Business Administration

This course introduces the essential tools and frameworks of sustainable finance and impact investing. It explores how ESG principles shape investment decisions, how to evaluate the trade-offs between financial returns and social impact, and how sustainable finance drives capital allocation and firm behavior. Drawing on cutting-edge research from LSE's Department of Finance, students navigate the complexities of responsible investing and understand where investors and industry need to focus to support the transition to a more sustainable economy.

Focusing on two key areas, the course equips students to analyze how sustainable finance and impact investing create value while also developing the skills to lead organizational change toward more sustainable practices.

This course is a survey of the main ideas and techniques of game-theoretic analysis related to business decisions. As such, the course emphasizes the identification and analysis of archetypal strategic situations frequently occurring in business situations. The course has a strong experiential component. Students repeatedly participate in a variety of strategic situations thereby developing the ability to translate their analyses into practice. A working knowledge of basic calculus and ease with algebraic manipulation are prerequisites of the course. Prior exposure to microeconomics is very helpful.

This course distinguishes the talent management processes that generate value for the organization in complex, volatile, ambiguous, and uncertain settings through a real-context case study of a national company.

How do you go from idea to business? This entrepreneurship course offers students a unique opportunity to build knowledge, skills, and experience in starting up a new business. Students gain a behind-the-scenes perspective into the entrepreneurial world through lectures, project work, and guest lectures. The course inspires students to develop an entrepreneurial mindset when setting up and driving new projects or when building a businesses. 

This course explores the changing nature of work and expertise in various financial professions, paying particular attention to cutting edge research in this area. As King's Business School graduates will end up in a range of different financial fields, it is important that they are exposed to the realities of career pathways in those different fields as well as understanding financial careers from a deeper social science perspective. 

This course, covering financial accounting, management accounting, and investment appraisal topics, enables students to understand and apply the basic techniques of accounting and investment appraisal that would serve them well in decision-making roles in their careers ahead. The first part (Financial Accounting) provides an introduction to the preparation and analysis of financial statements and evaluation of the financial well-being of a business. The second part (Management Accounting and Investment Appraisal) provides an introduction to the production and uses of financial information for the internal management of a business. Students learn how to apply and comment on a range of techniques for product costing and investment appraisal.

The course introduces students to selected areas of work psychology, including how organizations identify and select talent (personnel selection), individual differences, teamwork, motivation, leadership, stress in the workplace and career management. The course focuses on the application of psychological theory and research to help students from any discipline develop their future careers and to thrive in the modern world of work.

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of how financial technology is reshaping the landscape of wealth management. The course explores key innovations, including robo-advisors, algorithmic trading, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT), and their applications in personal and corporate investing. 

Through this course, students will be able to master blockchain core principles (distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, smart contracts) and their reshaping of trust/value networks, valuate applications, business logic, and risks of digital currency, DeFi, CeFi, asset securitization, and cross-border payments,  understand China's "technology encouragement, financial prudence" framework and key policies while comparing global regulatory strategies, conduct multi-dimensional analyses of major events (FTX collapse, Ethereum Merge, digital RMB pilot) to develop independent judgment, gain hands-on experience creating and managing digital assets on Ethereum testnet, understanding private key custody, gas fees, smart contract interaction, and on-chain transparency.

In this course, students uncover the fascinating world of processes in businesses and daily lives. They explore how things get made, from the smallest gadget to the largest machines. It's not just about factories and assembly lines; it's everything from a coffee shop to the latest tech companies and the processes they use. Students explore how to design these processes, keep them running smoothly, and constantly improve them.