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An ongoing keynote speaker video series

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Published Thursday, Dec. 03, 2009 1:16PM EST

Last updated Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 2:12PM EST

The Globe and Mail with Mackenzie Investments present some of today's most influential minds speaking on emerging trends at Ramsay Breakfast and Luncheon events.

This month: The terrorist attacks of 9/11 killed 658 employees at financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald. CEO Howard Lutnick and his sister, Edie Lutnick, reflect on the importance of remembering them and rebuilding their organization

Howard Lutnick, CEO, Cantor Fitzgerald LP

Howard Lutnick, CEO, Cantor Fitzgerald LP

Healing a company deeply wounded by 9/11

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick and his sister, Edie Lutnick, talk about picking up the pieces

Niall Ferguson, author and historian.

Niall Ferguson, author and historian.

The six killer apps of Western civilization

Author and economist Niall Ferguson details the six ideas that were key to the West's ascendancy

Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs

Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs all broke the law

Author and economist Jeffrey Sachs talks about the origins of the Occupy Wall St. movement

Misha Glenny

Cyber crime's key players

Author and journalist Misha Glenny describes some of the leading figures in the world of cyber crime

Nariman Behravesh, the chief global economist for the world’s largest
economics forecasting firm, IHS Global Insight.

World economy at a tipping point, but Canada has room to manoeuvre

What really worries economist Nariman Behravesh is that everything lies in the hands of politicians

Diana B. Henriques, New York Times writer and author of 'The Wizard of Lies'

Madoff's fatal gift: He flattered his victims into submission

Fraudster didn't exploit investors' greed, he made them feel like the smartest people in the world, says Diana B. Henriques, author of 'The Wizard of Lies'

Dan Gardner, author of Future Babble

Why are experts so bad at making predictions, and why do we keep listening to them?

The average 'expert' is about as accurate as a dart-throwing chimpanzee, says Dan Gardner, author of Future Babble

Howard Schultz

Why instant coffee? The story of Starbucks' new market niche

The recession will have a long tail, says CEO Howard Schultz, and consumers are behaving more responsibly. It was time to create value

Parag Khanna, author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

We are all globalized now

Parag Khanna, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, on how creative coalitions of public and private organizations could together tackle the world's dilemmas

Nicholas Christakis, Harvard professor and physician, appearing in Toronto

'Hey you, over there, stop making me fat'

Nicholas A. Christakis, physician and Harvard professor, on how one person's ill health or disability can create the same phenomena in other peoples' networks

Tim Wu, author of 'The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires'

Are the Internet's 'wild west' days coming to an end?

If it follows the evolutionary path of other media, the Web could one day be ruled by corporate giants, says Tim Wu, author of 'The Master Switch'

Peter Maass, author of 'Crude World: the Violent Twilight of Oil'

The invisible costs of oil

Peter Maass, author of 'Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil,' on the social, political and environmental impact of the petroleum business

Dan Ariely, author of The Upside of Irrationality

If we know what our irrational biases are, we can work around them

Dan Ariely, author of 'The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home,' on our powerful capacity to defy logic

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com and author of Delivering Happiness

Happy employees make for happy customers

Tony Hsieh, CEO of e-tailer Zappos.com and author of 'Delivering Happiness,' on the science of good cheer and how it can help your business

Edward Jay Epstein

Raising the curtain on the business of Hollywood

Edward Jay Epstein, investigative reporter and author of The Hollywood Economist, takes us behind the box-office numbers

Sheena Iyengar talks about her book, The Art of Choosing.

The power - and paralysis - of too many choices

Each day we make dozens of decisions, from the mundane to the important. Sheena Iyengar, Columbia business professor and author of 'The Art of Choosing,' tallies up the costs

John Cassidy

Why it all fell apart

John Cassidy, New Yorker writer and author of 'How Markets Fail,' on the economic implosion and how we can stop it from happening again

The great disruption

Ken Auletta, New Yorker magazine writer and author of 'Googled: The End of the World As We Know It," on the future of media and technology

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