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 […]
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 […]
yourself.online, a service to clean up your social media and online reputation, founded by James Chance in 2018 whilst still doing his MBA programme at London Business School was recently acquired by a leading US based software and services provider, PPLSI. We sat down with James to discuss his entrepreneurship journey and how he managed […]
It is no secret that the Latin American entrepreneurial scene has been booming during the last few years. Many tech experts have written about the region’s exploding growth (TechCrunch, Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz) and major VC funds have entered or redoubled their focus on the region. According to CB Insights data, startups in the region […]
For this first episode of the Entrepreneurship Club’s ‘Founder Spotlight’ series, we interviewed Rogier Fischer, MBA 2022. Rogier is co-founder and CEO of Hadrian, a hacker-first enterprise cybersecurity solution using AI to continuously analyze the clients’ IT infrastructure and flag potential vulnerabilities. Rogier Fischer and his three co-founders formed Hadrian last August. One month later, […]