The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development with support from Africa Business Club at the London Business School, welcomes Joe Studwell, Author and Development Economist at Africa Urban Lab and Overseas Development Institute, for a conversation about his book, How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier, longlisted for the 2026…
Opening Doors at the Last Mile Talent, determination, and drive exist everywhere, but opportunity does not. Team4Tech was built to close that gap by working through community-based organizations to open doors for learners who are too often the last to be reached. What started as a social impact program inside Intel has since grown into…
The Data Science & AI Initiative at LBS, in collaboration with the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development, is delighted to welcome Luis Garicano, Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics, for a fireside chat marking the launch of his new book, Messy Jobs: The Work that AI Cannot Reach, co-authored with…
In an inspirational session hosted by the Wheeler Institute with the support of the LBS Social Impact Club, Safeena Husain shared the blueprint behind one of India’s most expansive educational movements. Speaking with Rajesh Chandy, Professor of Marketing, Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship and Co-Academic Director of the Wheeler Institute at London Business…
I was catching a sunset at a boutique hotel on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, sipping rosé on a terrace done up in the cutest pink and terracotta. The Sri Lankan staff were lovely. The drinks were cold. And the aesthetic was impeccable. Then the owner came out to greet guests: a British expatriate, or immigrant,…
A couple of months ago, as part of the LBS Global Business Experience, I spent a week in Kathmandu – an immersive week exploring entrepreneurship. Nepal is not even considered an emerging market; it is classified as a frontier market, meaning its financial markets are still in the earliest stages of development, with limited access to capital,…
The Wheeler Institute, together with DFS Lab and the Data Science and AI Initiative at London Business School, hosted a roundtable bringing together academics, business leaders, investors and policymakers to discuss AI’s role in Africa’s future. The session aimed to explore how AI might help address some of the continent’s most persistent constraints in productivity,…
At London Business, Shri Piyush Goyal opened with a debt of gratitude to an LBS professor, Sumantra Ghoshal. The two met in December 1999, on a seven-day train journey (Palace on Wheels) across Rajasthan organised for faculty from the world’s leading business schools. Goyal, then an investment banker, was one of the few non-academics on…
In a conversation at London Business School, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra returned repeatedly to one idea: trust. He described it as fundamental to institutions, arguing that resilience depends not only on policy frameworks, but on whether people believe in the institutions managing them. Across a wide-ranging discussion on inflation, geopolitical shocks,…
On the London Business School East Africa Social Impact Trek across Kenya and Tanzania, one idea surfaced again and again across very different organisations, sectors, and conversations: money alone is not the problem. East Africa is not short of entrepreneurs with ideas, communities with unmet needs, or even, increasingly, investors with capital. What it has…
