24th Africa Business Summit: From Potential to Progress- Building Africa’s next Growth Chapter

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The LBS Africa Business Club will host the 24th Africa Business Summit, supported by the Wheeler Institute, taking place on London Business School’s campus on Saturday, May 2nd, 2026. This year’s summit theme, “From Potential to Progress: Building Africa’s next Growth Chapter”, focuses on business-led, homegrown models that address the continent’s pertinent development challenges and the opportunities…

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Infrastructure as a Catalyst for Development in Latin America

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At the 20th LATAM Business Forum, organised by the LATAM Business Club and the Brazil Business Club at London Business School on March 4th 2026, one idea stood out across very different conversations: development in Latin America in this era is highly dependent on infrastructure. Not only roads, ports or power grids, it is also…

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Research Exchange Session with the Gates Foundation

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The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development hosted a research exchange session bringing together colleagues from the Gates Foundation, LBS Faculty, LBS PhD students, and research collaborators. The session aimed to foster dialogue on institutional priorities, ongoing research, with a particular focus on the Foundations’ Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) division, specifically its work in South…

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Between Trust and Trade: on Informal Credit Networks in India

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If you were asked where people borrow from for their daily consumption needs, credit cards from mega-banks seem the obvious answer. However, across the developing world where brick-and-mortar banks are often inaccessible, individuals resort to local alternatives: ‘Kiranas’ or small grocery stores. No credit scores. No collateral. No paperwork. Just a shopkeeper’s quick judgment call,…

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Taxing Ideas- Public Policy in the Age of Innovation: A Conversation with Stefanie Stantcheva

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Over the centuries, innovation has transformed our way of life, giving rise to ideas and technologies that have significantly improved societal wellbeing. At the heart of these breakthroughs are pioneers such as Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb; Malvin De Groote, known for discovering a chemical composition for chocolate ice cream; and Nikola Tesla,…

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Narrowing the Gap to Safe Births: LBS research using data to improve the odds of safe birth in rural Africa

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Jérémie Gallien is the author of several research papers that address healthcare problems in developing economies. He is collaborating with an academic team hailing from London Business School and other institutions in the USA and Liberia and an implementation team of people from the Ministry of Health in Liberia on a research project on reducing…

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Beyond Profit: The Rise of Impact in Capital Markets

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At a recent Summit Series event, hosted by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital in collaboration with the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development, Sir Ronald Cohen, widely regarded as the “father of Impact Investing” and author of IMPACT: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change, discussed the transformation underway in global capital markets and…

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Journeys: Saad Mohseni — Building Media, Markets, and Meaning in Afghanistan

Journeys, Upcoming Events, Wheeler Institute

On May 21, 2026, as part of the Wheeler Institute’s Journeys series, we are delighted to welcome Saad Mohseni, founder and CEO of the Moby Group, for a conversation on entrepreneurship, leadership, and resilience in one of the world’s most complex environments. In his recent memoir, Radio Free Afghanistan, Mohseni recounts returning to Afghanistan after…

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The Edge of Equity: Deploying Adaptive Learning Tools in Low-Connectivity Classrooms

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The World Bank’s ‘Learning Poverty’ crisis presents a staggering challenge: the majority of ten-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries cannot read a simple text.[1] This is not simply an access problem. Even children who are in school are not receiving teaching adapted to their needs. For too long, development agencies have wrestled with a seemingly…

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Scaling Impact. Leading Change – 2026 Impact Summit at LBS

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How do we scale impact when the path forward isn’t straightforward? Hosted by the Social Impact Club at London Business School with the support of the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development, the annual summit took place on April 16, 2026 and brought together a diverse community of founders, business practitioners, students, researchers and institutional…

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