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William Lazonick

William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at University of Massachusetts, is co-founder and president of the , a 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an Open Society Fellow and a Canadian 八卦爆料 for Advanced Research Fellow.Over the past decade, the 八卦爆料 has funded a number of his research projects.

He has professorial affiliations with SOAS University of London and Institut Mines-T茅l茅com in Paris. Previously, Lazonick was assistant and associate professor of economics at Harvard University, professor of economics at Barnard College of Columbia University, and distinguished research professor at INSEAD in France. Lazonick earned his B.Com. at the University of Toronto, M.Sc. in Economics at London School of Economics, and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University. He holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala University and the University of Ljubljana.

His research focuses on the social conditions of innovation and economic development in advanced and emerging economies. His book ? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States (Upjohn 八卦爆料 2009) won the 2010 Schumpeter Prize. He has twice—in 1983 and 2010—had the award from Harvard Business School for best article of the year in Business History Review. In 2014, he received the HBR McKinsey Award for outstanding article in Harvard Business Review for “: Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market and Leave Most Americans Worse Off.” In January 2020, Oxford University Press published his book, co-authored with Jang-Sup Shin, Predatory Value Extraction: How the Looting of the Business Corporation Became the U.S. Norm and How Sustainable Prosperity Can Be Restored.

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The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility

Article | Aug 21, 2023

Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction

Losing Out in Critical Technologies: Cisco Systems and Financialization

Article | Feb 28, 2023

Cisco’s turn from innovation to financialization and what it means for the competitive position of the US information-and-communication-technology industry

The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco鈥檚 Transformation from Innovation to Financialization

Paper Working Paper | | Feb 2023

On the dereliction of key US-based business corporations to take the lead in making the investments in organizational learning required to generate cutting-edge communication-infrastructure products.

Sick with 鈥淪hareholder Value鈥: US Pharma鈥檚 Financialized Business Model During the Pandemic

Article | Dec 6, 2022

Evidence sharply contradicts PhRMA鈥檚 contention that its member companies need unregulated drug prices to generate profits that they then reinvest in drug innovation.

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INET working paper on how maximizing shareholder value led to minimizing national interests is cited in The American Prospect

News Dec 7, 2020

“If companies continue to prioritize maximizing shareholder wealth at the expense of other key stakeholders, and at the expense of investing in innovation, then the Green New Deal could reinforce long-standing income and wealth inequities and the decline in innovation in the U.S. economy (for an important example, Bill Lazonick and Matt Hopkins document how maximizing shareholder value minimized the strategic national stockpile for ventilators and personal protective equipment).” —Lenore M Palladino

YSI 2020 Plenary: New Economic Questions

Young Scholars Initiative Virtual Plenary

YSI Event Plenary YSI | Nov 6–15, 2020

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William Lazonick's research on stock buybacks is featured in Retail Dive

News Nov 3, 2020

William Lazonick, president of the Academic-Industry Research Network and a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, who has devoted much of his research to the topic of buybacks, has written that the rule change “in effect gave corporations license to use open-market repurchases to manipulate the market.” … In an interview, Lazonick told Retail Dive, “These distributions to shareholders, particularly buybacks on top of dividends, are at the expense of keeping people employed, rewarding them for the work they’ve done, and investing in new products and processes.”

William Lazonick is quoted in on the stock market practices of Big Pharma

News Oct 29, 2020

鈥淓xecutives have an interest in getting the stock price up and price gouging customers is one way they can do this,鈥 said William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at University of Massachusetts and co-founder of the Academic-Industry Research Network. While many drug companies argue that they use their vast profits to fund ongoing pharmaceutical innovation, Lazonick said, 鈥渨e鈥檝e shown that most of these companies don鈥檛 do that.鈥 Instead, the soaring prices fuel soaring stock prices and executive pay, which is often based largely on that price.鈥 — INET Grantee William Lazonick