Imperial College Business School
Director of Executive Education
Further Particulars
IMPERIAL COLLEGE
Imperial College London has been consistently ranked in the global top 10 universities (the
Times Higher QS World University Rankings). The Rector, Sir Roy Anderson, DSc, FRS
FMedSci, is the College’s academic head and chief executive officer. The Chairman of the
Court and Council is Lord Kerr of Kinlochard.
Our Mission
Imperial College embodies and delivers world class scholarship, education and research in
science, engineering and medicine, with particular regard to their application in industry,
commerce and healthcare. We foster interdisciplinary working within the College, and
collaborate widely externally.
Our Strategic Intent
Imperial’s strategic intent is to remain amongst the top tier of scientific, engineering, medical
and business research and teaching institutions in the world; to develop our range of
academic activities to meet the changing needs of society, industry and healthcare; to
continue to attract and develop the most able students and staff worldwide; and to
communicate widely the significance of science in general, and the purpose and ultimate
benefits of our activities in particular.
Formation and History
Imperial College was established in 1907 in London’s scientific and cultural heartland in South
Kensington, as a merger of the Royal College of Science, the City and Guilds College and the
Royal School of Mines. Since 1988 a number of leading hospitals in west London merged
with the College to create its Faculty of Medicine. Modern Imperial College is comprises the
faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Science, and the Business School.
Imperial Staff and Students
The academic and research staff of 3000 includes 68 Fellows of the Royal Society, 69
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 69 Fellows of the Academy of Medical
Sciences, and two Fields Medalists. Fourteen Nobel Laureates have been members of the
College, either as staff or students.
The College has over 12000 students, around one third of whom are postgraduate. Thirty
percent of our students come from outside the European Union. External assessment of the
College’s teaching quality in many different subject areas has been judged to be of high
standard. The proportion of women students has increased to 37 percent of the total.
Research
The quality of the College’s research has been judged consistently to be of the highest
international standard and the proportion of income from research grants and contracts is one
of the highest of any UK university.
The concentration and strength of research in science, engineering, medicine and business
gives the College a unique and internationally distinctive research presence.
Generous support for the College’s work comes from a wide variety of sources. From
industry there are donations towards certain senior academic posts, advanced courses,
bursaries and scholarships. The single largest contribution to the College from industrial
concerns is in the form of contracts to carry out research. The College also gains
considerable support from research councils and charities to undertake research.
Teaching and Learning
The College aims to ensure a stretching and exhilarating learning experience, combining
academic focus and the opportunity to address employer needs.
IMPERIAL COLLEGE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Based at the College’s main South Kensington campus, the Business School provides world
class teaching and research at the heart of Imperial College London. Our research-led
institution fosters excellence in a diverse and supportive community.
In addition to our MBA degrees (full-time, part-time and distance learning) we offer MSc
programmes in Management, International Health Management, Finance, Actuarial Finance,
and Risk Management. We have a thriving Doctoral Degree (PhD) programme.
We have well-established, ongoing research interests in operational research, quantitative
finance, organisational behaviour and healthcare management, accounting and finance,
innovation, venturing, marketing, strategic management and economics. A common theme of
this research is the improvement of corporate performance in the management of change and
of new work and technological processes. It facilitates collaborative research with members of
the College working in engineering, science and medicine who are developing new patterns
of work and technologies.
Since 2003, the Business School has been growing at around 20 per cent a year, following a
major investment by Imperial College and considerable subsequent success. In the 2008 UK
Research Assessment Exercise, the School had a higher percentage of faculty in the top two
categories (and fewest in the lowest category) of any UK business school.
Reflecting Imperial strengths in maths, technology, and medicine, the Business School is
organized into four groups – Finance, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Healthcare
Management, and Organization & Management.
The Finance Group
The Group is very active in asset pricing research and has particular strengths in derivative
pricing, capital markets research, credit risk modelling, risk management and financial
econometrics.
Current staff research encompasses hedging and pricing derivatives in the presence of
frictions such as transactions costs; contingent claims modelling of options and term structure
exposures; risk management and credit risk; and econometrics with particular reference to
finance applications. The group is also active in corporate finance research.
The strategy of the Group is to build highly active research groups in capital markets
research, mathematical finance and financial econometrics. Risk management, broadly
construed, provides a common meeting place for researchers in these disciplines. Faculty
have close links with financial firms through long standing consulting relationships.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This Group provides the focus for our work on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Innovation much of our research is focused in the Innovation Studies Centre.
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Created in 2002, this Centre is an interdisciplinary centre which has substantial grant income.
The core research of the Centre focuses on technological innovation with a particular
emphasis on engineering, design, science-based industries, project-based firms, and ecocities. Areas identified for future expansion include intellectual property and the digital
economy. It has a number of strategic corporate partners with whom it works closely and a
wide corporate network with whom it interacts. It also collaborates with researchers in a
number of leading universities worldwide.
Healthcare Management
The Healthcare Management Group works closely with Imperial’s facilities of medicine and
engineering. Its research is principally in four areas: health economics, well being, public
health and healthcare infrastructure.
The group currently enjoys support from major grants in public health (the Centre for Health
Management) and healthcare infrastructure (where it leads a £7 million multi-university project
on innovation and healthcare infrastructure. The group also contributes to the Masters in
International Health Management programme as well as MBA’s and Masters in Management.
The Organization and Management Group
The Organization and Management Group is a diverse group of scholars covering many of
the traditional management disciplines such as strategy, organizational behaviour, operations
research, marketing, and economics. The Group’s research covers a number of areas. Many
of research interests of Group members are complementary to other groups and centres in
the School.
Doctoral Programme
The School has a large and active Doctoral Programme. Bursaries, Graduate Assistantships
and Teaching Assistantships are available for most students.
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
The School aims to build a significant presence in Executive Education, in both bespoke and
open programmes, and works with a number of leading companies to create programmes in
leadership, innovation management, financial and risk management, and the management of
change. Recent clients include the Royal Society, Laing O’Rourke, British Telecom,
Vodafone, RBS, ING, and Arup.
Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property
The School has identified Intellectual Property as an area of strategic fit with its other
research on technology transfer, innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy. The School
therefore wishes to establish a Centre for Intellectual Property. Unlike the approach taken in
many universities, where emphasis is very much on legal implications of IP issues, the School
wishes to stress the role of IP in strategy.
To determine whether this vision of in IP centre can be made financially sustainable, the
School wishes to appoint a founding Director, initially on a 1-year fixed term contract. By the
end of the initial year, a decision will be made as to whether or not to make the post
permanent. That decision will depend on the Director’s success in building networks and
securing funding during the initial year.
The post-holder will therefore be expected to:
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Develop a network of scholars and practitioners interested in research on IP
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Devise a distinctive intellectual vision for the School’s IP Centre
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Build a community of support, within the Business School and more widely
within Imperial College
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Identify potential funding sources
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Write and submit bids to appropriate funding sources
Since job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the post-holder may be required to undertake
other duties which are broadly in line with above key responsibilities.
Relevant attributes of the post-holder
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A track record of research and publication, either narrowly within IP or more broadly
within business strategy or competition policy
Awareness of, and ideally experience of, corporate engagement in IP
Proven leadership experience
Ability to build networks, pitch to funders, and disseminate research outputs.
Since job descriptions cannot be exhaustive; the post holder may be required to undertake
other duties, which are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.
The post holder is expected to observe and comply with all College policies and regulations,
for example Health and Safety, Data Protection etc.
Imperial College is committed to equality of opportunity and to eliminating discrimination. All
employees are expected to adhere to the principles set out in its Equal Opportunities in
Employment Policy, Promoting Race Equality Policy and Disability Policy and all other
relevant guidance/practice frameworks.