When companies lay people off, they rarely imagine they might be creating their next competitors. In this piece, Dr Bukky Akinsanmi Oyedeji, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School shows how layoffs don’t just release workers, they can also release future founders. When companies announce layoffs, attention usually turns to the immediate […]
Last week I hosted a conversation with Joanna Jensen, founder of Childs Farm. Joanna’s story is well-known in consumer brand circles. She turned a personal need (gentler skincare for her daughter’s severe eczema) into a category-leading brand and exited with a £40 million deal. What made this session valuable, however, was getting to see how […]
Recently, I attended an Enterprise 100 (E100) event near campus. For those unfamiliar with the group, E100 is one of the UK’s longest running angel investment clubs, founded in 1999 and historically associated with London Business School. While it operates independently today, many of its approximately 100 active members are LBS alumni, and the group […]
True reinvention rarely begins with learning something new. It begins with letting go — of habits, assumptions, and routines that once delivered success but now constrain possibility. From IKEA to RELX, this article explores why deliberate unlearning is the overlooked discipline behind lasting organisational transformation. When Michael Jordan stepped away from basketball in 1993 to […]
After leaving Amazon, where I had worked in supply chain data analytics, I knew I wanted to build something in software. But I also knew that without a painful, real-world problem, any solution would be built on sand. Instead of sketching startup ideas, we went on a problem-hunting mission. We called every entrepreneur we knew […]
When Martin Dimitrov (LBS MiM23) walked into his first London Business School (LBS) lecture, he already knew he wasn’t destined for the traditional consulting or finance path. Instead, he was drawn to entrepreneurship. “Even in my application, I positioned myself towards startups,” he recalls. LBS proved to be the perfect launchpad, with its entrepreneurship-focused curriculum, […]
At London Tech Week 2025, the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IEPC) at London Business School’s Executive Director, Jane Khedair, moderated a lively panel exploring the age-old question: does experience outweigh education for startup founders? Featuring voices from diverse entrepreneurs, the discussion unpacked what really helps founders succeed today. In the following post, Jane […]
Stotles has created a single platform for private sector companies to grow their revenue in the public sector in the new age of government efficiency. Founded in 2020 by London Business School MBA alumni John Witt, Taj Kamranpour and Carsten Schaltz (MBA 2019), and having taken part in the LBS Incubator, Stotles is on a […]
In this conversation, Gary Dushnitsky sits down with Georgios Syntelis, CEO of EveryPay – a leading Greek fintech at the forefront of payment innovation. A Columbia-LBS Global EMBA graduate, Georgios shares how his international banking experience shaped his approach to scaling a high-impact venture in a cash-first economy. Together, they explore the evolution of digital […]
As you progress in your entrepreneurial journey, you understand that finding a co-founder is the easy part. Managing long-term co-founder relationships that are healthy and powerful is the real challenge. As a company scales, the relationship matures as well and you need to work hard to make it mature well. We know many co-founder stories […]