Key details
- Programme typeOn campus open programme
- LocationOn campus
- Start date2 Jun 2025 - Open
- Duration1 week, full-time
- DepartmentThe Marshall Institute
Overview
Build the insights, frameworks and tools to shift your organisation towards social impact.
Social impact is fast becoming a defining issue for competitive advantage and long-term survival in today’s global business environment. With increasing focus from shareholders and customers on social return, the imperative to balance doing well with doing good has never been greater, whatever your organisation or industry. At the same time, social purpose organisations are increasingly looking to market and business mechanisms to resolve social problems. Every firm, corporation, start-up, NGO or government in the world must grapple with profound questions of risk, purpose and social impact arising from climate change, energy, food, justice and other critical issues that affect our survival and flourishing.
Leading Social Business: Purpose, Profit and Impact gives you the expert understanding, insights and practical toolkit to steer your company towards a more pro-social orientation, to launch your own socially-focused entrepreneurial venture, or to invest for impact and social change. The course introduces the very latest theory on management and social purpose; at the same time it focuses strongly on practical experience, inviting into the classroom leading exponents of the craft, and applied learning.
Impact
A profound and transformational learning experience for you. Immediate and actionable insights for your organisation.
Programme content
Key topics:
How you learn
This intensive course integrates hands-on, practical experiences with cutting-edge management theory and the very latest thinking on social business. You join a cohort of senior decision-makers and entrepreneurs from highly diverse backgrounds, exploring and debating critical issues and real-world case studies.
Each day of the programme introduces new concepts, dimensions and tools. You interact with some of the world’s most renowned academics in social business and policy, and engage with senior practitioners, including investors and social entrepreneurs, delivering fresh perspectives on the day’s topic. These are applied to your unique circumstances through daily integration sessions, culminating in a portfolio of actionable steps to be applied to your work.
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Who attends?
This programme addresses the needs of executives working to orientate their firms towards social purpose and of entrepreneurs who want to launch a social venture. It’s particularly relevant to participants working in high social impact sectors such as education, health, food and agriculture, environmental protection, supply chain management and more. Participants include:
- Senior leaders and managers of financial and commercial corporations looking to develop public benefit or social purpose within their firms.
- Senior leaders and managers in financial and commercial corporations with responsibility for corporate social responsibility activities.
- Senior leaders and managers wishing to switch in mid-career from financial and commercial organisations to social businesses.
- Social entrepreneurs and aspiring social entrepreneurs.
- Consultants working to support corporations in strategic realignment.
Why LSE?
At LSE we understand the complex interconnectedness of the challenges facing our world. As Europe’s foremost social science university, we know that it is only by managing this interconnectedness that you can secure sustainability and success in business. All of our world-class programmes for business leaders leverage the fullest benefits of our renowned, interdisciplinary expertise – science, economics and political and institutional interplay that undergird global business – so that you emerge with the fully rounded understanding, and the leading-edge strategic tools to navigate complexity and spearhead meaningful change.
Faculty
The programme is taught by:
Professor Stephan Chambers
Director and Professor in Practice LSE Department of Management
Professor Sir Julian Le Grand
Professor of Social Policy
Dr Jonathan Roberts
Teaching Director and Senior Lecturer in Practice
Dr Julia Morley
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Kerryn Krige
Senior Lecturer in Practice
Department overview
The Marshall Institute works to improve the impact and effectiveness of private action for public benefit. The Institute informs and coordinates the efforts of citizens, researchers, private sector organisations, and social entrepreneurs who are working to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges
Fees and entry requirements
Tuition fee: £5,950
This covers all tuition, course materials, daily lunches and networking events. You will receive an LSE certificate of completion at the end of the course.
Entry requirements
All LSE executive education participants are required to have:
- Fluency in English, proficiency level or working knowledge of the language is essential
- A good undergraduate degree or significant work experience in a relevant role(s).
- Minimum five years’ professional experience. Typically our participants have more than ten years’ work experience, but we will consider those with less experience who have enjoyed an accelerated career path to a senior level.
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