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Currie in the frame for FSA chairmanship

Jeremy Warner argues that David Currie, a former professor of economics at London Business School, should be appointed as the next chairman of the Financial Services Authority.

Vanni Treves: Corporate charmer coaxing cash for children's charity

Profile of NSPCC fundraiser Vanni Treves, who came to prominence in the 1990s as chairman of London Business School and Channel 4.

Swiss CRM Forum

The Swiss CRM Forum takes will take place on June 5th this year. Top-class speakers will include Professor Patrick Barwise ("Differentiation that Matters") from London Business School.

Managers who use a little imagination for big rewards

Innovation in management could be just as important to business success as making innovations in other areas such as technology and products. Addressing a meeting sponsored by Management Lab and the Advanced Institute of Management at London Business School Professor Gary Hamel said, 'Real innovation in management.. .' has slowed down considerably over time. Professor Hamel said today's executives find it difficult to imagine management structures outside of what they know.

HEADLINE: Ties that don't bind help bring success

This piece states that Lynda Gratton, author of Hot Spots and professor of management at LBS, says organisations which use the variety of personalities and thinking within an organisation most effectively can make major gains in innovation, and it doesn't cost anything more.

World authority on organisations

This piece is on Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School's, latest book Hot Spots and summarises it.

Managers who use a little imagination for big rewards

London Business School's Gary Hamel believes that 'real innovation in management has slowed to a crawl.'

Duo land key roles at Capital Cranfield

Robert Matthews, who completed the investment management course at London Business School, has joined Cranfield Capital Trustees as a professional independent trustee.

If women had the power

The journalist speculates on how the world would look were it ruled by women. A new article by Elisabeth Kelan in London Business School's journal argues that that there is relatively little evidence to suggest that our favourite clichés regarding women in power are true. The cliché that female managers are particularly interested in child care and flexible working hours is wrong: less than 50 per cent of female managers in Britain have children, but 96 per cent of their male counterparts do.

"Like living in a soap bubble for twenty years"

The article charts the career of former Swiss footballer and Tottenham Hotspurs defender Ramon Vega who has gone on to become a financial expert. During his time playing for Watford, Vega attended a course at London Business School. He specialised in hedge funds because this was only a little known area then. Vega says that the exams were more difficult then the course. Vega runs his own company nowadays.

The price is right

Investing cash in the stock market solely upon the basis that the value of prices has been moving in an upward trend is a profitable strategy for long-term gains, a recent London Business School report has confirmed.

Where to for leadership?

London Business School professor of organisational behaviour Rob Goffee and London Business School fellow Gareth Jones use their book Why Should Anyone be Led by You? to 'challenge traditional academic notions of leadership' and to say that the best business leaders tend to be 'authentic chameleons'.

Valencia is the model for event organisation

Valencia Mayor, Rita Barbera, and her Councillor for Sport, Cristobal Grau, yesterday held a meeting with CSBM at City Hall. The organisation is responsible for organising sporting events and it believes Valencia is the ideal model of a city equipped to host such tournaments thanks to the America Cup, the Formula 1 Grand Prix, the Tennis Open and MotoGP. The case can be discussed by the business community and the heads of the main business schools in the world, among them Berkerley, Cornell, Warton, London Business School and HEC.

Resignations and appointments

Yevgeny Timofyev is a co-head at Salans in charge of global tax practice. He was born in Moscow and after graduating from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1994, he obtained an MBA from London Business School in 2004. He has been a journalist and lawyer for Kommersant Publishers since 1992.

Pre-paid knowledge

Yekaterina Kravchenko from BrokerCreditService claims that additional expenses amount to up to 70 per cent of the cost of an MBA. Ms Kravchenko, who went to London Business School in 2005, says that she spent $3,000 on accommodation alone. "Recouping costs is the first thing taken into account when looking at Western business schools" she says. "For London Business School, repayment of everything, including things like interest, can take five years".

Salaries after an MBA: the IMD on top

MBAs are a sure thing in terms of salaries. Professionals employed after their Masters earn a salary in the region of SFr 100,000, if they have graduated from a European or British business school, according to a study carried out by QS. Graduates of the IMD in Lausanne earn the highest salaries, followed by the Saïd Business School of Oxford University and then London Business School.

MBA: the global diploma par excellence

The financial crisis does not seem to overly worry MBA students, at the same time; this course remains the best way to get into a multinational. According to Franck Louveau, who graduated from London Business School (LBS) in 2000, "these campuses are a microcosm in which we can live without ever leaving, there are so many activities. However, it would be incorrect to say that the college strives for a polish or a mindset. On the contrary, students and lecturers are from different cultures, that is what enriches the course".

MBA: The US experience

The US, birthplace of the MBA, remains the destination of choice for those who wish to gain an entry ticket to Wall Street and know everything about the Anglo-Saxon management style. There is strong tendency for the average age to be a lot younger than in Europe. According to Edouard Jozan, a London Business School exchange student at Stern (New York), "Over here, the MBA is perceived as being more like a continuation of study. It is taken after two or three years of experience and by the end, the graduates are still young and have the potential to be moulded in the company's image."

Judge, a closed club at Cambridge

In twenty years, an MBA from Judge Business School, founded by the University of Cambridge, has become one of the best in the world. In contrast with Harvard, Wharton or Stanford, which recruit some 600 or 800 students per year, Judge has set itself up as a selective club where new members are limited to 150 by promotion. In a table of the twenty best Global MBA "full time" colleges, London Business School (LBS) is placed second after Wharton in the US. The LBS course runs from fifteen to twenty-one months and annual fees are €55,167. Salary after graduation is in the region of €231,868.

Each newspaper has its MBA Honour roll

The candidates who apply for MBAs costing between €30,000 and €70,000 take into account the renowned world honour roll. However these rating systems are very varied. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) favours the opinion in of recruiters whereas The Financial Times (FT) and the Economist use a mixture of their option of the graduates and career services programmes and performances. The London Business School has three graduates at the Wall Street Journal, two at the Financial Times and fifteen at the Economist. Its average rating is 6.6.

MBA: the European ambition

Choosing an MBA in Europe is no easy feat: besides programmes with an international theme, of which ten examples are given here, there is a multitude of others, more focused and less expensive. London Business School (LBS) offers a beautiful city campus, close to the trees of Regent's Park. LBS has notably had success for those candidates who seek the shortest route into the City and the emoluments that go with it: in 2007, 46 per cent of its 320 graduates were recruited in the banking-financial sector. The university's strong point is that it is one of the few European programmes known in the US. One of its weaknesses is the high cost of living in London.

Winning clients through communities

The Swiss CRM Forum will take place on June 5. Among the speakers are Prof. Patrick Barwise from London Business School, who will speak on 'Differentiation that Matters'.