Faculty on the MBA

London Business School´s faculty are world-renowned.  Over 100 academics, drawn from more than twenty countries, contribute with distinction to contemporary business practice and thought.  Cutting edge, award winning and widely published, they are continually in demand as advisers and consultants to companies, institutions and governments.

Our location means that faculty have access to all manner of organisations, from global corporate giants through to some of the most innovative start-ups in the world.

Faculty use their own consulting work and research in the classroom, giving you access to the most up-to-date, diverse and relevant materials available.

Complemented by visiting faculty, business experts, leading consultants and senior managers from around the globe, they are a powerful teaching force from which our MBA students can learn and grow.

Hear what our faculty think about teaching on the MBA Programme.

BA (Bocconi), PhD (Harvard)
MBA core course: Finance (Autumn term)

"The diversity of the students' background represents a significant challenge for the introductory finance course. Many students arriving at London Business School already have a familiarity with finance concepts or may have held a finance job, but for others finance is an entirely new experience.

The good news is that this diversity can actually create a wonderful learning environment, where the more knowledgeable students help the less experienced, and can actually improve their own understanding in the process. By the end of the course, I believe all students will have benefited: the "experts" will have learnt new things and understood the logic behind some familiar concepts or practices, and the "novices" will get a good grounding in the finance basics, and along the way discover that finance is actually not as difficult or mysterious as they perhaps first expected."

"I am constantly impressed by the outstanding academic and human quality of our MBA students. Their diverse cultural and professional backgrounds make teaching at London Business School one of the best experiences of my life. I truly cherish every minute I spend with them and I feel very fortunate because every lecture I learn from my students at least as much as they learn from me."

"This course is about the 'big picture'. We will be exploring different concepts and tools that can help you understand the environment that a company finds itself in, the resources it needs to obtain, and the organisation it needs to build. Through various company cases, we will introduce conceptual models and analytical techniques that help you develop and implement a consistent and coherent strategy in today's business world."

"Five years after graduation MBA alumni rank Organisational Behaviour in the top two most useful courses they took in business school. What makes studying organisational behaviour at London Business School a lifetime experience is that the classroom itself is an unparalleled patchwork of different personalities, cultures, backgrounds, experiences, and dreams. This amazing behavioural microcosm makes MOB an exciting and imaginative learning space for mastering the knowledge and skills required for leading effectively individuals, groups, organisations, and one's own career."

"My course (Management Accounting and Control) provides students with tools to help them obtain and understand relevant cost and control information they will use in making an array of decisions in their future careers.  I enjoy teaching this course because the students will often share their experiences on the particular management topic we are discussing, and given their diverse background everyone in the classroom (including myself) is always learning new things."

"What the students and I like the most is to discuss recent financial events using financial theory to guide us. The topics we have discussed include exchange rate movements, recent mergers, and the financial implications of the recent United States tax reforms. These discussions make for a lively debate. They draw on the students' experiences, and they undoubtedly are an important component of the learning process at the London Business School."