Faculty on the Executive MBA

Our influential and world-renowned faculty acts as a magnet to ambitious students who want to learn from renowned academics who are pre-eminent in their fields.  Our faculty operate at the interface between academia and industry, theory and practice.  They:

• generate innovative ideas and conduct leading-edge research which constitute our intellectual capital
• advise government bodies
• address world fora and high-level conferences
• sit on company boards
• foster close relationships with the corporate world
• influence how people think about business in universities, business schools and companies across the world
• come from all around the world including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy and the USA.  With over 70 percent of faculty from outside the UK, the School and its students benefit from a truly international perspective.
  

Their work is published in the leading management and academic journals, in books and newspapers, and disseminated at conferences.  All this provides the framework in which courses are developed and real life case studies are brought to the classroom.

Members of faculty tell us why they enjoy teaching Executive MBA students....

Naufel Vilcassim, Professor of Marketing

"I have taught EMBA students in three schools (London Business School, USC, and Chicago) and I find them to be the most interesting and challenging to teach (I am being quite honest here!). They are interesting because of the experience they bring to class and so learn from each other as much as they do from me --this is where the quality of the peers become critical and which is why they should be in a top school. They are challenging because, while they are very receptive to conceptual ideas, frameworks, and analytical models, they also demand that those be relevant to their job settings. So, putting the two together is quite fun! Of course, the additional aspect of London Business School is the global composition of the class -- even those working in London are often from other parts of the world."

Read about Naufel Vilcassim

Richard Jolly, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

"Executive MBA students are very rewarding to teach. The intellectual quality is always very high, and they bring a diverse and mature range of experiences to the group- both in terms of industry sector, role and internationalism. Therefore class discussions, something that we actively encourage, are lively, challenging and stimulating. Such a focus on sharing the views and experiences from the group add enormously to the experience that EMBAs have at London Business School - it is very much a collaborative and interactive learning environment, where you learn from each other as well as from faculty. We try and engage students with challenging questions, and the questions asked by students are often the difficult ones that probe the dilemmas and tensions that make management and business so challenging and fascinating. This makes it fun to teach the class, and hopefully ensures that students are stretching themselves throughout the programme."

Read about Richard Jolly