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STUDENTS

 Class Profile

Class Size 310
Age Range 22-36
Range of Years of Work Experience 2-13
Average Years of Work Experience 5.5
Women 28%
Men 72%
Countries Represented 51

Industry

Finance 26%
Consulting 20%
Technology 13%
Manufacturing/Engineering 7%
Marketing/Publishing/Media 6%
Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals 5%
Energy 4%
Public sector/Not-for-profit 4%
Automotive/Aerospace 4%
FMCG/Retail 3%
Other 8%

Geography

Africa/Middle East 10%
Asia (excluding India) 10%
India 14%
Australia/New Zealand 3%
EU (excluding UK) 22%
Latin America 8%
Non EU-Europe 5%
USA 18%
Canada 4%
UK 12%

 

FACULTY

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Strength: 90

Countries represented: 30

NOTABLE FACULTY

Elroy Dimson (Finance) was the impetus, with Emeritus Professor Paul Marsh, for the creation of the FTSE100. An authority on equity returns, he is working on a major project on investment management for charitable foundations

Rob Goffee (Organisational Behaviour) wrote The Character of the Corporation. His most recent award-winning book is Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?

Gary Hamel (Visiting professor) was the originator (with C.K. Prahalad) of the concept of core competencies.

Lynda Gratton (Organisational Behaviour) is a leading academic on women in business and is the Executive Director of the Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business at London Business School. She is ranked number 2 in HR magazine’s ‘Top 100 Most Influential’ thinkers. She was elected a Board Member of the American Human Resources Planning Society.

Hélène Rey (Economics) is an expert on global imbalances, exchange rates and international capital flows. She has developed innovative models to forecast the dollar exchange rate.

Michael Jacobides’ (Strategic and International Management) work on the mortgage banking industry was used by the US Senate looking at the reorganisation of the US Mortgage Banking system.

Nirmalya Kumar (Marketing) had two books published in 2007. His latest book, Private Label Strategy, is a best seller. He is one of the Marketing field’s most renowned academics, with more than 475 citations [2].

Narayan Naik (Finance) is Director of the School's BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre. He was awarded Man Investments Best Paper Award on Hedge Funds.

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 Research

LATEST WORKING PAPERS

Hedge funds for retail investors? An examination of hedged mutual funds: Agarwal V; Boyson N; Naik N

Hedge funds: performance, risk and capital formation: Fung W; Naik N Y; et al.

Liquidity provision in the convertible bond market: analysis of convertible arbitrage hedge funds

Role of managerial incentives and discretion in hedge fund performance

Why is Santa so kind to hedge funds? The December return puzzle!

Capacity Constraints and Hedge Fund Strategy Returns

Hedge funds: performance, risk and capital formation

Risk and Return in Convertible Arbitrage: Evidence from the Convertible Bond Market

Role of managerial incentives and discretion in hedge fund performance

Centre for Hedge Fund Research and Education Working Paper

Hedge Fund Benchmarks: A Risk Based Approach

 

ALUMNI

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Strength: 25000

Countries represented at: 100

 Successful Alumni

Sir David Arculus, Chairman of the Board, O2

Jean-Christophe Bedos - CEO, Boucheron (France)

Sir David Bell – Chairman, Financial Times Group

His Excellency Mohammed Belmahi - Ambassador of Morocco (England)

Kumar Birla - Chairman, Aditya Birla Group

Vice Admiral Paul Boissier - CB Deputy Commander-in-Chief, British Navy Maritime Forces

John Bowmer, CEO, Adecco Group

David Davis - member of the British House of Commons

Sir John Egan – Chairman, Severn Trent plc

Tim Faithfull - President and CEO, Shell Canada Ltd

Justine Greening - member of the British House of Commons

Sir Richard Greenbury - Chairman and Chief Executive, Marks & Spencer

Sally Greene OBE - Owner and Director, Old Vic Productions plc

HRH Prince Feisal Al-Hussein of Jordan - Special Assistant to Chairman & Joint Chiefs of Staff, Jordanian Armed Forces

Richard Hytner - Deputy Chairman Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi

Huw Jenkins - former CEO, Investment Banking, UBS

Dyfrig John - Chief Executive, HSBC Bank plc

Jeffrey Kelisky – CEO, Multimap Ltd

Sir Chris Kelly KCB – Chairman, NSPCC

Thomas Kwok - Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Sun Hung Kai Properties (Hong Kong)

Oliver Letwin - member of the British House of Commons

Philip Lowe - Director General, European Commission (Belgium)

Dame Mary Marsh - Chief Executive, NSPCC

Ekaterina Mitiaev - Managing Director, The Hunger Project

Nigel Morris - Co-founder, Capital One Financial Services

Ingemar Naeve - President, Ericsson Espana SA

Charles Nasser – CEO, Claranet Ltd

Sir Chris O'Donnell - CEO, Smith & Nephew

Idan Ofer – Chairman, Israel Corp

Cally Palmer CBE - Chief Executive, Royal Marsden NHS Trust

Michael Perlman – Chairman, Pancostura Group (Brazil)

David Pyott - Chairman and CEO, Allergan Inc

Terry Rhodes - Executive Director, Celtel International

Bill Rylance - Chairman Asia Pacific, Burson-Marsteller

Omar Samra - First Egyptian to climb Mount Everest

The Hon Wong Kan Seng - Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore

Nisreen Shocair - President of Virgin Megastore (Middle East)

Sir John Sunderland – Chairman, Cadbury Schweppes plc

Bernard Taylor CBE – Director, Cambridge Laboratories

Richard Thomas MBE - Deputy Director, UK Ministry of Defence

Tony Wheeler - Founder, Lonely Planet
 

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