MSc in International Management
The MSc in International Management is for students at the start of their career from any academic discipline, whether they see their future in finance or consultancy, healthcare, civic leadership, or any other industry.
The programme creates a rich and diverse learning environment. Students come from multiple disciplines, backgrounds and from all over the world. You will learn from our outstanding faculty and from practical, hands-on sessions with industry practitioners. You will broaden your horizons with global study trips and develop skills that prepare you for a fulfilling future career.
MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship & Innovation
The MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship & Innovation provides students with the tools and techniques to understand and manage entrepreneurship and innovation and to lead innovative teams and organisations around the world.
Discover the key issues of innovative entrepreneurship, from how companies identify and exploit both market and technological opportunities, to how they grow, secure finance, and market their products and services. This intellectually challenging course gives you a thorough understanding of how (both small and large) entrepreneurial companies can be organised to take advantage of multiple sources of innovation to compete in dynamic environments. Through engagement with practitioners, entrepreneurs, and start-ups you will learn how this knowledge can be applied to your own ideas, projects, and business plans.
MSc in Medical Technology (MedTech) Innovation & Entrepreneurship
The MSc in MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship brings together talented students and professionals from different backgrounds across the spectrum of health, engineering, design, business, and entrepreneurship who are committed to creating innovation in health and making the world a healthier place.
The MSc is a unique combination of core entrepreneurship, innovation and business content with dedicated health-care and MedTech content. It is a collaboration between King’s Business School, the King’s Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicinethe School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences and King’s Entrepreneurship Institute.
The programme builds on King’s strengths in healthcare, health research, healthcare technologies, design, engineering, business, innovation, and entrepreneurship to teach both crucial business knowledge and the art and science of developing novel medical technologies that address an unmet clinical need. With unparalleled access to our NHS hospital and King’s industry networks, our students will develop a deep appreciation of healthcare delivery and quality improvement processes to apply their knowledge for developing novel medical technologies and a fulfilling career as a MedTech entrepreneur, innovator or a leader in the medical technology industry.
The Department of Strategy, International Management & Entrepreneurship has a strong research reputation in developing theory and knowledge to advance our understanding of business, and entrepreneurial activity in an international context.
Research comprises four core themes:
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(1) international business and comparative management,
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(2) global strategies, including those for sustainability and corporate social responsibility,
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(3) innovation in knowledge-intensive firms, and
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(4) entrepreneurship from a comparative and social dimension.
Department members regularly publish in leading journals in management, strategy, international business, entrepreneurship, and innovation. They hold editorial posts in a variety of highly-ranked journals and have won a number of research-related awards and grants from prestigious funding bodies.
Our staff have visiting positions and significant research collaborations with counterparts at several international universities. In addition to these research networks, the Department has a strong commitment to developing research impact through links with relevant policymakers and practitioners.
Research projects
Principal investigators:
Andreas Kornelakis,
Isabel Perera.
Will robots take over our jobs? This project examines how artificial intelligence has influenced knowledge services sectors.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Andreas Kornelakis,
Chiara Benassi,
Damian Grimshaw,
Marcela Miozzo.
This project will gather qualitative data on new automation technologies and how they affect workers’ productivity, employment and skills.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Sunil Mitra Kumar.
Enablers and Obstacles to UK-India Trade aims to understand key enablers and obstacles to UK-India bilateral trade.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Anna Rebmann,
Charlotte Johnson,
Emma Folmer.
Social entrepreneurship at the grid edge explores how community groups can generate value through an energy system that is more flexible and distributed.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Ute Stephan,
Przemysław Zbierowski.
The Covid-19 pandemic threatens small businesses’ survival and entrepreneurs’ mental well-being. This project investigates their resilience strategies.
Project status: Ongoing
The Department supports a large range of engagement activities. For example:
We support the Entrepreneurship Institute, which produces start-ups from King’s staff, students and alumni and provides business support for smaller business.
Professor Ute Stephan is leading on a global study of entrepreneurs and their mental well-being, with over 30 countries represented through businesses, trade organisations and universities.
Dr Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O has directly contributed to the British Standards Institution’s new BS 25700, which gives organisations guidance on how to manage the risk of modern slavery in their in their operations, supply chains and wider operating environment. The Standard is he first of its kind globally.
The Business School’s final year undergraduate Consultancy module, based in our department, gives our students an opportunity to work directly with businesses and charities in London. Postgraduate MSc in International Management students have unique opportunities to collaborate with global consultancy ReD Associates on solving international problems.
The Meaning and Purpose Network, a cross-department initiative has brought together human resource leaders with academics, advancing knowledge and practice relating to the pressing challenges of meaning, purpose and sustainability in organisations.
The Department leads the national Productivity Institute’s Regional Productivity Forum for London and the South, working closely with 30 representatives of businesses, public agencies and business associations spanning different sectors during five years to improve sustainable uptake of technology, skills and productivity. The Regional Productivity Forum is chaired by King’s Business School Executive Fellow Philip Keller.
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Reader in Entrepreneurship & Sustainability
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Department Support Officer
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Reader in Business Education
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Lecturer in Strategy and Organisation Theory
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Impact Director, Centre for Sustainable Business
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Professor of International Business and Strategy