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11Dec

The ins and outs of sustainable supply chains

Hosted by the Department of Management
In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)
Thursday 11 Dec 2025 6.30pm - 8pm

Join Rocco Macchiavello in his inaugural lecture as he explores the economics of sustainable supply chains.

Presenting insights from over a decade of research, Professor Macchiavello will examine how companies can organise supply chains that are sustainable and resilient, creating value for stakeholders beyond the organisation's boundaries. He will draw from rigorous, data-driven, research, illustrated through concrete case studies of large companies’ sourcing strategies in export-oriented agricultural commodities and manufacturing sectors.

Meet our speaker and chair

Rocco Macchiavello is a professor of management at LSE. His research focuses on how stakeholders collaborate to forge supply chains that foster sustainability. He blends conceptual frameworks from organisational economics, data analysis, fieldwork, and Randomised Control Trials to test how supply chains function and how they can be leveraged for the betterment of society.

Oriana Bandiera is Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at LSE, a fellow of the British Academy. She is co-editor of Econometrica, Director of the Hub for Equal Representation at LSE and of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries programme at IZA. Oriana studies organisations and labour markets, how they affect the process of development, and how they are affected by it.

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