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Labor theory of value
The labor theory of value is the classical and Marxian doctrine that exchange value is governed by the labor time required to produce commodities, later displaced by marginalism.
Labor turnover
Labor turnover is the rate at which workers leave jobs and are replaced, usually a yearly percentage; in the United States it is measured by the BLS JOLTS survey.
Labor unions in the United States
Labor unions in the United States are worker organizations that bargain wages and conditions; membership fell from 33.5 percent in 1954 to 9.9 percent in 2024.
Labour economics
Labour economics, also known as economics of labor, is the field of economics that studies wages, employment, and unemployment, including unions, minimum wages, and employer monopsony power.
Labour in India
Labour in India is the employment, wages, and regulation of a workforce of roughly 600 million people, 80 to 90 percent of whom work without contracts or social security.
Labour movement
The labor movement, also known as organized labor or the workers' movement, is workers' collective organization through unions, political parties, and legislation to win higher wages and better working conditions.
Labour power
Labour power (German: Arbeitskraft) is, in Marxian economics, a worker's mental and physical capacity to work, sold as a commodity; Marx used it to explain profit and exploitation.
Lace Lithography
Lace Lithography is a Bergen, Norway-based semiconductor equipment startup, founded in 2023 by physicist Bodil Holst, that patterns chips with helium atom beams instead of light.
Lacework (company)
Lacework, Inc. was a data-driven cloud security company founded in 2014 in the San Francisco Bay Area, acquired by Fortinet in 2024 for $152.3 million.
Lácteos de Honduras S.A.
Lácteos de Honduras S.A., known as Lacthosa, is a Honduran dairy and juice processor founded by Schucry Kafie in 1990 and based in San Pedro Sula.
Lacthosa
Lacthosa (Lácteos de Honduras S.A.) is a dairy and juice company based in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, founded by Schucry Kafie in 1992 and owned by the Kafie family's Grupo K.
Ladi Delano
Ladi Delano, born in 1982, is a British-Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and co-leads Moove, the mobility fintech that reached a $2.1 billion valuation in 2026.
Laekna (来凯医药)
Laekna (来凯医药) is a Shanghai-based clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2016, listed in Hong Kong since 2023, whose lead drug afuresertib reached Phase III in breast cancer.
Lael Brainard
Lael Brainard is an American economist who served as a Federal Reserve governor from 2014, as Fed Vice Chair from 2022 to 2023, and as Biden's National Economic Council director.
Laércio Cosentino
Laércio Cosentino is a Brazilian software entrepreneur, an electrical engineering graduate of the University of São Paulo, who founded Microsiga in 1983 and chairs TOTVS, Latin America's largest software company.
Laffer curve
The Laffer curve describes the proposed relationship between a tax rate and the tax revenue it raises, named after Arthur B. Laffer, who remarked in 1974 that two tax rates can yield the same revenue.
Lahori Zeera
Lahori Zeera is a packaged carbonated cumin soft drink made by Chandigarh-based Archian Foods, founded in 2017 by three cousins and sold at Rs 10 a bottle.
Lai Chang Wen
Lai Chang Wen (赖长文) is a Singaporean entrepreneur, the co-founder and CEO of Ninja Van, the express logistics company he started in Singapore in 2014 with Shaun Chong and Boxian Tan.
Lai Jianping
Lai Jianping (赖建平) is a retired Haitian employee who became one of the condiment maker's largest individual shareholders, worth an estimated RMB 14 billion in 2025.
Lai Meisong
Lai Meisong (赖梅松), born 1970, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded ZTO Express in Shanghai in 2002 and has led it as CEO and, since 2013, chairman.
Lai Pen-mei
Lai Pen-mei (赖盆妹) was a Taiwanese businesswoman who, with her husband Yang Bing-yi, founded Din Tai Fung in Taipei in 1958 as a cooking-oil shop, later a soup dumpling chain.
Lai Yih Group
Lai Yih Group (来亿集团) is a Taiwanese footwear manufacturer founded in 1987 and headquartered in Taichung, producing athletic shoes for Adidas, Converse, and Deckers from factories in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Myanmar.
Laifen
Laifen (徕芬) is a Chinese personal-care appliance company founded in 2019 by Ye Hongxin, best known for high-speed hair dryers priced at a fraction of Dyson's.
Laiye (来也科技)
Laiye (来也科技) is a Beijing-based enterprise software company founded in 2015 by Wang Guanchun and Hu Yichuan, selling robotic process automation, conversational AI, and AI-agent digital employees.
Lakestar
Lakestar is a venture capital firm headquartered in Zurich, founded by Klaus Hommels in 2012, best known for early investments in Spotify, Airbnb, Revolut, and Klarna.
Lakestar SPAC I SE
Lakestar SPAC I SE was a Luxembourg special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Klaus Hommels, which raised EUR 275 million in 2021 and merged with HomeToGo.
Lakshmi Mittal (लक्ष्मी निवास मित्तल)
Lakshmi Mittal, also known as Lakshmi Nivas Mittal, is an India-born steel industrialist based in London who built ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steelmaker outside China.
Lakshmi Venu
Lakshmi Venu, born 1983, is an Indian business executive, daughter of Venu Srinivasan and Mallika Srinivasan, who leads Sundaram-Clayton and serves as Vice Chairman of TAFE.
Lakshya Asset Management Pvt. Ltd
Lakshya Asset Management is an Indian asset management company based in Ahmedabad, licensed by SEBI in 2026 and led by the founders of Benchmark Asset Management, which introduced ETFs to India.
Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar
Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar is an Indian hotelier and philanthropist anointed in April 2025 as 77th custodian of the House of Mewar, a claim his cousin contests.