The Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact around the globe. The situation in India has been devastating, with the healthcare system close to collapse under the strain of thousands of people requiring medical attention. This devastation has been particularly tough for India’s rural population where shortages in doctors, hospital beds and medical equipment have…
Stacy Sawin and Asha Xu, MBA 2021, introduce their nonprofit, FinAbility, which aims to make financial resources available to all domestic abuse survivors. Drawing on personal and professional experience, Asha and Stacy explain the growing shadow pandemic and how they hope to address it. 2020 will forever be remembered as the year COVID-19 wreaked havoc…
What are the challenges for global markets as the world recovers from COVID-19? And what impact will the rising levels of government debt have on inequality and fiscal policy? In a wide-ranging conversation about the future of the capitalism, Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund, talks with Professor Elias Papaioannou, Co-Academic Director…
When Parsha and I took on the Women in Business leadership role back in Summer of 2020, our MBA journey was already shaping up differently than what we had expected. Little did we know that this disruption would continue, and even today, more than one year out, we are still learning and adapting to this…
In a conversation moderated by Elias Papaioannou,co-Academic Director of the Wheeler Institute, Mark Carney – UK Prime Minister’s Finance Adviser for COP26 and UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and former Governor of the Bank of England – and Lucrezia Reichlin – Professor of Economics at the London Business School and Chair of…
This year’s Social Impact Conference – Reinventing the Mainstream – was billed as a platform to demand and inspire businesses to act on their social and environmental responsibility with true and immediate materiality. As part of this, the Wheeler Institute’s Academic Co-Director Professor Elias Papaioannou moderated a panel entitled “Change through Education Innovation.” Education has…
Advancing our understanding of the lobbying process The question of who influences legislation has received great attention in the media and among academics. It is widely recognised that access to policymakers is a key resource in the lobbying process, and probably the one most sought after by interest groups; yet little is known about how…
The pandemic has had drastic implications across the globe. Still, as industrial countries return to a sense of normalcy thanks to vaccinations, the reality for many emerging and developing economies is bleak. Differences in fiscal space, gaps in healthcare systems, and inequities in vaccine distribution have left many lives and livelihoods at risk. There is…
A reflective essay by Liz Wolohan, MBA 2022 and lead of the student-led LBS 2021 Social Impact Conference. In the summer of 2019, when I was considering which MBA program to attend, I knew that a strong social impact component was a personal requirement for my future school. During my bachelor’s study of finance and economics,…
Every year London Business School students gather to celebrate Social Impact week with an incredible speaker series, events and activities aimed at using our business skills for good. Capping off the week is the LBS Impact Consulting Club staple, the IMPACTathon. This 48-hour hackathon-style event challenges students to work with impact-oriented enterprises to tackle some…