Overview
Introduction
Develop the critical and analytical skills needed for a successful career in management.
In your first year, you’ll explore the challenges facing managers and organisations operating in a global context. Core courses cover wide-ranging topics from people management to responsible leadership. In Year 2, you can choose a specialist pathway, complemented by two core courses – Management in Action and Ethics and Governance and Leadership.
This programme gives you a unique opportunity to graduate with a CEMS double degree. LSE is the only UK institution to offer this double degree, alongside 32 leading partner business schools worldwide. You can also apply to spend an MBA exchange term abroad at one of 10 partner business schools in the US or Asia. Alternatively, you can choose to stay at LSE and explore LSE’s huge range of electives and specialise in your own area of interest.
LSE is ranked sixth in the world for social sciences and management. So, you’ll be studying in a globally renowned learning environment with world-leading academics.
Read more about the LSE student experience on our student blog, The Student Lens.
Preliminary readings
For general background on the core subject areas of the Global Master’s in Management (GMiM) programme, we recommend the following books:
General Management
- Magnuson, W., 2022. For Profit: A History of Corporations. Hachette UK.
Best books about a company
- Hastings, R. and Meyer, E., 2020. No rules rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention. Random house.
- Stone, B., 2013. The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon. Random House.
Strategy
- Rumelt, R., 2011. Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters. Profile Books.
Statistics
- Spiegelhalter, D., 2019. The art of statistics: Learning from data. Penguin UK.
Economics
- Harford, T., 2010. The undercover economist. Hachette UK.
- Dixit, Avinash K., and Barry J. Nalebuff. Thinking strategically: The competitive edge in business, politics, and everyday life. WW Norton & Company, 1993.
Finance
- Goetzmann, W., 2017. Money changes everything: How finance made civilization possible. Princeton University Press.
Marketing
- Eyal, N. and Hoover, R., 2014. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. New York: Portfolio.
Organisational behaviour
- Schein, E. H. and Schein, P. (2023). Humble leadership: The power of relationships, openness, and trust (2nd ed.). Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Ethics
- Sandel, M.J., 2012. What money can't buy: the moral limits of markets. Macmillan.
The environment
- Ritchie, H., 2024. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. Random House.