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Faculty and Research

At ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School, our faculty work at the frontier of business, science and society, generating rigorous, relevant research that shapes industries, informs policy and drives real-world change.

Across five academic departments, our researchers bring scientific discipline to the most pressing challenges of our time. We study how ventures grow and how leaders navigate disruption. We build analytical models for supply chains and health systems. We produce research that shapes climate policy and economic thinking.

Being part of a world-leading science, technology, engineering, medicine, and business university, in one of the world's great global cities, gives our research its reach and our teaching its edge. We bring together management and technical thinking, putting ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s 'Science for Humanity' principle into practice.

Our research centres extend this work further still. Our centre researchers address difficult global challenges, from climate risk and digital currencies to obesity policy and deep tech entrepreneurship, and design scalable solutions. Using methods like field experiments, large-scale data analysis and AI tools, the centres use direct partnerships with governments, regulators and industry leaders to put knowledge into the hands of the people who can act on it. 

Our strong commitment to world-class research

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School was ranked second in the UK for world-leading research and first for research environment in Business & Management Studies. Ninety-seven percent of our research was rated world-leading or internationally excellent – among the highest of any UK business school. And 70% of research in Business & Management Studies was rated world-leading, more than double the sector average.

Our REF 2021 results

Impact themes

We bring together business, science and technology to shape the future for humanity, focusing on the global challenges where we can make the greatest impact.

Emerging technology and AI

Human-led and AI-enabled, advancing the science of business to create opportunity in a rapidly changing world.

Health

Harnessing the power of business, data and innovation to improve health outcomes and shape the systems that deliver them.

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Equipping the next generation of founders and leaders to turn breakthrough technology into real-world impact.

Social equality

Exploring how business and policy can reduce inequality and build a fairer, more inclusive society.

Sustainability

Bringing together business, technology and leadership to accelerate the transition to a net zero, inclusive economy.

Academic departments and research groups

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Analytics and Operations

Developing rigorous analytical methods, from optimisation and machine learning to dynamic programming, to support better decisions in complex business and societal systems.
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Economics and Public Policy

Answering how government actions shape industry, how ideas and knowledge help economies grow, and how to make services like health and communications fairer and more effective.
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Finance

Producing research that spans asset pricing, corporate finance and risk management, informing climate policy, shaping the debate on digital currencies and giving policymakers new tools for understanding wealth inequality.
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Management and Entrepreneurship

Studying how new businesses start and grow, how organisations innovate, and how leaders shape the digital and social changes transforming the way we work.
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Marketing

Using advanced research methodologies to investigate what drives brand loyalty, the role of pricing, the dynamics of peer effects, and how companies and policymakers can foster healthier and more sustainable consumption.

Research centres

Centre for Climate Finance and Investment

Developing research, analytics and market solutions that convert climate and nature-related risk into decision-useful financial insight, supporting resilient and sustainable growth.

Centre for Financial Technology

Modelling, testing and translating the economics of financial technology, connecting findings to the regulators, businesses and governments who can act on them.

Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation

Building the evidence base for health policies that are effective, economically sound and equitable, and translating findings directly into policy design and implementation worldwide.

Centre for Responsible Leadership

Exploring the leadership challenges of today, from technological disruption to ecological risk, through field experiments inside real organisations and translating evidence directly into practice.

Centre for Sectoral Economic Performance

Investigating what holds back the UK's high-value technology sectors and what would help them grow, translating findings into sector strategies for businesses and policymakers.

Research centres

Gandhi Centre for Inclusive Innovation

Researching how innovation can be designed to reach underserved communities, translating findings into practical tools for governments, non-profits and social enterprises.

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Centre of Excellence in Quantitative Finance

Bringing together researchers from business, mathematics and computing to study how financial markets really work, connecting models and methods to the banks, funds and regulators shaping the financial system.

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Strategic Design Studio

Generating original empirical research and co-creating new approaches to complex problems, building the evidence base for design as a strategic capability for business leaders.

Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship

Studying why too little of the UK's world-class science becomes a business, and working with scientists, investors and policymakers to change that.

Leonardo Centre on Business for Society

Building a new model of enterprise for a flourishing economy, using AI-driven data analysis and System Impact Research to drive corporate sustainability and systemic change.

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