Our unique competitive advantage

Our purpose

To develop insights and leaders that have impact.

Our unique competitive advantage

… from all over the world … … centred in London.

Our global presence

Europe: London Business School

Middle East: Dubai Centre

East Asia: Hong Kong University partnership Americas: Columbia Business School partnership

Dubai Hong Kong New York London

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 ex-change with 470 companies from more than 60 countries • London’s creative and cultural industries employ over

Our reputation

Our programmes are rated highly by our students…and also by the world’s most important business school rankings

MBA:

Financial Times: 1st_{in the world}

BusinessWeek: 2nd_{in Europe}

Executive MBA:

Financial Times: 8th_{in the world}

EMBA-Global:

Financial Times: 3rd_{in the world}

Executive Education:

BusinessWeek: 5th_{for custom and 6th for open programmes}

Financial Times: 9th_{in the world (combined for custom} and open programmes)

Executive Education programmes:

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

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 second-year 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:

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 break-through insights break-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.

LondonBusiness School

Regent’s Park London NW1 4SA United Kingdom Tel +44 (0)20 7000 7000 Fax +44 (0)20 7000 7001 www.london.edu