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Archive 13 (July-Dec 2006) JzG, Outer Ring Road, Waterford,, Transwiki request, Northern Ireland mediation, England expects that every man will do his duty, Single Transferable Vote, ITN, Irish placenames, Cork, Check your facts please, Cork poll, Naming convention, Roads in Miles, Leinster flag, Irish History, Harrassment and Racial Slurs

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Coat of Arms of Ireland
The large coat of arms is still be commented on. Maybe you can lend a word or two? Djegan 14:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

 * crisis averted. Djegan 15:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Category:Roads in Ireland
Just thought you should know, recently a user has taken it upon themselves to move all of the RoI N based roads out of the "Category:Roads in the Republic of Ireland", and into the "Category:Roads in Ireland", therefore making a mockery of the category hierarchy system. In addition they have added "Category:Roads in Ireland" to all the articles in the "National Primary Roads" template to said category as well, making even more category confusion in the categories and subcategories. Unfortunately the user that has made the alterations has publically stated that they refuse to be bound by the Wikipedia conventions and use the name "Republic of Ireland" at any point and doesn't recognise the term, which is a shame as other than this one point the user makes some very good edits. Ben W Bell talk  22:04, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Zoney...guess that would be me Ben is referring to above! (I think we have made peace since then). What brought me here was to try and find out HOW you produce those wonderful "Route Boxes" like THIS. I am doing a series on regional roads and would love to be able to create equivqlent (in black and white) of the N-boxes. How do you do it? (Sarah777 22:42, 1 April 2007 (UTC))

Hello again Zoney...I just have to ask...is THIS the sign that gave you your Wikiname? I was looking for a place in west Mullingar last week when I came upon this on the ring-road! Double-take - I knew it was familiar! Regards (Sarah777 00:49, 8 April 2007 (UTC))

WP on Iraq War WMD
Hi Zoney. I noticed you were in at the start of this article on the lead up to the war, and I thought you might be able to help me. What I'm looking for is a record of the pre-March '03 Wikipedia discussions about reports of the governments' WMD claims. I'd just like to see how well NPOV was being applied by editors before the lack of WMDs became clear. So many articles have sprung up following the war that it's difficult to locate where the original discussions might have taken place. I'd appreciate it if you pointed me in the right direction. Thanks.--Shtove 21:16, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Tinsley Viaduct
Hi there. I see you have edited the above article, I'd like to invite you to a poll on the inclusion or not of the coordinates box, here.  L.J.Skinner wot 02:11, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

'Regional road' article
Thanks Zoney. The "no article yet" category was because someone had put a list of roads with no article related to them on the page - I didn't want to delete them. The other categories were simply to make it easier for me to navigate - please feel free to change it. The 'scenic' class is subjective, of course, but does that mean we can't have one? Classes I'd like to retain are Short Roads (less than 25 km - because some of them are very short with no habitations en route and Urban Roads; some run entirely through built-up areas, certainly around Dublin. Please Wikify the page as you see fit - any help much appreciated! (Sarah777 21:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC))

 * Me again. Why not write an article on the R526 in Wiki? A matter of minutes given the article on your website! Regards (Sarah777 00:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC))

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Hi, regarding the discussion of this image on Possibly unfree images. I deleted the image because, even though you made it yourself, it is an almost exact copy of a copyrighted (not under a free license) work. In case Image:Derry arms 2003.png. I also put it for deletion at Commons, on which you are of course welcome to comment. See. Garion96 (talk) 15:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Discussion you might be interested in
Based on your having voted on whether the article Carrantuohill should be moved to Carrauntoohil back in November 2005, I figured you might be interested in joining the discussion on Talk: Galteemore on whether the article Galteemore should be moved to Galtymore Mountain. Timeineurope 12:28, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

R293
Article on the r293 road is posted up now, I had wanted to get the page away from redirecting to the 'regional road' page, hence the alteration I had done previously. Owenmoresider 22:28, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Classification of admins
Hi Zoney. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee    t / c  23:16, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Geography of Ireland
You may have noticed that Geography of Ireland is on FAR and mainly needs inline citations and some statistics checking. I see that you did some work on this article, so maybe you can help it being demoted from FA. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 04:18, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

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Euro/US Dollar
Sorry about that. I had done a cursory check of several different currency combinations to see how the US Dollar and Euro had generally moved, but somehow neglected to check GBP/EUR, one of the most important combinations. Still, considering both of those articles have only been updated with a single sentence each referencing the drop/rise, I question whether it really warrants being on ITN. - Mark 11:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

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Zoney, do you have the original file for this picture? I'd like to edit it for colour and that can't be done right now because it's just an antialiased jpg. Thanks! -- Evertype·✆ 09:40, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

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Zoney, I would appreciate any contribution that – as someone with an interest, I believe, in Irish transport matters – you might like to make to the discussion I've recently attempted to get underway at Talk:M1 motorway (Republic of Ireland). TIA. -- Picapica (talk) 19:18, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hugh Loebner

Hugh Loebner (March 26, 1942 - December 4, 2016) was an American inventor and social activist, who was notable for sponsoring the Loebner Prize, an embodiment of the Turing test. Loebner held six United States Patents, and was also an outspoken advocate for the decriminalization of prostitution.

Loebner prize
Loebner established the Loebner Prize in 1990. He pledged to give $100,000 and a solid gold medal to the first programmer able to write a program whose communicative behavior can fool humans into thinking that the program is human. The competition has been repeated annually and has been hosted by various organizations. Within the field of artificial intelligence, the Loebner Prize is somewhat controversial; the most prominent critic, Marvin Minsky, has called it a publicity stunt that does not help the field along.

Loebner also liked to point out that, unlike the solid gold medal for the Loebner prize, the gold medals of the Olympic Games are not solid gold, but are made of silver covered with a thin layer of gold.

Fascinated by Alan Turing's imitation game, and considering creating a system himself to pass it, Loebner realized that even if he were to succeed in developing a computer that could pass the Turing test, no avenue existed in which to prove it.

In his letter to Dr. Robert Epstein, written on December 30, 1988, Loebner authorized Dr. Epstein to move forward with a contest, and referring to the Turing Test, Loebner wrote: "Robert, in years to come, there may be richer prizes, and more prestigious contests, but gads, this will always be the oldest." Establishing the Loebner Prize, he introduced the Turing Test to a wider public, and stimulated interest in this science. It remains Hugh Loebner’s desire to advance AI, and for the Turing Test to serve as a tool to measure the state of the art: "There is a nobility in this endeavour. If we humans can succeed in developing an artificial intellect it will be a measure of the scope of our intellect" (from: In Response, 1994).

Prostitution
Loebner was open about his visits to prostitutes. In 1994, after a campaign by officials in New York City to arrest customers of prostitutes, he wrote an opposing letter to The New York Times, which was published. In 1996, he authored a Magna Carta for Sex Work or Manifesto of Sexual Freedom, in which he denounced the criminalization of consensual sexual acts, and asked all like minded people to join a protest on June 9, 1996 (a play on the 69 sex position). In interviews, he stated that he believed himself to be too old for the young attractive women he is interested in; they would not have sex with him were it not for the money. He has compared the oppression of prostitutes and their customers to the oppression that Alan Turing faced because of his homosexual behavior.

Personal life
Loebner held a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst. He was divorced, lived in New York City, and owned Crown Industries, a manufacturer of crowd control stanchion and brass fittings, which is the major sponsor of the Loebner Prize in the US.

Death
On December 4, 2016, Hugh's ex-wife, Elaine Loebner, announced on Twitter that Hugh had "died peacefully in his sleep". He was 74 years old.

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USS Pittsburgh

Five ships of the United States Navy have been or will be named USS Pittsburgh in honor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:

 * USS Pittsburgh (1861) (alternately spelled Pittsburg as was CA-4) was an ironclad gunboat that served during the American Civil War.
 * USS Pittsburgh (CA-4), originally named USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4), was an armored cruiser serving during World War I.
 * USS Pittsburgh (CA-70), the original name of USS Canberra (CA-70), that was changed just before launch to honor the loss of HMAS Canberra (D33), which was lost during the Battle of Savo Island in the Pacific War.
 * USS Pittsburgh (CA-72), originally named Albany, was a Baltimore-class cruiser that served during World War II, and notable for losing her bow in a typhoon, and yet surviving.
 * USS Pittsburgh (SSN-720) was a Los Angeles-class submarine decommissioned in 2019.
 * USS Pittsburgh (LPD-31) is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, currently under construction.

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London Business School

London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degrees in management and finance, MBA and PhD). Its motto is "To have a profound impact on the way the world does business".

The main campus is located at Sussex Place in London, adjacent to Regent's Park. In 2012, the school acquired the Marylebone Town Hall and spent £60 million to refurbish it with the objective of expanding its teaching facilities by 70% - the new building is called The Sammy Ofer Centre. In 2017, it was announced that LBS had also acquired the site of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, who vacated the building in November 2019. LBS has a secondary campus in Dubai that is dedicated to Executive Education and the Dubai EMBA.

Foundation
London Business School was founded in 1964 under the name of the 'London Graduate School of Business Studies', with Dr. Arthur Earle as Dean. In 1965, the school was registered as a company and was designated by the University of London as an institution having recognised teachers. In 1966, the first Executive Development Programme was launched, followed by the Senior Executive Programme. The same year, a full-time MSc degree was also launched, with Sheila Cross enrolling as the School's first female student. In 1968, the School inaugurated the Sloan Fellowship MSc programme, which was the first one outside of the US. 17 students were enrolled and the programme was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. The first doctoral programme was established in 1969 and in 1970 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II opened the School's Regent's Park campus. The first PhD was awarded in 1974, and that year women made up over 15% of the student body for the first time. In 1983, the first part-time MBA programme was held under the direction of Sir Andrew Likierman, a former Dean of the School. In 1986, the school officially became the London Business School and was incorporated by Royal Charter, which gave LBS the right to confer and grant degrees. In 1992, the School was given the Queen's Award for Export in recognition of providing educational services to managers and companies worldwide. The following year, the school started its first Masters in Finance programme and in 2001, the EMBA-Global degree programme in partnership with the Columbia Business School.

In 2007 a new campus was opened in Dubai to offer both Executive MBA and Executive Education Programmes. In 2009, the school started two new programmes: The EMBA-Global Asia, in partnership with the University of Hong Kong and Columbia Business School, and the Masters in Management (MiM). In 2012, the school acquired Marylebone Town Hall and restored it with the objective of expanding its teaching facilities by 70 per cent. The building was renamed "The Sammy Ofer Centre" in honour of a generous donor, the Ofer Family, who made a gift for the development of the building, which was opened in 2017. In 2016, LBS launched a new programme, the Masters in Financial Analysis, aimed at recent graduates who wish to pursue a career in finance, and acquired the lease of the neighbouring building of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaenocologists, which it will occupy in 2020.

With the objective of increasing its size, the school organised a £100 million funding campaign. By the beginning of 2016, it had raised £98 million, £40 million of which will be used to renovate the Marylebone Town Hall, with £28 million for research, £18 million in scholarships for students, £10 million to increase the school's endowment, and £4 million to improve technology across the school. By June 2016, the school had raised £125 million, including two £25 million gifts from alumni Jim Ratcliffe and Idan Ofer.

François Ortalo-Magné, the French-born former Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, succeeded Sir Andrew Likierman as Dean in August 2017.

Campus
The campus is located at Sussex Place in Marylebone, on the perimeter of Regent's Park.

LBS maintains a number of facilities, including a sports centre, restaurant, three cafes and a library, all dedicated for the exclusive use of its community. There is also a privately run pub, 'The Windsor Castle' attached to the campus. Most classrooms for the MBA are located in the Sainsbury Wing, the centre of the terrace, most of which are 100-student amphitheatre rooms.

There is no accommodation on campus for students in full-time programmes, although there are rooms on-campus for visiting faculty and executive education participants. Most students choose to live in nearby private residential buildings or in students halls of residence such as the International Students House, London.

LBS is expanding its campus in central London. The business school has redeveloped the Marylebone Town Hall into classrooms and offices at the Sammy Ofer Centre. It will further expand it in 2020 (see above).

List of the London Business School Deans
List of the Deans from 1965 to today:

Admission
All candidates must take international exams related to their English abilities (TOEFL or IELTS) and mathematic/logical reasoning skills (GMAT or GRE). Candidates are also asked to write several essays (topics are related to the envisaged programmes). The recruitment process has two steps. The first one consists of sending an application with the following information: Once the application has been accepted, an examination is made by the selection committee. Candidates meeting the criteria of the school will be invited for an interview on campus in London. If this latter step is a success, the candidate receives an offer from LBS.
 * An application form (administrative and academic information on the candidate, but also his/her career plan and personal ambitions)
 * Several essays
 * The GMAT or GRE scores. The average GMAT score is around 708 (90th percentile)
 * The TOEFL scores (English test)
 * A one-page résumé (CV)
 * Two reference letters (one academic and one professional)
 * The candidate's academic transcript

Master in Business Administration (MBA)
The school's flagship programme is its full-time 15–21-month Master of Business Administration degree. MBA students take a prescribed set of core courses then choose from roughly 70 different electives. Class size has been around 400 students in every annual cohort. These are broken into 5 streams of approximately 80 students who take all core courses together. The admission process is highly competitive and selective.

Beyond academics, the school puts an emphasis on personal and professional development including leadership, global awareness, and business skill building. These developments are facilitated via specialized workshops led by external consultants, students, and faculty. In addition to a range of elective courses at the London Business School, the school has partnerships with around 32 exchange schools around the world. Each academic year around 100 students spend a term at another leading business school.

The MBA Programme has one of the world's largest international exchange programmes. Each year approximately 35 per cent of second-year MBAs spend a term abroad at one of over 30 partner schools, including NYU Stern School of Business, IESE Business School, Booth School of Business of The University of Chicago, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA Anderson School of Management, the MIT Sloan School of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Columbia Business School, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, Indian School of Business among others.

Executive MBA
The school offers four Executive (part-time) MBA degrees, which are completed in 16–20 months. At an academic level, the school offers the same degree to both Executive (part-time) and full-time MBA students. The programmes involve very similar core courses to the full-time MBA, international field work and a wide range of elective courses. The course ends with a capstone together with company project or management report.
 * Executive MBA (London).
 * Executive MBA (Dubai). The programme begins with an orientation week in London. Following this, students take 10 core modules, which are taught in a four- or five-day block each month in Dubai. Students then undertake electives, which are primarily offered in London, and an international assignment. Two additional core modules take place in London.
 * EMBA-Global Americas and Europe. A further 140 executives are enrolled in the dual-degree EMBA-Global Programme. It is taught in partnership with Columbia Business School. Graduates are awarded degrees from both universities. The first year involves week-long modules each month alternating between London and New York. In the second year, students select from the full range of electives available at the participating schools.
 * EMBA-Global Asia. launched in 2008 jointly with Hong Kong University and Columbia. Teaching takes place at all three business schools. While the first year is modelled on the transatlantic EMBA-Global, the school states that because "EMBA-Global Asia is designed for people who have or will have significant trans-national responsibilities, all courses reflect a greater proportion of global material".

Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy
The Sloan Fellowship was established in 1968 and is a master's degree programme designed for senior executives, accomplished professionals and entrepreneurs with significant experience of decision-making at strategic levels. The admission process is highly competitive and selective. On average, Sloan Fellows already have 15 years of management experience when being admitted to the programme. A typical class is highly diverse and includes attendees from 13 to 23 countries.

This 12-month, full-time master's degree programme focuses on strategy, leadership and change, and globalisation. The Sloan programme is also offered at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Masters in Finance
The school offers a Master's in Finance ("MiF") programme on both a part- and full-time basis. Around 120 students attend the full-time programme, while 60 attend the part-time degree.

Masters in Financial Analysis (MFA)
The Masters in Financial Analysis is the most recent programme offered by the London Business School, starting in September 2016 and consists of 12 months of courses. The programme targets recent graduates with less than a year of work experience who plan to start a career in finance, typically as an analyst in an investment bank or in consulting. The curriculum consists of 12 core courses based on 5 pillars (Accounting, Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Financial Markets, and Financial Econometrics). The 12 courses are: Students must also complete three electives of which a minimum of two must be related to finance. The programme includes a business immersion week within a company (Google, Deloitte, CNN, Accenture, Blackrock etc.) to work on case studies. Finally, students participate in a Field Trip (study trip) that lasts a week. This travel experience consists of many networking dinners, company visits, and company presentations. The following destinations are available: Silicon Valley, Paris, Milan and Munich, Mumbai and Bangalore, or Shanghai.
 * Corporate Finance
 * Capital Structure
 * Mergers & Acquisitions
 * Investment Fundamentals
 * Asset Management
 * Analysis of Financial Statements
 * Securities Valuation and Financial Modelling
 * World Economy
 * Financial Institutions
 * Personal Finance
 * Private Equity
 * Data and Time Series Analytics

Masters in Management (MiM)
The Masters in Management (MiM) is a one-year master's degree in management aimed at recent graduates who have less than one year of full-time postgraduate corporate work experience or less than two years of experience in a non-traditional business role.

The programme is structured in 3 terms, composed of the following core courses:

First term: Second term: Third term: Students must also follow 2 electives and can choose among 30 different courses. The programme includes a business immersion week within a company (Google, Deloitte, CNN, Accenture, Blackrock etc.) to work on case studies. Finally, students have to participate in a Field Trip (study trip) that lasts a week. This travel experience consists of many networking dinners, company visits, and company presentations. The following destinations are available: Silicon Valley, Paris, Milan and Munich, Mumbai and Bangalore, or Shanghai.
 * Financial Accounting
 * Data Analytics for Management
 * Finance
 * Performance in Organisations
 * The Global Macroeconomy
 * Marketing
 * Strategic Analysis
 * Decision and Risk Analysis
 * Applied Microeconomics
 * Introduction to Management Accounting

The programme has a very good market placement. 96% of the 2015 graduates accepted an offer within three months of graduation. 40% work in consulting, 35% in finance and the rest in different industries. The most prestigious companies recruit on campus. The top 3 recruiters are the Boston Consulting Group (11 students hired in 2015), Goldman Sachs (8 students hired in 2015), and McKinsey & Company (7 students hired in 2015). Among the other companies that recruited 2 MiM students or more in 2015 are, for example, Oliver Wyman, Arthur D. Little, Deloitte, A.T. Kearney, and Bain & Company.

Global Masters in Management
The Global Masters in Management (Global MiM) is a two-year, full-time course starting in September 2015, where students attain two internationally recognized degrees: a Masters in Management (MiM) and a Masters in Science (MSc) in International Business. Year one takes place in London. Year two takes place in Shanghai.

Delivered jointly by London Business School and the renowned Fudan School of Management in Shanghai, the Global MiM gives an unparalleled grounding in international business challenges preparing for the opportunities of tomorrow.

Executive education
About 10,000 executives attend the school's non-degree programmes each year. The school offers a portfolio of 31 Executive Education programmes in general management, strategy, leadership, marketing, human resources and finance. These programmes are split into two main areas, open and custom. About 45 companies per year commission London Business School to design and deliver customised corporate programmes for them, 60% of which are delivered outside the UK.

Rankings
The MBA program at LBS is widely considered to be one of the top 10 in the world. In the Financial Times' 2015 Global MBA Rankings, LBS ranked 2nd in the world just behind Harvard Business School. In CNN Expansion's 2014 Global MBA Rankings, LBS ranked 5th in the world. In Business Insider's 2014 Global MBA Rankings, LBS ranked 9th in the world. In 2016, the school's MBA program was ranked No. 21 worldwide for social and environmental impact by Corporate Knights magazine. Within Europe, LBS consistently ranks as one of the top 2 programmes. In the 2014/2015 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report, the London Business School MBA Program ranked 1st among all one-year and two-year European MBA programs. Among non-U.S. two-year MBA programmes, LBS was ranked 1st by Bloomberg BusinessWeek in 2012, 3rd by The Economist in 2012, 1st by Financial Times in 2014 and 2012, and 1st by Forbes in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

In 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2020 the Masters in Finance (post-experience) programmes was ranked in 1st place in the world by the Financial Times.

In 2018 & 2019 the Masters in Management programme was ranked 3rd in the world by the Financial Times, having been in the global top 10 since it became eligible for the ranking.

Research
The school's 150 faculty work through 16 research centres or institutes. According to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, the school came as the third department in the UK for business and management research.

PhD programme
The school offers a 5-year full-time PhD programme. It supports 60 fully funded PhD candidates in seven doctoral programmes: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management Science & Operations, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour, and Strategic & International Management.

Clubs
There are over 70 student clubs at the school. These range from professional clubs such as consulting, entrepreneurship and energy clubs, to regional clubs including the Latin American and China club. There are also general interest and sporting clubs such as football, wine and cheese and the salsa club.

Alumni

 * Melis Turgunbaev - Minister of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic
 * Kaveh Alamouti, MBA & PhD – CEO of Citadel LLC Asset Management Europe
 * Simon Borrows – CEO of 3i
 * Ashley Almanza – CEO of G4S
 * Prince Chad Al-Sherif Pasha of the Hijaz and Turkey
 * Nigel Andrews, MSc, 1978 – former chairman of Old Mutual Asset Management
 * Sir David Arculus – chairman, O2
 * Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, MBA
 * Sükhbaataryn Batbold, "a degree", 1991 – former Prime Minister of Mongolia
 * Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Executive MBA – Member of European Parliament (Spain)
 * Kumar Birla, MBA, 1992 – Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
 * Ronald Boire – Former President and CEO of Brookstone
 * Vice Admiral Paul Boissier, MSc – Former CB Deputy Commander-in-Chief, British Navy Maritime Forces; CEO of Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
 * Jonathan Coleman – Member of Parliament (New Zealand)
 * Don Cowan – Former CEO and President of ABN AMRO Bank Canada
 * Stephen Crabb – member of the British House of Commons and former Secretary of State for Wales and for the Department of Work and Pensions
 * Sir David Davis – UK Cabinet Member responsible for Brexit negotiations
 * Tomáš Drucker – Minister of Education, Research, Development and Youth and Former Minister of Health, Slovakia
 * Sir John Egan – Former CEO of Jaguar Cars, Former CEO of BAA, Chairman of Severn Trent plc
 * Philip Nevill Green – Chairman of Carillion
 * Justine Greening – Secretary of State for Education and member of the British House of Commons
 * Gillian Keegan – British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Chichester
 * Sir Richard Greenbury – former Chairman and CEO, Marks & Spencer
 * Illugi Gunnarsson – Minister of Education, Science, and Culture, Iceland
 * Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein – Special Assistant to Chairman & Joint Chiefs of Staff, Jordanian Armed Forces
 * Hassan Jameel, Saudi businessman
 * Sir John Jennings (businessman) – former CEO, Shell
 * Moez Kassam – Founder of Anson Group
 * Maria Kiwanuka – Minister of Finance in Cabinet of Uganda
 * Timothy Kopra – NASA Astronaut
 * Thomas Kwok – Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Sun Hung Kai Properties
 * Alex Loudon – former professional cricketer
 * Dame Mary Marsh – former CEO of NSPCC
 * Stephen Martin (MBA 2003) – former CEO of Clugston Group, director general of the Institute of Directors
 * Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, former Chairman and CEO of the Tata Group
 * Nigel Morris – co-founder, Capital One Financial Services
 * David Muir – Director of Political Strategy, to then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP
 * Ray O'Rourke – CEO of Laing O'Rourke
 * Idan Ofer – Chairman of Israel Corporation / Principal of Quantum Pacific International Limited
 * Paul Onwuanibe – CEO of Landmark Group
 * Kenneth Ouriel – vascular surgeon and medical researcher
 * Mike Parsons – CEO of Barchester Healthcare
 * Ted Pietka – Supervisory Board Member of Boryszew
 * Roys Poyiadjis – entrepreneur and financier
 * David E.I. Pyott – former Chairman, President, and CEO of Allergan
 * Ramji Raghavan – founder and Chairman of Agastya International Foundation
 * Jim Ratcliffe – Chairman and CEO of Ineos Chemicals Group
 * Omar Samra – first Egyptian and youngest Arab to climb Mount Everest
 * Sir John Sunderland – former Chairman, Cadbury Schweppes plc
 * Amina Taher – VP, Etihad Aviation
 * Stewart Wallis – Executive Director of New Economics Foundation
 * Tony Wheeler – founder, Lonely Planet
 * Wong Kan Seng – former Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore
 * Roberto Vedovotto, CEO of Kering Eyewear since 2014
 * Babajide Sanwo-Olu - incumbent Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria
 * Ibrahim Sagna - Senegalese Financier

Alumni associations
The London Business School has 50,000 alumni in more than 150 countries. Many local clubs (Paris, New-York, Zurich etc.) organise recurrent events in their city.

Faculty and staff

 * Sir James Ball, economist
 * Süleyman Başak – financial economist
 * Sir Alan Budd – professor of economics, director of the Centre for Economic Forecasting, economic advisor for Barclays Bank, and member of the Advisory Board for Research Councils
 * Terence Burns, Baron Burns – Chairman of Abbey National plc, Non-Executive Chairman of Glas Cymru, and a Non-Executive Director of Pearson Group plc.
 * Rajesh Chandy – Professor of Entrepreneurship and Marketing.
 * Gary Hamel – originator (with C.K. Prahalad) of the concept of core competencies of an organization, and contributed to the theoretical development and evolution of the resource-based view
 * Charles Handy – former professor – London Business School, rated among Thinkers 50 – a list of the most influential living management thinkers
 * Jack Mahoney – Dixons Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
 * Constantinos C. Markides – Robert P. Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership
 * Kamalini Ramdas – Professor of Management Science and Operations and Deloitte Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
 * Hélène Rey – Professor of Economics
 * Richard Portes – economist
 * Herminia Ibarra – Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior
 * Julian Birkinshaw - Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
 * Sumantra Goshal (until 2004) - Professor of Strategy & International Business. He gave his name to the annual Ghoshal conference.

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Kurt Reidemeister

Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister (13 October 1893 – 8 July 1971) was a mathematician born in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany.

Life
He was a brother of Marie Neurath. Beginning in 1912, he studied in Freiburg, Munich, Marburg, and Göttingen. In 1920, he got the Staatsexamen (master's degree) in mathematics, philosophy, physics, chemistry, and geology. He received his doctorate in 1921 with a thesis in algebraic number theory at the University of Hamburg under the supervision of Erich Hecke.

He became interested in differential geometry; he edited Wilhelm Blaschke's second volume on the topic, and both made an acclaimed contribution to the Jena DMV conference in September 1921.

In October 1922 or 1923 he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Vienna. While there he became familiar with the work of Wilhelm Wirtinger on knot theory, and became closely connected to Hans Hahn and the Vienna Circle. Its 1929 manifesto lists one of Reidemeister's publications in a bibliography of closely related authors.

In 1925 he became a full professor at the University of Königsberg; he stayed until 1933, when he was regarded politically unsound by the Nazis and dismissed from his position. Whilst there he organised the Second Conference on the Epistemology of the Exact Sciences in conjunction with journal Erkenntnis.

Blaschke managed to get a promise about Reidemeister's reappointment, and in autumn 1934 he got the chair of Kurt Hensel at the University of Marburg. He stayed there, except for a visit to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1948–1950, until he got appointed to Göttingen University in 1955, where he stayed until his emeritation.

Works
Reidemeister's interests were mainly in combinatorial group theory, combinatorial topology, geometric group theory, and the foundations of geometry. His works include Knoten und Gruppen (1926), Einführung in die kombinatorische Topologie (1932), and Knotentheorie (1932). He co-edited the journal Mathematische Annalen from 1947 until 1963. He was also a philosopher. His book "Das exakte Denken der Griechen" (1949) is not as well known as his mathematical work. In it he remarks that mathematical thought is "just the beginning of thought".

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