General management

What makes a successful General Manager?

Exploring the importance of careers support, we follow students at the General Managers Speakers Panel. Designed for students and alumni with 8-25 years' experience, expert managers offered real insight into the realities of General Management.

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The Emerging Leaders Programme experience

See the Emerging Leaders Programme for yourself. Hear from participants as they experience the ELP and gain an insight into the programme's key themes

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Accelerated Development Programme experience: Jennifer Mackenzie

We meet Jennifer Mackenzie (ADP 2010), Mining Manager at BHP Biliton, as she reflects on how the programme helped her to address significant challenges upon her return to work.

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Accelerated Development Programme: Participant Experience

Watch our ADP experience video and gain first-hand insights into this transformational programme.

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Alumni Profile: HE Sheikh Mohamed Althani SEP50(2002), President, Qatar-Connect

HE Sheikh Mohamed Althani SEP50(2002) reflects on his career and time at the School.

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The Accelerated Development Programme experience

The ADP offers participants a transformational experience where you will develop your leadership and management skills and accelerate your move into general management. Here participants speak about how the experience has influenced their careers.

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Be part of a global network of Accelerated Development Programme participants

The ADP offers participants a transformational experience where you will develop your leadership and management skills and accelerate your move into general management. Hear participants speak about their programme experience.

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Benefits of the Accelerated Development Programme

Accelerated Development Programme participants speak about the benefits and skills they gained through their experience on the programme and how this has continued to helped them in their careers.

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Why choose the Accelerated Development Programme?

Recent Accelerated Development Programme participants speak about why they decided to participate in the programme at London Business School

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The impact of the Senior Executive Programme experience

Juan Pablo Hernandez de Alba, Managing Director and Partner, Easyfairs, talks about the Senior Executive Programme and the impact it has had on his life.

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Alumni Profile: Juan Pablo Hernandez de Alba SEP39(1996), Managing Director and Partner, Easyfairs Columbia

Juan Pablo Hernandez de Alba SEP39(1996) reflects on his career and time at the School.

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Emerging Leaders Programme - faculty video

Associate Professor of Accounting Irem Tuna and Assistant Professor of Marketing Anja Lambrecht discuss the Emerging Leaders Programme

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Impacting Management

At the heart of the London Business School brand is our world-class faculty. Our ambitious academics work at the forefront of global business research, spreading our intellectual capital and teaching around the world.

3 ways to re-structure your business processes in a downturn

Don Sull, Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management, looks at three ways forward-thinking businesses use a downturn to restructure their organisation

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4 market opportunities for flexible managers to seize in a downturn

Don Sull, Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management, shares four market opportunities that flexible and agile managers can seize in a downturn

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Executive Education CNN advert

"The SEP programme strengthened my position as a leader and helped me get through what have been some pretty challenging times economically," Philip Stockton(SEP65) shares his thoughts on the School's Senior Executive Programme in a new CNN advert.

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Senior Executive Programme

The senior executive programme is designed around three interwoven themes - Strategy, Leadership and Transformation

Accelerated Development Programme

Designed to faciltate the transition of senior functional managers into business leaders, the Accelerated Development programme equips you to become a highly effective general manager

Emerging Leaders Programme - Director's introduction

By building skills in applying business know-how, making things happen and developing self-awareness.

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Managing people through the downturn

People are at the heart of organisations and drive performance, however a recession can erode the skills and culture that contribute to success.

Managing change in a downturn

The most striking thing about the financial crisis is that we didn't see it coming. Subsequently, organisations have had to rapidly adjust

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Seizing the upside of a downturn

During a downturn managers focus on the negative. A fixation on bad news obscures a vital truth: The worst of times for the economy as a whole can be the best of times for individual firms to create value

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Navigating through the downturn

To fully understand the nature of the current downturn, the policy challenge it represents and how the economy is likely to evolve we need to examine where this crisis came from

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Corporate governance: Managing the Board of Directors

Steve Currall explains the importance of corporate governance, and how to ensure your board is making the best possible decisions on behalf of the organisation

Sumantra Ghoshal - CNN Advert

Sumantra Ghoshal discusses different types of managers within organisations

Lynda Gratton - CNN Advert

Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, discusses talent within organisations

Henri Servaes - What impact will a takeover have on your market

"The repercussions for other companies within an industry when one company is targeted for a hostile takeover..."

What impact will a takeover have on your market?

Professor Henri Servaes discusses the repercussions for other companies within an industry when one company is targeted for a hostile takeover.

Radical new product innovation

Professor Costas Markides discusses innovation, in particular radical new product innovation.

Critical leader relationships

Professor Nigel Nicholson explains why it's really important when we're selecting people that we work with, we don't just clone ourselves