General Management courses

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.

Academic Focus

Professor Tammy Erickson runs a board member simulation.

Experience

A McKinsey award-winning author, Professor Erickson has been three-times named one of the 50 most influential global management thinkers by Thinkers50. An experienced senior executive, she has served on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 companies. Her academic work is based on extensive research on employee values and the changing nature of work.

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

Professor Ioannis Ioannou focuses on business and sustainability.

Recent Clients

He consults internationally on environmental, social and corporate governance strategies. He is a member of the UK Network Rail’s External Transparency Challenge Panel, the Prosperity Panel and the Advisory Board of Ethical Corporation.

Experience

Professor Ioannou explores how, and the extent to which, organisations contribute towards building a sustainable future. In 2016, he was awarded the 2016 ARCS Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award

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

Preparing candidates for board membership of companies. Sir Andrew Likierman is an expert in performance measurement.

Recent Clients

Non-executive roles at the Bank of England, a technology incubator and health authority. Sir Andrew has chaired a group compiling corporate governance codes for UK central government and advised the UN on corporate governance.

Experience

Sir Andrew started and sold a bookselling business, ran a textile plant in Germany and was an MD of the UK Treasury. He was President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Chair of a government study on professional liability.

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

Professor Isabel Fernandez-Mateo teaches social networks and reciprocity.

Experience

As well as teaching on the MBA and Executive MBA Strategic Management course, Professor Fernandez-Mateo delivers the popular 'Building your Career Strategy' elective. She is associate editor of Management Science.

Academic Focus

Professor Nigel Nicholson works with participants to identify and establish what they want their leadership legacy to be.

Recent Clients

Vodafone (India), Société Générale, Credit Suisse, Danone, Thompsons Solicitors, Kenya Airways, Access Bank, Clarks Shoes.

Experience

Nigel has written more than 20 books, including The ‘I’ of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing, a new take on what makes a versatile, integrated and effective leader. He directs company-specific executive development programmes, and acts as a consultant to organisations worldwide.

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

Professor Shivakumar is an award-winning teacher, and a prolific and influential academic researcher. He was formerly the subject area Chair for the Accounting group at London Business School. He has held visiting positions at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Indian School of Business, the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales, and has been a council member of the American Accounting Association.

Recent Clients

Professor Shivakumar consults for bankers and consulting firms on valuation, financial analysis and investment strategies. His research has been presented to regulators and development agencies across the world, including the African Development Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Experience

Professor Shivakumar’s main research interests are in the areas of financial reporting quality, stock-return predictability and macro-accounting. He has published articles in several top-tier accounting and finance journals and is a co-editor of the Review of Accounting Studies and The Accounting Review. His research on financial reporting quality includes an examination of the role of conservatism in financial reporting and earnings management in firms issuing public equity.

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.