Organisational Behaviour | London Business School

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From the smallest enterprise to the largest corporation, organisations are created and designed by people to fulfil human objectives.

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We are a world-class research school. Our OB faculty and PhD students conduct research published in the world’s top academic journals on a wide range of topics, including:

Micro themes – the psychological principles that govern leadership, motivation, decision-making, negotiation and creativity
Meso factors – research with a focus on teamwork, group dynamics, organisational culture and personal identity
Macro themes – examining the sociological, cultural and institutional factors that shape organisational structures and systems, inter-organisational relationships and networks.

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Build the skills and experience to apply your knowledge in real-life situations.

Meet our faculty

Our organisational behaviour faculty are world-renowned leaders in their field.

Raina Brands

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Raina Brands

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Experience

Dr Raina Brands studies gender bias in organisations through the lens of social networks. She examines how women's careers and reputations are helped and hindered by informal social networks of friendship and advice. Prior to joining London Business School she was on the faculty at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

Her work is published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management and has been featured in The New York Times and Financial Times.

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Dan Cable

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Dan Cable

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Experience

Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan’s research and teaching focus on employee engagement, change, organizational culture, leadership mindset, and the linkage between brands and employee behaviors. Dan was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List, The Academy of Management has twice honored Dan with “Best article” awards, and The Academy of Management Perspectives ranked Dan in the “Top 25 most influential management scholars.”

Dan’s newest book is Alive at Work, and his first book was Change to Strange. He has published two edited books and more than 50 articles in top scientific journals. His most recent research was published in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, and Administrative Science Quarterly. This research has been featured in the Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, New York Times, and Business Week.

Dan’s clients include Carlsberg, Coca Cola, Deloitte, EY, HSBC, Ikea, McDonalds, MS Amlin, NBC Universal, Porsche Consulting, Prudential, PwC, Rabobank, Roche, Sanofi, Siemens, and Twitter.

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Yoonjin Choi

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Yoonjin Choi

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Experience

Dr Yoonjin Choi’s research examines how various cultural elements such as values, frames and narratives shape individuals’ performance and behaviours as well as their social relationships. In one stream, Dr Choi looks at how individuals’ understanding and use of organisational culture affect their performance, including their creativity, conflict management skills and career attainment. In another stream, she focuses on values and examines how personal and organisational values shape individual behaviours, from building and maintaining relationships to making ethical decisions at work. Dr Choi uses various methods, from computational linguistics and social network analysis to field experiments.

Dr Choi has a PhD and an MPhil from Columbia Business School and a BS from Yonsei University.

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Daniel Effron

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Daniel Effron

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Experience

A social psychologist by training, Dr Daniel A Effron teaches about ethics, influence, and other topics related to the science of people in organizations. Before joining London Business School, he taught negotiations at the Kellogg School of Management, and was a fellow of the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

His research examines the psychology of (1) how people act in ethically questionable ways without feeling unethical, and (2) what shapes people’s judgments of others’ unethical behaviour. His current projects focus on judgments of hypocrisy, fake news, and what leads people to let leaders off the hook for dishonesty.

Dr Effron's research has appeared in top scholarly publications such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. His work has been discussed in media outlets such as The New York Times, Financial Times, BBC News, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Named one of the "Best 40 Business Professors Under 40" by Poets & Quants, he received teaching awards from the London Business School MBA classes of 2015 and 2020, and his doctoral work was honoured with an American Psychological Association Dissertation Award.

To learn more about Dr. Effron's research, please visit www.danieleffron.com

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Lynda Gratton

Professor of Management Practice

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Lynda Gratton

Professor of Management Practice

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Experience

Lynda is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs the program ‘Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Companies’ – considered the world’s leading program on human resources. Her elective on the Future of Work is one of the school’s most popular and in 2016 she received the school’s ‘Excellence in Teaching’ award. For over ten years she has led the Future of Work Consortium which has brought executives from more than 60 companies together both virtually and on a bespoke collaborative platform.

Lynda has written extensively about the interface between people and organizations. Her books cover the link between business and HR strategy (Living Strategy), the new ways of working (The Democratic Enterprise), the rise of complex collaboration (Hot Spots and Glow) the impact of a changing world on employment and work (The Shift ) and the impact of longevity on society (The 100 Year Life – co-authored with Andrew Scott). In 2012 The Shift received the best book of the year in Japan and has been translated into more than 15 languages. In 2015 The Key won the CMI Management Book of the Year. In 2017 The 100 Year Life was shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year, became the best selling book in Japan and has been translated into 15 languages.

Lynda’s work has been acknowledged globally – she has won the Tata prize in India; in the US she has been named as the annual Fellow of NAHR and won the CCL prize; whilst in Australia she has won the HR prize. She has been named by Thinkers 50 has one of the top 15 thinkers in the world.

Lynda is a Steward of the World Economic Forum and has chaired the WEF Council on Leadership. She serves as a judge on the Google.org prize, and in November 2017 was named as a council member of Prime Minister Abe’s council on social change.

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Herminia Ibarra

Charles Handy Chair in Organisational Behaviour; Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Chair, Organisational Behaviour Faculty

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Herminia Ibarra

Charles Handy Chair in Organisational Behaviour; Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Chair, Organisational Behaviour Faculty

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Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD (2002-2017) and Harvard Business School (1989-2002) faculties.

An authority on leadership, Thinkers 50 ranks Ibarra among the top management thinkers in the world. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, one of Apolitical’s 100 most influential people in gender policy, a Fellow of the British Academy, the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Scholar-Practitioner Award for her research’s contribution to management practice, and serves on the Governing Body of the London Business School.

She is the author of best-selling books including Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader and Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Ibarra writes regularly in leading academic journals and business publications including the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times and speaks internationally on leadership and organizational transformation.

A native of Cuba, Ibarra received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where she was a National Science Fellow.

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Ena Inesi

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Ena Inesi

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Experience

Ena Inesi is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour. She has been at London Business School since 2007. Ena’s education includes a BSc in Civil Engineering (magna cum laude) from Duke University and a PhD in Organisational Behavior from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Her research focuses on power and how it affects relationships and decision-making.

Ena teaches across all degree programmes at London Business School. In Executive Education, she has taught on the “Emerging Leaders” and the “Negotiation and Influence Skills for Managers” open programmes, and has taught on custom programmes for a variety of companies, including Prudential, YPO, World Economic Programme, Carlsberg and Arla.

Her work has been presented at the most respected conferences in her field, and the leading journals have published her work. The popular press has also featured her research, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate.com, and US News and World Report.

Before earning her PhD, Ena worked as a consultant at Bain and Company in Atlanta, Georgia and Rome, Italy. She was also part of the founding team of Velodea Srl – a website start-up in Milan, Italy – where she worked as a consultant and project manager.

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Dana Kanze

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Dana Kanze

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Dr Dana Kanze holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia Business School.

Her research applies behavioural insights to understand sources of labour market inequality, spanning the areas of judgement and decision making, ethics, motivation science and entrepreneurship.

Dr Kanze’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Science Advances, as well as in practitioner outlets such as the Harvard Business Review.

Her research has been featured by BBC Radio, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Chicago Booth Review, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Inc., MIT Sloan Management Review, Pitchbook, Scientific American, TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, and Wharton Magazine.

Accomplished as an ad-hoc reviewer and TED speaker, Dr Kanze started her career as an investment banker and strategic consultant for Citigroup and Winterberry Group, going on to co-found and run a venture-funded start-up before re-entering education.

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Selin Kesebir

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Selin Kesebir

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Dr Selin Kesebir’s research interests include cooperation, competition, gender, inequality and cultural transmission. She teaches Executive Leadership and Negotiations in her role as Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, of London Business School. Prior to joining the School she was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at UVa’s Darden School of Business.

She completed her undergraduate studies in Economics and International Relations at Koç University in Turkey. She has an MA in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University and a PhD in social psychology from the University of Virginia.

She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and previously has been Editor in-Chief and Associate Editor of In-Mind Magazine. She has also reviewed: Basic and Applied Social Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Emotion Review, European Journal of Social Psychology, Merrill Palmer Quarterly, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, L'Année Psychologique, Motivation and Emotion, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Perspectives in Psychological Science.

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Gillian Ku

Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Chair, PhD Programme

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Gillian Ku

Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Chair, PhD Programme

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Gillian Ku is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. She received her PhD in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management. Prior to her doctoral studies, Gillian earned her bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and worked at the Disney Corporation where she was a financial analyst for Disney’s international video distribution division.

Gillian’s internationally-recognised research is in the broad area of negotiations, decision-making, and interpersonal relationships. Specifically, her research has focused on the dynamics of emotionally-charged decision-making and she investigates the decision-making processes involved in negotiations, auction bidding, and auction fever. She also has active research projects on perspective-taking and gender differences in a variety of domains. Gillian’s research has been widely published in the premier outlets of her field, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Research in Organizational Behavior, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Harvard Business Review. Her research has also garnered international press coverage, including reports on auction behaviour at CNN, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, BusinessWeek.com, and The Telegraph.

Gillian’s award-winning teaching focuses on negotiations, decision-making, and leading teams. She teaches on London Business School’s full-time MBA and Executive Education programmes. She has also consulted worldwide for schools (e.g. Indian School of Business and Cyprus International Institute of Management) and organisations (e.g. Diageo, Roche, Oman Oil, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation).

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Pier Vittorio Mannucci

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Pier Vittorio Mannucci

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Dr Pier Vittorio Mannucci’s research focuses on how creativity can be fostered in individuals and settings that are stereotypically depicted as less creative. His specific area of expertise centres on how individuals can be consistently creative over the career, and on the effects of social networks, technology and culture on individual and team creativity.

Dr Mannucci holds a BA and MSc from Bocconi University and was awarded a PhD by HEC Paris. He has working experience in film production and sports management, which matches a personal passion for cinema and basketball.

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Thomas Mussweiler

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Thomas Mussweiler

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Thomas Mussweiler is a professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. He is an expert on the psychological foundations of organisational behaviour. More specifically, his interests include trust and cooperation, judgment and decision making, negotiation and influence, the self, interpersonal processes and stereotyping. Much of Professor Mussweiler’s research focuses on social comparison processes – he examines how comparing with others changes people’s self-image, their motivation and performance.

Professor Mussweiler is the recipient of a series of prestigious national and international awards, including the European Young Investigator Award and the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Award, and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 70 scientific articles in a broad spectrum of the leading journals of his field, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Making.

Professor Mussweiler has extensive teaching experience at a variety of institutions. In his 20 years of teaching, he has taught decision making, negotiation, organisational behaviour and social psychology to a variety of different audiences.

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Kathleen O'Connor

Clinical Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Kathleen O'Connor

Clinical Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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O’Connor is an authority on negotiation, conflict management, and collaboration. She has studied the impact of teams at the bargaining table, how stress influences negotiators’ choice of tactics, and how reputations for toughness undermine negotiators. Her recent research investigates how men’s and women’s facial features—their attractiveness as well as the masculinity/femininity of their facial features—influence how other people treat them. Her current project centers on women’s career paths to understand how women navigate moments of decision. In particular, she is investigating the roles of fear, courage and serendipity in women’s working lives. O’Connor’s research has been honored by awards from leading academic organizations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Conflict Management and has been cited in a number of news outlets, including the Financial Times, Associated Press, and the Wall Street Journal.

O’Connor received a B.S. from Cornell University, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has held faculty and visiting faculty appointments at Rice University and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Randall Peterson

Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Academic Director, Leadership Institute

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Randall Peterson

Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Academic Director, Leadership Institute

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Professor Randall S Peterson is Academic Director of the Leadership Institute. His current research activities include investigating: how CEO personality affects top management team interaction, board dynamics, leading diverse teams, conflict management in teams, and the effects of member personality on group interaction and performance.

As Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, he teaches on the EMBA, MBA, MFA, and Executive Education on leading teams and organisations, high performance teams, leadership assessment, and interpersonal skill development. He teaches the ‘Leadership Week’ of the Accelerated Development Programme for transition into general management, as well as leadership on the Senior Executive Programme. He has been invited to teach and consult across the world, for companies such as ADNOC, Alcan, AREVA, Barclays, Chevron/Texaco, Deutsche Bank, Emirates Bank, E.ON, GIB, IBM, Lufthansa, Nestlé, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Roche.

His research is published in the leading scholarly journals in the field including Academy of Management Annals, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Randall has also edited a book entitled Leading and Managing People in Dynamic Organizations. He has also written numerous articles for managers in places like Harvard Business Review, as well as business cases on companies including Commercial International Bank and Allergan.

Professor Peterson holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining London Business School, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University and Cornell University's SC Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is a former Deputy Dean (Faculty), Subject Area Chair of Organisational Behaviour, Chair of the Ph.D. Programme, and Vice President of the Campaign Committee of London Business School.

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Madan Pillutla

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Madan Pillutla

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Professor Madan Pillutla’s research uses social-psychological perspectives to understand organizational behaviours. Recent papers have examined gender differences in competitiveness and morality and the role that physical attractiveness plays in selection decisions.

Before joining London Business School, Professor Pillutla worked as a management trainee and factory personnel manager at ITC Limited (a subsidiary of British American Tobacco) in Chirala and Calcutta, India. He was an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Annals, an Associate Editor of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; and a member of the editorial board of the Academy of Management Review. Furthermore, he was also on the editorial boards of the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Perspective, the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Management.

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Aneeta Rattan

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Aneeta Rattan

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Dr Aneeta Rattan’s research interests focus on mindsets and intergroup relations (stereotyping, prejudice, and inequity). In one programme of research, she studies mindsets that promote belonging, commitment, and achievement among minorities and women in the face of stereotypes and implicit bias. In another programme of research, she investigates the mindsets that help individuals, organisations, and societies foster positive interactions among diverse group members (across gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation status), even after incidents of explicit bias.

Dr Rattan’s research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. She has received multiple research grants from major funding agencies in the United States. Her research has also been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and Huffington Post among others.

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Eliot Sherman

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Eliot Sherman

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Dr. Eliot Sherman’s research examines the structural constraints that impede women's careers, with an emphasis on testing feasible organizational solutions using field experiments. An additional stream of work assesses intrapreneurship and job mobility. His research has been published in leading sociology and management journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Management Science, and Organization Science. He has taught the "Paths to Power" elective since 2016 and has taught in executive education programs since 2018.

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Niro Sivanathan

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Niro Sivanathan

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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Dr Niro Sivanathan’s research and teaching have received international recognition. His research explores how the psychology of the self – specifically our motivation to maintain the integrity of the self – influences decision-making. In addition, he explores how social hierarchy, through the psychological experience of power and status, regulates our judgment and behaviours.

His work has been presented at leading international conferences and published in the top international journals in the field of Management and Psychology, such as: Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. His research has also garnered international press coverage at CNN, Financial Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sunday Times and Forbes.

Before joining the London Business School in 2008, Niro was a visiting Assistant Professor at the Johnson School of Management, at Cornell University, and recently has been a visiting Scholar at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Sivanathan earned his PhD in Management & Organisations from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He also holds an MSc in Management and a BA in Psychology (Honours) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.

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Laura Giurge

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of Organisational Behaviour

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Laura Giurge

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of Organisational Behaviour

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Dr Laura M. Giurge is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow of Organisational Behaviour, where she leads an initiative to innovate and expand the Behavioural Research Lab and teaches “Negotiation and Bargaining” to MBA students.

Laura received her PhD in Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam, in The Netherlands and two cum laude master degrees in Human Resource Management and in Economics and Business from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands.

Before joining LBS, Laura was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cornell University in the United States. Laura has experience in conducting experimental and behavioural field studies with collaborators and partners around the world. Her earlier work on power and ethics has been published in The Leadership Quarterly and Human Relations. Currently, Laura is working on a diverse set of projects that examine how the daily and long-term decisions employees and organizations make about time influence employees’ experiences and behaviours at work (engagement), but also outside work (well-being). The ultimate goal of her research is to help people work smarter and live happier and healthier lives.

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LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy

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Herminia Ibarra

Corporate Social Responsibility & Ethics

Corporate Social Responsibility

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Executive MBA London

Executive MBA Dubai

Developing Effective Managers and Organisations

Dev. Effective Managers and Organ.

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Executive MBA London

Executive MBA Dubai

CORE COURSE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Madan Pillutla

Kathleen O'Connor

Executive Leadership

Executive Leadership

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Executive MBA London

LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy

Executive MBA Dubai

EMBA-Global Americas & Europe

CORE COURSE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Selin Kesebir

Herminia Ibarra

Kathleen O'Connor

Randall Peterson

GLAM

The first rule of leadership and management success is always to know your strengths and weaknesses in order to know what you offer to the people you work with, and where you need to focus effort on improvement.

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MBA

CORE COURSE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Kathleen O'Connor

Aneeta Rattan

Randall Peterson

Leadership & Organisational Change

Leadership & Organisational Change

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EMBA-Global Americas & Europe

Leading & Organisational Change

Leading & Organisational Change

Leading People and Organisations

Leading People and Organisations

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LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy

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Herminia Ibarra

Performing in Organisations

'All the world’s a stage', William Shakespeare said, and organisations are no exception.

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Masters in Management

Masters in Analytics and Management

CORE COURSE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Pier Vittorio Mannucci

Personal and Professional Growth

Personal and Professional Growth

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Masters in Management

CORE COURSE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Kathleen O'Connor

Perspectives on Business Ethics

Learn how to ensure that a business acts ethically, and with integrity and professionalism, by adhering to standards and creating your own.

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MBA

CORE COURSE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Nicos Savva

Ioannis Ioannou

Daniel Effron

Andrew Likierman

Francisco Brahm

Elias Papaioannou

The Science of People in Organisations

To achieve success in any organisation, leaders must inspire commitment from others, elicit contributions toward common goals, coordinate both within and across teams, and proactively and effectively adapt to change.

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MBA

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Daniel Effron

Pier Vittorio Mannucci
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Employee Engagement and Positive Psychology

Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. But more than ever before, organizations need employee engagement and creativity to win. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem?

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EMBA-Global Asia

Masters in Analytics and Management

MBA

Masters in Management

LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy

ELECTIVE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Dan Cable

Inter-Personal Dynamics

This elective has been developed based on extensive research with different stakeholders across the school (and is delivered in active partnership with the Career Centre) and in the business community to ensure you are equipped to meet the inter-personal challenges that become increasingly important and demanding as you get more senior.

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Executive MBA Dubai

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EMBA-Global Asia

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Masters in Finance Part-time

ELECTIVE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Thomas Mussweiler

Richard Jolly

Leading Teams and Organisations

The purpose of this course is to help you develop skills and knowledge critical for leading groups of people effectively in organisations. Through assessment tools, exercises, films, cases, role-plays, and other assignments, you will gain a stronger understanding of what it takes to excel in leadership positions. This course builds from the premise that leadership skills complement the technical and diagnostic skills learned in other London Business School courses. Because most candidates seek or encounter leadership responsibilities, this course is relevant for every student pursuing a managerial career.

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Executive MBA Dubai

Executive MBA London

EMBA-Global Asia

MBA

Masters in Finance Full-time

Masters in Finance Part-time

Masters in Management

LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy

ELECTIVE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Dana Kanze

Managing Change

This is a class on helping you change things. How can you stop procrastinating on important tasks? How can you convince your technical salespeople to sell business solutions not hardware? How do you get people to start buying their meat from local and humane farms? On the one hand, these are very different changes on different levels of analysis: individual, organizational, and societal. On the other hand, all change efforts boil down to the same mission: Can you get people to start behaving in a new way?

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Executive MBA Dubai

Executive MBA London

EMBA-Global Americas & Europe

EMBA-Global Asia

Masters in Analytics and Management

MBA

Masters in Management

ELECTIVE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Raina Brands

Richard Jolly

Negotiation & Bargaining

In order to be a successful manager, you must regularly reach agreements with others. When interests and values are aligned, such agreements are easy to reach. But as we have all experienced, conflicts arise all too often, making agreements seem difficult if not impossible. One key reason for this difficulty is that although people often face conflict, most know very little about the strategy and psychology behind effectively resolving it and coming to an agreement.

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Executive MBA Dubai

Executive MBA London

EMBA-Global Americas & Europe

EMBA-Global Asia

Masters in Analytics and Management

MBA

Masters in Financial Analysis

Masters in Finance Full-time

Masters in Finance Part-time

Masters in Management

LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy

ELECTIVE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Niro Sivanathan

Selin Kesebir

Aneeta Rattan

Thomas Mussweiler

Yoonjin Choi

Laura Giurge

Gillian Ku

Ena Inesi

Path to Power

Power, status, and influence are topics that make many people a little uncomfortable. However, they are a fundamental reality in much (maybe all) of organizational and social life. Power and influence are the key mechanisms by which things get done.

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Executive MBA Dubai

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EMBA-Global Americas & Europe

EMBA-Global Asia

MBA

Masters in Finance Full-time

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LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy

ELECTIVE CURRENTLY TAUGHT BY

Eliot Sherman

Richard Jolly

The Future of Work

We stand in the midst of one of the greatest revolutions in organisations and work the world has ever seen. The forces that are shaping our work, our organisations and institutions are becoming ever more apparent as their velocity increases. The trajectory of these forces is unknowable - with future scenarios ranging from the most optimistic to the downright bleak. In this elective we explore these key themes. First, how the context of work and organisations will be shaped by the forces of globalisation, technology, demography, societal changes and resource constraints over the coming decades and the opportunities and challenges this creates. Then we consider the impact this will have on organisations and ecosystems of knowledge and talent, and the role of the company in the community and in society. Finally, we take a closer look at what this means for leadership and for you as you develop your own ideas about how best to prepare for the future.

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Executive MBA Dubai

Executive MBA London

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Micro OB - Individuals

Micro OB - Individuals

Pier Vittorio Mannucci

Micro OB - Teams

Micro OB - Teams

Randall Peterson

OB Seminar

OB Seminar

Madan Pillutla

Selin Kesebir

Upcoming Programmes

Executive Educations

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Becoming Exceptional – Online

Discover your best possible self and find out how to unlock the best in others. Join Dan Cable and explore the power of gratitude and unleash your business’s true potential.

25 January - 19 March 2021
3 weeks + 4 practise weeks
Online

Tags: Live online, Online, Leadership

Leading Teams for Emerging Leaders

Transform from a contributor to a high–performing leader, and make the best possible start to your leadership journey.

31 January - 5 February 2021
5.5 days
Live virtual

Tags: Leadership, Courses in London

Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility - Online

Unlock the insights to achieve positive business impact, with London Business School’s Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility programme.

09 February - 30 March 2021
6 weeks, 4-5 hours per week
Online

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Self-paced online, Online, New courses

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Women in Business – Online

Take charge of your future. Join Herminia Ibarra and Kathleen O'Connor and build the skills, mindset and network to step forwards in your career with confidence.

22 February - 19 March 2021
4 weeks, 5-6 hours per week
Online

Tags: Live online, Online, Leadership

Leading Change

Harness the power of change. Rewire your thinking, transform your mindset and make change happen for your organisation.

01-05 March 2021
5 days
Live virtual

Tags: Leadership, Courses in London

NEW

How to Hack Management – Online

Break through bureaucracy, transform management structures and unlock the innovation and creativity in your organisation with Professor Gary Hamel.

09 March - 01 April 2021
3 weeks, 6-8 hours per week
Online

Tags: Live online, Online, Leadership

Negotiating and Influencing Skills for Leaders

Learn how to influence, persuade and create value negotiation.

15-19 March 2021
5 half days
Live virtual

Tags: Leadership, Courses in London

High Performance People Skills for Leaders

Build the confidence and capabilities to lead people and communicate with them more effectively on this highly practical programme.

22-26 March 2021
5 days
Live virtual

Tags: Leadership, Courses in London

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Crisis Leadership and Human Behaviour – Online

Strengthen your organisation when it is under pressure with advanced crisis leadership, behaviourial science and strategy insights led by Niro Sivanathan and David Faro.

06-30 April 2021
3 weeks, 6-8 hours per week
Online

Tags: Online, Live online, Strategy, Leadership

Essentials of Leadership

Great leaders are made not born. Join us to discover how to unlock game-changing potential in yourself and others.

25-30 April 2021
5.5 days
Hybrid learning (London or live virtual)

Tags: Leadership, Courses in London

NEW

Women in Leadership

Step up to a top level role, and maximise your impact. We work with you and a sponsor from your organisation to accelerate your next move.

Virtual: 28 April 2021 On campus: 24 - 28 May 2021 Virtual: June - October Virtual/on campus: 14 - 15 October
Online: 14 hours On campus: 4.5 days
Online & London

Tags: Leadership, Courses in London, New courses

Decision Making Strategies for Leaders

Great leaders are decisive. Get the skills, knowledge and experience to make sound decisions in a complex and fast-paced environment.

14-18 June 2021
5 days
Hybrid learning (London or live virtual)

Tags: Leadership, Courses in London

Leading Businesses into the Future

Turbulent times call for resilient and visionary leaders. Prepare your organisation for the future.

27 June - 2 July 2021
5.5 days
Hybrid learning (London or live virtual)

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Courses in London

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LGBTQ+ Executive Leadership Programme

Unleash your impact as a leader, and seal your success to conquer bigger challenges with London Business School’s LGBTQ+ Executive Leadership Programme.