LUMS in the news: recent media coverage

25/11/15

Maritime Silk Road opportunities abound

Professor Wei Shen and colleagues discuss China's relationship with Africa in the China Daily.
25/11/15

Fewer fathers the sole breadwinner

Professor Caroline Gatrell is quoted in an article in the Daily Mail about working fathers going part-time to spend time with their family.
24/11/15

SPAC for good?

Dr Lars Helge Hass of the Department of Accounting and Finance is quoted in Financier Worldwide magazine, talking about the effects on the investment landscape of special purpose acquisition companies, or 'SPAC' for short.
23/11/15

Sweden: climate impact of investments must be disclosed

Professor Mark Shackleton is quoted in a story in the Financial Times that reports that asset managers operating in Sweden will have to disclose the climate impact of their investments.
20/11/15

LUMS listed in Top 30 Masters in Finance ranking

Lancaster's MSc Finance appears in eFinancialCareers' international ranking of the top 30 Masters in Finance for getting a job in investment banking.
19/11/15

Thought for employer brand

Paul Sparrow discusses how companies can put more thought into their "employer brand" in a blog post on Changeboard. 
18/11/15

Family-Driven Innovation: Resolving the Paradox in Family Firms

Alfredo De Massis et al examine innovation within family firms in an article in California Management Review.
18/11/15

Financial markets are almost off cigarettes – will they now kick the oil habit?

Efforts to break our financial addiction to the energy sector might find useful lessons in the slow decline of tobacco, argues Mark Shackleton.
11/11/15

What's it like to study Accounting & Finance?

Accounting and finance student Jennifer Hanford, 21, tells the Complete University Guide about her experience at Lancaster.
11/11/15

Credit controls incited high-cost evasion

In a letter published in the Financial Times, GR Steele comments on the warning that the Bank of England may introduce rationing by way of credit controls. He says that the credit controls of the 1960s and 1970s, while different in detail, incited all manner of high-cost evasion: disintermediation, parallel banking and offshore funding.
09/11/15

London property bubble risks are overblown, say agents

A report in the Financial Times cites research from LUMS's UK Housing Market Observatory, which predicts a housing price bubble in London.
06/11/15

London housing bubble

This is Money discusses research from Lancaster's UK Housing Observatory which warns that London could be on the cusp of a housing "bubble".
05/11/15

Vehicle emissions: Volkswagen and the road to Paris

The Pentland Centre's Gail Whiteman and Energy Lancaster's Harry Hoster discuss the VW emissions scandal in a letter in Nature magazine.
04/11/15

City execs' bonuses should be tied to gender balance targets

Research by LUMS's Professor Colin Green and Dr Swarnodeep Homroy is highlighted in this article on gender diversity in business in the Guardian.
03/11/15

Is London heading for another property price bubble as soon as 2017?

Ivan Paya, from LUMS's UK Housing Market Observatory, warns that current price rises in the London housing market are unsustainable and could "burst". 
02/11/15

Academic rigour makes room for industry expertise

Randall Zindler and Angus Laing discuss the future of business school teaching in the Financial Times.
30/10/15

Pharma use loophole to hike up the price of drugs – so why doesn’t the NHS stop it?

We should be asking what a recent expose of drug price rises tells us about how health is being managed in the UK, argues Chris Ford. 
30/10/15

Targets to bring women into the boardroom are missing the point

Swarnodeep Homroy and Colin Green argue that quotas do not necessarily solve the underlying cause of gender inequality.
29/10/15

Volkswagen puts brave face on crash into the red

Video of Professor Bryan Lukas discussing the VW scandal features in an article on Euronews.
29/10/15

The future of big data

Marlon Velloza, who has recently completed the Lancaster MBA, hopes the course will help him to land a top-level job at a global company, reports BusinessBecause.
15/10/15

FinTech: Lancaster MBA spearheads Barclays' digital payments revolution

Alumnus Manish Kumar talks about how the MBA helped him further his career and launch a new wearable payment product.
15/10/15

The social-media style icons every advertiser wants a piece of

Dr Hayley Cocker comments in an article on the rise of "influencers" on social media in the Guardian.
13/10/15

How data empowered the economic individual and gained a Nobel for Angus Deaton

This year's award recognises the value of micro analysis and good, old-fashioned legwork, argues Dr Vincent O'Sullivan. 
08/10/15

What will the Lottery changes actually mean?

Professor Ian Walker explains in the Mirror that changes coming in this weekend will make it about three times harder to win the jackpot.