¹ The first took place in New Zealand, and subsequent ones were held in London, Costa Rica, Brittany, Ghana, Beijing, Mexico City, Prague, Nairobi, Tuscany, the United States (the World Bank in Washington, D.C, the New School in New York, the Darden School at the University of Virginia, and a conference of the Academy of Management), Canada (Vancouver, Ottawa, St. Jerome and Ste. Marguerite, Quebec, and with the Sauvé Scholars at McGill), and more recently in Lima, Paris, Tokyo, and, finally, two at the McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management.

² Mihaela Firsirotu, Yvan Allaire, and I have been working on a book entitled Canadians on Balance that draws together the writings of many Canadians on social, political, and economic issues.

³ The title is in reference to the historical Jewish Jubilee, where every fifty years society was given the possibility of starting over again.