Be more productive: expert offers timely advice
Working from home saves commuting time but there are ways to use that extra time more wisely, says Harvard Business Review article co-authored by Dr Jochen Menges of Cambridge Judge Business School.
MBA students offer free consulting services again
Has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted your business in a big way? Does your company need help with crisis comms? Do you need help to research new opportunities? Do you need analysis to support strategic decisions?
Report examines climate targets
Extending EU Emissions Trading System to buildings and transport will require measures to protect the most vulnerable consumers, says report co-authored by Professor Michael Pollitt of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Sustainable Investment: Look more closely at corporate divestitures of carbon-heavy assets
Sustainable investment – accounting for corporate performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics – has seen spectacular growth. Companies’ carbon footprints are under particularly close scrutiny, says Robert Ritz, Senior Research Associate in Economics & Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Cancer Research UK and the Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre support cancer researchers
Cancer Research UK has announced a £10,000 sponsorship to support Cambridge Judge Business School’s Entrepreneurship Centre education programmes as part of their UK’s Entrepreneurial Programmes Initiative designed to promote an entrepreneurial culture among cancer researchers in the UK.
Gousto is 'scratching the surface', says founder as meal kit company achieves unicorn status
Meal kit company Gousto, founded by a Cambridge Judge Business School alumnus, reaches ‘unicorn’ $1bn valuation and says the boom in online food will continue after the pandemic.
Collaboration network expands in Asia Pacific
An agreement between the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and the Asian Development Bank Institute aims to accelerate tech-enabled innovation and knowledge sharing.
University of Cambridge launches the Regulatory Genome Project
The University of Cambridge has launched the Regulatory Genome Project to sequence the world’s regulatory text through machine learning.
New report looks at ways of improving philanthropy
The COVID-19 pandemic shows the need to address the North-South power imbalance in global philanthropy, says a report by the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Conflicts of interest
Financial incentives linked to unconscious bias may have driven leaders’ pandemic decisions, says an article in Scientific American by Professor Sunita Sah of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Knowledge network launched to support the sustainable development of fintech markets
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has this week launched the Cambridge Alternative Finance Collaboration Network (CAFCN), a global network providing the necessary infrastructure and expertise to deliver critical research, digital tools and education programmes, at scale, to support decision making that will positively impact the development of fintech markets globally.
Fintech growth during COVID-19
A global study jointly authored by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, The World Bank and The World Economic Forum reveals 12 out of 13 fintech sectors have grown during the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. But that growth is uneven and firms are facing significant headwinds in operations and fundraising.
Emotionally intelligent behaviour boosts employee growth, says study
Emotionally intelligent behaviour by supervisors boosts employee creativity and motivation, finds study co-authored by Dr Jochen Menges of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Green economy?
It is ‘wishful thinking’ that the UK will benefit disproportionately from new environmentally oriented policies, most of which create few jobs, says Professor Michael Pollitt of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Disney’s pivot to streaming is a sign of severe COVID economic crisis still to come
Hamza Mudassir, Visiting Fellow in Strategy at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses how Disney’s restructuring has made it more like Netflix than ever before.
Study investigates workers' acceptance of new technology
Workers often only ‘pretend’ to comply with the introduction of new technology. This can backfire on them badly, says a new study led at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Café sustainability
Footprints Café, a social venture supported by Cambridge Judge Business School, is included in the Lonely Planet Best in Travel List 2021 for its focus on community.
University endowments exploit long-horizon advantage, says study
University endowments use their long-term perspective to invest countercyclically at times of stock-market crisis, says new study at the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Frugal innovation and COVID-19
Reframing, reprioritising and repurposing has come to the fore during the coronavirus pandemic crisis, say Professor Jaideep Prabhu and Viren Lall.
New Advisory Board chair at Cambridge Judge Business School
Julian Metherell has been named the new Chair of the Advisory Board of Cambridge Judge Business School, the first Business School alumnus to hold the role.
Podcast offers 'key’ business ideas from Timpson CEO
James Timpson, CEO of key-cutting and shoe-repair business Timpson, tells the Social Ideas Podcast at Cambridge Judge Business School why the company hires ex-prisoners and terms its 4,500 employees ‘colleagues’ rather than ‘staff’.
Round and round: study examines the circular business model
Four strategies have emerged in academic studies on the “circular business model”, says article co-authored by Khaled Soufani, Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School.
AI in energy policy
A paper co-authored by Dr Kamiar Mohaddes, University Senior Lecturer in Economics & Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, develops a new framework using artificial intelligence to improve energy policy research in the Global South.
Global study reveals impact of COVID-19 on fintech regulatory innovation
A joint study by The World Bank and the Cambridge Centre For Alternative Finance highlights the accelerated pace of regulatory innovation during COVID-19.
Book on governance for sustainability wins award
A book by Dr Julia Grimm, a Research Associate at Cambridge Judge Business School, wins Best Book Award of the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management.