The Facts
Our purpose To develop insights and leaders that have impact. Our unique competitive advantage World-class faculty and students from all over the world centred in London. Our global presence Europe: Middle East: East Asia: Americas: London Business School Dubai Centre Hong Kong University partnership Columbia Business School partnership New York London Dubai Hong Kong
Our history: 1964 School founded 1966 First executive education and degree programmes offered 1968 Sloan Fellowship for more senior managers launched 1970 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II opened Regent s Park campus 1974 First PhD awarded 1983 Part-time degree programmes added 1992 Queen s Award for Export received in recognition of educational services around the world 1993 Masters in Finance programme launched 2001 EMBA-Global degree started 2007 Dubai Centre opened to offer both Executive MBA and executive education programmes 2009 EMBA-Global Asia and Masters in Management programmes launched.
World-class faculty and students from all over the world We have 158 faculty from more than 30 countries; 23% are female We teach over 1,800 degree students per year from 130-plus countries Our Executive Education team serves over 8,000 executives on our programmes each year Our 30,000 alumni are found in more than 130 countries. Our world-class faculty: Our professors are changing business practice and policy in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management Science and Operations, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour and Strategic and International Management Our 25 world-renowned Finance faculty represent one of the largest concentrations of such faculty worldwide. Our Finance professors provided the impetus for the creation of the FTSE100 In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the School achieved the highest average research score of any UK academic institution Our faculty consult to blue-chip companies, governments and organisations worldwide including AstraZeneca, the BBC, BP, the EU, HM Treasury, JP Morgan, LVMH, Morgan Stanley, Sony-Ericsson and the United Nations.
Centred in London 99% of the earth s business activity is located in time zones that overlap with London s working day Over 300 different languages are spoken in London London is the world s largest banking centre, with a 50% share of all European activity 550 billion is traded on London s foreign exchange every day The London Stock Exchange is the most international exchange with 470 companies from more than 60 countries London s creative and cultural industries employ over 500,000 people.
Our reputation Our programmes are rated highly by our students and also by the world s most important business school rankings MBA: Financial Times: 1 st in the world BusinessWeek: 2 nd in Europe Executive MBA: Financial Times: 8 th in the world EMBA-Global: Financial Times: 3 rd in the world Executive Education: BusinessWeek: 5 th for custom and 6th for open programmes Financial Times: 9 th in the world (combined for custom and open programmes) Executive Education programmes: We offer Open Programmes for individuals in General Management, Strategy, Leadership, Marketing, Human Resources and Finance. Participants come from more than 110 countries no one nationality dominates our classrooms. Our programmes provide access to the latest thinking. We also create fully customised programmes for groups of executives, designed to address critical strategic and operational challenges facing the organisation. We develop a thorough understanding of aims, deliverables, context and culture. The drive behind all our custom programmes is delivering an organisation-changing end result. We have designed a series of intensive two-day 'Executive Workout' programmes for fast, effective learning.
Our degree programmes launch great careers: Masters in Business Administration Our top-ranked MBA is distinguished by its flexibility 15 to 21 months. No other top school offers such choice One of the largest international exchange programmes: 35% of secondyear MBAs, spend a term abroad at one of 30-plus, world-class partner schools Executive MBA Our world-class Executive MBA allows ambitious, committed mid-career managers to study and work at the same time In September 2007, we launched the Dubai-London Executive MBA, attracting a global mix of 78 students in the inaugural class. We added a second stream to this popular programme in January 2009 EMBA-Global The EMBA-Global Americas and Europe programme, which started in 2001, is a unique partnership with Columbia Business School, where students graduate with a degree from both schools Our new EMBA Global-Asia started in May 2009, and allows students to graduate with a joint degree from London Business School, Columbia Business School and Hong Kong University Masters in Finance The first Masters in Finance programme in the world, and the only one at a top global business school Flexible: students can complete the programme in one year or part-time over two years Sloan Fellowship MSc The premier masters degree programme designed purely for experienced senior managers One of only three Sloan programmes in the world together with MIT and Stanford Masters in Management Our new Masters in Management programme launched in September 2009, and allows recent graduates with less than one year's work experience to build a strong foundation for a career in business PhD Primes exceptional scholars for faculty positions in leading business schools, universities and research institutes such as Harvard and Stanford
Opportunities to help us include: Providing scholarships to the world s brightest students. Just 23% of our MBA class received scholarship support compared to 80% at some of our US peers. Supporting our world class faculty and their breakthrough insights through endowed and named chairs. We have only two fully endowed chairs - we need to increase that number to 30. Endowing one of our thought-leadership centres (including Corporate Governance, Hedge Funds, Entrepreneurship and Marketing). Helping to establish new centres in the areas of Leadership, Technology, and Real Estate Finance. Becoming a Corporate Partner and joining our existing 36 corporate partners. Enabling us to enhance, and enlarge our campus. London Business School Regent s Park London NW1 4SA United Kingdom Tel +44 (0)20 7000 7000 Fax+44 (0)20 7000 7001 www.london.edu A Graduate School of the University of London October 2009