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Management Lab

The Management Lab works with leading-edge firms to help them create tomorrow's new practices today. Our aim is to support these pioneering companies genuine management innovation.

MLab is built around a collaborative research environment in which forward thinking companies and distinguished scholars work together to invent the management process and practices that will define competitive success in the 21st century.

MLab brings together some of the world's leading business thinkers, academics, executives, institutions and organisations.  MLab helps its partner companies create ground-breaking management experiments that:

  • Address critical next-generation business challenges.
  • Challenge long-standing assumptions about how the work of
    management is best accomplished.
  • Drive step-change improvements in key performance parameters
    such as employee engagement, strategic resilience, and business
    innovation.

Research and engagement

The, Management Innovation Lab (MLab) allows your company to join forces.  With a world-renowned faculty in a shared quest to solve tomorrow's most critical business challenges.

Through a process of discovery, innovation, and co-creation, the MLab helps its corporate partners successfully tackle big, thorny problems that lie beyond the
bounds of today's best.

Current innovation themes include:

  • Reducing the cost of strategic transformation.
  • Making innovation a corporate-wide capability.
  • Dramatically raising the returns on human capital.
  • Building 21st century measurement systems.


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Contact us

Professor Julian Birkinshaw
Co-founder and Research Director
Tel: +44 (0)7000 8718
Email: jbirkinshaw@london.edu

Professor Gary Hamel
Co-founder and Research Director
Tel: +1 650 851 2095
Email: inquire@managementlab.org

Rosie Robertson
MLab Coordinator, London Business School
Tel: +44 (0)7000 8755
Email: mlabenquiries@london.edu 

Visit the Management Lab website

Making sense of your management model

Julian Birkinshaw and Jules Goddard

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Management Innovation

Julian Birkinshaw, Gary Hamel and Michael Mol