About Us

Established in 1990, the Managerial Economics and Strategy Group (MES), promotes the teaching and research of management from a social science perspective. In August 2006, the MES Group was incorporated into the newly created Department of Management.

The MES Group offers undergraduate and graduate degree programmes in management and have consistently attracted a culturally diverse international student body.

Whilst some functional areas of management (eg accounting, finance, human resource management, decision science) are covered elsewhere in the School. The MES Group is responsible for the core curriculum in management, i.e., strategy and organisational design. Our course portfolio also covers marketing, public management, negotiation, international business, system dynamics and managerial economics.

Our approach to management education is academic and focuses on analytical and problem solving skills, strategic thinking, creativity and the development of a critical attitude towards contemporary management literature and practice.

Research areas include corporate governance, corporate restructuring, network economics, game theoretic approaches to strategy, executive compensation, organisational structure, negotiation, public management and system dynamics.

In the recent Financial Times Masters in Management ranking (Wednesday 15 October 2008) the LSE and in particular our MSc Management* programme was named 4th in the world - and top in the UK - for Masters in Management programmes. LSE was the only UK institution in the top 10.

*The MSc Management programme has changed its name to the MSc Management and Strategy.

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