wincott Award for his financial tax columns.

  • And this book, Other People's Money,

  • won the Saltire Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

  • John will be discussing his new book, The Corporation in the 21st Century.

  • This will be a radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business,

  • what it is and how it works.

  • John will talk for 50 minutes, roughly.

  • All right?

  • And there will be a Q&A session for about, well,

  • for 30 minutes or so once the lecture has ended john will be outside the theater uh for the book signing um and so this and this also will be available for purchase twitter users uh hashtag is hashtag lse events the event is recorded and will be hopefully made available as a podcast As usual,

  • there will be a chance for you to put your questions to John.

  • For the online audience,