“As a business school with a highly international faculty and student body, and operating in major financial centres, we believe the role of our School in educating top quality, socially-aware business leaders has never been more important.”
Professor Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean, London Business School
London Business School is a world class business school with truly international students and faculty, and programmes in major business centres worldwide.
As a relatively small school with a potentially huge impact on current and future business leaders, we are striving to establish an efficient and effective approach to raising business leaders’ capacity to understand and manage the business-society relationship.
All of our full-time MBA students and our executive MBA students in London and Dubai enjoy a core course in corporate responsibility and ethics. This provides approximately 700 students a year with an overview of why and how to manage extra-financial elements of business performance, including issues ranging from corporate governance to global poverty to climate change.
We offer successful electives taught by award-winning faculty members in areas such as social enterprise and sustainable financing. We also have a growing number of students choosing to do examined projects on aspects of corporate responsibility.
Our faculty are involved in research and corporate engagement in environmental, social and governance issues. We are host to ESRC-funded research on climate change energy policy, and a major Centre on Corporate Governance. Other faculty from the Dean to professors of finance, organisational behaviour, marketing and innovation have published on aspects of the role of business in society, and indeed the role of the business school.
Our students are engaged in various aspects of corporate responsibility. The Responsible Business Club not only runs regular events on facets of corporate responsibility from microfinance to sustainability, it also provides advice to young social entrepreneurs, and is part of the entrepreneurship community in London. The Energy Club holds frequent events about alternative energy and other aspects of the low carbon economy. The Volunteering Club facilitates opportunities for students.
The School hosts the European rounds of the Global Social Venture Capital Competition. It is also a partner in the Pears Foundation Business Schools Partnership promoting a culture of philanthropy, public service and corporate responsibility amongst business leaders of the future. This is the latest in our work producing high quality teaching materials on ethics, corporate responsibility and sustainability, following on from our lead role in the book of case studies, Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibility, and the publication of Corporate Responsibility: a critical introduction (OUP) by one of our faculty.
