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London Business School
Established:1964
Type:Business School
Dean:Robin Buchanan
Students:1,455[1]
Location:London, United Kingdom
Campus:Urban
Colours:
        
Affiliations:University of London
Website:http://www.london.edu

The London Business School is an international business school and a constituent college of the University of London. The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration In Academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit or over a specific area of concern or both Robin Buchanan is the Dean of London Business School. Until September 2007 he spent 25 years at Bain & Company. The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation Verb "studēre" London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located School colors are the Colors chosen by a School to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification The University of London is a university based primarily in London, England, UK. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration The University of London is a university based primarily in London, England, UK. It teaches postgraduate degrees in finance and management, including MBA courses, Masters in Finance (also known as MiF, a finance specialist program), as well as non-degree courses for business executives. See also Postgraduate Training in Education Postgraduate education (synonymous in North America with graduate education, and sometimes described The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines It is located in central London, beside Regent's Park. For other meanings see Regent's Park (disambiguation Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks It was established in 1965, after the Franks Report recommended the establishment of two high quality schools, as part of existing universities (London and Manchester), but with considerable autonomy. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Manchester Business School ( MBS) is the business and management school of the University of Manchester in England. [2] It has a close collaboration with the nearby University College London. University College London ( UCL) is a multi-faculty university institution based in the United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London

Around 800 degree students, from 70 countries, graduate from the school each year. Over 80 percent of students, and over 70 percent of faculty, come from outside the UK. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A further 5,000-plus executives attend the school executive education programmes each year. The School has over 27,000 alumni in more than 120 countries, organised through 60-plus alumni clubs. [3]

The MBA and Sloan Fellowship MSc programs are accredited through AMBA. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines The Sloan Fellows program is a mid-career Masters' degree in General Management supported by a grant from the Alfred P The Association of MBAs, is a UK based organisation that accredits graduate business programmes of international Business schools It is similar to the

A Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score is required for entry to the school's degree programmes; the average score of successful applicants for the full-time MBA and Masters in Finance is 680, the highest among non US two year programs. GMAT redirects here for other uses see GMAT (disambiguation. The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT pronounced G-mat is [4]

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MBA Programmes

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The school's flagship is its 15-21 month Master of Business Administration degree. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines

London Business School holds the European Foundation for Management Development 'Equis' accreditation as well as that of the AACSB. The European Foundation for Management Development ( EFMD) is an international membership organization based in Brussels Belgium The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB was founded in 1916 to accredit schools of business worldwide while the first accreditations took MBA students take a prescribed set of core courses, then choose electives from a choice of 70. The core course includes:

Fees for both the full-time and Executive MBA programmes are approximately £44,000 (GBP) (not including living expenses); many students are either sponsored by their employers or take advantage of various scholarship and bank loan schemes. The field of finance refers to the concepts of Time, Money and Risk and how they are interrelated A Strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning In popular usage "marketing" is the promotion of products especially Advertising and Branding However in professional usage the term has a wider meaning of Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Accountancy or accounting is the measurement statement or provision of assurance about financial information primarily used by Lenders managers, Ethics is a major branch of Philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life Corporate social responsibility (CSR also called corporate responsibility corporate citizenship responsible business and corporate social opportunity is a concept whereby Organizations The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency

Full time MBA

Class size is around 310 students in every promotion, with a total of 620 students on the 15-21 month MBA. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines

In addition to the courses shown above, the full-time core courses also include:

MBA Rankings

The MBA is placed highly in the best known rankings. Information technology ( IT) as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA is "the study design development implementation support

Executive MBA Progammes

The School offers three part-time Executive MBA degrees, which are completed in between 16 and 20 months. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines The programme involves very similar core courses to the full-time MBA, international field work and a wide range of elective courses. The course ends with a capstone together with company project or management report. Both EMBA programs are positioned in the top ten in the world, with its EMBA-Global ranked #4 , and the London EMBA #6 in the Financial Times Executive MBA Rankings 2007.

Sloan Fellowship

The Sloan Fellowship at London Business School is a masters degree programme designed purely for successful executives, professionals and entrepreneurs with significant experience of decision-making at strategic levels. The Sloan Fellows program is a mid-career Masters' degree in General Management supported by a grant from the Alfred P

It is a full-time, 10-month masters in management emphasizing leadership and self-development. The course explores the latest management thinking. The Sloan Fellowship is organised around collaboration principles, and is also offered at MIT and Stanford University in the USA. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in

Masters in Finance (MIF)

The School offers a Masters in Finance programme on both a part- and full-time basis. The field of finance refers to the concepts of Time, Money and Risk and how they are interrelated This specialist masters degree in finance is a postgraduate qualification for finance professionals. According to the School, it trains students seeking careers in such diverse areas as trading, private equity, asset management and investment banking. Around 140 students attend the full-time programme, while 130 attend the part-time degree.

The MIF core courses cover the principles of finance while the unusually large number of elective courses on offer reflects the relative scale of London Business School itself. Students must take all the core courses and can choose from five up to seven electives. In addition, an independent research project must be completed. The programme's duration is ten months (full time) or two years (part time).

Core courses:

Financial Accounting and AnalysisCorporate Finance & Valuation
Capital Markets & FinancingFoundations of Finance

Elective information:''''Bold text' Electives:

Advanced Corporate FinanceAnalysis of Industry and Competition
Behavioural FinanceDissertation option
Emerging MarketsEquity Investment Management
Financial Analysis of Mergers and Complex RestructuringsFinancial Engineering and Risk Management
Financial Markets and Economic PerformanceFinancing the Entrepreneurial Business
Fixed Income SecuritiesGlobal Capital Markets and Currencies
Hedge FundsInternational Finance
International Financial AnalysisInvestment Management Programme
Mergers, MBOs & other Corporate ReorganisationsNew Venture Finance
Options and FuturesPhD Seminars in Financial Economics I, II & III
Project FinanceStrategy for MiFs
Time Series AnalysisMarket Models and Forecasting
Topics in Asset ManagementTrading and Financial Market Structure
Understanding the International MacroeconomyWorld Economy: Problems and Prospects

Executive Education

Around 6,000 executives attend the School's non-degree programmes each year. Accountancy or accounting is the measurement statement or provision of assurance about financial information primarily used by Lenders managers, Corporate finance is an area of Finance dealing with the financial decisions Corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions The capital market is the Market for securities, where companies and Governments can raise longterm funds Behavioral economics and behavioral finance are closely related fields which apply scientific research on human and social cognitive and emotional factors to better Restructuring is the Corporate management term for the act of partially dismantling or otherwise reorganizing a company for the purpose of making it more profitable Fixed income refers to any type of Investment that yields a regular (or fixed return A hedge fund is a private Investment fund open to a limited range of investors which is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of activities than other investment Options are financial instruments that convey the right but not the obligation to engage in a future transaction on some Underlying security, or in a Futures In Finance, a futures contract is a standardized Contract, traded on a Futures exchange, to buy or sell a certain Underlying instrument Project finance is the financing of long-term Infrastructure and industrial projects based upon a complex financial structure where project Debt and A Strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning In Statistics, Signal processing, and many other fields a time series is a sequence of Data points measured typically at successive times spaced at (often The School offers a programmes for executives in general management, strategy, leadership, marketing and financial management. The programmes range in length and are open to executives from any organisation.

The School also designs and delivers custom programmes to more than 50 global clients each year through its Centre for Management Development.

In 2005, the school's Executive Education Open enrollment programmes were ranked at number 5 in the world for Open programmes and number 6 for Custom programmes. That was their highest rankings yet in the BusinessWeek survey. Its Executive Education programmes were ranked 8th overall in the 2005 Financial Times annual rankings.

Research

The school's 89 faculty work through 16 research centres or institutes. [9] The School is one of only two UK business schools to have twice received a six-star (6*) research rating from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The Higher Education Funding Council for England ( HEFCE) is a Non-departmental public body of the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (previously

PhD Programme

London Business School offers a 5-yr based full-time PhD programme. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. It supports 70 fully-funded PhD candidates in four doctoral programmes: Accounting, Economics & Finance; Management; Management Science & Operations, and Marketing. [10]

Faculty

Faculty heads include Gary Hamel, originator (with C.K. Prahalad) of the concept of core competencies. Gary Hamel, a graduate of Andrews University (1975 and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (1990 is a Founder of Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (pronounced as Pra-huh-laadh (b Core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions It provides consumer benefits It is not easy for competitors to imitate

Notable London Business School alumni

See also

References

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