General Management courses

Academic Focus

Luisa's main areas of interest are entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, business angels, impact investing and private equity. 

Recent Clients

Before joining academia, Luisa worked for Procter & Gamble, McKinsey, The Carlyle Group and the venture capital fund Europ@web.

Experience

Luisa is a business angel and part of the first women-only European business angel group, Rising Tide. 

Academic Focus

Professor Dan Cable teaches Alive at Work, the power of purpose and strengths-based performance.

Recent Clients

Arla Foods, Areva, Danone, Deutsche Bank, McDonald’s, Novant Health, PwC, Rabobank and Twinings.

Experience

Professor Cable has authored two books: Alive at Work and Change to Strange. He was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List and The Academy of Management has twice honoured him with “Best article” awards.

Academic Focus

Evaluating & Managing Organisational Performance

Experience

João Cocco is Professor of Finance at London Business School, a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a fellow of the Center for Financial Studies, and a Research Fellow of Netspar, the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement. He holds a MA and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and has carried out research on a wide range of topics, including banking, corporate governance, asset allocation, real estate finance and pensions, which has appeared in top finance and economics journals and newspapers. He is Editorial Board Member of the Review of Financial Studies and of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. Professor Cocco is an accomplished teacher, who has won several teaching awards including the Excellence in Teaching Award, here at London Business School for 2014.

Academic Focus

Focuses on the design, analysis and application of quantitative models for managerial decision-making.

Recent Clients

ENDESA, Iberdrola, McKinsey & Company.

Experience

Published in top journals including Management Science, Operations Research and Mathematics of Operations Research.

Experience

Professor Aytekin Ertan’s research focuses on financial intermediation and debt contracting, specifically, the real effects of financial regulation and banks’ reporting practices. His research has been accepted for publication in top journals, including the Accounting Review and Journal of Accounting Research. Aytekin has taught Executive MBA, MBA, Masters in Finance, and doctoral courses in financial reporting. Prior to academia, he worked as a banker in Turkey.

Academic Focus

Gary lectures on management innovation.

Recent Clients

General Electric, Time Warner, Nokia, Nestlé, Shell, Best Buy, Procter & Gamble, 3M and IBM.

Experience

Fortune magazine calls Gary ‘the world’s leading expert on business strategy.’ Currently he is leading an initiative to create a platform for reinventing management. He is fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Strategic Management Society.

Academic Focus

A serial technology entrepreneur, advisor, keynote speaker and author, Peter Hinssen is one of the most sought-after thought leaders on radical innovation, leadership and the impact of digital on society and business. He lectures at various business schools such as MIT in Boston. Peter founded nexxworks to help organisations become fluid, innovate and thrive in The Day After Tomorrow, the title of his most recent book.

Recent Clients

He has performed keynotes for major technology firms such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.

Experience

Peter’s research examines radical and disruptive changes in society due to technology innovation. Since 2008, Peter has taught on London Business School’s Senior Executive Programme. Since 2016, he has been a research affiliate at MIT SLOAN CISR, the centre for Information Systems Research.

Academic Focus

Herminia examines personal identity in a leadership context and brings expertise to help you maximise the benefits of your network.

Recent Clients

Herminia has directed programmes for Deutsche Bank, Unilever, Siemens and Clifford Chance.

Experience

Herminia is ranked eighth by Thinkers 50 in its list of the world’s most influential business gurus. Her most recent book Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader explains how to step up to a bigger leadership role. Her best-selling book, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career describes how people reinvent their careers. Author of numerous articles in top academic journals, Herminia also writes for business publications and speaks internationally on leadership and talent management.

Academic Focus

Professor Jacobides is an expert on business model change and strategy in changing environments, and one of the worlds’ leading experts on business (and digital) ecosystems. He has studied industry change, value migration, and organisational transformation, and teaches the popular turnarounds elective. Professor Jacobides is an Academic Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, has served on the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, and is a visiting scholar with the New York Fed and a visiting fellow at Cambridge.

Recent Clients

McKinsey, IDEO, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, Santander, Helvetia, Zurich, CS, Airbus, Lufthansa, Vodafone, Nokia, DeBeers, Burberry, MerckSerono and the NHS.

Experience

Professor Jacobides focuses on change, design and strategy: he studies industry evolution, value migration, new business models and structural change in firms and sectors. A highly cited researcher, he is an Editor of Industrial & Corporate Change, and has earned the Theory to Practice Award (2018, WU). A frequent keynote speaker at high profile events from TEDx to Davos, he puts his theory into practice with top consulting firms, Fortune 500 companies, and sits on smaller ventures’ Advisory Boards. He has also worked with the EU, the UK and the WEF on policy.

Academic Focus

Professor Gillian Ku's internationally recognised research and teaching are in the broad area of negotiations and decision making. Her research has focused on influencing and persuading change at both the individual and group level.

Recent Clients

Oman Oil, Roche, Rabobank and eBay.

Experience

Previously a financial analyst for Disney Corporation, Professor Ku is now a corporate trainer for a number of corporations worldwide.

Academic Focus

Professor Costas Markides teaches strategic innovation and creative thinking leading to breakthroughs.

Recent Clients

Unilever, Pirelli, Avon, Polygram, Mercury Asset Management, Nestlé, LVMH and Sara Lee.

Experience

Holder of the Robert P Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership, Non-Executive Director of Amathus (UK) and best-selling author of All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy and Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets with Paul Geroski.

Academic Focus

Kathleen’s current research examines professional women’s critical decisions. She translates those findings into practical tips that women can use to boost their influence and effectiveness. Kathleen also advises firms on how to pull down the barriers that stop women from realising their ambitions.

Recent Clients

Danone, Nestle, Air Liquide, KPMG, Deutsche Bank, Prudential, World Economic Forum, Johnson Matthey and Young Presidents’ Organization.

Experience

Kathleen’s corporate consulting aims to help managers make smarter decisions, negotiate better strategic partnerships, build more effective networks, and foster high levels of sustained engagement and outstanding performance. The empirical research that backs her teaching and consulting appears in top-tier academic journals. That work also has been honoured by awards from leading professional organisations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Conflict Management.

Academic Focus

Professor Randall Peterson teaches team and organisational leadership and interpersonal relationships.

Recent Clients

Alcan, Barclays, Braxton, Chevron/Texaco, IBM, Nestlé and Roche.

Experience

Author of Leading and Managing People in Dynamic Organisations. Widely published in Research in Organisational Behavior, and The Journal of Applied Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Academic Focus

Dr Aneeta Rattan’s research interests focus on mindsets and intergroup relations (stereotyping, prejudice, and inequity).

Experience

Published in top psychology journals, her research has also featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and Huffington Post among others. She has also received multiple research grants from major funding agencies in the United States.

Academic Focus

Professor Andrew Scott teaches macroeconomics in a global competitive environment. His expertise ranges from global capital markets to monetary and fiscal policy.

Recent Clients

Through executive education and consultancy, he has assisted firms across a variety of industries (financial services, investment banking and manufacturing) and offered guidance to both CEOs and government ministers.

Experience

Professor Scott has been economic advisor to government and policy, including HM Treasury and the Bank of England; today he advises the UK’s Office of Budget Responsibility and the Prime Minister of Mauritius. An expert in his field, he co-authored the textbook, Macroeconomics: Understanding the Global Economy.

Academic Focus

Professor Henri Servaes offers participants new approaches to adding shareholder value, number analysis and governance.

Recent Clients

PwC, Deutsche Bank, Anglo American and Chase Manhattan.

Experience

Professor Servaes is Chair of the Finance Faculty, Director of the Institute of Finance and Accounting and an award-winning author published in the world’s top finance journals.

Academic Focus

Influence and change

Experience

Dr Eliot Sherman is Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School. He conducts research on inequality in the workplace, primarily with respect to gender. His work examining whether female managers influence the wage gap between their male and female subordinates was published in the American Journal of Sociology.

Academic Focus

Niro Sivanthan’s research broadly centres around decision-making, power and status. He is an award-winning teacher of negotiations, decision-making and influence.

Recent Clients

IBM, McDonald’s, Nestlé, Roche, PwC, Sanofi, Vodafone, Mars, Deutsche Bank, A.T. Kearney, Vodafone, Nordea and Sabic.

Experience

His research is regularly presented at leading international conferences, and he serves on editorial boards. He has been published in top international journals covering management and psychology, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology and Psychological Science. His research has also garnered international press coverage in CNN, Financial Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sunday Times and Forbes. He has won numerous awards and been named in Poets and Quants' 'Top 40 under 40' list for the top 40 business school professors globally under the age of 40.

Academic Focus

Jessica has a wealth of expertise in translating strategy into action in real business environments. She has designed, led and run numerous client-tailored workshops and training events for LBS over the past 10 years.

Experience

She was formerly a partner at McKinsey, in both London and Johannesburg where she worked with senior leaders in some of the world’s largest corporations and government departments.

Academic Focus

Professor Nader Tavassoli focus enables marketers and non-marketers to work together to execute the organisation’s organic growth and customer acquisition strategy.

Recent Clients

Alcatel, Deutsche Bank, Unilever and Zurich Financial Services.

Experience

Formerly Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the eBusiness track at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Academic Focus

Current developments and best practices in M&A, private equity perspectives on M&A, valuation and structuring of M&A transactions and negotiations of M&A terms. Florin received the Best Teacher Award in 2021 voted by the MiF 2021 programme. 

Recent Clients

Florin has been advising companies across sectors including manufacturing, construction, hospitality and financial services.

Experience

Florin has a PhD in Management with a specialisation in accounting and finance. He sits on the editorial board of two top academic journals and has published extensively in top tier U.S. based business academic journals. He has been pursuing research on private equity topics and debt markets and is regularly invited to present his research at major business schools around the world. He has long combined his academic expertise with the practice; advising several large investment funds and serving on few advisory boards.