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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Age of Change

Intensive programmes for visionary thinkers, in the heart of London

LSE Executive Education Courses

Engage with world-class LSE teaching faculty

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Spotlight: action learning project

At the heart of this course is an ‘action learning’ project. Participants work in small groups to agree an entrepreneurial idea to develop throughout the week. This provides a concrete way for participants to test and apply the learning from the course as well as network and learn from others.

We motivate you to:• See entrepreneurship as a framework for

exploration and decision-making

• Identify, evaluate, and innovate around opportunities in the environment

• Test the underlying assumptions and hypotheses through experimentation

• Build social and institutional ecosystems that support your entrepreneurial end-goals

• Surmount implementation and scale-up challenges with innovative solutions.

The course brings practical insights into assembling and managing teams, raising capital, and scaling within entrepreneurial ventures. We also address the opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies and new markets create. En route, the narratives of individuals, products, and networks are woven into a cohesive portrait of the entrepreneurial process.

What you will gain from the course• Take the deep-dive and solve entrepreneurial

challenges in an intellectually rich and diverse environment

• Gain a clear understanding of what successful entrepreneurs do, how they to do it, and why it matters

• Develop skills in using durable evidence-based frameworks applicable to complex entrepreneurial dilemmas

• Gain valuable insights into emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems in media, finance, and design

• Acquire skills that are part-and-parcel of a successful leader’s portfolio of strategic tools.

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In the age of change, opportunities beckon potential entrepreneurs to

start new businesses and challenge executives and senior managers

to transform existing ones. Entrepreneurial and innovative leaders

are in demand across the professional spectrum and within multiple

organisational contexts.

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How is the course delivered?We have developed a high-paced interactive week-long programme that incorporates lectures, case studies, visiting guest speakers, and a team project.

• Cases and Lectures: Case studies focused around technology, finance, and start-up innovations will be used to illustrate major learning points which lectures and discussions will reinforce.

• Visiting Speakers: We invite London’s cutting edge business leaders, investors, and industry experts to share their lessons learned with you.

• Experiential Project: As part of the course and working in diverse international teams, you will work on a short experiential project which includes a presentation on the final day.

Opt-in assessment:If individual participants wish, they can opt to have their participation in the course assessed for a grade.

To be formally assessed, you need to let us know in advance. Assessment will consist of class participation and contribution (50%) as well as a course paper (15 pages worth 50%) due two weeks after the course finishes.

The topic of the paper will be subject to agreement with the faculty.

“ The guest speakers had such an incredible input, it was so fascinating to hear about their own experiences”.Lapo Niccolini, World Finance, Director of Sales & Business Development, UK

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Is this course for you?This course is suitable for:

• Entrepreneurs looking to put their experiences into a broader context

• Corporate professionals eyeing entrepreneurship as their next move

• Current and future leaders of family businesses seeking innovative transformations

• Lawyers, accountants, and advisors who want insights into entrepreneurs

• Policy-makers responsible for building and growing regional innovation hubs.

Job titles of previous participantsSenior Program ManagerDirector of BusinessSpace UnderwriterFounder & ConsultantLegal CoordinatorPartnerDirector of DevelopmentAssistant ProfessorCEOVice ChairmanPrincipalEnterprise Account ExecutiveSenior Digital ConsultantSenior Trade and Investment CommissionerCorporate Partnerships Manager

From employers includingGoogle UKCutler and GrossSpasiano ConsultingGrupo TampicoOrange SquidAustralian Trade and Investment CommissionThe Wildlife ConsortiumGITAM School of International BusinessBrit SyndicateGuía OCASalesforceTribeca Capital PartnersConsult ServicesHunt Hospitality InternationalUNICEF

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Programme fee: £3,995

This includes all course materials, refreshments, daily lunches, receptions and the programme dinner unless mentioned otherwise.

Discounted rates at two local hotels are available to participants.

Full terms and conditions at:

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Course Schedule

Day one: • Entrepreneurship, innovation,

and institutions

• Case analysis

• Experiential project: The brief

• Leveraging innovative ecosystems.

Evening welcome reception

Day two: • Case analysis

• Assessing entrepreneurial opportunities

• Starting up and getting going

• Guest Speakers: CEOs at the Cutting Edge

• Experiential project.

Day three • Case analysis

• Entrepreneurial finance: Theory and practice

• Guest Speakers: Venture Capital, Crowdfunding and Peer-Peer Lending

• Experiential project.

Day four • Case analysis

• Managing intellectual property

• Leading the lean start-up, scaling up, and growth

• Experiential project.

Dinner and drinks reception

Day five • Social entrepreneurship and

emerging economies

• Experiential project: Presentations

• Closing keynote speaker.

A final timetable and any pre-course reading will be provided prior to the start of the course. Topic areas are delivered in the form of case studies for review, discussion and theory application.

All course content is correct at the time of production and can be subject to change.

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Dr Susanna Khavul Dr Susanna Khavul is an enthusiastic educator and researcher whose work with innovators, investors, and policymakers keeps the connection between theory, evidence, and practice real.

Susanna is the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science and a Visiting Senior Fellow in its Department of Management. She is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington and, previously, was an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. Susanna holds a doctorate in strategy and entrepreneurship from Boston University and a degree in economics from U.C. Berkeley (with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the mix).

Susanna leads entrepreneurship and innovation programs for executives, MBAs, and PhDs. She is a 2013 winner of the University of Texas System Regents-Outstanding Teaching Award.

An important strand of Susanna’s research answers questions about how innovative firms compete in a global economy. The Academy of Management recognised her with the IDEA Thought Leader Award and the prestigious Heizer Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Research.

Susanna has worked with entrepreneurs and innovators for two decades. She started her career advocating economic policy reform. She later established, financed, and built a seventeen country economics and business development network. She has been a senior member of a venture capital and investment banking firm, where she specialised in high technology seed finance.

Professor Saul Estrin Professor Saul Estrin is a Professor of Management and Founding Head of LSE’s Department of Management. He was formerly Adecco Professor of Business and Society at London Business

School where he was the Research Director of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets and Director of the CIS Middle Europe Centre. Saul was also Deputy Dean (Faculty and Research) at London Business School for six years and a School governor for eight years. Saul has considerable practitioner experience. He is currently a Non-executive Director of Barings Emerging Markets and was previously a member of the Academic Panel of the postal regulator, Postcomm. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, European Union and OECD, DfID and NERA. He has taught executive programmes for a large number of major companies including BA, BT, Lloyds TSB, Marks and Spencer, Vauxhall, Powergen, Deutsche Bank, ING Barings, Swedbank and ABN-AMRO Bank.

Saul has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University, Michigan Business School, Cornell University and the European University Institute. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the IZA and the William Davidson Institute. He has published numerous papers in scholarly journals and edited, for several years, Economic Policy and Business Strategy Review. Saul also teaches on the TRIUM programme; recently ranked as the world’s best EMBA programme by the Financial Times. TRIUM is a global partnership between the LSE, NYU Stern and HEC Paris.

World-class faculty The Department of Management’s unique programmes combine the study of management with LSE’s renowned social sciences perspective.

LSE’s Department of Management produces world-class research on management issues and provides its students with a deep insight into the functioning of the global business environment.

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Why LSE for your executive education needs?

A history of excellenceFounded in 1895 with the purpose of academic engagement with real world issues, LSE enjoys a reputation as one of the world’s best universities in the social sciences field.

Talented global participantsOur reputation for innovative and intellectually challenging courses is the reason why fast-track and senior executives from a diverse range of organisations attend LSE education courses.

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World-class facultyCourse are taught by full-time LSE faculty who lead their field and augmented by senior practitioners drawn from industry and business our lecturers will engage, challenge and equip you with the latest knowledge and skills.

Certificate of Excellence in Global BusinessOur courses are affiliated with the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), and our courses can be taken as part of the network’s Certificate of Excellence in Global Business.