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Law and economics
Law and economics, also called economic analysis of law, applies microeconomic theory to legal rules and institutions, from Coase's 1960 theorem on property rights to tort and criminal deterrence.
Law of demand
The law of demand is the principle that buyers purchase less of a good as its price rises and more as its price falls, all else equal.
Lawhive
Lawhive is a London-based legal services company combining an SRA-regulated law firm with its own AI platform, founded in 2020 by Pierre Proner, Flinn Dolman, and Jaime Van Oers.
Lawrence E. King Jr.
Lawrence E. King Jr. was an Omaha banker and Republican fundraiser whose Franklin Community Federal Credit Union CD fraud left about $40 million missing in 1988.
Lawrence R. Klein
Lawrence R. Klein, also known as Lawrence Klein, was an American econometrician at the University of Pennsylvania and winner of the 1980 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Lawrence S. Bohn
Lawrence S. Bohn, known as Larry Bohn, is an American venture capitalist and managing director at General Catalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for enterprise software investments including HubSpot.
Lawrence T. Pileggi
Lawrence T. Pileggi, also known as Larry Pileggi, is an American electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, a pioneer of circuit simulation who received the 2023 Phil Kaufman Award.
Lawrence Wu
Lawrence Wu is a Singapore solar entrepreneur and finance specialist who co-founded Sunseap Group in 2011 with Frank Phuan, now CFO of EDP Renewables APAC.
Laxman Narasimhan
Laxman Narasimhan, born in Pune, India, in 1967, is an Indian-born American executive who led Reckitt from 2019 to 2022 and Starbucks from March 2023 until his removal in August 2024.
Layoff
A layoff, also called a workforce reduction or rightsizing, is a permanent termination of employment for reasons attributable to the employer, such as contraction or restructuring, not the employee's conduct.
Lazada
Lazada is a Singapore-headquartered e-commerce marketplace operating in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, founded in 2012 by Rocket Internet and controlled by Alibaba Group since 2016.
Lazard
Lazard, also known as Lazard Frères, is an independent financial advisory and asset management firm founded in 1848, publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 2005.
LB Pharmaceuticals Inc
LB Pharmaceuticals Inc is a New York-based, late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing LB-102, an investigational once-daily oral antipsychotic for schizophrenia, bipolar depression, and other neuropsychiatric diseases.
Lbc Credit Partners
LBC Credit Partners, now branded CIFC Direct Lending, is a Philadelphia-based private credit manager founded in 2005 by John Brignola and Nate Cohen, acquired by CIFC Corp. in 2021.
LCN Capital Partners
LCN Capital Partners is a New York-based private real estate investment manager specializing in sale-leaseback and triple net lease investments, founded in 2011 and agreed to be acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2026.
Le Grand Casino
Le Grand Casino is the shared name of several casinos: the 24/7 Le Grand Casino in Skopje, North Macedonia (opened 1994, Holiday Inn, K.A.K. DOO), plus Partouche's Djerba casino, La Mamounia Marrakech, Brussels Viage, Bern, Nouméa, and historic French Grand Casinos.
Le Hong Minh
Le Hong Minh (Lê Hồng Minh), born 1977, is a Vietnamese technology entrepreneur who founded VNG in 2004 as Vinagame, was its CEO until 2024, and now chairs the company behind Zalo.
Lead Edge Capital
Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity firm in New York City, founded in 2011, that invests in software, internet, and technology businesses, including Alibaba, Spotify, and ByteDance.
Lead generation
Lead generation, or lead-gen, is the marketing and sales activity of capturing prospective customers' contact information so a company can qualify them and convert them into customers.
Leader-Follower autonomous convoy program
The Leader-Follower autonomous convoy program is a US Army effort in which one crewed truck leads unmanned follower trucks that repeat its path on dangerous resupply routes.
Leadership
Leadership is the activity of influencing and directing people toward a shared goal, studied in organizational research as behaviors and styles distinct from, though overlapping with, management.
Leadership style
A leadership style is the manner in which a manager exercises authority in the workplace to achieve objectives, expressed through attitudes and behaviors like speech, example, and body language.
Leading indicator
A leading indicator is a measurable economic series that changes direction before the overall business cycle, such as building permits or jobless claims, letting analysts anticipate turning points.
Leadrive Technology
Leadrive Technology (臻驱科技) is a Shanghai company founded in 2017 by Shen Jie that makes motor controllers, power bricks, and power modules for electric vehicles.
Leads Biolabs (维立志博)
Leads Biolabs (维立志博), also known as Nanjing Leads Biolabs, is a Chinese biotechnology company in Nanjing developing antibody cancer therapies, listed in Hong Kong in 2025.
Leads Connect
Leads Connect (LeadsConnect Services Pvt. Ltd.) is an Indian agritech company founded in Noida in 2009 by Navneet Ravikar, providing farm analytics, crop-insurance support, and credit through its AGRANI platform.
LeadSquared
LeadSquared is an Indian SaaS company headquartered in Bengaluru that sells a sales-execution CRM combining sales automation, marketing automation, and field-force management; founded in 2011, it became a unicorn in 2022.
Leadsynbio (引航生物)
Leadsynbio (引航生物) is a Chinese synthetic-biology company founded in 2015 by chemist Xie Xinkai that makes antibiotic ingredients by enzyme catalysis, and filed for a Hong Kong listing in 2026.
Leadwind
Leadwind, registered as Lead Wind Ventures, FCR, is a Spanish venture capital fund launched by Telefónica and K in 2021, investing in early-growth and deep-tech scaleups in Southern Europe and Latin America.
League of Nations financial reconstruction of Austria
The League of Nations financial reconstruction of Austria was a 1922 internationally supervised stabilization program, funded by a 650-million-gold-crown loan, that ended Europe's first hyperinflation.