We are excited to announce the London Business School Launchpad 2026 Cohort. Launchpad is London Business School’s startup pre-accelerator programme, organised by the LBS Entrepreneurship Club and supported by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital. The programme helps some of the most ambitious founders at LBS transform early ideas into viable, scalable businesses. The […]
Understanding entrepreneurial finance is not just about spreadsheets and valuation models. It involves judgement, incentives, and making difficult decisions under uncertainty. After transitioning into private equity, Anna Autti (MBA2026), discovered that the most valuable lessons came from analysing real-world dilemmas, the very challenges founders face every day. Drawing on her experience across M&A law, corporate […]
Two weekends ago, the atmosphere at London Business School shifted. The usual quiet of Nuffield Hall in the North Building was replaced by the frantic energy of 48-hour sprints, late-night coding, and the unmistakable buzz of people building something from nothing. This was my third time attending HackLBS, the flagship hackathon-style event hosted by the […]
Recently, I attended an Enterprise 100 (E100) event near campus. For those unfamiliar with the group, E100 is one of the UK’s longest running angel investment clubs, founded in 1999 and historically associated with London Business School. While it operates independently today, many of its approximately 100 active members are LBS alumni, and the group […]
In a recent study on entrepreneurship in the UK, over 64% of those surveyed stated that they would like to start a business, and when asking just those aged 18 – 24 years, that stat jumped to 83% (source). In reality, most do not take the leap – in that same survey over 43% of […]
We are excited to announce our 2023 LBS Launchpad Cohort! Launchpad is London Business School’s startup pre-accelerator program, organised by the LBS Entrepreneurship Club and supported by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital. Launchpad helps London’s brightest minds transform ideas into viable businesses. This year we’re thankful to our sponsors Nigel Morris MSc19 (1985) and Lori Morris. This […]
During the last week of October, 80 students from the MBA 2023 program attended the London Business School Global Experience programme in Johannesburg, South Africa. In this blog post, Courtney Sawatzke MBA2023 shares her reflections on the course and how it will have a lasting impact on all of those involved. What exactly does it mean […]
Two teams of London Business School MBA 2024 students participated at this year’s Rotterdam School of Business (RSM) PE competition and won the first and third place. The competition took place on the 11-12 November in Amsterdam. In total 17 teams competed representing schools like ESADE, Bocconi, RSM, LBS, HEC and Imperial amongst others. Each […]
This past week, 74 students from multiple degree programmes (MBA, Executive MBAs and Sloan Fellows) attended the London Business School (LBS) Global Experience in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ramallah. Varun Rekhi MBA2023 shares his summary of what Palestinian entrepreneurs taught him about resilience and why Israeli innovation is a force to reckon with. Our journey […]
We spoke to Vinu Natarajan (LBS MBA2022), winner of Imperial College Business School x London Business School Healthcare Hackathon. About the Hackathon There were 65 students from Europe’s top business schools that were randomly divided into 14 teams. We were then given a case study and given the following prompt: “Ideate a solution that can […]