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Laura D. Tyson Professor of Economics Dean, London Business School (2002 - 2006)

Professor Laura Tyson

Professor Tyson was Dean of London Business School from 2002 to 2006. Before that she was Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley . Prior to that Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the University of California. 

Professor Tyson's biography

Professor Tyson served in the Clinton Administration from January 1993 to December 1996. Between February 1995 and December 1996 she served as the President's National Economic Adviser and was the highest-ranking woman in the Clinton White House.

Before joining the Clinton Administration, Professor Tyson published many publications on industrial competitiveness and trade, including the highly acclaimed Who's Bashing Whom?

Professor Tyson is a member of three Boards of Directors: Morgan Stanley, Eastman Kodak Company, and SBC Communications. She is an advisory board member of Generation Investment Management, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, EM Warburg Pincus, G7 Group and H & Q Asia Pacific and member of the Chairman's Advisory Board of KPMG International. Professor Tyson is a member of the Board of Bruegel, a trustee of the Brookings Institution, a board director at the New America Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute for International Economics.

In 2003, Professor Tyson led a special task force on non-executive directors as its chair for the UK Department of Trade and Industry resulting in the 'Tyson Report' on the Recruitment and Development of Non-Executive Directors.

Professor Tyson has a summa cum laude undergraduate degree from Smith College (1969) and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974).

Professor Tyson's publications include:

• Exchange rate and purchasing power parity: Extending the theory and tests
  Apte P; Sercu P; Uppal R, Journal of International Money and Finance 2004 Vol 23:4 p 553-571 Lead Article

• Are economic sanctions an effective tool for realizing US interests in China?
  Tyson L, NBR Analysis 1997 July Vol 8:4 p 37-44

• Promoting entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe
  Petrin T; Rogers H; Tyson L, In Zoltan J ed., Small firms and economic growth, volume I, Chapter 27, Edward Elgar, 1996

• Economic report of the President 1994
  Tyson L; Baily M; Stiglitz J, Government Printing Office, 1995

• Economic report of the President 1993
  Tyson L; Blinder A; Stiglitz J, Government Printing Office, 1994

• Enabling environment for entrepreneurship
  Tyson L, In Dynamic entrepreneurship in central and eastern Europe, Delwel Academic Publishers, 1993

• Managing trade conflict in high-technology industries
  Tyson L, In Caldwell-Harris M, Moore G E eds., Linking technology and trade policy: an international comparison, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, 1992

• Who's bashing whom: trade conflicts in high-technology industries
  Tyson L, Institute for International Economics, 1992

Professor Lynda Gratton Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour, London Business School, Academic Lead,  Centre for Women in Business

Professor Lynda Gratton

"The mission for the Centre for Women in Business is to act as a pre-eminent centre for knowledge and best practice for women in business across Europe.  Our vision is to leverage our unique position at London Business School and bridge both academic and the corporate world. Through practical application of sound academic research, delivered according to a research agenda discussed among a panel of experts in the field, we will make a difference by defining the unique contribution of women in business through innovation, entrepreneurship and best practice. All our work will be based on academic research delivered to the highest standards."

Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, where she directs the school's executive programme Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Organisations.

Over the last decade, Professor Gratton has led The Leading Edge Research Consortium, a major research initiative involving companies such as Hewlett Packard and Citibank. Initial results from the research were published by Oxford University Press in 2000, in the book Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality. She has recently launched a second research consortium, The Cooperative Research Initiative.

In Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose, published by FT/Prentice Hall in 2000, Lynda called for a more strategic approach to people management. The book has been translated into 10 languages and was voted one of the 20 most influential books by American CEOs. More recently she has addressed the issue of organisational purpose in The Democratic Enterprise: Liberating Your Business with Freedom, Flexibility and Commitment, published by FT/Prentice Hall in 2004. Professor Gratton has recently published a book titled Hot Spots Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organisations Buzz with Energy - and Others Don't. The book is based on  'The Collaborative Research Initiative' which involves 16 large companies in the US and Europe.

Professor Gratton has written for managers and academics. Her article 'Integrating the Enterprise' was awarded the Sloan Management Review's best article of 2003, and her case on BP was recently awarded the ECCH best strategy case of 2005.

She is acknowledged as one of the world's most influential thinkers in human resources strategy. She serves on the advisory boards of Exult and the Concours Group and consults to a wide range of multinational companies including Shell, Unilever, Royal Bank of Scotland and HP.

In 2004, Professor Gratton was appointed a Research Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management in the UK (www.aim-research.org) and is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Resource Strategy at Michigan Business School.

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