Departmental website: lse.ac.uk/management|
Number of graduate students (full-time equivalent)
Taught: 629
Research: 58
Number of faculty (full-time equivalent): 68
RAE: 70% of the Department's research was rated world leading or internationally excellent
Location: New Academic Building
About the Department
We produce world-class research on management issues and provide our students with a deep insight into the functioning of the global business environment. Our vision is to be recognised as the premier provider of management education and research in Europe, and one of the best in the world.
Our reputation, research and networks are what set us apart. The School is one of the world's leading social science institutions and one of the few institutions with a truly worldwide reputation. Our faculty, many of whom have joined us from top-ranked business schools, produce cutting-edge research across the management discipline and work as advisers to business, industry and governments alike. Our community and our networks are uniquely international and globally diverse.
We offer a unique business education experience. Our programmes are top-ranked by the Financial Times and combine the academic rigour, which the School is internationally known and respected for, with elements of the practical application of a top-ranked MBA. Above all, we teach our students how to think critically and to engage with complex problems. Students will learn both the fundamental theories of management and the skills to critically evaluate current and future management problems, such that they will continue to draw upon this learning throughout their professional career. We also bring alumni, senior business people, senior political figures and senior civil servants directly into the classroom to talk to students.
Our students find employment across a wide range of sectors including finance, banking and professional services firms as well as roles in industry and the public sector.
We currently have over 60 faculty who are divided among our central core group and our four academic groups:
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Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour
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Information Systems and Innovation
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Management Science
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Managerial Economics and Strategy
Staff and their academic interests
The expertise of our faculty covers all aspects of contemporary management research including accounting, comparative employment relations, decision sciences, e-business, entrepreneurship, finance, government and business relations, human resource management, information systems, innovation, leadership, management of innovation, managerial economics, marketing, negotiation, operations management, operations research, organisational behaviour, outsourcing, pensions, public management and strategy.
Central group and their academic interests
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Professor Michael Barzelay: New public management, executive leadership, public management, administrative reform, governmental oversight, strategic planning, customer service, performance management.
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Professor Gwyn Bevan: Performance assessment and regulation of health care, value for money in the NHS in England, modelling acute hospitals as a whole system for matching demand and supply to minimise waiting times.
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Dr Amitav Chakravarti: Consumer decision making, consumer search and screening behaviour, generic vs brand advertising, consumer behaviour in high-uncertainty markets, consumption of products with a Corporate Social Responsibility association, effects of physical environments on people's thoughts and choices.
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Professor Saul Estrin: Business opportunities in emerging markets, privatisation, transition economics and economic development, private sector development, foreign direct investment into transition economies, investment strategies in emerging markets, privatisation in central and eastern Europe, labour and industrial economics, competition and foreign direct investment.
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Dr Barbara Fasolo: Behavioural decision science, nudge, consumer and marketing decisions, online decisions in domains of wealth and health, tyranny of choice, decision capability, decision style, risk, decision difficulty, multicriteria decisions.
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Professor Carola Frege: Comparative employment relations, employee participation, employment theory, European employment relations, industrial democracy, racism, trade unions, works councils.
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Dr Susan Hill: Corporate entrepreneurship and corporate venturing, idea generation, creativity and innovation in organisations, organisational ambidexterity.
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Dr Jonathan Liebenau: Turkey: politics and economics, information systems/technology, technological innovation, mobile technologies, technology policy, internet, internet technologies, European information society; history of science, technology and medicine, technology management, telecommunications, mobile technologies, wireless technologies, science policy, technical change, informatics.
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Dr Vishal Talwar: Strategic choice and strategic absenting, customer relationships and relationship portfolios, reducing ambiguity in customer portfolio decision making, consumer behaviour in relation to ethical consumption, brand preference and involvement, product lifecycle strategies.
Opportunities for research
Please note that we have recently introduced a new streamlined PhD Management programme within the Department. This new programme draws upon the excellent general and specialised knowledge of the management disciple available across the Department. The programme features 5 distinct tracks:
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Business Economics
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Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour
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General Management
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Information Systems and Innovation
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Management Science
Each track resides either within the central Department group or within one of our academic groups.
The PhD Management programme is deeply rooted in both the theory and practice of management. Students undertake research at the cutting edge of the social science disciplines within the management field working alongside leading scholars in their area.The programme will provide grounding in the scope and theories of management and the challenges of research design. Students will have the opportunity to develop a detailed knowledge and understanding of how these disciplines blend together in tackling the real problems that face organisations. Students should expect their research to contribute to the further intellectual development of these disciplines be it in a theoretical, empirical or policy-oriented manner. Please consult our website for detailed information on each of the available tracks.
We welcome applications for doctoral research from applicants with a strong academic background. Students must meet high standards in all these fields and must apply their training to the construction of a research paper designed to underpin subsequent doctoral research. When applying, students should outline their proposed research clearly, ensuring that they cover each of the topics which we expect to be contained within a personal statement.
Taught programmes
We offer 13 postgraduate programmes – 11 full-time MSc programmes and two executive programmes.
MSc programmes
Executive programmes