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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 4h
Global value chains have transformed how production is organised worldwide. And integration with GVCs can be critical to the manufacturing industries of developing countries. But what impact do those connections have on employment? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How global value chains are reshaping jobs in South Africa - LSE Business Review
Integration with global value chains can be critical to the manufacturing industries of developing countries. What impact do those connections have on employment?
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 4h
At their meeting last week, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping did not decide who regulates AI. But somebody still has to judge what these systems may be used for, when their output can be trusted and who answers when it is wrong. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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What happens now that Trump and Xi failed to write new AI rules? - LSE Business Review
Governments have not decided who regulates AI. Responsibility lies with whoever in your organisation is asked to check the machine’s work before it goes out.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The United States has a tax-base problem hiding in plain sight. America's tax code makes human employment more expensive than the software that may replace it. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How America’s tax code subsidises artificial intelligence - LSE Business Review
America's tax code makes human employment more expensive than the software that may replace it.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What determines which companies become early adopters of AI? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are sleepwalking into a soft skills crisis caused by AI blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can a new Chancellor turn Great Britain into Growth Britain? In his first major speech as Chancellor, John Healey set out his vision for driving growth. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Does working more than you want to cause lasting harm? Or do people eventually get used to it? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When environmental regulation changes the risks facing borrowers, do banks simply lend less? Shams Pathan, Francisco González, Md Rajib Kamal and Steven Ongena reveal how banks adapt to transition-related regulatory shocks. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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What an early environmental regulation can teach us about the banking risks of today’s green transition - LSE Business Review
When environmental regulation changes the risks facing borrowers, do banks simply lend less – or do they change how they create and allocate liquidity?
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A job listing that once drew four or five decent resumes now collects 150 to 200 applications in the first 24 hours. As a result, job applicants and recruiters are losing significant time, and trust. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How “trace hiring” can overcome the deluge of AI job applications - LSE Business Review
AI is overwhelming recruiters with a deluge of job applications. That demands a return to recruiters watching what people actually do.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Entry-level hiring has fallen sharply across white-collar work. An emerging explanation has been that generative AI is to blame. But two significant workplace disruptions arrived at almost the same time, and they need to be studied together. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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ChatGPT or Zoom – which broke the career ladder? - LSE Business Review
Entry-level hiring has fallen sharply across white-collar work. One explanation is that generative AI is to blame. But where we work may be equally important.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The current oil crisis could accelerate the adoption of both renewable energy and recycled plastic as a hedge against future shocks. Cross-border trade and mandates for the quantity of recycled material that products must contain can reform global supply chains. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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To cut plastic pollution, mandate recycled content and allow for trade and global circularity - LSE Business Review
Trade and mandates for recyclable plastic can reform supply chains. Labelling used plastic as a “resource”, not “waste”, is essential too.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
While central banks typically analyse inflation through domestic demand, supply and expectations, they should also treat the financial account of the balance of payments as part of the inflation process. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How foreign ownership of sovereign debt affects inflation - LSE Business Review
Central banks should also treat the financial account of the balance of payments as part of the inflation process.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Accounting matters more than people think. It now sits at the intersection of data analytics, governance, risk, sustainability and strategic decision-making. But the talent pipeline is narrowing just as more accountants are needed. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Accounting is evolving in exciting ways, but student numbers are falling - LSE Business Review
Accounting now sits at the intersection of data analytics, governance, risk, sustainability and strategic decision-making. Despite this, the talent pipeline is narrowing just as more are needed.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What, when, where and how we eat can signify many things. Eating healthily might impress your colleagues but doing so on a video call is unprofessional. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Does it matter what you eat at work? - LSE Business Review
What, when, where and how we eat can signify many things. Eating healthily might impress your colleagues but doing so on a video call is unprofessional.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Seven in ten of the British public are worried about the economic impacts of AI and six in ten think it will eliminate more jobs than it creates. One in five even think it will be bad enough to create civil unrest. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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AI has a serious image problem - LSE Business Review
If we want to realise the benefits of AI it is important that the public are not already set against it.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A strong film with famous names is nothing if people cannot watch it. Good distributors are vital to bring projects to market, but as Angelo Tomaselli, Salvatore Torrisi and Joris Ebbers argue, film distributors are often overlooked at the funding stage. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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The film industry underestimates the role of distributors in bringing projects to market - LSE Business Review
Film distributors’ reputations are overlooked at the funding stage surprisingly often, even though they closely linked to how films ultimately perform.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Do fitness apps actually change your habits? Every day millions of us receive messages from health apps reminding us to move, but Beatrice Braut, Claire Mollier and Sarah Zaccagni find in their recent study that lasting change requires more than a notification. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Fitness apps keep users engaged – but do they change habits? - LSE Business Review
Digital tools like fitness apps can open the door to healthier behaviours but lasting change requires more than a notification.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
How is AI changing modern healthcare? Alexander Bedenkov and David Ginkel show how technologies like AI have changed research, what that means for medicine and where publications still retain the most value. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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What AI’s usurping of the peer-reviewed publications means for medicine and pharmaceutical industry - LSE Business Review
For hundreds of years, modern science has relied on peer-review to certify and to distribute new claims. But AI is changing research.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The great lesson of the global financial crisis seemed clear: make banks safer and the financial system will become safer. But stronger banks do not guarantee financial stability. Gustavo Pessoa shows how next financial shock may spread before it reaches banks. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Strong banks do not guarantee financial stability - LSE Business Review
Finance has changed since the global financial crisis, with a growing share of credit, liquidity and risk-taking now taking place outside traditional deposit-taking institutions. Gustavo Pessoa shows ...
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trade imbalances still haunt countries like Greece, Portugal and Spain following the 2008 financial crisis. But the global economy and geopolitics have changed in the past 20 years, and Konstantin M. Wacker argues that trade is only one part of the story. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Global trade imbalances are back – and increasingly financialised - LSE Business Review
International policymakers are becoming increasingly worried about global imbalances. Lessons from their last significant impact, before the global financial crisis, are useful. But the global economy...
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
For AI solutions in healthcare to be trusted they must be developed in collaboration with doctors and be better integrated into the workflows of healthcare professionals. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Doctors must drive the alignment of medical AI solutions - LSE Business Review
For AI solutions in healthcare to be trusted they must be developed in collaboration with doctors and be better integrated into workflows
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Football’s most valuable asset isn’t broadcasting revenue or superstar players. It is trust. Supporters may buy tickets and devote countless hours. But trust will disappear if sporting merit is compromised. This will be put to test today as England face Argentina. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Football’s billion-dollar integrity problem - LSE Business Review
Competitions like the World Cup depend on fair play. But the pressure and money behind them can unintentionally distort efforts to truly level the playing field.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The digital art market is a useful place to watch what happens when money itself is unstable. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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What the art market reveals about the risks in on-chain finance - LSE Business Review
Blockchain-based currencies can now buy almost anything, from digital art to a house. But those currencies are themselves volatile, and that volatility passes through to whatever trades on top of them...
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How do institutions survive when shocks become too complex for conventional models to handle? Finland’s co‑operative banks offer one answer. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Finland’s co-operative banks offer a unique perspective on resilient finance - LSE Business Review
Co‑operative banks offer a compelling lens for understanding how institutions adapt when shocks converge.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The conflict in Iran has been reignited by disagreements about control of a critical shipping lane. But the Strait of Hormuz is not the only chokepoint making global trade vulnerable. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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World trade remains dangerously dependent on a handful of shipping lanes - LSE Business Review
Despite the digitisation of the global economy, world trade is still only as resilient as the physical routes it depends on.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Defining climate solutions narrowly risks preventing capital from flowing to activities essential to the transition. But including activities that are not directly linked to emissions reductions can lead to overstated climate benefits and weaker accountability. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Making sense of climate solutions to help finance the low-carbon transition - LSE Business Review
Understanding what constitutes a “climate solution” has important implications for investors seeking to allocate capital to finance the low-carbon transition.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Across AI, fintech, deep tech and climate technology, European companies attract global talent, customers and capital. The challenge now centres on whether Europe can retain more of the value these scale-ups create. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Europe’s startup boom still needs an exit plan - LSE Business Review
Europe is producing world-class founders, frontier technologies and ambitious scale-ups. The task now is to develop their exit plans.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The notion that business activities can contribute to peace, alongside the crucial role of trade in promoting peaceful relations and democratic values, warrants attention. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How can global trade contribute to world peace? - LSE Business Review
Does trade itself, and the organisations that govern it, have a significant role to play in fostering peace within and between fragile states?
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
India’s health transition has saved millions of lives. But progress may be creating an unexpected inequality: rising male excess mortality. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Technological change means women in India are now increasingly outliving men - LSE Business Review
The “gender paradox of progress” happening not in spite of, but because of, India's technological progress and public health measures.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Food and Drug Administration presents itself as the gold standard, while the European Medicines Agency sees Europe as a governance-based quality bloc and China’s National Medical Products Administration frames China as an engine of scale and velocity. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How different drug regulators construct global authority – and why it matters for firms - LSE Business Review
Global drug regulation is converging technically but diverging politically. America’s loosening grip on the global pharmaceutical system has created a newly competitive opportunities for the EU and Ch...
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What is a company for? Is it explained by shareholder primacy’s maximising of profits or stakeholder theory’s integration of ethics into corporate purpose? A new book by Sandy Pepper of LSE pits ethics against economics. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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The purpose of the corporation - LSE Business Review
What is a company for? Is it explained by shareholder primacy’s maximising of profits or stakeholder theory’s integration of ethics into corporate purpose? In a new book Sandy Pepper argues that neith...
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
With Europe in the grip of an unusually intense heatwave, what can be learned from regions more used to extreme heat? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How to live and work in extreme heat - LSE Business Review
With Europe in the grip of an unusually intense heatwave, what can be learned from regions more used to extreme heat?
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Two decades ago China's fears about the vulnerability of the Strait of Malacca, through which half of its imported oil had to pass, led directly to its support for clean technologies. Today the Strait may be different, but the fundamental issue is the same. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How the war in Iran changes China’s decarbonisation path - LSE Business Review
As happened in the 2000s, the security implications of relying on expensive imports through geopolitical bottlenecks will encourage China to invest in renewables.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Whilst London’s international influence has diminished with Brexit, worst-case scenarios have not (yet) materialised. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How tricky is it to destroy an international financial centre? Brexit and the City of London - LSE Business Review
Whilst London’s international influence has diminished with Brexit, it has generally remained resilient and worst-case scenarios have not (yet) materialised.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today marks exactly 10 years since the #Brexit referendum, when the UK population voted narrowly to leave the European Union. What led to that vote, & what consequences has it had, at home & abroad? We asked experts to share reflections & analysis on one of the UK's most controversial decisions 👇🧵
Brexit referendum 10th Anniversary | LSE blogs with a blurred hand placing a ballot in a box and flags in background
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Immigration was central to the Brexit debate. Ending free movement was the route to “taking back control”: immigration would fall, policy would become more predictable and public confidence would be restored. Ten years on a look at what actually happened. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Control without credibility – the post-Brexit migration paradox - LSE Business Review
Ending free movement was presented as “taking back control”: immigration would fall, policy would become more predictable and public confidence would be restored.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
How hybrid digital fraud is organised, narrated and sustained — and how the social conditions which make these crimes possible are encoded in the lyrics of Afrobeat. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How ordinary business infrastructure supported a fraud network spanning America and Nigeria - LSE Business Review
The money stolen in online fraud moves through the same banks and platforms legitimate businesses use.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Successfully forecasting movements in the Bank of England’s policy rate matters for both consumers and businesses. But are the Bank’s forecasts as good as they can be? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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How to improve the Bank of England’s forecasts - LSE Business Review
Are the Bank of England’s forecasts as good as they can be? Or could these alternative modelling ideas deliver better forecasts?
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
When Brexit changed how British firms could sell services in the European Union many firms implemented workarounds, such as setting up affiliates abroad. But those new models came at the expense of jobs in at home. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Brexit shows how firms react when restrictions are placed on the way they reach customers - LSE Business Review
After the Brexit vote firms implemented workarounds, such as setting up affiliates in the EU. But those new models came at the expense of jobs in Britain.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Ahead of the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum, a look at the detrimental impact Brexit has had on Britain’s arts sector – and what the government should do about it. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Britain’s creative economy has suffered since Brexit - LSE Business Review
A majority of artists and creative workers voted in 2016 to remain within the European Union, the country’s closest and largest trading partner.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Industrial policy is having a revival. But it needs a redesign. Mariana Mazzucato's “common good framework” shifts industrial policy away from a focus on competitiveness or growth and towards the question of how economic transformation can generate shared prosperity. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Societies must rethink not only what industrial policy aims to achieve, but how it is designed and governed – Mariana Mazzucato - LSE Business Review
Mariana Mazzucato's “common good framework” shifts industrial policy towards the broader question of how economic transformation can generate shared prosperity.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ahead of an event at the LSE Festival on 16 June this blog uses the regeneration of Port Talbot to illustrate Britain’s place in the steel global value chain and explain what wider lessons the project holds for the country’s green industrial policy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Made in Britain, or designed in Britain? What Port Talbot teaches us about the green economy - LSE Business Review
“Made in Britain” is only one task within the global value chain. Designed, researched and branded in Britain are where the lasting value capture lives.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
How can we keep the lights on, cut emissions and keep energy affordable, all at the same time? Find out at the LSE Festival on 16 June blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Wired to save the planet: rethinking energy in an electrified world - LSE Business Review
Ahead of an event at the LSE Festival on 16 June Min-kyeong Cha asks: we can keep the lights on, cut emissions and keep energy affordable, all at the same time?
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
As the World Cup kicks off, a look back at this this blog, published in February, which studies the relationship between President Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino, the boss of FIFA. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino are ruining FIFA and football - LSE Business Review
Ahead of the football World Cup this summer the relationship between President Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino has been under the spotlight.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Geopolitics is disrupting the critical supply chains essential for the energy transition, not least in Europe. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Managing the geopolitics of Europe’s energy transition - LSE Business Review
Ahead of an event at the LSE Festival Peter Hill introduces the Clean Technology Partnership Initiative.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is an opportune moment to enact permanent taxes, rather than temporary windfall ones, as a regulatory tool to incentivise investment in renewable energy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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It is time to permanently increase taxes on oil and gas companies - LSE Business Review
For taxes on oil and gas to have a meaningful regulatory impact, governments should go beyond windfalls and impose permanent profit taxes on oil and gas firms
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Few industries manage moment engineering as deliberately as motorsport, particularly Formula One and MotoGP. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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What F1 and MotoGP Sprint races reveal about designing memorable experiences - LSE Business Review
Sprint race formats introduced in Formula One and MotoGP show how sequencing choices determine whether experiences become more memorable – or just more cluttered.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Resilience is not one-size-fits-all. In some cultures emotional strength flows outward, while in others it is more internally driven. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Why do workers from different countries exhibit resilience differently? - LSE Business Review
Resilience is not one-size-fits-all. In some cultures emotional strength flows outward, while in the other it is more internally driven.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Workplaces that reward constant comparison, perfectionism, or rigid leadership norms can unintentionally reinforce experiences of “impostor syndrome” even among highly capable individuals. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Feeling like an impostor at work might not just be a “you problem” - LSE Business Review
If so many capable people experience impostor syndrome, perhaps the issue is not only individual confidence. It may reflect the environments in which they work.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Consumers dramatically underestimate how often large companies in America survive bankruptcy and continue operating. Chapter 11 allows many to restructure their debts and trade as an ongoing concern. But once a company does file, what happens to their customers? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Does Chapter 11 bankruptcy drive away customers – or did losing customers cause the bankruptcy? - LSE Business Review
Consumers underestimate how often large companies survive bankruptcy . Chapter 11 allows many to restructure their debts and continue to trade as an ongoing concern.
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