London Business School Offers Three Paths for Summer Enrichment
Summer internships are influential in MBA students’ future careers, often helping define their paths and connecting them with the companies and firms where they may be employed. Whether they want to try out a new industry, work abroad or develop skills in a particular area, an internship or other will make students’ summer a professionally rewarding experience.
This is especially true at London Business School, where 100% of students do some type of summer program after the first year and 91% accept offers with new employers.
The majority of students access internship opportunities through London Business School’s Career Services team who have a wide and established network of companies from startup to large structured corporate programmes, all interested in LBS students. Others use personal contacts or access the School’s wider network of students, alumni and industry contacts when setting up summer opportunities.
For those who are interested in alternative paths, LBS offers two other choices: the Summer Consulting Programme and the Entrepreneurship Summer School.
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London Business School Africa Business Summit Explores Opportunity
“It’s time for Africa, its time is now”
Those were the words spoken by Robbie Brozin, founder of Nando’s, the popular South African Peri-Peri chicken restaurant chain, as he closed the London Business School Africa Business Summit with his keynote speech.
Long-term commitment to dynamic African markets and flexibility in the face of short-term instabilities, political challenges and unpredictable disasters came through as powerful motifs thought the conference.
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AQR Institute of Asset Management at LBS Announces Advisory Council
London Business School and AQR today named the members of the Advisory Council for the AQR Institute of Asset Management. The AQR Institute of Asset Management at London Business School was launched in January this year. The Institute funds cutting-edge research and fosters high level discussion aimed at better meeting the investment challenge.
The Advisory Council will help guide and support the Institute’s development, through their knowledge and expertise of the sector and pertinent issues that affect, or may affect, the asset management industry. Members will include:
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LBS Team in Top Four at Sustainable Investing Challenge
Four London Business School students are celebrating after coming within the top four out of 380 teams at the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge.
The LBS team, EnPower Capital, presented its proposal to bring electricity to the poorest people in Africa during the final stage of the challenge, which took place at Morgan Stanley’s London headquarters on April 17th.
Radhika Gupta, Juan Pablo Mejia Caicedo, Elizabeth Swanton and Amrita Kundu (MBA2016s and a PHD2014, respectively) had just five months to put their case together. EnPower sees investors’ capital held in an escrow account to fund distributed energy service companies (DESCOs) that create solar power generators in Africa. Projected returns for investors are between 10 per cent and 15 per cent.
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London Business School Shapes Future of British Fashion
London Business School has just announced the launch of a pioneering venture with the British Fashion Council. It will see MBA students team up with early-stage designers with superb ‘first collections’, but who wish to remain independent. The students will support designers in their goal of establishing their own brands, rather than them simply being bought up by the top fashion houses.
This partnership was created as a response to the BFC’s ‘Commercialising Creativity’ report, authored last year by MBA students Alessandra Basso and Alejandra Caro. The fashion business is an increasingly popular avenue for School students to pursue and the opportunities on offer are broad and varied.
On top of formal summer internships which cater for high-end and high street – M&S to Gucci – there are also the exciting projects which run alongside study programmes.
At present, four LBS MBA students are interning backstage at London Fashion Week with celebrated dress designer Emilia Wickstead, who has designed dresses for the Duchess of Cambridge among others.
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London Business School and Walpole Launch their Second MBA Programme in Luxury Management
Walpole, the unique alliance of over 170 British luxury brands, and London Business School are delighted to announce the launch of their second MBA programme in luxury management, in association with Fairmont Raffles Hotels International and Farrer & Co.
Dedicated to nurturing the next generation of British luxury leaders, the programme will leverage London Business School’s rigorous MBA curriculum to develop the potential of 13 students aspiring to take up management positions in the luxury industry upon graduation. The students will benefit from a programme of workshops and mentoring provided by some of the luxury industry’s most experienced senior executives, including Jonathan Akeroyd, CEO of Alexander McQueen; Michael Ward, Managing Director of Harrods; and Mark Henderson, Chairman of the London Business School programme and Chairman of Gieves & Hawkes.
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