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Welcome

As leadership strategies, finance, society, sustainability goals, entrepreneurship and the world economy continually evolve, businesses face an ever-changing range of complex problems. Multi-disciplinary research provides solutions to many of these challenges. Take a closer look at our business disciplines and explore our case-based research, led by our team of outstanding researchers.

Find out how we lead, impact and innovate across the business world through our research, business thinking and expert opinion.
Professor Kieran Fernandes
Executive Dean
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Executive Dean's Introduction

Our mission is to develop and enthuse leaders and entrepreneurs who create, share and use knowledge to deliver equitable and sustainable futures around the world.

Professor Kieran Fernandes, Executive Dean of the School expands on how we lead, impact and innovate across the business world through our research, business thinking and expert opinion in this introductory video

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Durham University Business School's thought-leadership magazine. IMPACT showcases the impact we have throughout our communities and the business world.

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Explore Our Research

Choose one of the topics below to view our research articles:

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Research into new business ventures, or business growth, with innovation as an important prerequisite for gaining a competitive advantage.
Entrepreneurship

Finance

Comprehensive coverage and analysis of the financial industry across the UK and international economies and businesses.
Finance

Leadership

Discover how leadership trends are changing within small, medium and global organisations and their impact on the workplace.
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Society

School key research across our society and its impact from coporate social responsibility to foodbanks and UN SDGs to social housing.
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Sustainability

A critical field of research dealing with interactions between natural and social systems and their impact.
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World Economy

Research into the global economic system, including all economic activities which are conducted both within and between nations.
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