United Kingdom: London Global Business & Innovation
London | 9-Day Faculty-Led Program
Experience Global Business in One of the World’s Most Influential Business Cities
Designed for students in business, finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, economics, management, and related fields, this immersive program explores London as a global center for finance, innovation, entrepreneurship, and international commerce.
Students experience London as a living business classroom through company visits, conversations with professionals, and field-based exploration of its financial districts, startup ecosystem, markets, and commercial neighborhoods. Along the way, they examine how organizations innovate, compete, build brands, lead across cultures, and respond to a changing global economy.
What Students Explore
GLOBAL BUSINESS | Examine how companies operate across borders and respond to global markets, competition, economic change, and cultural differences.
FINANCE & FINTECH | Explore London’s global financial ecosystem and the intersection of banking, investment, financial technology, and innovation.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION | Investigate how startups and established organizations develop new ideas, attract investment, and bring products and services to market.
BRANDS & CONSUMER EXPERIENCE | Examine how businesses use branding, design, retail, storytelling, and customer experience to compete for consumers.
LEADERSHIP & GLOBAL WORKPLACE | Consider how culture influences communication, management, talent, organizational practices, and leadership across borders.
9-Day Itinerary
This itinerary shows what a London Global Business & Innovation program could look like. Specific company visits, guest speakers, workshops, and industry engagements will vary based on your dates, group size, academic goals, and local availability.
We’ll work with your faculty and study abroad team to adapt the experience to your course objectives and students. The program can emphasize finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, management, technology, sustainability, international business, or another course-aligned theme.
Activities listed below are examples and subject to availability and confirmation.
A Program, Built to Be Customized
Day 1 | Arrival & Introduction to Global London
Arrive in London and begin exploring its role in the global economy.
Meet your EdOdyssey Program Leader, orient students to the city and how to navigate it, and explore the surrounding neighborhood. Gather for a welcome dinner introducing the program’s key business and cultural themes.
Sample Experiences:
Arrival orientation • London introduction • Global business framing • Neighborhood exploration • Welcome dinner
Day 2 | The City of London: Finance & Global Commerce
Explore the City of London and its role in global finance and commerce.
Trace the district’s history in banking, insurance, trade, and international commerce, then engage with a finance or business professional to examine how London’s historic institutions continue to shape global markets.
Sample Experiences:
City of London • Financial district • Global commerce • Banking & insurance • Industry engagement
Day 3 | Finance, Fintech & Global Markets
Examine how technology is transforming financial services and London’s role in global markets.
Meet with professionals in finance, fintech, investment, or a related field to explore digital transformation, regulation, capital markets, and changing consumer expectations. Students consider how established financial institutions and emerging companies respond to disruption and innovation.
Sample Experiences:
Finance or fintech visit • Global markets • Digital transformation • Professional engagement • Industry discussion
Day 4 | Startups, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Explore London’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and how new ideas become businesses.
Visit a startup, accelerator, innovation hub, or meet with entrepreneurs and business leaders to examine how new ventures identify opportunities, develop business models, attract investment, build teams, and scale. Students consider what makes London a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Sample Experiences:
Startup ecosystem • Entrepreneur engagement • Innovation hub • Business models • Venture development
Day 5 | Brands, Retail & Customer Experience
Turn London’s commercial neighborhoods into a field laboratory for branding and consumer behavior.
Explore how global brands, independent businesses, and emerging companies compete through branding, design, storytelling, and customer experience. Students conduct structured observations and compare how different organizations communicate value and respond to changing consumer behavior.
Sample Experiences:
Retail field study • Brand analysis • Consumer behavior • Markets • Customer experience
Day 6 | Independent London Business Field Study
Explore London independently while applying business concepts in the field.
In small groups, students complete a faculty-designed business field assignment, investigating an industry, comparing brands, analyzing customer experiences, exploring a commercial neighborhood, or examining a course-related business challenge. The day gives students greater ownership of the city while turning independent exploration into applied learning.
Sample Experiences:
Independent exploration • Business field research • Neighborhood study • Brand comparison • Student observation
Day 7 | Leadership & The Global Workplace
Explore what it means to lead and manage in a global workplace.
Meet with business professionals or organizational leaders to examine workplace culture, communication, talent, organizational structure, and leadership. Students consider how companies manage teams and customers across cultures and geographic boundaries.
Sample Experiences:
Company engagement • Leadership • Organizational culture • Cross-cultural management • Professional perspectives
Day 8 | The Future of Global Business
Explore the forces reshaping global business, from AI and digital transformation to sustainability and changing consumer expectations.
Students synthesize what they’ve learned from London’s companies, professionals, neighborhoods, and markets through a final presentation, business challenge, or faculty-led discussion. Conclude the program with a farewell dinner.
Sample Experiences:
Emerging technology • Sustainable business • Future of work • Student presentations • Farewell dinner
Day 9 | Departure
Depart London with a deeper understanding of how finance, entrepreneurship, innovation, branding, leadership, and culture intersect in a global business environment.
Sample Experiences:
Breakfast • Final reflection • Departure
Make this program your own
Start Here. Then Shape Around Your Course.
This itinerary is a starting point. Customize the academic focus, program length, company and industry visits, guest speakers, business challenges, cultural experiences, and independent exploration to align with your course objectives, students, group size, dates, and budget.
Global Business
Global markets • Strategy • Trade • Cross-cultural business
Finance & FinTech
Banking • Investment • Markets • Financial technology
Entrepreneurship
Banking • Investment • Markets • Financial technology
Marketing & Branding
Consumer behavior • Retail • Storytelling • Customer experience
Management & Leadership
Organizational culture • Global teams • Leadership
Technology & Innovation
AI • Digital transformation • Emerging business models
Sustainable Business
Responsible business • Sustainability • Social impact
Could this work for your students?
Use this program as your starting point or tell us what you'd change. We'll work with you to align the itinerary with your students, school, preferred dates, group size, and budget.
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