Episodes
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The Arab uprising
Colonel Gaddafi needs to engage the 'hearts and minds' of his people rather than deploying extreme repression to keep power, but even if he does survive, the new Libya will look more like the old Iraq says author and Middle East journalist Jim Krane, currently a doctoral candidate in energy…
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The 'fairer sex' and entrepreneurship
Women have excellent skills yet their entrepreneurial success is limited, says Dr Barakat. Entrepreneurship programmes have similar impacts on the sexes but, in absolute terms, women remain disadvantaged because they start at a lower point and their confidence and ambitions to be entrepreneurial...
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A negative 'Kodak Moment'
Five years ago Dr Kamal Munir, who has followed American company Kodak's fortunes for more than a decade, warned the company that unless it changed its strategy and embraced digital imaging and photography, its days were numbered. A few days ago Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection in…
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Corruption time bombs
Dr Stelios Zyglidopoulos and Dr Barak Ariel warn that, fuelled by the economic climate and constant pressure for performances that are not feasible given existing resources, corporate corruption is more widespread than ever. In countries where corruption is prevalent, they believe multinational...
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Coalition warned on immigration plans
As the government prepares to announce an overhaul of the UK's immigration policies, Michael Kitson says raising controls now may negatively affect the country's innovation and long-term future growth.
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Do the maths
Cambridge Judge Business School's Executive Education programmes are being boosted with the introduction of four new finance programmes offering a complete overview of financial theory and practice. Professor Raghavendra Rau explains why the current climate is a good time to learn about finance.
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What makes an MBA 'world-class'?
The former Director of the Cambridge MBA takes a global view of MBA programmes to identify a check-list for a 'world-class' MBA. The natural starting point is three key enabling factors - reputation, resource and research.
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A quiet revolution
Dr Mark Thompson, co-author of the paper Why Government IT Should Never Be The Same Again, explains why the approach to public services is shifting as a result of major changes in technology that are potentially driving major savings through new Google-like or Amazon-like open-business models...
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Government support for cluster development important
Supply-side and industrial policies being employed by government, if combined with related policies, could strengthen both clusters and the eco-system and bring advantage to the whole economic zone. Dr Pitelis points to the British government's intervention taken to support the Tech City cluster…
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When will Chinese banks change the world?
Chinese banks have the potential to threaten other banks around the world, not least because they could buy them. According to Dr Simon Taylor, the management of the banks want expansion but the government will have a view both on that and how any growth policy is pursued.
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Make proxy voting more transparent
Fresh research into the role of institutional investors suggests that several issues should be addressed in relation to proxy voting. Dr Pedro Saffi explains why investors should know what they are being asked to vote on so that they can decided whether to lend their shares or not.
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Chinese puzzle falls into place
Professor Peter Williamson explains the new Chinese approach which includes buying physical assets, companies with state-of-the-art technologies and global R&D facilities. This new strategy will, he says, impact many Western and European companies.
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Taking the long view
Dr Michael Pollitt defends the energy industry in the wake of criticism over their rising profits by their regulator Ofgem, arguing that we need to look at average profitability over a run of years. These figures, he says, should be examined in the round because some of underlying investments the...
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Gender diversity in the boardroom
It is vital for boards to become more diverse and less monochromatic explains Professor Dame Sandra Dawson. There should be more women and a greater range of people with different views and skills. Whilst she doesn't agree with a quota system, she explains why this may be necessary. Persuading…
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Fiddling whilst the ice melts
Dr Shazhad Ansari asks whether organisational academics are prepared to help build new narratives and to reconcile human and social evolution with the physical reality of climate change, or will they simply 'fiddle while the ice melts'?
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Co-operative capitalism in Japan
The economic catastrophe to the country's all important supply chains, predicted by many, has not happened. The recovery is underway largely due to an unusual brand of 'co-operative capitalism' that underpins the close and resilient Japanese business system.
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Energy prices may rise by 30%
Dr Michael Pollitt of Cambridge Judge Business School says the UK's green and carbon reduction strategies are surrounded by 'inconvenient economics', a product of the current economic situation.
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Don't fight a giant
A new study, 'Behemoths at the Gate', offers incumbents strategies to react positively to firms who are muscling their way into a sector through large scale acquisitions. The advice to those already in the market is not to go head-to-head with these incoming giants as few can take them on head-on...
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Age diversity - why it's not all good news
Research by Dr Jochen Menges sketches a sobering picture around the trend towards increasing age diversity in the workplace. There is evidence of anger, fear and disgust and employee job dissatisfaction all adding to an overall negative impact on company performance.
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Shift to services vital for UK industry
A long-awaited paper, titled 'Processes to Promise', by Professor Andy Neely, Director of the Cambridge Service Alliance, looks at the way in which complex service providers use business model innovation to deliver sustainable growth and maps out a dozen key issues that should be considered. They...
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Innovation funding myths exploded
Research by Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for Business Research (CBR) explodes three major myths that have underpinned innovation policy thinking in the UK and elsewhere for decades and identifies the importance of 'lead customers' in the innovation process. CBR Senior Research…
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Caring from the community
Public, or private? Why not social enterprise instead? Dr Helen Haugh says more funds need to be devoted to improve research on how social enterprise business models can step into the care market.
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The buck stops here
The parliamentary and police investigations into phone-hacking and corrupt practices involving journalists and their police sources will also call into question the corporate governance of not just News International but its parent, News Corporation. Professor Simon Deakin discusses the...
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Charismatic leadership
The surprising conclusion, having stripped away the mystique around charisma, is that it's not a 'vision' thing as in the Bush presidency but a much more mundane process, says Kilduff. It's about soliciting advice from people, boning up and becoming an expert, being able to give people advice,...
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A total solution
The Cambridge Service Alliance (CSA) digs down to find out what's happening in the 'Servitisation of Manufacturing'! Professor Andy Neely, Director of the CSA and Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School, looks at the trends of the future that will bring about business success and the strategic,...
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Energy sapping
It's the 'squeezed middle' may end up paying both higher energy prices and helping through taxation to subsidise those who will need government help to pay their bills, says Dr Michael Pollitt of Cambridge Judge Business School.
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Plain brown envelopes
New research by Professor Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance, places fresh light onto bribery and flies in the face of previous survey-based studies. Focusing on the initial date of award of the contract for which the bribe was paid rather than the date on which the...
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Defining public entrepreneurship
Do we fully understand what the critical differences and similarities are between the public and private sector? An award-winning paper, "Toward a theory of public entrepreneurship", by Dr Christos Pitelis of Cambridge Judge Business School, Professor Joseph Mahoney of University of Illinois at...
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Hidden connections
New research into relationships between the arts and humanities and the UK economy has revealed far greater interaction than expected. Commissioned by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the report does not fit the conventional wisdom that academics connect to businesses in the realms of...
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CEOs are overpaid
Professor Raghavendra Rau queries how executive remuneration translates into stock price performance, explaining that the results of his research are consistent with the hypothesis that overconfident CEOs opt for 'options' rather than cash and still fail to deliver what their company's…
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China's energy security
Increasingly, the security of global energy markets will continue to be performed by the US and others including China, but the America-China relationship, of which energy security is only one dimension, is the key driver for the security of energy to the world's fastest growing economy.
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Endowment asset management
Academics, investment professionals, philanthropists, directors of not-for-profit organisations and the charity sector are an under-serviced segment of the market which the School's unique week-long Endowment Asset Management programme will seek to attract as it expands its international direction.
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Motivated to innovate?
New research into the UK newspaper industry, the US car rental market and the US bond markets shows how dominant firms can be very innovative. Dr Vincent Mak explains why they do it and what macroeconomic conditions are needed to encourage these innovations.
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Noticeable by their absence
Dr Munir says that at a time when economists struggled to explain market behaviour, business schools should have grasped the chance to provide a new theoretical understanding of how markets work based on behavioural and historical evidence rather than untested assumptions.
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The weakest link?
Dr Shahzad Ansari explains why middle managers can't play a 'linking role' in the change process unless they are included in the strategy formulation of the change process.
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Don't worry be happy!
Dr Ben Hardy, Research Associate in Neuroscience, Endocrinology & Finance, says morale is related to performance. Workers with high morale believe they that they work harder, longer and communicate more effectively. Low morale can produce the reverse but not in all circumstances. An individual's...
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To AV or not to AV
So what's fairer: an 'honest' vote for the party you support, a 'tactical' vote in a system you understand, or a vote cast under AV where a 'tactical' vote is harder to make? Dr Lionel Page's new research reveals that 'sophisticated' 'tactical' voting cost the Conservatives their UK General...
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Too smart by half?
Dr Michael Pollitt, Assistant Director of the ESRC Electricity Policy Research Group, says reducing household energy consumption is the challenge for us all but 'smart measures' will work as long as consumers use the technology to guide and adjust their consumption behaviours.
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Back to the good old days
These 'eco-systems' says Peter Williamson, Professor of International Management, appear to be better adapted to cope with the demands for complex integrated solution as opposed to standardised products and services delivered in homogenous volume.
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What price energy post Fukushima?
Dr Bill Nuttall, Dr Michael Pollitt, Dr David Reiner and Dr Pierre Noël discuss European energy markets and policy in the post-Japanese earthquake era. They examine the impact on nuclear policy in the short and longer term and the implications of an extended period of high oil prices.
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Booting up Britain?
Dr Helen Haugh, an expert in social enterprise at Cambridge Judge Business School, explains the need for social enterprises to professionally assess their markets, the sustainability of their revenue streams and full costs before starting up a 'start up' if they want to be in for the long term!
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Searching to regulate Google
The EU's decision to look into the allegations about Google presents a good opportunity to revisit the regulatory system of 10 years ago. There's a need for clearer guidelines around what's illicit 'black-hat' optimisation against 'white-hat' which is permitted. Dr Michael Barrett, Reader in...
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Good CEOs are underpaid
Research among top CEOs in the US by Cambridge Judge Business School Lecturer in Finance Dr Bang Dang Nguyen clearly shows that a good CEO is worth their weight in gold, and that most are in fact paid too little. He calls for regulators to focus their efforts on making the labour market more...
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Reputation and redundancies
The 'soft HR' approach is best. Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance Dr Philip Stiles explains why brand reputation will suffer if employees are made redundant in the wrong way. Avoid the knee jerk reaction, engage the CEO to set the tone and adopt a planned approach for a successful outcome…
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For global supply read local
According to Dr Matthias Holweg, supply chains from Japanese electronics, automotive and aerospace manufacturers face short-term disruption. But in the medium- to long-term it will be business as usual for production outside Japan. However, he says that worldwide companies are being forced to...
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The myth of monetarism
Even Margaret Thatcher didn't stick to strict monetarism says Michael Kitson, Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics at Cambridge Judge Business School. With a stagnating economy and rising inflation, we need an urgent change of policy and a coherent strategy for growth. At the moment...
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Japanese market fallout
Fluctuations on Japan's financial markets may have been exaggerated in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country a week ago. Dr George Olcott explains why they will continue to be unstable until the country's nuclear crisis is resolved.
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Risky business
Michelle Tuveson, Executive Director of the Centre for Risk Studies based at Cambridge Judge Business School, explains why there will have to be changes in risk modelling going forward. The next generation of catastrophe models, she says, will need to be holistic with a greater level of...
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You're fired!
Lifting the burden of regulation on business might make the UK more competitive, but Professor Simon Deakin, Fellow in Corporate Governance at Cambridge Judge Business School, says further changes could have an adverse impact on our knowledge economy.
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Pakistan's troubled economy
To re-emerge as a stable and prosperous country Pakistan must develop its industry and rebuild its manufacturing base. Five major hurdles stand in the way of political harmony, says Dr Munir; these include regional inequality, poor energy provision, high interest rates, lack of investment in...
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