LRI has an integrated, dual mission of innovative business research and targeted outreach necessary to realize the Institute’s overarching goal of helping business and industry to become more eco-efficient, resilient and sustainable.  

The LRI’s research builds upon and leverages decades of NJIT experience and intellectual capital in the fields of sustainability and industrial ecology, environmental science, operations management and decision analytics, organizational behavior and business data science. In addition to conducting business and management research, the LRI works closely on problems with academic and business communities, regional economic leaders and government agencies.

New cognitive business and machine learning methodologies, designed to help companies collect, visualize and analyze data from wide-ranging sources, are viewed as central to these efforts.

Leir Center for Financial Bubble Research

The Leir Center For Financial Bubble Research within the Martin Tuchman School Of Management was established through the generous support of the Ridgefield and Leir Foundations. The Center seeks to understand through quantitative and qualitative research how a financial bubble can be identified including its stages of development and what policies can best manage its impacts.

The Center believes bubble related research past and present has been primarily focused on the most recent financial crisis, which often involves a financial bubble but frequently does not. Yet every crisis seems now to be called a bubble. Thus developing a much more precise understanding of what is a bubble and what is not represents an important area of research.

Visit the Leir Center For Financial Bubble Research or contact Dr. Michael Ehrlich, for more information.