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Ongoing collaborations

BMBW Initiative

The Better Marketing for a Better World Initiative organises forums, facilitates training and maintains resources aiming to build a community and support the development of knowledge on how marketing can improve lives, strengthen societies and benefit the world at large.

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Dharma Life Labs

Co-created by Dharma Life, the Wheeler Institute, Siriti and Accenture, DL Labs is a rural innovation lab with a focus on driving inclusive progress. Up to date, 18 DL Labs projects leveraged $5M+ in funding and reached over 1M people in rural India.

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Digital X Scale

A collaboration with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office through a research programme on drivers of scale among digital companies in Africa. Digital X Scale uses an innovative methodology and Quantitative Analysis to build a sector-wide understanding of how to measure scale.

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Spotlight on our communities

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Flagship series

Our Rethinking Capitalism series invites distinguished guests and thought leaders to contribute to the fundamental debates happening today. This has involved LBS faculty in conversation with leading voices including, Andres Schleifer, Daron Acemoglu, Oded Galor, Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Gita Gopinath, Rebecca Henderson and Thomas Philippon.

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Our open-access and awarded African History through the Lens of Economics lecture series attracted 27,000+ registrations and studies the impact of Africa’s history on contemporary development, exploring current economic and development challenges by drawing parallels between the past and present.

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From leading academics to industry experts, policy makers, government officials and business practitioners, we invite distinguished speakers from a broad range of backgrounds to discuss the past, present and future challenges and opportunities that are pervasive across the world, and the role of business in sustainable development.

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The Wheeler Institute Climate Initiative brings together some powerful ideas across our network through forums, events and lecture series with the goal to communicate and exchange insights on the power of business to help society ameliorate and adapt to climate change.

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