Laurance Allen is editor and publisher of Value News Network. Laurance's career spans 35 years in international media with management assignments in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. His pioneering work includes launching the Financial Times in North America via satellite from Europe and conducting feasibility studies to do the same in Japan and Southeast Asia.
As publisher of the Harvard Business Review, Allen assembled a new management team to help revive the fortunes of the world's leading management journal. He also served on the strategy committee of Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, advising on traditional and new media. Laurance went on to be the founding publisher and co-creator of strategy+business magazine for Booz&Co.
Featured Work
MAR 23, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Africa's Rising GDP Numbers
African countries are recalculating their gross domestic products to include previously unaccounted economic activities. Is it a strategy of these countries to market themselves or ...
APR 5, 2011 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Valid Solutions for Malnutrition
Health and nutrition pioneer Steve Collins is building a social enterprise to battle severe acute malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic foods grown and manufactured in the ...
NOV 4, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Sparking a Glimmer of Hope
Social entrepreneur Philip Berber experiments with a new model for development aid by covering overhead costs through his A Glimmer of Hope Foundation so that ...
JUL 16, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Corruption Ebbs in Africa
The World Bank reports that corruption is on the wane in Africa. Devin Stewart interviews Nairobi-born publisher Laurance Allen about the progress he has seen ...