London Business School

A cornerstone of London Business School's experience is working alongside other students from a variety of backgrounds.

Our study groups are carefully crafted for each cohort, providing a unique experience as you work closely with a group of peers with contrasting experience to your own, sharing perspectives and ways of working across cultures, sectors and functions. Many of our alumni tell us the relationships formed through their study groups at LBS are some of the closest they have had through their career, still supporting one another years on.

Olivier Espitalier Noel (MFA2024), Jean Zwerger (MAM2024) and Imane El Hafidi (MiM2024), share a small insight in to what their study group experience has entailed this year. https://ow.ly/QKYr50Sf8v7

🌐 How do organisations make sure they are inclusive for everyone?

This month, organisations around the world are participating in hashtag . Businesses should strive to ensure their people feel comfortable enough to be their authentic selves at work all the time. Professor Kathleen O’Connor offers advice to business leaders on creating an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone can be themselves.

🦄 We understand that when employees are appreciated as unique individuals, they become more motivated, more efficient, and – most crucially – happier. We should all strive to join a company where we can thrive.

🏆It's incumbent upon the organisation to create an atmosphere and environment where people don’t need to be brave to be who they are. Let your employees use that courage for something else.

⁉️ Business leaders need to be proactively asking themselves how they can better support all employees. This also shouldn’t be exceptional, it’s part of their job. What are you really doing to live up to that equality pledge?

Find out how leaders can support staff to be their authentic selves in our Think article here: https://ow.ly/cVOV50Sftuy

The London Business Challenge Week enables Graduate Masters and MBA students to apply and integrate their learning with real-world impact. Tapping into our London network, we invite major multinationals, tech start-ups, social enterprises, NGOs and other businesses to work closely with our students to address a live strategic challenge.

Elena Meganck (MFA2024) shares her experience working with Belfry Medical during the London Business Challenge Week. Belfry is a medical device start-up aiming to revolutionise the field with a proprietary inhaler device. Elena already had a background in healthcare and a passion for healthcare investing. Her experience has helped shape financial awareness in driving business growth, providing an opportunity to apply her Master's in Finance knowledge to the project and the reality of entrepreneurial decision-making.

Discover more here: https://ow.ly/IPen50Se7MI

Should everyone benefit from having the freedom to make choices? 🧐

We assume that freedom of choice is universally beneficial and available to all of us. Professor Simona Botti confronts this assumption and others in her examination of the relationship between choice freedom and personal and society well-being.

🔒Individuals generally experience psychological distress when their choice of freedom is threatened or restrained. However, the exercise of choice freedom may also negatively impact well-being when it conflicts with sociocultural norms.

📈Choices can be structured to increase the benefits and decrease the limits of freedom to ensure that consumers get the most out of the freedoms they are offered, and that organisations get the most out of their investments in providing more freedoms.

🤖The increasing use of technology in our everyday lives begs the question: How can we reconcile people’s desire for choice freedom with their increasing tendency to delegate choices to devices powered by artificial intelligence?

Read more on how consumers experience choice freedom in our article on Think here: https://ow.ly/YMTh50ScPjW

Is freedom to choose a good thing for everyone? | London Business School We assume that freedom of choice is universally beneficial and available to all consumers – it may be time to challenge those assumptions

� Never. Give. Up.

That’s the advice of Take Kato, one of our MBA2024 students – after spending nine years at Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan � Take secured funding for his place for a London Business School MBA through company sponsorship. Some of Take’s learnings:

� Funding options are like shoes – they have to fit your specific journey. Make sure your future goals are kept in mind when exploring funding options.

� GMAT preparation – Take a reflective approach– consider career goals, what an MBA can help you achieve, which school best aligns with your aspirations, all while gathering information from multiple sources.

� Keep the end goal in mind – Take says “Being a sponsored student open doors to incredible experiences – depending on your funding choice it can encourage you to take risks, embrace the unfamiliar and provide meaningful challenges.”

Read more on our Student Blog here: https://ow.ly/MEyS50SaFLl

Wondering about student clubs at London Business School?

Smilla Hogh (MiM2024), Pongpol Anuntasilpa (MAM2024), and Paul Gabard (MFA2024) share their transformative experiences. From gaining hands-on consulting experience working on a funding strategy for an NGO providing financial and psychological aid to children with cancer, to volunteering opportunities to inspire and empower the next generation through CV and interview workshops with teenagers — clubs are about building a network, creating life-long friendships and memories, and finding your community.

Find out more about our student clubs here: https://ow.ly/IVVP50S08ox

Discover the latest episode of The Why Podcast, where Dan Cable, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, shares his research findings on managing workplace tension and better time management. Leaders can learn how to restore balance, sanity, and productivity at work and discover the benefits of giving employees space for 'deep work'.

Listen to the podcast here: https://ow.ly/JoIP50RY6wq

Gain valuable insights from "Influence: The Ultimate Business Skill" by Steve Martin and Robert Cialdini.
The book explores the seven universal principles of influence that consistently impact people's decisions. It emphasises the crucial roles of reciprocity and liking in persuasion. If you want to enhance your influence skills and promote professional development, visit our website here: https://ow.ly/LwKK50RY44K

Elisa Day Svarstad's experience showcases the confident mindset that women seeking careers in finance can develop at London Business School. Her story highlights the opportunities available, from joining the Women in Business Club to becoming a student ambassador. Through these networking opportunities with ambitious women and successful alumni now thriving in finance, Elisa has grown her confidence and taken bolder actions to prepare herself for a career in the finance sector.

Find out more here: https://ow.ly/tqOH50RXS6z

How can past and future entrepreneurs build a strong network, broaden their knowledge, gain a venture capital perspective and transition to and from entrepreneurship?

As a Masters in Management student, Carmen Schlisser (MiM2024) shares her key insight about the path to entrepreneurship: https://ow.ly/WqVp50ROB1x

James Caan’s Nine Constituents Of Value

In his recent talk at London Business School, Caan shared his key insights on building a business empire, key principles in investing in a business, his advice for entrepreneurs, and his deep industry knowledge for crucial business success.

Find out how you can benefit from this talk here: https://ow.ly/4L4r50RMQmH

Last week, 84 of our MBA and Graduate Masters students headed to Nepal for our Kathmandu Global Experience. The course provided students with the opportunity to gain a practical understanding of how local Nepalese start-ups and small enterprises achieve their aims, grow their businesses and operate in their unique environment. Through 16 short-term client projects, students were able to address pressing business challenges and build an understanding of the role of entrepreneurship in this emerging market and how it links with driving social change.

Led by Professor Rupert Merson, the week also included sessions from guest speakers, company visits and Faculty sessions designed to expand students’ knowledge of the business ecosystem. Students were also able to explore the specific opportunities and challenges facing Nepal at this stage of the country’s development.

Find out more about Experiential Learning at London Business School: https://ow.ly/a0rb50ROo1Q

Toby Velte, co-founder and chairman of Budscout.ai and Probility.ai and a 2024 Sloan Fellow at the London Business School, explains how Artificial Intelligence can profoundly impact some of the most daunting global challenges, from agriculture to medicine and can help solve complex problems here: https://ow.ly/44Ib50RGH4Z

Jelena Vlanic reflects on her time at London Business School (LBS) and how the Masters in Financial Analysis programme has shaped her professional growth and career in the finance industry.

Download the latest employment report to find out how we can support your career aspirations, too: https://ow.ly/VKmJ50RFkzF

Are you considering a mid-career transition but don't know where to start?

From our latest Think Ahead event, hear more on how two alumni from London Business School overcame barriers, pursued their passion and purpose, and showed resilience in their career transition.

Find out more here: https://ow.ly/KF3b50RFMb6

A huge congratulations to our MBA students Priyal Keni and Alistair Adams, named in the Poets and Quants Top 100 Best and Brightest MBA Class of 2024 for their can-do attitudes, high potential and compelling personal stories.

Priyal, a Laidlaw Scholar, led LBS’s Student Association and Laidlaw Women in Business Society, while Alistair organized the largest EUROUT conference ever! On behalf of London Business School we are so proud of both of you 💙

What can be learnt from the most tumultuous century in modern financial history? Here, our esteemed Linda Yueh tells the cautionary tales of ten global crashes to help spot the early signs of a crisis, mitigate the effects and even prevent them in the future. https://ow.ly/qZnF50RAcih

Welcome to the new EMBA-Global Cohort! Bright and talented leaders from around the world have just embarked on the journey of a lifetime at London Business School. Let's give them the warmest welcome and wish them the best on this transformative adventure.

Joao Miguel Rodrigues Pereira (MFA2023) studied economics before applying to London Business School to broaden his knowledge and skill set to become a well-prepared strategy consultant. After graduating from the Masters in Financial Analysis programme, he reflects on the transformative experience that helped him in his current role as a business analyst at McKinsey.

Learn more about Joao’s story here: https://ow.ly/BzkR50Ryyee

Artificial intelligence is changing the business world – Julian Birkinshaw, Guo Wei and Dickie Liang-Hong Ke 柯良鸿 share insights on this next wave of digital innovation. Mr. Guo Wei, CEO of Digital China, has proactively developed integrated cloud services and innovative infrastructure products. With the rise of AI technology, companies can make sense of the vast pools of unstructured data.

Find out more here: https://ow.ly/T62V50RyyFx

Alisha Chowdhury (MBA2024), Co-President of the London Business School (LBS) Entrepreneurship Club, shares her journey of entrepreneurship at London Business School. From her private equity background to creating the Mongo App at the LBS Hackathon, Alisha embodies the innovative spirit fostered at London Business School. Her story highlights the power of the LBS community in shaping entrepreneurial dreams.

Read more about Alisha’s journey here: https://ow.ly/K9bR50RqRBY

Listen to the latest episode of ‘The Why Podcast’, in which Simona Botti and David Faro from London Business School discuss the concept of borrowing from our future selves to live a more comfortable life today.
Gain valuable insights into the psychology behind financial decisions here: https://ow.ly/4cjp50RtbEA

Arvind Sridhar looks back on this time at London Business School (LBS) and shares what made the Masters in Analytics and Management so special - the LBS Career Centre.

Download the latest employment report to find out how we can support your career aspirations too: https://ow.ly/lu0R50RqNW8

April marks the month of Awareness Day, dedicated to protecting lives, clearing landmines, and rebuilding from the devastation of the post-war era. ‘London Business School’s’ researcher Elias Papaioannou is exploring the economic impact of landmine clearance and its impact on economic development and agriculture. Landmines impede access to essential services and limit economic opportunities, with significant costs to clear them.

Discover more here: https://ow.ly/MUoW50RqSvm

Welcome to the new Sloan class! 51 of the brightest and most talented leaders from around the world have just embarked on the journey of a lifetime at London Business School. Let's give them the warmest welcome and wish them the best on this transformative adventure.