Management With Impact

The LSE Department of Management was delighted to welcome Amazon Web Services Executive in Residence, Phil Le-Brun, to uncover how becoming an Octopus Organization can unlock agility and real transformation. Organisations today face a paradox: we strive for agility and innovation yet remain trapped in rigid systems designed for control and efficiency. Massive top-down transformations often make th...

With policymakers moving quickly on AI safety, from the EU AI Act to the US AI Action Plan, new research argues that uniform, one-size-fits-all rules could unintentionally entrench the largest AI firms and narrow the space where start-ups innovate. In this episode, Dr Pavel Kireyev, Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management at LSE, discusses his recent research, User prefere...

Banning technology can look like a quick fix - it reduces distraction and reassures parents, but in the long run, it isn't a sustainable solution. In reality, it risks widening the digital divide. Students in schools that integrate tools, such as smartphones, will learn faster, adapt better, and move ahead, shaping them to thrive in the digital economy of tomorrow.  In this episode, Dr Aaron...

In many professional communities, breaking the law can end your career. However, in some cases, such as the electronic dance music community, it can accelerate it. In this episode, Dr Xu Li, Assistant Professor of Management, explores the findings of his latest paper 'When Breaking the Law Gets You the Job: Evidence from the Electronic Dance Music Community' which shows that under certai...

On Wednesday 11 June 2025 we celebrated twenty years since the publication of the impactful LSE Identity Project with an insightful public lecture reflecting on the lessons learned around the social study of identity systems in the intervening period. June 2005 saw the launch of the LSE Identity Project report into the then Labour Government’s plans to introduce biometric identity cards in the UK....

What accounts for the different outcomes experienced across racial and political groups in the US in the face of a crisis? Why, for example, was the decision to travel to work during the Covid-19 pandemic both racialised and politicised?  In this episode, Professor Ryan Lamare, Professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management,  explores the findings of his latest research 'An E...