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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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