Lawrence (Laury) Minard, founding editor of FORBES GLOBAL, died Aug. 2 at the age of 51.
Laury was always willing to operate well outside the comfort zone when pursuing a story.
Tolerate a few paragraphs of my own story and you'll get an idea of Laury's contribution.
Although not a national figure, Laury had a remarkable impact in shaping the world in which we live.
Laury came upon this now-widespread understanding while watching an old Clark Gable movie.
Laury was skeptical, and he went to Iraq to find out the truth.
Laury Minard refused to write about Schumpeter in an academic or historic sense.
Laury was the perfect person to head up our new international edition, FORBES GLOBAL, which we formally launched in 1998.
Ten years ago Laury made a controversial choice for Businessman of the Year in his magazine: Masayoshi Son of Japan's SoftBank.
Shortly after Laury came on board, he and another iconoclastic writer, David Warsh, teamed up to produce an award-winning piece on inflation.
And here was Laury Minard, writing about some Austrian economist named Schumpeter.
America, in the 20-odd years since Laury resowed the Schumpeter seed, has added 35 million new jobs--all of them Schumpeter jobs, most of them well paying.
Laury studied economics, but he never allowed the numbers-laden discipline to cramp his vision or to obscure the fact that economics is about real, breathing people.
America, in the 20-odd years since Laury resowed the Schumpeter seed, has added 35 million new jobs--all of them Schumpeter jobs, most of them good paying.
Nearly 20 years ago Laury realized that 1983 would mark the centennial birthday of not only the towering John Maynard Keynes but also the obscure Joseph Schumpeter.
He had a top lieutenant named Laury Minard, who in turn became the founding editor of FORBES' international edition--effectively my predecessor until his unexpected death in 2001.
When my predecessor, founding editor Laury Minard, died in the summer of 2001, some readers donated in his memory to an unusual charity that had captured his heart.
Cofounder Andrea Coleman wrote us last month to say that the Minard Fund had provided the means to bring down malaria deaths in the Binga district of Zimbabwe--where Laury visited--by 20%.
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