IEPC wins Nasdaq Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence 2024 award

London Business School’s Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IEPC) has been recognised for its entrepreneurial excellence by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC).

At the GCEC’s gala dinner in Boston, Massachusetts, hosted by friends from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, the IEPC was proclaimed the 2024 winner of the prestigious Nasdaq Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence award.

Nasdaq created this unique accolade in association with GCEC for the purpose of recognising the exceptional achievements and outstanding efforts of entrepreneurship centres across the world. The Nasdaq award honours those centres that have made, and will continue to make, enormous contributions to advancing entrepreneurship as the leading force in economic growth throughout the world. The honour is bestowed annually upon an entrepreneurship centre that is recognised as having made remarkable advancements in the field across the following areas:

• outreach to emerging ventures

• entrepreneurship curriculum

• community collaborations

• special projects

• overall prestige

• recognition in the entrepreneurship field

• entrepreneurship research

Luisa Alemany, Associate Professor of Management Practice at LBS and Academic Director of the IEPC, said: “My sincerest thanks to everyone who made the award possible, especially to the faculty, students, alumni, staff, and in particular the team at the IEPC, who are: my academic co-director Florin Vasvari, IEPC Executive Director, Jane Khedair, Eva Negrutzi, Rubina Kalra, Osman Haneef who leads the IEPC Incubator Programme, Sairina Ramakrishnan and Suseela Yesudian who attended the event in Boston brought back the award to LBS.”

Sergei Guriev, Dean of London Business School, said: "At London Business School (LBS), entrepreneurship is part of our DNA. Winning the Nasdaq Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence 2024 award is a testament to our commitment to cultivating entrepreneurship through our world-class teaching and cutting-edge research.

“This award recognises the excellence of our entrepreneurship curriculum, and the many prestigious projects and collaborations through which our Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IPEC) has supported emerging ventures to succeed and scale.”

IEPC teaches a wide and expanding range of entrepreneurship courses, designed to enable students to thrive whether they want to start their own business, join a high-growth start-up, pursue a career in private capital, lead innovation in an established organisation, or take their family business to the next level.

The courses are highly experiential, and students are challenged to apply what they learn to real, often their own, ventures. The course offerings are regularly updated to reflect the changing demands of students and aspiring entrepreneurs.