In 2008, the Instituto Veneto awarded me a prize for this essay on the future of Venice, which advocated charging tourists €50 to enter the city. 16 years later, a similar (but cheaper) scheme has been implemented. Venice is the first urban theme park. Like any other theme park, it is full of attractions, but […]

John Kay

03.05.2024

The Role of the Professional - John Kay

To mark my honorary fellowship of the CISI, I gave a brief talk on the important subject of professionalism — a subject which will be an important aspect of a forthcoming book.

John Kay

16.07.2024

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century - John Kay

My new book will be released 29th August, and is now available for pre-order. For generations, we have defined a corporation as a business run by a capitalist elite, that uses its accumulated wealth to own the means of production and exercise economic power. That is no longer the reality. In the twenty-first century, our […]

John Kay

21.08.2024

Introduction: Business in Society - John Kay

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins. Mark 2:22, New King James Version1 In 1901 financier J. P. Morgan orchestrated the creation of US Steel, then by […]

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