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Academic Focus

Professor Cable is the Academic Director of the programme. He focuses on understanding the psychology of sustainable change, managing resistance to change, understanding the power and principles of managing ‘why’ during the change process and purpose, and building engagement.

Recent Clients

Organisations ranging from high-tech start-ups to the World Economic Forum. Clients include Arla Foods, Areva, Danone, Deutsche Bank, McDonald’s, Novant Health, PwC, Rabobank and Twinings.

Experience

Professor Cable’s areas of interest include employee engagement, leading change, organisational culture and its effects on competitive advantage, leadership development and the link between brands and employee behaviours. He is the author of Change to Strange: Create a Great Organization by Building a Strange Workforce and winner of the McCormick Award for Distinguished Research Contributions from the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology. His research focuses on cultural fit, talent management, organisational entry processes, incentive schemes and career success..

Academic Focus

Ena explores the role of power in decision-making and relationship-building in the context of leadership. She gives you the insights and tools to use positive psychology to inspire and motivate others, leverage strengths and consolidate a true leadership mindset.

Recent Clients

Ena has led programmes for HSBC, Deutschebank, Prudential, YPO, World Economic Forum, Carlsberg and Arla.

Experience

Ena’s research regularly appears in the world’s leading academic journals and conferences. Her work is also published by the popular press and media, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate.com and World Report. Outside of academia, Ena has worked as a consultant with Bain and Company and she is a founder member of Italian web development agency, Velodea Srl.

Experience

Lil Mohan is an entrepreneur and an academic. As Adjunct Professor of Marketing at London Business School, he covers several topics including Digital, Social Media, M-Commerce, Omnichannel and Advertising. He brings to his teaching a variety of experiences from Amazon, Intel, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and two successful high-tech start-up companies: Junglee and Snapstick.

Lil consults independently for technology companies in the areas of product design, product marketing, and marketing strategy. His most recent engagement was advising a leading fin-tech company on digital strategy. Also, he is Adjunct Professor of Marketing at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, as well as at IIM Ahmedabad, where he teaches various MBA, Exec MBA, and Exec Ed programmes.

Experience

Professor Anja Lambrecht’s research focuses on digital marketing, with a particular emphasis on online targeting and advertising as well as promotion and pricing. She has examined how firms can use retargeting to reach out to consumers and how firms can advertise on Twitter to early trend propagators. Her work on digital pricing has examined, among others, freemium pricing for online content sites and mobile apps. Her current work further focuses on how spill-overs between different economic actors in digital markets can lead to apparent algorithmic bias.

Anja’s work has been published in leading marketing journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science and Management Science. In 2014, she received the Paul E. Green Award, in 2016 and 2017 she was a finalist for the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award and in 2018 she received the William F. O’Dell Award. She is an Associate Editor at Marketing Science and the Journal of Marketing and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Marketing Research.

Experience

Professor Alexander is an expert on the relationship between individual business units and the 'corporate parent' and the links between strategy and organisational design.

An advisor to multinational companies and a Non-Executive Director in several countries, Professor Alexander’s research focuses on group-level strategy, global management, strategy process, innovation and execution, mergers, acquisitions and alliances. He leads the School’s degree programme elective ‘Achieving Strategic Agility’.

Academic Focus

Isabel’s research focuses on the interplay between economic and social factors in market processes and outcomes. She has a special interest in how client relationships allow intermediaries to create and capture economic value. She is also interested in the role of social networks on individual careers.

Experience

Isabel is the current holder of the Adecco Chair at London Business School and has taught the core Strategy course in the Full time MBA for the last five years. She has also taught in several executive programmes, and regularly speaks in practitioner-oriented seminars and conferences. She co-authored a Harvard Business School teaching case on Zopa.com, a financial intermediary in the UK and her articles have appeared in academic journals such as the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology.

Experience

Professor Surico’s recent work focuses on assessing the distributional effect of household debt on large public spending and tax reform programmes. Before London Business School he worked as a Research Advisor to the External Members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.

Experience

A former Deputy Dean at London Business School and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Professor Scott’s research focuses on longevity, an ageing society, fiscal policy and debt management. He is an advisor on policy to a range of governments and government departments including the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility.

Experience

Professor Galeotti is an expert in microeconomics, industrial organisation and game theory (the analysis of strategic decision-making). His research focuses on the economics of networks, with an emphasis on strategy. He is the 2011 recipient of the Leverhulme Prize for the best economist in the UK under the age of 35.

Experience

Professor Myatt teaches across the School’s degree programmes, and he supervises and mentors doctoral and post-doctoral researchers at the School and elsewhere. He has previously served as Chair of the Economics Subject Area, and as Deputy Dean for Degree Education. His research applies the tools of game theory to both economics and political science.

Experience

Professor Papaioannou consults regularly to international organisations and institutional investors on macroeconomic developments in the EU and Greece in particular. His award-winning research focuses on international finance, political economy, applied econometrics, and growth and development.

Experience

Professor Rey’s research focuses on the determinants and consequences of external trade and financial imbalances, the theory of financial crises and the organisation of the international monetary system. She demonstrated that countries gross external asset positions help predict current account adjustments and the exchange rate.

Experience

Professor Reichlin is an expert on forecasting, business cycle analysis and monetary policy. She pioneered now-casting in economics by developing econometrics methods capable of reading the real time data flow through the lenses of a formal econometric model. These methods are now widely used by central banks and private investors around the world.

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.

Experience

In his guest session, Professor Birkinshaw will provide insight into his latest research on digital disruption. His main area of expertise is in the strategy and organisation of large corporations, and specifically such issues as innovation, disruption, artificial intelligence, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic agility, resilience and headquarters-subsidiary relationships.

Experience

Dr Sivanathan’s research focuses on how social hierarchy and the psychological experience of status and power regulates judgement, decisions and behaviours.  He co-directs the Decision-Making Strategies for leaders programme, and directs the Leading Teams for Emerging Leaders programme. His teaching portfolio also includes the Negotiating and Bargaining elective for degree programmes and Influence and Persuasion for Executive Education programmes. 

Experience

Dr Faro’s research focuses on consumer decision-making, particularly in the domains of health and finance. He has also published research on how managers react to risk and uncertainty. Dr Faro co-directs two Executive Education programmes at London Business School: Strategic Branding and Decision-Making Strategies for Leaders. He also teaches on Behavioural Economics and Decision-Making for degree programmes. 

Experience

Professor Gallien’s research focuses on pushing the frontier of supply chain management and global health delivery through collaborations with leading firms and organisations. He has published, consulted and taught extensively in the areas of operations and supply chain management, and serves on the editorial boards of leading journals.

Experience

An experienced consultant and industry collaborator, Dr Yang’s main areas of research and teaching are supply chain finance, FinTech, business analytics, value chain management, risk management, and platform economy. His research has appeared in top management and finance academic journals.

Experience

Considered one of the leading authorities on the future of work and ranked one of the top 15 business thinkers in the world, Professor Lynda Gratton has written 10 books, including The 100-Year Life, selling more than half a million copies. For over 10 years, she has directed The Future of Work Consortium, which brings together executives from over 100 companies to imagine the future of work and organisations. Lynda has attended Davos since 2013, sits on the World Economic Forum’s Council on the New Education and Work Agenda, and has been a member of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s Council for Designing a 100-Year Life since 2018.

Academic Focus

David’s research interests include marketing strategy, innovation and market evolution, brand management, and global customer management.

Experience

He consults to multinational companies on various aspects of international marketing. His publications have included The Mirage of Global Markets (2003), Can Selling be Globalized? (2001), Seven Rules of International Distribution (2000) and The Handbook of Brand Management (1992). David also holds adjunct faculty positions at two other business schools.

Experience

John Bates is the founder and a director of Sussex Place Ventures Ltd, the School’s in-house venture capital fund manager. For 10 years he led the School’s practical initiatives in developing entrepreneurial firms. This included €20 million of pre-seed and seed venture capital funds and various networks of entrepreneurs, advisors and private investors who have supported over 70 alumni-founded or affiliated companies since 1998.

He started teaching and developing Strategy and Entrepreneurship courses at LBS in 1985, while also starting up, running and selling two technology businesses in Cambridge. He developed and taught New Venture Development, Managing the Growing Business and New Creative Ventures MBA electives and the popular Growing Your Business Open Executive programme. As Fellow in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, he continues to teach on custom programmes for Executive Education clients and the Entrepreneurship Summer School for Masters students.

He received his BSc from Nottingham University in 1972. Following a sales career in the scientific equipment and pharmaceutical industries in the UK and Africa, he graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA with high distinction in 1979.

Mr Bates then became a Marketing Manager for International Paint (now part of AkzoNobel), launching the highly successful Interpon range of solvent-free coatings worldwide. He was invited back to Harvard as a lecturer on the MBA programme in 1983, before joining the London Business School faculty part-time the following year.

Since then he has balanced a career as an entrepreneur, educator, investor and investment manager. He is chairman of DocSociety, Chattermill Ltd , Colmeia Ltd (Hiver) and New Unity CIO (Charity). He is an investor, director or board advisor of a number of early-stage ventures and growing businesses in the creative and technology industries in London.

Academic Focus

Rupert teaches on Executive Education programmes around the themes of entrepreneurship, owner management and the management of growth. Rupert works with ambitious entrepreneurial businesses around the world helping to plan and implement their strategies and growth plans.

Experience

Rupert is both a chartered accountant and a qualified HR professional, so has an unusual mix of experience when it comes to advising on the implementation of strategy. Previously Rupert was a partner of BDO for 16 years. He is the author of 7 books on growth, governance and management, the latest of which, Growing a Business, was published by The Economist in 2016. He currently sits on 3 boards as a non-executive director.

Experience

An award-winning teacher and scholar, and one of the world’s foremost thought leaders in entrepreneurship, Professor John Mullins brings to his teaching and research 20 years of executive experience in high-growth retail firms, including two ventures he founded and one he took public.

Since becoming an entrepreneurship professor in 1992, Professor Mullins has published five books, dozens of cases and more than 50 articles in publications including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and The Wall Street Journal. His research has won national and international awards from the Marketing Science Institute, the American Marketing Association, and the Richard D Irwin Foundation. He is a frequent and sought-after speaker, and educator for audiences in entrepreneurship and venture capital.

Professor Mullins has taught executive education on five continents for many organisations both large and small. They include the Young Presidents’ Organization, Endeavor, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Kenya Airways, Merck-Serono, 3M, the European and African Venture Capital Associations and the IFC, among many others. He has served on the boards of fast-growing entrepreneurial companies in the US, UK, Europe and Asia.

Academic Focus

Dr Ioannis Ioannou is a strategy scholar whose research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. He seeks to understand whether, how, and the extent to which the modern business organisation contributes towards building a sustainable future.

Recent Clients

Ioannis is a member of the Advisory Board of Ethical Corporation and collaborates as the Strategy Expert with KKS Advisors, a leading sustainable business consulting firm. He also consults internationally with companies as well as asset managers on how ESG strategies can be strategically selected, and successfully implemented. He is highly active on social media and a frequent contributor to articles in the popular and managerial press including outlets such as the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Guardian, BBC, Le Monde, and Forbes. In further recognition of his impactful work, Professor Ioannou has been recognised by various rankings as one of the top social media influencers around the world for issues of sustainability and corporate responsibility.

Experience

Dr Ioannou graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, majoring in Economics and Mathematics and holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. Dr Ioannou has presented his research at many academic conferences, and universities around the world, and also, he is very often invited to deliver keynote speeches on issues of responsible management and sustainability at numerous high-profile events and conferences globally. Dr Ioannou regularly publishes in top-tier peer-reviewed academic journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, The Accounting Review and the Journal of International Business Studies and indeed, his work is widely cited.