Each scholar has demonstrated academic excellence and strong leadership potential. September 8th, 2021 | Original story by Oxford University's Saïd Business School The Laidlaw Foundation invests in education to create systems change through breaking poverty cycles and reducing inequality. All of [...]
London Business School Laidlaw Scholars Gigi Jia and Margarita Bicec become founding members of FLII - First-Generation, Low or Intermediate-Income. The club aims to promote socioeconomic diversity within the student body and beyond. May 17th, 2021 This is an excerpt [...]
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, MBA applications have been reaching record numbers. Nevertheless, the gender gap remains. The Financial Times' business education correspondent Jonathan Moules investigated why fewer women are applying to business schools. The Laidlaw Foundation's £3.7m gift to [...]
Original article published by LBS on October 16, 2020. As part of the welcome programme for its record number of nearly 300 scholarship recipients for this academic year, London Business School (LBS) last week hosted the official launch of the Laidlaw Women’s [...]
The Foundation is delighted to announce that the Laidlaw Women in Business Scholarships are open for applications at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School. October 9, 2020 New for the 2021 MBA class, the Laidlaw Scholarships are intended [...]
CEO of the Laidlaw Foundation, Susanna V. Kempe, was recently featured in London Business School's publication Think to explain how organisations can dramatically redress the gender imbalance with simple, pragmatic steps. June 4, 2020 Excerpt from Think: "If you [...]
Written by: Susanna V. Kempe, CEO of Laidlaw Foundation May 20, 2020 Two things happened this week which reminded me that bemoaning the continued lack of gender equality, without committing to do something about it, is not only exhausting [...]
My reflections on the EQUALL conference earlier this month, and the ways insights from the conference have inspired me to change my behaviour.
Oxford -- The Laidlaw Foundation will fund scholarships for women at Saïd Business School. The scholarships are intended to encourage extraordinary women with clear leadership potential to enrol onto the MBA programme when they would not have previously considered the qualification due to financial constraints.
We spend $5million a year removing one of the barriers to women in leadership. Here's 10 things every business leader could, and should, do this year to help smash the glass ceiling once and for all. On Saturday we [...]