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Öner Tulum
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Researcher/educator ● Exploring where science, biz & prosperity (or lack thereof) intersect ● Love digging into biz history & crafting cases ● Fascinated by stories on innovation v. financialization ● If not nerding out, most likely watching ⚽️!
In Michael M. Davis Lectures at U of Chicago's CHAS, Lazonick discusses the economic dynamics that lead to high healthcare costs and low-quality healthcare, examining the role of public corporations and private equity ​in this systemic problem.

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November 28, 2024 at 5:12 AM

In "Musk and Tesla: Corporate Compensation, Financialization, and the Problem of Strategic Control," AIRnet researchers Matt Hopkins and William Lazonick ask "Why should we be worried about Musk’s control of Tesla?"
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
Musk and Tesla: Corporate Compensation, Financialization, and the Problem of Strategic Control
From the perspective of innovative enterprise, we ask how Musk might abuse his power of strategic control—and what that would mean for corporate governance reform.
www.ineteconomics.org
November 28, 2024 at 5:03 AM
"The Myth That Shareholders Are Always Investors: Challenging the Paradigm of Shareholder Primacy"
by Lenore Palladino and Harrison Karlewicz

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rooseveltinstitute.org
November 28, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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This process of subtle stock-market regulatory changes leading to the death of useful innovation was laid out very well by William Lazonick in this recent episode of the Better Offline podcast from @zitron.bsky.social :
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Ed Zitron is joined by William Lazonick in a phenomenal talk on how the incentives of shareholder capitalism and stock buybacks are destroying innovation. podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/b...
William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 13/11/2024 · 54m
podcasts.apple.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century
November 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Private equity CEO heading to US Treasury? 🤔 William Lazonick raises concerns in Allison Morrow's CNN piece: "regulation isn't there... [y]ou don’t even know what private equity owns —everything shielded by various types of transactions & corporate structures" www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/b...
One of Trump’s Treasury contenders hails from the most cutthroat private equity firm on Wall Street | CNN Business
Marc Rowan, a contender for what is arguably the most important economic job in the US government, is the CEO of Apollo Global Management, a behemoth in private equity, an industry notorious for its c...
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November 22, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Just spotted that the timeline chart I created, of pandemic death tolls over history, is the cover image of Wikipedia's page "List of epidemics and pandemics". Wow!

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November 16, 2024 at 10:05 AM
AIRnet researchers Matt Hopkins and William Lazonick ask,
"Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?"
www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
The $48 Billion Stock-Option Package and its Implications for the EV Transition
www.ineteconomics.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:33 PM
"Apple: The biggest corporate looter of all" youtu.be/Us1dLlqek80?si… William Lazonick gives a talk a#WebSummit202424 Lisbon during a session moderated by The Economist's Kenneth Cukier
William Lazonick: "Apple is the biggest looter of the corporate treasury!"
YouTube video by AIRnet@YouTube
https://youtu.be/Us1dLlqek80?si…
November 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM