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The LIS MBA

Location

The London Interdisciplinary School, London, United Kingdom
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Programme Duration

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Application Deadline

11 Nov, 2026Application Deadline

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Programme overview

Main Subject

Business and Management Studies

Degree

MBA

Study Level

MBA

Study Mode

Blended

The LIS MBA is a bold departure from the traditional MBA. Rather than teaching business functions in isolation, the curriculum is built around six major shifts reshaping business and society (Complexity, Intelligence, Energy, Ecosystems, Trust and Longevity). It's a cohort-based programme, bringing together a highly engaged group of experienced professionals who learn with and from one another.

The LIS MBA is not your typical MBA. It’s what a modern MBA should be.

With a curriculum that spans the range of the modern organisational environments, it focuses on the outer world (natural, social and technological) and the inner world (what’s meaningful and valued, to individual managers, their employees, and stakeholders)

The LIS MBA aims to prepare you to:

- Understand and act on long-term trends and emerging opportunities.

- Lead with confidence in ambiguity and uncertainty.

- Create lasting value for your organisation by integrating diverse methods and principles.


Programme overview

Main Subject

Business and Management Studies

Degree

MBA

Study Level

MBA

Study Mode

Blended

The LIS MBA is a bold departure from the traditional MBA. Rather than teaching business functions in isolation, the curriculum is built around six major shifts reshaping business and society (Complexity, Intelligence, Energy, Ecosystems, Trust and Longevity). It's a cohort-based programme, bringing together a highly engaged group of experienced professionals who learn with and from one another.

The LIS MBA is not your typical MBA. It’s what a modern MBA should be.

With a curriculum that spans the range of the modern organisational environments, it focuses on the outer world (natural, social and technological) and the inner world (what’s meaningful and valued, to individual managers, their employees, and stakeholders)

The LIS MBA aims to prepare you to:

- Understand and act on long-term trends and emerging opportunities.

- Lead with confidence in ambiguity and uncertainty.

- Create lasting value for your organisation by integrating diverse methods and principles.


Admission Requirements

The minimum requirements are an undergraduate degree (or UK equivalent), or equivalent professional experience, together with at least six years' work experience, including a minimum of three years' management experience. Where you do not hold an undergraduate degree, significant additional professional and managerial experience can be considered in its place. If you are unsure whether you meet the criteria,  you can request a profile review for personalised feedback on your experience and suitability for the course  by contacting  [email protected]

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Frequently Asked Questions

In a typical MBA, the traditional business functions form the core and more contemporary themes are left to optional electives. The LIS MBA flips this around. The core focuses on the shifting external environment, the six shifts, and uses these to re-examine the knowledge and practice of business functions like finance, accounting, marketing and strategy. It also places greater emphasis on the "inner shift" (personal development to develop the skills needed to lead in complexity and uncertainty) and on systems methods such as systems thinking, mapping and modelling. It is designed for people who can see that their real assets and risks are not well captured by spreadsheets alone.
Yes, though not in the way a traditional programme does. We introduce the core business fundamentals such as strategy, marketing, accounting and finance through self-paced material, giving you a solid grounding in the essentials. We then develop and apply the most relevant and current approaches within the six shifts reshaping organisations today, woven in through the choice of guest speakers and topics, optional sessions, immersive weeks, and the framing of each shift's learning outcomes. The aim is to honour these domains fully without reproducing a whole traditional syllabus alongside our own.
LIS now has a track record of ensuring that our new degrees, backed by our degree-awarding powers, are recognised and accepted by major employers. Our Head of Futures, in partnership with our Network, works hard to continually understand the needs of the business community as part of a wider environment, and Career Coaches prepare students to be able to identify and articulate how they meet those needs. No MBA guarantees entry to the field of business and many MBAs that are awarded carry a risk that their meaning and value relies primarily on institutional prestige. In contrast, LIS graduates have contemporary skillsets and visible bodies of work that can speak for themselves.
A key aim of the design of the LIS MBA is to increase the opportunity to work on live problems as they arise. In this way, the learning is driven primarily by concerns for practical relevance and application. The background learning material we ask students to engage with balances theoretical works on fundamental and enduring aspects of reality and practical detail of shift- and business-relevant developments in science, innovation, law, culture and experience. Practical value is also co-created within the cohort: integration groups give members a regular space to share their own experience, test ideas against real situations and turn learning into something they can apply directly in their work.
LIS has unlimited degree awarding powers granted by the UK Government. The LIS MBA is therefore a fully recognised and accredited masters level (Level 7) qualification in the UK's National Qualifications Framework.
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