News and media archive 2014-15

‘Providing more autonomy is a key to managing happy, productive staff’
The Australian Financial Review, 29 July 2015

Featuring Dr Chia-Heui Wu’s research into job autonomy and skill utilisation.

'How to Co-Lead a Team’
Harvard Business Review, 14 July 2015

Co-leadership can be effective, enjoyable and sustainable, explains Dr Rebecca Newton.

'Economist MBA diary: Executive research'
The Economist, 30 June 2015

Executive Global Master's in Management student Ben Abbate shares how he has created business value from academic research.

'Gearty Grilling: Vanessa Iwowo on leadership in Africa'
LSE, 25 June 2015

Dr Vanessa Iwowo presents her ideas on leadership in Africa.

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Department of Management receives Platinum for Green Impact

The Department of Management has been awarded the prestigious Platinum prize for Green Impact, an environmental accreditation and awards scheme run by the National Union of Students. 

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'Two Campuses – For the Price of One'
The Independent, 24 June 2015

CEMS Master’s in Management student Nicole Fruth reflects on her term abroad in Chile

‘How to Cope with Criticism’
BBC Capital, 22 June 2015

Insight from Dr Uta Bindl on how to respond to a bad performance review

Public Lecture with the Department of Management's Professor Amitav Chakravarti

Dr Amitav Chakravarti, Professor of Marketing, discussed why consumers don't buy products and provided a framework to help managers predict how to change consumer behaviour at a Department of Management Public lecture on Thursday 11 June 2015. 

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'Leadership development: one size does not fit all growing leaders in Africa and across the world'
The European Business Review, 22 May 2015

Dr Vanessa Iwowo argues that leadership is socially constructed, contextual, and culturally contingent.

'Actions speak louder than words – why adaptive non-verbal communication is a key leadership tool'
The European Business Review, 22 May 2015

Dr Connson Locke discusses how leveraging non-verbal signals effectively can be a key leadership tool.

Department of Management hosts Public Lecture by Head of People Operations at Google

Laszlo Bock, Head of People Operations at Google, presented his new book 'Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google that Will Transform How you Live and Lead'  during a Public Lecture hosted by the Department of Management on Monday 18 May 2015.

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'Executive pay: The battle to align risks and rewards'
Financial Times, 30 April 2015

Featuring Prof Sandy Pepper’s research on the correlation between executive pay and corporate performance.

Department of Management hosts fifteenth Social Study of ICTs Workshop

The Department of Management welcomed leading academics, policy makers and industry practitioners to the fifteenth Social Study of ICTs Workshop in April to discuss digital innovation and the significance of emerging social and economic changes.

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HR experts gathered at LSE for the annual Voice and Value Conference and London HR Connection panel debate

The Department of Management hosted the 15th Voice and Value Conference on Thursday 16 April 2015 and explored 'to what extent should employee voice be a right?’.

The conference was followed by a London HR Connection panel debate on 'talent management: the future of HR or a flash in the pan?'

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2015 Digital Innovation Challenge winners announced

The LSE Digital Innovation Challenge is aannual global essay competition run by the Department of Management's Information Systems and Innovation Faculty Group. 

After receiving a number of outstanding essay entries from university students across the world, the 2015 Digital Innovation Challenge Award is warmly presented to our joint winners Judith Veit and Erik Leijon.

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Seeing what others don't: the remarkable ways we gain insights - Public Lecture 

A Public Lecture by leading research psychologist Dr Gary Klein took place on Thursday 26 March 2015. Dr Klein demonstrated what insights are, the patterns that emerge, and how you can usefully deploy them.

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'Foreign direct investment: can China teach the world a lesson?'
The European Financial Review, 10 February 2015

Written by Prof Saul Estrin, and featuring our Executive Global Master's in Management programme

'Europe's creditors play with 'political fire' in pushing Greece to the brink'
The Telegraph, 31 January 2015

Comment from Prof Luis Garicano.

'For students, London is capital'
The Independent, 29 January 2015

Comment from Prof Sandy Pepper on the unparalleled opportunities our London location offers to students.

Institutionalising public deliberation: empowerment or appeasement?

Professor Laurence Monnoyer-Smith delivered a publiclLecture organised by the Department of Management on France’s institutionalisation of public debate on Wednesday 28 January 2015.

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RCC Conference – 28-30 January 2015

A distinguished group of LSE CEMS students are channelling creativity into a student conference designed to provide answers to the biggest questions engulfing the business world.

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'London and Oxbridge top the UK’s business school research list'
Financial Times, 18 December 2014

Coverage of the Department of Management's 2014 Research Excellence Framework results.

LSE ranked first in the UK for business and management studies

The 2014 Research Excellence Framework results were published on Thursday 18 December 2014 with LSE ranked first in the UK for business and management studies.

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Department of Management public lecture - uncertainty as competitive advantage

LSE alum Mark Phillips delivered a Public Lecture on harnessing the power of uncertainty to gain and maintain competitive advantage on Monday 1 December 2014.

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Drugs enter the digital age

The world's health sector has gone digital, with electronic prescriptions, digitised supply chains and personalised medicine the new buzz words.

Dr Tony Cornford from the Department of Management hopes to make some headway in this area by spending the next two years exploring digital innovations in how drugs are supplied and used.

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Leading Innovation through Executive Education
The European Business Review, 18 November 2014

Interview with Prof Saul Estrin, featuring our Executive Gobal Master's in Management and TRIUM Global Executive MBA programmes.

For believers in monetary voodoo, try this for a spin
The Telegraph, 18 November 2014

Comment from Prof Luis Garicano.

TRIUM EMBA ranked #1 worldwide by the Financial Times

TRIUM Global Executive MBA is ranked #1 worldwide in the Financial Times Executive MBA 2014 ranking, according to the survey released on Monday 20 October 2014.

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London School of Economics launches Executive Global Master’s in Management
Japan Herald, 17 October 2014

Featuring our Executive Gobal Master's in Management programme.