Category Archives: Institute News

Arka Dhar and Ioannis Ioannou in conversation in front of an audience

AI for Good: How is Generative AI going to change the world? 

It was a huge pleasure to host Arka Dhar at our IEPC event last week on “AI for Good”.  While there are many people speaking on this topic, few are as well informed as Arka, the current Product Lead at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and also a recent graduate of our Sloan Programme. Arka’s […]

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Call for papers - Private Capital Symposium 2023

Call for papers: Private Capital Symposium 2023 at LBS

We invite you to submit your academic research papers for next year’s Private Capital Symposium. Please submit papers related to private equity or venture capital for presentation on day two of the symposium by the 5th of March 2023. The 14th Private Capital Symposium will be held on 16-17 May 2023 at London Business School, bringing together influential industry experts and […]

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LBS Incubator founders

Meet the founders from the 2022 LBS Incubator cohort

The entrepreneurs invited onto the 10-month London Business School Incubator programme give a glimpse into the biggest challenges and inspiration behind their ventures. In September, the LBS incubator opened its doors to a new cohort of start-up founders. The Incubator is managed by the London Business School’s Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IEPC). It […]

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BITS School of Management students

LBS alumni start-up founders open their doors to students from the BITS School of Management

BITS School of Management students joined a two-week programme at LBS and worked with LBS alumni founders helping them solve their start-up business challenges as part of the Entrepreneur Project Labs. What an interesting time it’s been to be in London lately! With political changes and historical world events happening all around us, in September […]

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Jane Khedair

Jane Khedair appointed as Executive Director of the IEPC

Jane Khedair has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (‘IEPC’). Following an education in business law, Jane spent eight years as an international credit analyst and corporate loan officer in the City of London. After founding Business Plan Services (‘BPS’) in 1991, which helped companies for over 20 […]

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Private Capital Symposium Panel

Six things we learnt from our Private Capital Symposium 2022

This week we welcomed over 200 attendees who returned to the London Business School for our first Private Capital Symposium in three years, organised by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital. It was amazing to bring so many people together to discuss investment trends, technological developments and forecast how the turbulent market will affect […]

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Meet the 2022 LBS Launchpad Cohort

The Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital, in partnership with the London Business School Entrepreneurship Club, is excited to announce our 2022 LBS Launchpad Cohort! Launchpad is London Business School’s startup pre-accelerator program, based at the London Business School campus and supported by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital. Launchpad connects new founders with the brightest […]

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Accomplished Entrepreneur Awards 2021 winners

Akshat Garg, Nick Doman, and Will Pearson win the 2021 LBS Accomplished Entrepreneur Awards

Established in 2010 to showcase the success of alumni in launching innovative businesses, this year’s award for early-stage entrepreneurs has gone to ocean Bottle co-founders Will Pearson and Nick Doman, while Akshat Garg scooped the award for later-stage companies for cofounding Delhi-headquartered DCDC Kidney Care. William Pearson MiM 2018 and Nick Doman MiM2018, from Ocean […]

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