More than just another business school, LSE has been leading the way in executive education for professional development since 1895. As a leading social sciences university, their innovative multidisciplinary approach and understanding is fundamental to success across industries, corporations and organisations. Regarded as deeply influential, unashamedly intelligent and powerfully interconnected, this article explores one of the many areas that sets them apart.
Equipping professionals with the finance tools to build a better future.
Rated number one university in the UK and University of the Year by the Times and the Sunday Times, LSE’s multidisciplinary ethos shines through in the portfolio of Executive Education programmes it provides. And, while every LSE programme has a distinct theme and focus, they have much in common. Each is delivered by a world-class faculty made up of some of the world’s foremost business and leadership thinkers. Also, each is underpinned and informed by cutting-edge research.
Sustainable Finance is increasingly big business.
In recent years, the notion of finance as a driver of positive change has been steadily building traction across the globe. But how do firms balance their desire to do the right thing in business and create strategies for making a positive impact, while continuing to generate attractive financial returns and drive the bottom line?
It’s a challenging question. But as awareness and critical thinking around environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues continue to shift and change, so too have the priorities, values and strategies of many of the world’s largest financial institutions. And it’s becoming clear that businesses seeking to achieve both financial and ESG goals, will need to negotiate certain trade-offs.
There are challenging questions ahead.
As a global business with a strong ESG focus, you can have some tricky decisions to make. Do you walk away from potentially lucrative partnerships with firms that don’t tick your ESG boxes? Or do you keep your seat at their table, but use your voice and agency to influence positive change in their business practices where you can? It can be difficult to know the best long-term strategy to take.
This is where LSE’s groundbreaking Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing programme, comes in. Created by their world-renowned Department of Finance, it draws on the latest insights and research to help finance professionals build an understanding of finance and investment as drivers of change and the potential trade-offs involved. It equips participants to adapt traditional portfolio tools to integrate and achieve ESG goals and offers a big-picture understanding to the many challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
It’s a profound and transformational learning experience
For participants, each of LSE’s programmes focus on empowering them to think critically and analytically about the bigger picture. To explore what the issues of today mean to the future of businesses and the world. They’re supported to build a deeper understanding of the intricate interconnectedness of business, geopolitics and socio-economics and navigate change with confidence. In turn, this creates immediate and actionable insights for their organisations. Ensuring everyone benefits from knowing how to build a brighter tomorrow. Starting today.
