L.R. Wilson / R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History, Rotman School of Management.
The Rotman School of Management is part of the University of Toronto, a global centre of research and teaching excellence at the heart of Canada’s commercial capital. Rotman is a catalyst for transformative learning, insights and public engagement, bringing together diverse views and initiatives around a defining purpose: to create value for business and society.
From gender inequality in the workplace to the cost of tax havens, Rotman researchers push the boundaries of inquiry. And their insights travel from our campus to boardrooms around the globe. Our faculty comprises scholars and teachers who've earned acclaim for their interdisciplinary insights grounded in management expertise.
Dimitry Anastakis is the LR Wilson/RJ Currie Chair in Canadian Business History at the Rotman School of Management and in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. A scholar of postwar Canadian business and the economy, Professor Anastakis’s current research projects include finishing a book about the Bricklin SV-1, a car produced in Canada in the 1970s, and embarking on a major research project on postwar Canadian neoliberalism and free trade as part of the SSHRC Partnership Grant, “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time.”
The Wilson/Currie Chair’s mandate is to advance the study of Canadian business history, at Rotman, the University of Toronto, and broadly in Canada and beyond. Professor Anastakis is Chair of the Canadian Business History Association - l'association canadienne pour l'histoire des affaires (CBHA/ACHA), oversees the Business History Reading Group at the University of Toronto, and is general editor of the Themes in Business and Society series from the University of Toronto Press.
Long Run Initiative
The Long Run Initiative (LRI) is a not-for-profit forum linked to the Queen’s University Belfast Centre for Economic History and SIERC.
The Initiative is founded on three precepts:
- To demonstrate the practical value of historical expertise to contemporary decision makers.
- To create dialogue between academics, businesses and government.
- To provide an independent and international perspective on the challenges facing business and society.
Currently, the LRI achieves these aims through the organisation of high impact roundtable events that bring together speakers and participants from a range of academic, corporate and policy backgrounds to discuss historical trends that shape key contemporary challenges.
The LRI brings together the capabilities of two organisations to create a unique set of interests and expertise.
The Centre for Economic History at Queen’s University Belfast is one of the largest groups of Economic and Business Historians in the world. Amongst the group and its wider network, are academic experts working on a diverse range of issues including economic development, globalization, corporate governance, banking crises, bubbles, corporate failures, demography, and political economy. The Centre’s mission is to explain the past to understand the present by understanding the trajectory of the economy and drawing lessons from past experiences for present global challenges.
SIERC is a boutique consultancy that specializes in deep research and analysis of organizational experience and memory, helping senior leaders transform these insights into actionable strategy. Based in Toronto, Canada, SIERC professionals focus on mobilizing context for organizations to unlock a deeper understanding of where they have been, how they got to where they are now, and where they are going. The company has produced extensive research and customized case studies for senior executives and policymakers on specific issues and challenges, in addition to a growing range of published corporate and economic histories of firms.
The Long Run Initiative is led by its co-founders and directors: Prof. John Turner (UK), Dr. Laurence B. Mussio (Canada) and Dr. Michael Aldous (UK). Their combined experiences as academics, historians and entrepreneurs led them to believe there was a huge opportunity to bring together people who don’t normally have space or time to interact with each other. They conceived the Initiative as a forum to build new connections and create a dialogue that encourages reflections on the long-run.