Welcome to the Responsible Business podcast, from Think at London Business School. Many companies talk about wanting to become more sustainable and purposeful. But when they face challenges, with financial targets to hit, how can they be sure that they put sustainability into practice? In this episode, London Business School’s Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow of the Centre for Corporate Governance, talks to Yolanda Courtines, Partner and Equity Portfolio Manager at Wellington Management and...

Welcome to the Responsible Business podcast, from Think at London Business School. Many companies talk about wanting to become more sustainable and purposeful. But when they face challenges, with financial targets to hit, how can they be sure that they put sustainability into practice? In this episode, Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow of the Centre for Corporate Governance, London Business School, talks to André Hoffmann, environmentalist and Vice Chair of Roche, about why companies should...

Hindsight is an incredibly powerful thing. How many of us still cringe at something we’ve said or regret ever hitting ‘send’ on a certain e-mail? We’ve all made mistakes – although not necessarily at the same level and with the same impact. Mistakes are all part of learning in any business. Three start-up founders looked back at what happened in the past year and joined us to share their experiences and learnings. Hear what happened to them and how you can avoid it happening to...

Hear David Farquharson, founder of London Law Collective and legal expert in residence at London Business School, talk about the 10 most important legal mistakes to avoid when building a start-up. David is also one of the subject-matter experts on the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital’s Ask an Expert programme at LBS, which advises LBS student and alumni-founded start-ups. He is a commercial lawyer with over 20 years’ experience of advising start-ups and entrepreneurs. This...

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School, Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance, and author of Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, which was recently updated for the pandemic. In this podcast series, Alex explores the complex challenges facing responsible businesses with Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow, Centre for Corporate Governance, LBS. In this episode, Tom and Alex discuss new insights revealed in the recently...

London Business School MBA students, Nandini Mazumdar, Aditya Sheth, Pame Flores and Kara Bennett share their experiences of the MBA, and their interest in social impact from a personal and career perspective. Their discussion explores what social impact means and which companies are doing well in this space. They also detail the initiatives at LBS that they have taken part in, and how these experiences have helped refine and further develop their understanding and skills, enabling them to...

Welcome to the Responsible Business podcast, from Think at London Business School. Many companies talk about wanting to become more sustainable and purposeful. But when they face challenges, with financial targets to hit, how can they be sure that they put sustainability into practice? In this episode, Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow of the Centre for Corporate Governance, London Business School, talks to Andy Brown, Founder and CEO of Cedar Rock Capital. Learn how Andy builds...

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School, Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance, and author of “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit” recently updated for the pandemic. In this podcast series, Alex explores the complex challenges facing responsible businesses, with Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow, Centre for Corporate Governance, LBS. In this episode, Tom and Alex discuss how to incorporate ESG factors into the investment...

How corporate leaders perception of time influences important decisions and outcomes that relate to sustainability and positive social change. Hear Donal Crilly, an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at London Business School in conversation with host, Vyla Rollins, executive director, of London Business School’s Leadership Institute. Donal's teaching focuses on the topics of stakeholder relations and global strategy. His research interests include the exploration of why...

Professor Ioannis Ioannou, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, joined Vyla Rollins, Executive Director at London Business School’s Leadership Institute, to discuss how organisations can move towards a more sustainable future. Listen for insights on leadership, authenticity, and driving effective change.

For this edition of the Leadership Playbook, Vyla Rollins, executive director of LBS’ Leadership Institute, sat down with Olivier Blum, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer at Schneider Electric, to discuss how Schneider have raised the bar for corporate sustainability and why they believe their customers, suppliers, and even some competitors are driving change and propelling Schneider towards a better, greener future. Listen now for insights on creating a sustainability strategy that...

Listen to Snap Inc’s VP International Claire Valoti and Randall Peterson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School, as they explore five key learnings from innovators and business leaders including Ocado, Starling Bank and Channel 4. Join them as they discuss the importance of innovative thinking to power growth and create businesses that can thrive post-pandemic.

This is Leadership Playbook, a London Business School podcast exploring the latest thinking and key issues for leaders and those aspiring to lead. In this episode, Vyla Rollins, Executive Director of the Leadership Institute at London Business School, hosts Nick Hirons, Senior Vice President, Global Ethics and Compliance at pharma giant GSK. Together, they discuss ethics and compliance from the rich point of view of a complex and highly regulated global industry, as well as practices and...

This is Leadership Playbook, a London Business School podcast exploring the latest thinking and key issues for leaders and those aspiring to lead. In this episode, Vyla Rollins, Executive Director of the Leadership Institute at London Business School, and Daniel Effron, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, discuss Daniel's research and what ethical leadership looks like in the age of 'fake news'. For more thought leadership and business insights from London Business School’s...

This is Leadership Playbook, a London Business School podcast exploring the latest thinking and key issues for leaders and those aspiring to lead. Giving fair and effective feedback is essential to developing our teams, yet almost no one is naturally good at it and very few receive any training to improve this skill. In this episode, Vyla Rollins, Executive Director of the Leadership Institute at London Business School, and Selin Kesebir, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, share...

This is Leadership Playbook, a London Business School podcast exploring the latest thinking and key issues for leaders and those aspiring to lead. In this episode, we think about how to lead through a crisis with Randall Peterson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Academic Director of the Leadership Institute at London Business School, and his guests Niro Sivanathan, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, and David Faro, Associate Professor of Marketing. If you'd like to...

This is Leadership Playbook, a London Business School podcast exploring the latest thinking and key issues for leaders and those aspiring to lead. In this episode, Randall Peterson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Academic Director of the Leadership Institute at London Business School, talks to Laura Giurge, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of Organisational Behaviour. They explore how a focus on employees' wellbeing, including setting boundaries and meaningfully disconnecting from...

Spoiler alert: the answer is yes, at least at the world's largest mining company. This is Leadership Playbook, a London Business School podcast exploring the latest thinking and key issues for leaders and those aspiring to lead. In this episode, Randall Peterson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Academic Director of the Leadership Institute at London Business School, talks with Andrew Mackenzie, former chief executive of BHP. Reflecting back on his experience at the helm of the...

This is Leadership Playbook, a London Business School podcast exploring the latest thinking and key issues for leaders and those aspiring to lead. In this episode, we think about the future of work with Randall Peterson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Academic Director of the Leadership Institute at London Business School, and his guest Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice and a world-renowned expert on the impact of a changing world on employment and work. If you'd like...

This is Leadership Playbook, a London Business School podcast exploring the latest thinking and key issues for leaders and those aspiring to lead. In this episode, we delve into diversity in the workplace with Aneeta Rattan, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Academic Co-Director of the LGBTQ+ Executive Programme at London Business School, and Oriane Georgiac, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management. We explore some powerful ideas and...

Mohamed El-Erian, President of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Richard Portes, Professor of Economics and Academic Director of the AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School, discuss emerging markets and their performance against the backdrop of the global economy and low-for-longer interest rates. This conversation was hosted at the AQR Asset Management Institute’s Insight Summit 2020, distilling the best of academic and practitioner insights on critical issues impacting the...

Hear from Anna Pavlova, Professor of Finance and Academic Director of the AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School, for some highlights from the institute’s Insight Summit 2020, distilling the best of academic and practitioner insights on critical issues impacting the investment industry today. At our virtual Insight Summit 2020, participants heard from top speakers within business and academia on the impact of prolonged low interest rates, the effects on financial...

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School, Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance, and author of “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”. In this podcast series, Alex explores the complex challenges facing responsible business, with Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow in the Centre for Corporate Governance at London Business School. In this episode, Tom and Alex mark the 50th anniversary of Milton Friedman's seminal essay on the...

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School, Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance, and author of “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”. In this podcast series, Alex explores the complex challenges facing responsible business, with Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow in the Centre for Corporate Governance at London Business School. In this episode, Tom and Alex broaden the field of view to talk about how the pie-growing mindset...

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School, Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance, and author of “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”. In this podcast, Alex explores the complex challenges facing responsible business, with Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow in the Centre for Corporate Governance at London Business School. In this episode, Tom and Alex look at what purpose means and how companies and investors can work together...