Showcasing the latest podcasts from Cambridge's business school. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/podcast_centre 19 Sep 2012 10:00:00 GMT Today the School has launched our new News and Multimedia Centre, containing the latest news and press coverage from the School, as well as online expert comment from our faculty members and guest speakers in the form of video and podcast interviews. As a result, this Podcast feed is now discontinued. Please follow the link to explore the new News and Multimedia Centre, and to subscribe to our new feeds. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/media/rss-feeds/ 120919_multimedia 04 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMT Over two-and-a-half million farmers are involved. The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange has doubled their share of the final price for their produce - coffee, sesame seed, beans and maize. Dr Eleni Gabre-Madhin, the Exchange's Chief Executive Officer, explains how. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2012/podcast_gabre-madhin_ethiopia.html 2012_gabre-madhin_ethiopia 28 Aug 2012 11:00:00 GMT Professor Raghavendra Rau suggests that the government-commissioned Wheatley Review into the LIBOR rate rigging allegations should make the banks put their money where their mouths are. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/rau_banks.html rau_banks 23 Aug 2012 17:15:00 GMT Michael Kitson calls 2010-2020 a lost decade for the world economy. What is needed now, he argues, is a high level of aggregate demand and continued investment in new technology and innovation coupled with a major shift in economic thinking. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/kitson_lost.html kitson_lost 14 Aug 2012 10:00:00 GMT Dr Jonathan Trevor is calling for a new approach to reward policy. Organisations, he says, are really struggling with the issue of performance and relative reward. It is leading to underlying conflict in the workplace, which he warns is discreet but ever present. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/trevor_conflict.html 2012_trevor_conflict 09 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMT Short-term fixes can resolve Pakistan's power crisis including changing the country's power regulatory regime which was introduced through what Dr Kamal Munir terms failed privatisation in the 1990s. Longer term, the fuel mix should be revised with greater roles for solar, wind and hydro, and the harnessing of Pakistan's massive coal reserves. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/fuel_blind.html 2012_fuel_blind 7 Aug 2012 09:30:00 GMT Dr Andreas Richter says the connection between creative self-efficacy and individual creativity is more positive than originally thought. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/richter_getting.html 2012_richter_getting 03 Aug 2012 10:15:00 GMT Leaders of established and successful organisations must recognise and react positively to the deep-seated changes taking place in an operating environment where complexity is leading to uncertainty. The alternative - to exercise greater control and improve the existing model in order to survive - has a limited shelf-life. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/trevor_tojeiro_opportunity.html trevor_tojeiro_opportunity 31 Jul 2012 10:45:00 GMT Underperforming chief executives are protected if they are part of the same social networks as their directors and even when forced out, well-connected CEOs can rely on the 'old boy' network to find new and better employment, explains Dr Bang Dang Nguyen. His new research looks into the impact of social ties on the effectiveness of boards of directors and on corporate governance. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/nguyen_does.html 2012_nguyen_does 26 Jul 2012 12:30:00 GMT Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM) symposium on 'Securing Food and Water' attracted views from business leaders, academics, politicians, civil servants, diplomats and NGOs who shared their ideas on how to ensure that future generations have sustainable and resilient access to food and water. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cibam/2012/podcast_cibam_securing.html 2012_cibam_securing 17 Jul 2012 11:15:00 GMT Only 10-15 per cent of the population is motivated strongly to go green if it's not in their own economic best interests. Dr Chris Hope explains that business is key to creating a green economy. Steps are required to ensure that businesses, looking for value-for-money in their energy supply and use, end up with a clean and green product. This can be done by making sure that anything that is dirty has a tax on it to recognise the pollution, the damage and impact caused by that dirty energy. If there is no tax or price on dirty energy and the pollution it causes, there will be no incentive for businesses to go green. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/hope_taxing.html 2012_hope_taxing 12 Jul 2012 12:45:00 GMT "To improve your productivity you need to do two things," explains Professor Roger Schmenner. "Reduce sector variation and reduce the throughput time. In doing so you will uncover all of the problems that occur in a process. You'll see what to fix and that's how the waste will come out and improvements will be made." http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/schmenner_swift.html 2012_schmenner_swift 10 Jul 2012 11:45:00 GMT Companies working in foreign markets can improve their chances of success by adapting their strategies to local differences and taking into account aspects of social, political, economic cultural and historic backgrounds, such as adapting to the role of the judiciary or what intellectual property protection means locally. "The question is, are companies really able to respond to those more difficult kinds of things that are hard to get your hands around, that can't be measured quantitatively, but are very important if we are to be successful in emerging markets?" asks Professor Peter Williamson. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/williamson_institutional.html 2012_williamson_institutional 09 Jul 2012 10:40:00 GMT Leadership plays a huge part in the transformation and visioning of the future organisation but cynicism is a major barrier in that process; and, as the operating environment becomes increasingly uncertain, vision is becoming more important than planning. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/trevor_tojeiro_vision.html 2012_trevor_tojeiro_vision 07 Jul 2012 11:00:00 GMT Dr Mark de Rond looks at why it's so hard to get teams to realise their potential, how to enable people to work more effectively on teams and why there's conflict when a team's intentions are aligned. He questions whether that conflict is harmful or if it actually helps the team dynamic. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/derond_there.html 2012_derond_there 3 Jul 2012 14:00:00 GMT Testosterone-fuelled young male city traders, on a winning streak, shift their risk preferences and take on too much risk. When they lose money in a volatile market, their hormonal response drives the financial community to being risk averse. Dr John Coates explains "We've been trying to identify the molecules and nervous pathways in the body that contribute to this transformation, that would account for shifts in risk preferences which we think destabilise the financial markets." http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/coates_hour.html 2012_coates_hour 12 Jun 2012 14:00:00 GMT Research by Professor Martin Kilduff reveals that managers who help employees to deal with negative emotions feel their actions are 'extra-role behaviour' above-and-beyond their managerial duties. Employees, he says, do not expect any reciprocation, but managers on the other hand, expect personal commitment in return and that, Professor Kilduff warns, could lead to problems. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/kilduff_service.html 2012_kilduff_service 07 Jun 2012 15:00:00 GMT CEOs of businesses in emerging economies are taking the lead over their European counterparts in understanding the importance of sustaining their 'natural capital' - the genes, species and ecosystems that together make up life of Earth. "Historically the emerging economies, particularly China, have not addressed the short-term effect they are having, with its long-term impact, on natural capital, but we've seen a growing change in that," explains Dr Rands. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/rands_natural.html 2012_rands_natural 06 Jun 2012 09:30:00 GMT Dr Jonathan Trevor and Kate Tojeiro argue the traditional, bureaucratic organisation - based on execution and efficiency - is being replaced by network-based, informal structures as the industrial age disappears. Organisations need to cultivate a model of empowerment, development and liberation of talent within an organisation, to go beyond just merely seeking to exploit efficiencies, but to do something fundamentally different without reference necessarily to those above. The key to this empowerment, however, is trust! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/trevor_tojeiro_beyond.html 2012_trevor_tojeiro_beyond 31 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT A recognised expert on energy technologies, Dr Bill Nuttall is predicting a healthy long-term future for the helium industry, with the gas playing a major part in both nuclear fission and fusion. He discusses the tensions of an evolving hi-tech demand for the gas with its unsustainable traditional fossil fuel source. Among the conclusions he makes in his co-authored book, 'The Future of Helium as a Natural Resource', are that more gas will be needed, reserves will have to be conserved and recycling must be prioritised. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/nuttall_helium.html 2012_nuttall_helium 21 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies have been described as the best way to combat climate change, but their deployment has been seriously hampered by a poor communications strategy. The information available about CCS is often too technical and fails to address public concern around the social, political and economic issues, explains Dr David Reiner. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/reiner_case.html 2012_reiner_case 15 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT Research by Dr Ben Barry, an Ogilvy Foundation scholar at Cambridge Judge Business School, into the way fashion brands use models reveals that women want those models, regardless of age or size, to inspire them with glamour, artistry and creativity, as opposed to stimulating just aspiration. His cross-cultural study of consumer response to size, age and race diversity in fashion adverting involving nearly three thousand women in North America, Canada and China also revealed strong cultural differences. In North America he found the practice of using only models who reflect the Western beauty ideal to be ineffective, whereas in China younger Chinese women actually increased purchase intention when they saw idealised Western models. Multi-regional approaches, explains Dr Barry, are therefore needed when developing successful advertising. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/phd/2012/barry_does.html 2012_barry_does 11 May 2012 11:15:00 GMT Social media needs to be seen in the context of what we're seeing as the emergence of distributed leadership, where organisations are becoming flatter, leaner, more empowered, more democratic and more knowledge intensive. According to Kate Tojeiro and Dr Jonathan Trevor, people are no longer waiting for permission from on high to engage with each other and to make something new and exciting. We're seeing a leadership change being driven by social media. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/trevor_tojeiro_leadership.html 2012_trevor_tojeiro_leadership 04 May 2012 11:30:00 GMT Levels of satisfaction, loyalty and engagement are at an all-time low but there other measures which indicate that, given the difficult environment, some leaders are managing people very well. So, which leaders are cutting the mustard and how are they doing it, ask Dr Jonathan Trevor and Kate Tojeiro. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/trevor_tojeiro_cutting.html 2012_trevor_tojeiro_cutting 25 Apr 2012 11:30:00 GMT As exploration of shale gas reserves resumes in Lancashire in the UK, a leading energy industry observer says EU legislation fails to support an important nascent industry. Dr Pierre Noël, Senior Research Associate and Director of the Energy Policy Forum at Cambridge Judge Business School, believes that European and UK energy policies should concentrate on carbon emissions with credible long-term carbon pricing or taxes. If a strategy was in place, natural gas would displace coal and so reduce carbon emissions in the short and medium terms. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/noel_shale.html 2012_noel_shale 17 Apr 2012 16:30:00 GMT Idiosyncratic portfolios and an unconventional approach are two of the findings in the first detailed analysis of John Maynard Keynes' investment philosophy, strategies and trading records by Dr David Chambers and Professor Elroy Dimson. "The popular consensus to have grown up around Keynes is that he was a fantastic investor. Whilst we have not exploded that story, we reveal it is a more nuanced story than this popular view suggests." http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/chambers_from.html 2012_chambers_from 11 Apr 2012 15:30:00 GMT One of the greatest risks to team stability, explains Dr Mark de Rond, recently returned from fieldwork with the high-performance surgical teams at Britain's Camp Bastion military hospital in Afghanistan, is boredom. Under pressure, teams of high performers function exceptionally well. But when bored, the qualities that produce exceptional performance under pressure risk destabilising the team. How do you deal with a sense of futility and boredom? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/derond_fighting.html 2012_derond_fighting 10 Apr 2012 15:48:00 GMT A Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM) panel discussion entitled 'Job Mismatch and the Pursuit of Talent' prompted a variety of views from academics and business leaders. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cibam/2012/podcast_cibam_jobmismatch.html 2012_cibam_jobmismatch 3 Apr 2012 12:45:00 GMT Michael Kitson compares the current global recession to the Great Depression of the 1930s, and feels that austerity is here for a long time unless there is a change in economic policy globally as we well as in the UK. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/kitson_rethinking.html 2012_kitson_rethinking 30 Mar 2012 09:45:00 GMT As the country gears up for a general election, Dr Kamal Munir, an advisor to the Pakistan government, warns of the tough challenges ahead. It will be difficult, he says, for one single government to turn the country's fortunes round completely; there are no shortcuts. He identifies energy provision and youth unemployment as being key issues for Pakistan's future. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/munir_reversing.html 2012_munir_reversing 28 Mar 2012 15:45:00 GMT History shows that when debtors default and crisis occur, international monetary systems are remade. A new world order will emerge from the current financial crisis, explains Philip Coggan, Buttonwood columnist and Capital Markets Editor at The Economist, and it will be governed by the creditor nation of the future, China. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mfin/2012/podcast_coggan_paper.html 2012_coggan_paper --> 22 Mar 2012 11:30:00 GMT Dr Loretta Napoleoni discusses the themes from her latest book 'Maonomics - Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do'. China, she says, has reaped the benefits of Western-invented globalisation and deregulation, yet its economic development offers lessons to the West as the West stumbles from crisis to crisis. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2012/podcast_napoleoni_maonomics.html 2012_napoleoni_maonomics 20 Mar 2012 10:45:00 GMT Luck, he says, is all about working hard to create certain capabilities so that when the opportunities arise you are the best prepared to take advantage of the opportunity. That's what people call luck. That is what luck is all about. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2012/podcast_gopalakrishnan_luck.html 2012_gopalakrishnan_luck 15 Mar 2012 10:15:00 GMT Keep your eyes and ears open, says Dinesh Dhamija, former Chairman and CEO of Ebookers.com. Nothing is too small to look at. If you can add value to a customer you have got a business. But, he warns, don't think of every angle in a business before you launch. Launch it so that you have the first mover advantage. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2012/podcast_dhamija_adding.html 2012_dhamija_adding 13 Mar 2012 11:30:00 GMT Professor Michael Barrett has been studying a mobile phone-based solution that offers financial access for populations that have no bank accounts in emerging economies. Called M-Pesa ('M' for mobile, and 'Pesa' a Swahili word for money), it was developed by Sagentia in Cambridge and Vodafone. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/barrett_calling.html 2012_barrett_calling 28 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT Brand development, partnership working and raising capital were key learning areas for Dr Eben Upton as he completed his Executive MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School and with his Cambridge colleagues launched into producing the Raspberry Pi, a tiny (the size of a credit card) low-cost computer to rekindle domestic and wider interests in computer science. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/emba/2012/podcast_upton_raspberry.html 2012_upton_raspberry 24 Feb 2012 17:15:00 GMT Professor Jaideep Prabhu recognises that although innovation is the major strategy for companies worldwide, the current economic climate is suppressing R&D budgets and traditional highly structured innovation processes. Western companies, he says, should look to the frugal and flexible approach to innovation used by countries like India, Brazil and China as they lead the way in economic growth. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/prabhu_jugaad.html 2012_prabhu_jugaad 21 Feb 2012 15:45:00 GMT Martin Lindstrom calls for an ethical line in the sand for the future development of brands using social media http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2012/podcast_lindstrom_brandwashed.html 2012_lindstrom_brandwashed 16 Feb 2012 12:15:00 GMT Efforts to save Eastman Kodak are too late, and unless it embraces digital technology, explains Dr Kamal Munir, it's unlikely to survive http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/munir_kodak.html 2012_munir_kodak 14 Feb 2012 13:15:00 GMT Dr Stelios Zyglidopoulos warns 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, he believes multinational corporations should lead the battle to stamp it out. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/zyglidopoulos_ariel_corruption.html 2012_zyglidopoulos_ariel_corruption 7 Feb 2012 10:30:00 GMT Radical changes to the UK's immigration policy are a 'kneejerk' reaction to the economic crisis warns leading economist Michael Kitson http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/kitson_coalition.html 2012_kitson_coalition 3 Feb 2012 15:30:00 GMT The current climate is a good time to learn about finance explains Professor Raghavendra Rau. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/rau_maths.html 2012_rau_maths 31 Jan 2012 13:45:00 GMT MBA programmes, once the preserve of US business schools, are now available globally. Dr Richard Barker encourages applicants to do their homework! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/barker_what.html 2012_barker_what 25 Jan 2012 11:30:00 GMT The government's out-of-date use of IT is poised to enter a new age with changes in service design and procurement. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/thompson_quiet.html 2012_thompson_quiet 19 Jan 2012 12:15:00 GMT New research shows how clusters benefit from government intervention and support following their initial organic development. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/pitelis_government.html 2012_pitelis_government 17 Jan 2012 11:45:00 GMT According to Professor Balram Bhargava, India is poised to lead the way in a decade of innovation underpinned by the need to be frugal, simple and affordable. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cchle_cigb/2012/podcast_bhargava_frugal.html 2012_bhargava_frugal 12 Jan 2012 14:30:00 GMT If we are all born with leadership potential, how do some people develop this into an ability to inspire others to follow? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2012/podcast_blair_good.html 2012_blair_good 10 Jan 2012 13:00:00 GMT It's only a matter of time before China's banks begin to make an impact on the rest of the world. By market value and profits they are among the world's biggest, and five of them are internationally the most profitable http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2012/taylor_when.html 2012_taylor_when 04 Jan 2012 10:00:00 GMT Innovation is not necessarily about patent controlled changes but about applying common sense to the way we live http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2012/podcast_stevenson_dealing.html 2012_stevenson_dealing 15 Dec 2011 11:00:00 GMT Dr Pedro Saffi 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. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/saffi_make.html 2011_saffi_make 13 Dec 2011 16:00:00 GMT Bill Browder, a leading global shareholder-rights activist and an outspoken fighter for improved corporate governance in Russia, asks can the bear be tamed http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2011/podcast_browder_losing.html 2011_browder_losing 8 Dec 2011 10:45:00 GMT Previous abject failure in the global merger and acquisitions market has prompted China to bounce back with a revised strategy http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/williamson_chinese.html 2011_williamson_chinese 29 Nov 2011 11:15:00 GMT Workforce empowerment and a global outlook, the Tata way. Paul Mills, Head of Organisation Performance, Human Resources, Jaguar Land Rover explains http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_mills_nontraditional.html 2011_mills_nontraditional 22 Nov 2011 11:45:00 GMT Professor Duane Windsor argues there are weaknesses to several important theories of corporate social responsibility practice and scholarship. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2011/podcast_windsor_american.html 2011_windsor_american 17 Nov 2011 11:30:00 GMT New report reveals spending on infrastructure in emerging markets is likely to triple in the next 20 years to meet growing population levels and increased urbanisation http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/alumni/2011/podcast_ahmad_betting.html 2011_ahmad_betting 15 Nov 2011 13:15:00 GMT Dr Michael Pollitt defends the energy industry in the wake of criticism over their rising profits by their regulator Ofgem http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/pollitt_taking.html 2011_pollitt_taking 8 Nov 2011 16:15:00 GMT Ginni Rometty, IBM's Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Sales, Marketing and Strategy, on addressing risk, inefficiency and new forms of growth in our 'smarter planet' http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2011/podcast_rometty_system.html 2011_rometty_system 1 Nov 2011 12:30:00 GMT Can the target set by Lord Davis to drive up the recruitment of female board members by 2015 be achieved, asks Professor Dame Sandra Dawson http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/dawson_gender.html 2011_dawson_gender 27 Oct 2011 14:15:00 GMT 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'? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/ansari_fiddling.html 2011_ansari_fiddling 20 Oct 2011 09:30:00 GMT 'Kill or capture' maybe a military slogan but the conditions of war have lessons for business too. Lieutenant General Andrew Graham, latterly Director General, Defence Academy of the UK, explains how adopting a military Command Leadership role can help you succeed in business. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_graham_lessons.html 2011_graham_lessons 14 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT Cambridge Service Alliance's conference 'Service innovation: Competitive advantage through new business models' saw leading industrialists discuss how to improve competitiveness, create jobs and boost their respective economies http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2011/podcast_csa_competitive.html 2011_csa_competitive 4 Oct 2011 13:30:00 GMT Japan's recovery from the widespread death and destruction wrought by the earthquake and tsunami in March is defying predictions. Dr George Olcott explains why. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/olcott_cooperative.html 2011_olcott_cooperative 30 Sep 2011 09:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/pollitt_prices.html 2011_pollitt_prices 28 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT 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 and win! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/prabhu_dont.html 2011_prabhu_dont 22 Sep 2011 10:45:00 GMT New research reveals why having an age diverse workforce can actually be bad for the emotional climate of the work environment http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/menges_age.html 2011_menges_age 19 Sep 2011 10:00:00 GMT New research reveals 12 steps for those who want to follow a business model innovation approach to service provision. The findings are also particularly relevant for policy-makers learning more about the shift towards complex services. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/neely_shift.html 2011_neely_shift 1 Sep 2011 10:45:00 GMT Why the British government and the EU should take a lead from America in their approach to procurement based innovation policies http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cbr/2011/podcast_connell_innovation.html 2011_connell_innovation 30 Aug 2011 09:45:00 GMT The vulnerable elderly could be one group to benefit if new models of social enterprise were funded and developed sooner rather than later http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/haugh_caring.html 2011_haugh_caring 1 Aug 2011 10:15:00 GMT Corporate governance is under the microscope in the investigation into the activities of News International, owners of the defunct tabloid newspaper News of the World http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/deakin_buck.html 2011_deakin_buck 28 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT The CIBAM Global Business Symposium on 'BRICS and Beyond' looks at which economies will reap rewards for investors and provide potential new markets for firms to explore http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cibam/2011/podcast_cibam_brics.html 2011_cibam_brics 26 Jul 2011 09:15:00 GMT New research by Professor Martin Kilduff into charisma and leadership of work teams has peeled away the layers of mystique around the phrase 'charismatic leadership' http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/kilduff_charismatic.html 2011_kilduff_charismatic 21 Jul 2011 09:30:00 GMT 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, economic and environmental influences. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/neely_total.html 2011_neely_total 19 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/pollitt_energy.html 2011_pollitt_energy 12 Jul 2011 11:30:00 GMT Professor Raghavendra Rau reveals that firms bribing their way to contracts under-perform for up to three years before and after securing the work for which the bribe was paid. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/rau_plain.html 2011_rau_plain 7 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT Acclaimed economist and commentator Professor Paul Krugman expects the Greek government to default on its enormous debts and would not be surprised, in the aftermath, if the country withdraws from the Euro. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2011/podcast_krugman_greece.html 2011_krugman_greece 28 Jun 2011 10:45:00 GMT Leading figures from the world of Islamic finance - Baljeet Kaur Grewal of KHR Research, Farmida Bi of Norton Rose and Richard Thomas of Gatehouse Bank - explored some of the contemporary issues with academic staff and other industry professionals. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2011/podcast_kaur_bi_thomas_islamic.html 2011_kaur_bi_thomas_islamic 21 Jun 2011 14:45:00 GMT Rory Sutherland, Executive Creative Director and Vice-Chairman of OgilvyOne, says we need place an emphasis on studying what leads people to adopt new behaviours or continue existing ones. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_sutherland_prior.html 2011_sutherland_prior 16 Jun 2011 13:30:00 GMT 'IT' or information technology will be replaced by the concept of technology as business and business as technology http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_colony_it.html 2011_colony_it 14 Jun 2011 15:15:00 GMT The private and public sectors do share common interests and entrepreneurs can work in both sectors http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/pitelis_mahoney_defining.html 2011_pitelis_mahoney_defining 9 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT New research into relationships between the arts and humanities and the UK economy has revealed far greater interaction than expected http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/kitson_hidden.html 2011_kitson_hidden 07 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT Over confident, highly incentivised chief executives fall short of shareholder expectations, a new study reveals http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/rau_ceos.html 2011_rau_ceos 31 May 2011 11:30:00 GMT China's energy security rests on the functioning of global energy markets, whose security is predominantly carried out by America. What effect has this on the US-China relationship? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/noel_china.html 2011_noel_china 26 May 2011 09:15:00 GMT 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. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/chambers_dimson_endowment.html 2011_chambers_dimson_endowment 24 May 2011 11:45:00 GMT Dr Denis Coleman, Founder of Symantec Corporation, the fourth largest software company in the world, gives us lessons from his 14 Silicon Valley start-ups. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_coleman_partners.html 2011_coleman_partners 19 May 2011 10:30:00 GMT 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. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/mak_motivated.html 2011_mak_motivated 17 May 2011 10:15:00 GMT 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. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/munir_noticeable.html 2011_munir_noticeable 12 May 2011 10:30:00 GMT Top managers 'think', whilst middle managers 'act', but shouldn't both work together to bring about change? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/ansari_weakest.html 2011_ansari_weakest 10 May 2011 12:30:00 GMT Morale in a workforce can impact productivity by between 10 and 20 per cent according to Dr Ben Hardy, who has just completed a four-year study into the subject http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/hardy_dont.html 2011_hardy_dont 05 May 2011 14:00:00 GMT Will a switch to AV be less 'fair' for the 'sophisticated' UK voter? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/page_av.html 2011_page_av 21 Apr 2011 11:30:00 GMT How do we measure 'well-being' and what is its importance to individuals and society? What matters to you? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/emba/2011/podcast_emba_wellbeing.html 2011_emba_wellbeing 20 Apr 2011 11:45:00 GMT Can the West compete with those 'dragons at our door' with their 'can do' attitudes and double-digit growth figures? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cibam/2011/podcast_cibam_china.html 2011_cibam_china 12 Apr 2011 13:00:00 GMT Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, explains the five global forces which will transform how the world looks and operates over the next few years http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_barton_your.html 2011_barton_your 14 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT The cost benefits of energy efficiency need to be weighed up, but we will be 'smarter consumers' by 2030 explains Dr Michael Pollitt. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/pollitt_smart.html 2011_pollitt_smart 12 Apr 2011 13:00:00 GMT Loosely coupled networks, like those used in medieval Britain and 14th century Tuscany, are increasingly being adopted by leading modern companies http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/williamson_back.html 2011_williamson_back 07 Apr 2011 14::00 GMT Dr Bill Nuttall, Dr Michael Pollitt, Dr David Reiner and Dr Pierre Noel 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. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/nuttall_pollitt_reiner_noel_what.html 2011_nuttall_pollitt_reiner_noel_what 07 Apr 2011 14:00:00 GMT 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! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/haugh_booting.html 2011_haugh_booting 5 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT Mark Spelman, Global Head of Strategy at Accenture, explains why you need to look at the world through a multiple lens http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_spelman_shifting.html 2011_spelman_shifting 1 Apr 2011 12:15:00 GMT The new Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship will help you shape your business idea with 360 degree feedback! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cfel/2011/podcast_cfel_diploma.html 2011_cfel_diploma 31 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT Clearer regulatory guidelines are needed to regulate Internet search engines says Dr Michael Barrett, and the EU has raised the ante by launching an investigation into claims that Google is abusing its dominant position http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/barrett_google.html 2011_barrett_google 29 Mar 2011 17:00:00 GMT Research by Dr Bang Dang Nguyen shows that good CEOs of companies which are performing well are actually underpaid http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/nguyen_good.html 2011_nguyen_good 25 Mar 2011 15:00:00 GMT Dr Philip Stiles explains why a benign and caring approach to making employees redundant can have a significant positive impact on your brand. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/stiles_reputation.html 2011_stiles_reputation 24 Mar 2011 16:30:00 GMT Events in Japan continue to impact on manufacturing supply chains. But factors other than natural disasters are reshaping the entire global supply chain system http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/holweg_global.html 2011_holweg_global 22 Mar 2011 10:30:00 GMT A change of policy is needed to generate growth, monetarism won't work by itself argues Michael Kitson. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/kitson_myth.html 2011_kitson_myth 21 Mar 2011 16:30:00 GMT 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. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/olcott_japanese.html 2011_olcott_japanese 21 Mar 2011 16:30:00 GMT 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 sophistication in areas of assessing threats systematically by reviewing the science and evidence base for threats. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/risk/2011/podcast_tuveson_risky.html 2011_tuveson_risky 18 Mar 2011 10:00:00 GMT Dr Kamal Munir says the development of a clear industrial policy is key to reversing Pakistan's economic decline http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/munir_pakistan.html 2011_munir_pakistan 18 Mar 2011 10:00:00 GMT Will changes to employment law make it easier for firms to take workers on, or will it be an erosion of workers' rights? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/deakin_fired.html 2011_deakin_fired 16 Mar 2011 14:30:00 GMT Was Japan's nuclear industry prepared? Nuclear specialist Dr William Nuttall considers the known unknowns and unknown unknowns http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/nuttall_black.html 2011_nuttall_black 15 Mar 2011 15:30:00 GMT As world leaders pin their hopes on innovation to 'jump-start' their economies, there's a stark warning from Michael Kitson that it could take decades http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/kitson_banking.html 2011_kitson_banking 15 Mar 2011 15:30:00 GMT Fundamentally, says Dr Paul Tracey, the 'Big Society' is an organisational concept, but to date employers have been excluded from the narrative http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/tracey_defining.html 2011_tracey_defining 11 Mar 2011 11:30:00 GMT Richard Baker of Virgin Active explains why the power of principles, such as value for money, efficiency, freedom, responsibility and mutuality, are necessary for successful leaders and sustainable businesses http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_baker_standing.html 2011_podcast_baker_standing 11 Mar 2011 09:30:00 GMT 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 policy at Cambridge Judge Business School. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/phd/2011/podcast_krane_arab.html 2011_podcast_krane_arab 10 Mar 2011 16:15:00 GMT By 2015, China aims to be the world's leading overseas investor, says Ambassador Liu Xiaoming. Chinese investors are looking for profitable markets, including the UK, where their interests focus on the infrastructure and service sectors, natural resources, manufacturing as well as banking and finance. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_liu_china.html 2011_podcast_liu_china 10 Feb 2011 12:45:00 GMT Dr Shima Barakat is concerned that women entrepreneurs face an uphill struggle in comparison to their male counterparts - an incline that is becoming steeper with cuts in government spending leading to the dissolution of regional development agencies http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/barakat_fairer.html 2011_barakat_fairer 28 Jan 2011 15:15:00 GMT Regulatory measures are needed says Dr Kamal Munir. It has become too commercial and profits are being made from the poorest of the poor. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/munir_microfinance.html 2011_munir_microfinance 25 Jan 2011 11:30:00 GMT Why "tomorrow's regulators" who are involved in providing public goods will need more partnerships, less red tape, and more customer feedback through social media. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/dawson_public.html 2011_dawson_public 20 Jan 2011 10:00:00 GMT Why talk up the differences when the complimentary traits of the two great emerging markets, India and China, could lead to greater opportunities, wealth and prosperity for the whole World. "Language" holds the key, says Ravi Bhoothalingam, Founder and Chair of Manas Advisory. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_bhoothalingam_chindia.html 2011_bhoothalingam_chindia 18 Jan 2011 15:00:00 GMT Itay Talgam has conducted most of the orchestras in Europe, now he conducts boardrooms! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_talgam_symphony.html 2011_talgam_symphony 13 Jan 2011 14:15:00 GMT Taking over the second largest bank in Africa led to death threats but now it's a business success story. Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Chairman of the United Bank for Africa, explains his belief in setting sights high and seizing every opportunity http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2011/podcast_beloosagie_carpe.html 2011_beloosagie_carpe 11 Jan 2011 11:00:00 GMT Dr Jonathan Trevor explores the challenges of implementing systems that generate desirable behaviour and attract and retain talent http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/trevor_can.html 2011_trevor_can 6 Jan 2011 10:15:00 GMT In an ever competitive, complex, and uncertain business environment the role of 'risk' within organisations is coming under increasing scrutiny. When is a 'risk' acceptable and where do the boundaries of 'risk' lie? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/risk/2011/podcast_crs_human.html 2011_podcast_crs_human 4 Jan 2011 11:00:00 GMT Financial systems, real estate markets and the changing face of banks, three experts give their cautiously hopeful views on how smart regulation can stimulate these interlinked sectors. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2011/podcast_taylor_lizieri_kelting_future.html 2011_podcast_taylor_lizieri_kelting_future 21 Dec 2010 10:00:00 GMT Professor Martin Kilduff and Dr Jochen Menges say their studies into the self-serving benefits of Emotional Intelligence has revealed a little understood 'dark side' that requires greater investigation! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/kilduff_menges_walk.html 2010_kilduff_menges_walk 16 Dec 2010 16:00:00 GMT Representatives from the media and academia debate the online futures of newspapers, government and higher education http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2010/podcast_global_digital.html 2010_podcast_global_digital 14 Dec 2010 14:15:00 GMT While some protest, others are convinced that public services will be transformed by 'The Big Society'! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/trevor_breaking.html 2010_trevor_breaking 9 Dec 2010 09:45:00 GMT Combining the UK's technologies and skills with China's enormous experience in improving manufacturing processes could be a winning formulation says Professor Peter Williamson http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/williamson_if.html 2010_williamson_if 7 Dec 2010 16:15:00 GMT America's regulators now rely on 'fair value' with additional historical or mark-to-market input. Europe's regulators view 'fair value' as the way forward. Unless there is a compromise on international accounting practices, investors face confusion, says Amir Amel-Zadeh. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/amelzadeh_its.html 2010_amelzadeh_its 2 Dec 2010 15:30:00 GMT Is 'Enterprise Society' a myth or a reality? Academics from Cambridge Judge Business School express their concerns about the resources needed to successfully deliver it http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/vyakarnam_pollitt_haugh_social.html 2010_vyakarnam_pollitt_haugh_social 30 Nov 2010 15:00:00 GMT Energy policy is a hot topic at the moment as Britain, along with the rest of Europe, fights to cut its carbon emissions through a number of different policy initiatives. Is there a right and wrong way to plan for our joint energy futures? Four academics from the School consider the options. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/nuttall_reiner_noel_pollitt_energy.html 2010_nuttall_reiner_noel_pollitt_energy 26 Nov 2010 16:15:00 GMT Academics from Cambridge Judge Business School have raised doubts about whether the size and speed of George Osborne's cuts will dampen the country's economic recovery and whether volunteers under the banner of working in a 'Big Society' can really take on jobs previously performed by public sector workers. Boni Sones OBE reports. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/kitson_stiles_haugh_human.html 2010_kitson_stiles_haugh_human 24 Nov 2010 11:30:00 GMT Clips from 'The Godfather' demonstrate diversification in a family business; 'Gladiator' shows the implementation of a functional strategy; and 'Jerry Maguire' illustrates the concept of values. However, films that bridge the gap between the business and corporate world and business ideas and concepts are a rare breed. Dr Hadida explains. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/hadida_lights.html 2010_hadida_lights 19 Nov 2010 13:45:00 GMT Dr Shai Vyakarnam, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, says a new Business Mentoring Network launched by the coalition government should have been tested out first. He foresees operational difficulties ahead. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/vyakarnam_devil.html 2010_vyakarnam_devil 11 Nov 2010 14:30:00 GMT A lot of time, a lot of hard work, but now Siemens AG has created a first class compliance programme and their competitors are even learning lessons from them. Mark Gough, Deputy Head of Compliance Investigations, says how they did it. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2010/podcast_gough_would.html 2010_podcast_gough_would 5 Nov 2010 14:30:00 GMT President Barack Obama's trip to India could be the start of a new level of relationship between the two nations, but some will remain suspicious until the courtship has fully matured, says Navi Radjou of the Centre for India & Global Business. He explains where India and the US currently sit on what he calls the "collaboration ladder". http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/radjou_obama.html radjou_obama 14 Oct 2010 15:00:00 GMT Sir Stuart Rose, Chairman of Marks & Spencer, and Ms Miranda Curtis, President of Liberty Global Japan, give their top business tips on learning from mistakes, why you need to take some risk in order to be successful, stamina and re-inventing oneself throughout one's career. Nice people, they explain, can get to the top - but you need to be tough! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_rose_lessons.html 2010_rose_lessons 12 Oct 2010 10:00:00 GMT Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, says that the world has changed dramatically in the last 12 months. It is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Consumers, he explains, have re-framed their lives post-crisis and will now make purchase decisions based on inter-related cultural, social and environmental considerations. However, if you're agile and fast and have the right attitude, this offers businesses plenty of opportunities. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_roberts_radically.html 2010_roberts_radically 07 Oct 2010 10:30:00 GMT "Collaborative innovation" is the new buzz word for global firms wanting to enlarge their share of the pie. Working closely together in an eco-system is a better bet than competing alone, says Dr Chander Velu. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/velu_making.html 2010_velu_making 05 Oct 2010 11:45:00 GMT Simon Murray, adventurer, entrepreneur and leading businessman, reflects on a life filled with travel and encounters with the unexpected. 80% of the world are followers, the other 20% are leaders. Leaders, he says, need to have the self-confidence to set their own paths. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_murray_tread.html 2010_murray_tread 30 Sep 2010 12:30:00 GMT Anatole Kaletsky, Principal Economic Commentator of The Times of London, says in his new book 'Capitalism 4:0' that the financial crisis is an opportunity for a more collaborative, pragmatic and successful future for both business and governments. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/alumni/2010/podcast_kaletsky_long.html 2010_kaletsky_long 28 Sep 2010 10:30:00 GMT People no longer want to be managed explains Sir Paul Judge; they want to be led. Today's mangers need to be able to relate to and to inspire their workforce. Teaching this human element of business, he says, was behind his original vision for Cambridge Judge Business School. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/alumni/2010/podcast_judge_responding.html 2010_judge_responding 23 Sep 2010 10:15:00 GMT Mr Craig Bennett, Deputy Director of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown, Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, and Mr Paul Turner, Head of Sustainable Development for Lloyds Banking Group's Wholesale Division, agree businesses need to embrace "radical" change. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/alumni/2010/podcast_bennett_nocase.html 2010_bennett_nocase 21 Sep 2010 10:00:00 GMT Ravi Kant, Vice Chairman of Tata Motors, tells us the secrets of the production process for the highly successful Tata Nano, and how the one thing that didn't change was the price - it was designed to entice those new emerging markets! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/alumni/2010/podcast_kant_reverse.html 2010_kant_reverse 16 Sep 2010 15:45:00 GMT Cambridge Judge Business School has opened a new digitalised Cadbury Archive, the gift of Cambridge alumnus Sir Adrian Cadbury, who chaired the 1992 committee on Corporate Governance. The papers, which are fully available online with unrestricted access, offer researchers a chance to review the origins of the best code of practice on how companies should be run. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cibam/2010/podcast_cadbury_comply.html 2010_id_cadbury_comply 09 Sep 2010 15:00:00 GMT Dr Chander Velu, an expert on Business Model Innovation, says firms like Google and Thomson Reuters are already aware of how new technology and new entrants to their markets are leading to radical change in their sectors. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/velu_business.html 2010_velu_business 02 Sep 2010 10:00:00 GMT Dr Ramesh Mashelkar is helping to lead the 'inclusive technology' revolution in India, with 28 honorary doctorates to his name, he told the Centre for India & Global Business how science was a changing landscape. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cigb/2010/podcast_mashelkar_where.html 2010_mashelkar_where 26 Aug 2010 15:15:00 GMT Dr Michael Barrett has been finding out how one mobile phone service called "MPESA", which is linking people in Kenya to financial services, has become a "phenomenally successful" business unit within Vodafone. It all began as a CSR project. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/barrett_upwardly.html 2010_barrett_upwardly 19 Aug 2010 10:15:00 GMT What will the new world order look like, who will do well, and what changes are needed if companies are to survive and emerge stronger out of the recession? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cibam/2010/podcast_cibam_new.html 2010_podcast_cibam_new 17 Aug 2010 10:00:00 GMT There is no definable body of knowledge that constitutes the skills of management says Dr Richard Barker, a former Director of the Cambridge MBA. It has no professional body controlling membership, enabling practice or exclusion and there can never be one because "management does not have a narrowly defined body of knowledge http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/barker_management.html 2010_barker_management 13 Aug 2010 12:45:00 GMT Dr Bill Nuttall and Professor Robin Grimes discuss options for a "Two-Stage Nuclear Renaissance" in the journal Science. We need to prepare and plan for expansion now in order to have sufficient options for nuclear power in the future, says Dr Nuttall. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/nuttall_empowering.html 2010_nuttall_empowering 10 Aug 2010 10:30:00 GMT Author and Middle East journalist Jim Kane, who has just completed an MPhil in Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, says the showdown between BlackBerry, Saudi and UAE is soon likely to result in a backdown! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mphil/2010/krane_banning.html 2010_krane_banning 29 Jul 2010 10:45:00 GMT Dr Peter Piot, Director of the Institute for Global Health, Imperial College, draws on his experience at the United Nations to explain why Aids needs business to provide the leadership of the future. Good leadership, he says, is about running programmes not based on opinion polls but on what is good for society. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_piot_politics.html 2010_piot_politics 27 Jul 2010 10:15:00 GMT Long and short term orientation are largely determined by culture says Professor Geert Hofstede, author of 'Culture and Organisation', currently in its third edition. China, with its long term orientation, was bound to succeed, and other eastern cultures will follow, he says. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cihrm/2010/podcast_hofstede_neuro.html 2010_hofstede_neuro 16 Jul 2010 10:00:00 GMT Ben Barry, a PhD student at Cambridge Judge Business School, has conducted new research into the global consumer mind set. It shows that women are more likely to purchase a fashion product when they see a model who resembles them. It all began with that famous "Dove" campaign. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/podcast_barry_body.html 2010_barry_body 08 Jul 2010 15:30:00 GMT Author, economist and political analyst Loretta Napoleoni has been tracing the intertwined roots of the world's monetary systems and the business of terrorism. The phenomenally fast pace of the global technological shift is leading to 'rogue economics' - grey areas where there is yet no regulation and where criminals and terrorists can win on the money markets. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_napoleoni_terrorism.html 2010_napoleoni_terrorism 08 Jul 2010 15:30:00 GMT Tough cutbacks in public spending could be mitigated by a new Climate Change Tax says Dr Chris Hope. A Climate Change Tax of £75 per tonne of carbon dioxide would allow a drop in income tax and replace the need for a hike in VAT; infact it could lead to VAT being reduced back down to 15 per cent. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/hope_killing.html 2010_hope_killing 18 Jun 2010 11:00:00 GMT Dr Chris Tyler is the new Executive Director of CSaP (Centre for Science and Policy) based at Cambridge Judge Business School. Their seminars, policy placements, fellows and workshops will bring together leading academic strategists and those charged with taking policy into government at the highest level. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/tyler_building.html 2010_tyler_building 18 Jun 2010 11:00:00 GMT Rory Sutherland, Vice-Chairman of Ogilvy Group, says we've got too hung up on trying to quantify human behaviour. We need to revert to our basic instincts to understand how consumers make their choices. What's wrong, he asks, with 'subjectivism'? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_sutherland_human.html 2010_sutherland_human 18 Jun 2010 11:00:00 GMT The sin of a start-up, says Peter Hiscocks, Fellow in Entrepreneurship, is to be "under-capitalised"; but, he explains, there is a real gap between seed funding and larger venture capital investment. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/hiscocks_please.html 2010_hiscocks_please 15 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GMT Knowledge workers of the future may not respond to traditional management models of 'command and control', says Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director of Cambridge Judge Business School. Instead, they need to be seduced! His 'Collaborative Leadership' model supports the use of 'communities' of people 'co-acting' without hierarchy to successfully solve the complex and interconnected problems the world faces. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/demeyer_knowledge.html 2010_demeyer_knowledge 15 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GMT Pam Garside's new report "Out of Hospital Care - Lessons from the US" explains why technological advances that have lead to the development of pressure sensitive carpets, talking pill bottles that say when to take medicine and applications for mobile phones will enable patients to be successfully treated at home in the UK. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/garside_delivering.html 2010_garside_delivering 15 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GMT Jeremy Darroch, CEO of BSkyB, explains why renewal and change are the key to success at all levels of business: "If you stop changing, you stop improving and then someone else will step in and be successful where you once were". The need to orientate oneself around one's customers is vital and will provide a commercial advantage. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_darroch_change.html 2010_darroch_change 8 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT Profit, says Lord Browne, former CEO of BP, and MD of Riverstone Holdings, is best created by "responding to the needs of society". His new book, Beyond Business, radiates new ideas and draws lessons for future leaders; he explains some here. Lord Browne is also Chairman of the Advisory Board at Cambridge Judge Business School. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_browne_radiating.html podcast_browne_radiating 8 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT "Inclusive growth" and "affordable innovation" are terms gaining ground in India as new business models to satisfy cost-conscious and ecologically-aware customers globally are developed. Professor Jaideep Prabhu and Mr Navi Radjou went to India to investigate and reveal some interesting tips for the West. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cigb/2010/prabhu_radjou_more.html prabhu_radjou_more 8 Jun 2010 17:00:00 GMT Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, considers global liquidity levels and sees signs of renewal. He also offers lessons he's learned during his career, from why you need to "dream a big dream" to recruiting the 'agents of change', the number "10s"! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_schwarzman_dream.html podcast_schwarzman_dream 27 May 2010 09:30:00 GMT Dr Omar Merlo, a University Lecturer in Marketing and Strategy, says Facebook and other new media tools bring with them new risks for brand management. The challenge is identifying, and immediately responding via the right channels, if they threaten your reputation. YouTube and Facebook users, he says, have changed the face of marketing forever. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/merlo_facebook.html 2010_merlo_facebook 27 May 2010 09:30:00 GMT Jochen Menges, Lecturer in Human Resources and Organisations, says the new epidemic affecting us is speed. He explains that simply working harder isn't always good for profitability. It can lead to what he calls "the acceleration trap" and organisational burn out. Breaking free of that "speed" trap is the challenge facing managers. Now is the time to ask: "what can I stop doing?" http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/menges_acceleration.html 2010_menges_acceleration 27 May 2010 09:30:00 GMT What price the CSR budget? Even Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) budgets need to show a return. Professor Jaideep Prabhu of Cambridge Judge Business School and Ardi Kolah of 'Guru in a Bottle' have launched a ground breaking new study to measure the Return on Investment (ROI) from CSR outcomes from sports sponsorship with UK cricket, rugby and football and the 2012 Olympic partners. If advertisers can measure their impact on the bottom line so should CSR investors! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/prabhu_budget.html 2010_prabhu_budget 14 MAY 2010 12:45:00 GMT Companies coming out of the recession are increasingly looking to India and China for new markets to penetrate and develop but, when they do, what lessons can they learn from other big players in the take-over business in countries like Japan and how should they manage those large "virtual teams" that criss-cross the globe? And would closer political union help the EU countries to compete in these emerging markets? Boni Sones reports in this Cambridge Judge Business School Spring 2010 documentary podcast. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/quarterly_2010spring.html quarterly_2010spring 28 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT Michael Kitson considers the effectiveness of the economic policies of the three main parties to continue Britain's recovery. He warns of the dangers of a quick deficit cut, why the public sector needs to step in to maintain economic activity and rates the claims a coalition government will lead to an economic crisis as scaremongering. Wealthy countries, he says, do spend more on the public sector; however it is up to the electorate to vote for what they want - a bigger public sector with better services or smaller with higher taxes? http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/kitson_economy.html 2010_kitson_economy 28 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT While the UK is unlikely to introduce American or Japanese "poison pill" remedies in hostile takeovers, boards of UK companies could be given more autonomy to balance worker and shareholder interests, says Simon Deakin, Professor of Law at Cambridge University and Cambridge Judge Business School Fellow. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/deakin_crafty.html 2010_deakin_crafty 27 Apr 2010 17:30:00 GMT The conference "The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics" brought together economists from all over the globe to King's College Cambridge, the home of the father of economics John Maynard Keynes. Just as importantly these economists shared different views on the correct approach to the 200 year old discipline. Their solutions for the current economic crisis were equally contradictory. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/cjbs/2010/podcast_economic_crisis.html 2010_economic_crisis 23 Apr 2010 09:20:00 GMT Member of The Council for Science and Technology Professor Alan Hughes explains why despite anticipated cuts in scientific funding, the future for science research in the UK has an excellent outlook. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/hughes_excellence.html 2010_hughes_excellence 14 Apr 2010 18:50:00 GMT The impact of the new Obama Health Reform Bill will be felt beyond America as it places a magnifying glass on cross-national challenges such as healthcare innovation, healthcare spending, transparency of processes and greater accountability says Dr Jim Rice, a US academic and Senior Fellow of the Centre for Health Leadership and Enterprise at Cambridge Judge Business School. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/rice_healthy.html 2010_rice_healthy 26 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT The Hotel Chocolat duo of Peter Harris and business partner Angus Thirwell have built up a 52 million pound turnover business with 33 retail outlets, and hope to grow it to 100 million and 70 shops. They've expanded during the recession. Here's their secret recipe for success. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_harris_candy.html 2010_harris_candy 26 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT The global credit crisis nearly destroyed the world's banking systems. Back then the "arrogant" bankers gambled with our money, now a new investment ethos means the "humble" will succeed. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_corley_humbling.html 2010_corley_humbling 24 Mar 2010 11:30:00 GMT Be passionate, follow your dreams and go that extra mile, says Indian food writer Pinky Lilani OBE. She is co-founder of the Asian Women of Achievement Awards and one of the RBS 100 most entrepreneurial women in the UK. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_lilani_change.html 2010_lilani_change 24 Mar 2010 11:30:00 GMT Dr Christos Pitelis says every crisis is an opportunity. Greece maybe the focus of attention now for the Eurozone, but there are lessons for all to learn. Austerity, he says, is the new buzz word. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/pitelis_crisis.html 2010_pitelis_crisis 22 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT Robert Prechter, a leading technical analyst and author (of "The Elliott Wave Principle"), who predicted the current debt crisis, says economics and finance are two separate fields. Markets he says are "frisky" and respond to "herding" instincts in people not hard and fast science. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mfin/2010/podcast_prechter_traditional.html 2010_prechter_traditional 16 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT In a remarkable exchange Professor Peter Williamson in Bejing and Professor Jaideep Prabhu in Bangalore explore the Chinese and Indian economies and compare them with the West's. Innovation, says Professor Prabhu, will benefit all, but Professor Williamson says the West will become a museum. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/prabhu_williamson_western.html 2010_prabhu_williamson_western 16 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT As head of KPMG's Europe Middle East and Africa Region, John Griffith-Jones is in charge of 105 countries. He says governments need to regulate to guard against bad practice, and that risk management modelling won't solve all of those tricky problems. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_griffithjones_risk.html 2010_griffithjones_risk 16 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT Kola Karim, CEO of Shoreline, has nurtured many companies to success. He now employs 5,000 people of different nationalities and says his local knowledge of Nigeria and Africa is the key to his successful business innovation. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_karim_local.html 2010_karim_local 24 Feb 2010 13:30:00 GMT Geographically diverse teams in multinational companies maybe harder to manage than traditional teams, but these collaborative virtual teams are becoming increasingly important. According to Professor Lynda Gratton, one of only two women in The Times' Top 50 Thinkers in the World, the very make-up of teams gives them an ability to innovatively solve complex problems. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cihrm/2010/podcast_gratton_virtual.html 2010_gratton_virtual 24 Feb 2010 13:00:00 GMT The business model for One Laptop Per Child is more like academia than social enterprise, says Charles Kane, but with only 30 staff, 1.5 million laptops have already reached the developing world. Education is what underpins the success of a nation, he explains. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_kane_education.html 2010_kane_education 16 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT What do John Deere, Cisco, and Obopay have in common? All are a new breed of enlightened Western firms that have embraced what Navi Radjou calls "polycentric innovation". He explains what this means and why the next ten years are being labeled a decade of innovation for India. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/radjou_decade.html 2010_radjou_decade 16 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT Peter Hiscocks is working with the government of Abu Dhabi to put innovation at the heart of the oil rich nation's economic plans. Innovation networks, Peter says, are key to its future. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/hiscocks_even.html 2010_hiscocks_even 12 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT Mechanics and engineering are Toyota's traditional strengths but now it finds itself in the eye of a storm. Toyota President Akio Toyoda has apologised for the recall of millions of cars across the world. Dr George Olcott says management can learn and move on into a new future if they identify and address the issues effectively now. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/olcott_total.html 2010_olcott_total 12 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT Fundamentally there is a certain irony that a material that is so important for a future low-carbon society is itself a by-product of natural gas. Without a fossil fuel industry what would we do for helium? Dr William Nuttall considers the implications of helium supplies and demands. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/nuttall_rising.html 2010_nuttall_rising 10 Feb 2010 10:45:00 GMT If you want to be successful with business in China you need to go in the right direction at a reasonable speed says Lord Leon Brittan, who first visited China in 1978. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_brittan_china.html 2010_podcast_brittan_china 1 Feb 2010 15:30:00 GMT Have you ever thought of starting up an entrepreneurial business of your own or dreamed of joining one of those famous names of the start-up industries such as Google, Flickr, LinkedIn, Kiva, Twitter, or the Carbon War Room? Well while you may not have been able to hop over to Silicon Valley to see what's going on there, serial entrepreneurs Sherry Coutu and Reid Hoffman helped Cambridge Judge Business School bring Silicon Valley here instead for the second time. The idea was to foster and develop relationships between the leading entrepreneurs, angels and investors and the would-be success stories of the future in order to expand the UK's innovation capacity and promote economic growth. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cfel/2010/podcast_siliconvalley.html 2010_podcast_siliconvalley 1 Feb 2010 11:30:00 GMT Using averages to calculate risk is leading risk management modelling astray says Professor Sam Savage. It ensures everything is behind schedule, beyond budget and below projection. Here he discusses both the problems and the "cures". http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/savage_figure.html 2010_podcast_savage_figure 19 Jan 2010 14:00:00 GMT Dr George Olcott's new book "Conflict and Change: Foreign Ownership and the Japanese Firm" takes a look at the challenges that beset modern Japanese corporations as they try to adapt to a globalised environment. Dr Olcott gets to the heart of the debate. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/olcott_conflict.html 2010_podcast_olcott_conflict 15 January 2010 17:00:00 GMT The UK is in the red, we've borrowed and borrowed, and continue to do so, but Michael Kitson warns it can't go on. We must get the balance of payments to balance again and increase investment and innovation. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/kitson_balance.html 2010_podcast_kitson_balance 12 Jan 2010 14:50:00 GMT In the brave new world of work employees may be less reliant on employers to offer a secure future and more reliant on their own commitment. The enterprising will succeed, says Dr Jonathan Trevor. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2010/trevor_virtual.html 2010_podcast_trevor_virtual 12 Jan 2010 14:50:00 GMT Science, technique and instinct all play their part when you are setting out, says Vittorio Colao, Group CEO of Vodafone; but if you work well, merit will prevail. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2010/podcast_colao_merit.html podcast_colao_merit 11 Jan 2010 15:05:00 GMT Damian Miller set up his company 'Orb Energy' in India after working for Shell and completing his PhD at Cambridge Judge Business School. His new book, Selling Solar, looks at solar technology in the emerging countries and how it can stimulate local economies. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cigb/2010/podcast_miller_power.html podcast_miller_power 22 Dec 2009 17:10:00 GMT That was the year that was 2009: it all began with the collapse of the sub-prime housing market in America, and the rest, as they say, is now history. The 2008 and 2009 recession saw consumption fall for the first time in 20 years, and that slow-down in America spread to countries as far apart as the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, China, India and New Zealand. However, while some were officially in recession having experienced two consecutive quarters of negative growth, others such as India and China avoided it. Australia even managed positive growth. All year experts at Cambridge Judge Business School have been offering advice to those affected by the "slump". Here Boni Sones reviews what they said. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/quarterly_2009winter.html 2009_quarterly_2009winter 22 Dec 2009 14:20:00 GMT The recession is being felt by business schools around the globe. The future will be tough, good business schools will survive and transform themselves, but others will rationalise. What we need is a new model; what we need is "a school for business", Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director of Cambridge Judge Business School, explains. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/demeyer_school.html 2009_demeyer_school 17 Dec 2009 17:30:00 GMT Professor Alain Verbeke, guest speaker at the 2009 CIBAM Distinguished Lecture, has written International Business Strategy that will have boardrooms poring over its every word in great detail. It dispels guru messages using real cases and constructs a new framework for the essence of international business strategy and the foundations of global corporate success. Gurus, he thinks underestimate the complexity of the markets. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cibam/2009/podcast_cibam_rethinking.html podcast_cibam_rethinking 8 Dec 2009 17:30:00 GMT "The Global Water Initiative: Implications of Climate Change and Variability on African Water Resources", a three day conference co-ordinated by Judge Business School's Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies and held at Downing College, University of Cambridge, brought together academics from all over the World to openly debate these truly daunting questions of environmental sustainability in the face of climate change. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cces/2009/podcast_cces_water.html podcast_cces_water 30 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT The debate over whether China's double digit growth rate can be sustained has taken a new twist, with Professor Peter Williamson arguing that by cultivating its growing internal markets China's futures is rosy. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/williamson_made.html 2009_williamson_made 30 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT Complex organisations can share a common approach to crisis management and communication is key. According to General Hayden, former head of the CIA, in order to be successful, leaders brought in to implement radical decisions need to listen and fully assess their organisation and accommodate where it is in its life cycle before instigating change. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_hayden_mission.html podcast_hayden_mission 5 Nov 2009 16:40:00 GMT The film industry is moving from a Hollywood dominated culture to a peer-to-peer environment as more emerging countries structure global partnerships. Parminder Vir OBE, Executive Producer and Media Consultant, believes this shift requires a re-think, especially by the West, of market entry strategies which take into account different cultures and different rhythms. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cigb/2009/podcast_vir_shifting.html podcast_vir_shifting 5 Nov 2009 16:40:00 GMT According to Dr David Reiner, new financial instruments to even out the impact of global warming between the third world and the developing world could help world leaders progress their attempts to reach agreement on climate change at the UN Road to Copenhagen talks. But he believes success is dependent upon getting both China and India to sign up. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/reiner_decarbonising.html 2009_reiner_decarbonising 5 Nov 2009 16:40:00 GMT We are entering a new era of renewable energy generation, says Dr Michael Pollitt, where interactive networks, smart electricity meters and energy saving devices on consumer lights and heaters will help tackle climate change. This increased 'smartness' and functionality will also lead to the generation of new and exciting business models and the rise of energy service companies, Dr Pollitt explains. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/pollitt_rewiring.html 2009_pollitt_rewiring 27 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT Partho Sen-Gupta, Director of Hava Aney Dey ("Let the Wind Blow"), talks about the new frontiers facing the Indian film industry as it engages with the West, and considers the exciting opportunities, technologies and challenges this blending of cultures will produce. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cigb/2009/podcast_sengupta_bombay.html podcast_sengupta_bombay 27 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT NHS managers may well have to bite the bullet and accept a pay freeze in the coming year, but if it is executed in the right way and shown to benefit the NHS it may not demotivate staff. The right leadership is key to implementing such top down decisions that directly impact on people's pay, lifestyles and pensions, argues Dr Jenny Dean, but if NHS leaders engage with managers to make them see the longer term benefits it will make any freeze easier to shoulder. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/dean_public.html 2009_dean_public 27 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT Dr Chris Hope says the issues of deforestation and financial compensation to encourage developing countries to protect their forests must be addressed at the Copenhagen talks. He argues deforestation is costing the world tens of trillions of dollars in its impacts and although geo-engineering devices can be used to redress CO2 emissions, the cheaper option is to prevent the tropical forests from being destroyed in the first place. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/hope_seeing.html 2009_hope_seeing 17 Aug 2009 16:10:00 GMT Being a 'good BRIC': how the rising BRIC economies can be a win-win for the global economy. As the "are we"/"aren't we" debate continues around Britain's early or late emergence from the global recession it is clear that the so called "BRIC" economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are proving somewhat more resilient to the global economic downturn suffered by the Western economies. So how much can we learn from them about developing these new growing middle class markets abroad and how much do they still need our skill set in terms of their recent mergers and acquisitions? Boni Sones spoke to academics and guest speakers at Judge Business School in Cambridge to find out. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/quarterly_2009summer.html 2009_quarterly_2009summer 3 Aug 2009 14:15:00 GMT According to Michael Kitson, the recession will be deeply protracted and U-shaped, not W-shaped as some are forecasting, leaving permanent scars on the economy in the form of lost economic capacity. The financial sector will not fully recover to be as significant a share of the economy as it was pre-shock; the adverse effect on long-term investment will reduce productive capacity in the future and the country will not be allowed to draw in as much import as previously. The challenge, he explains, will be to produce strategies to replace this lost capacity. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/kitson_shape.html 2009_kitson_shape 28 Jul 2009 15:51:00 GMT We are all born creative; however, Dr Allègre Hadida argues that in the work environment we are not all creative equals. In some, creativity flourishes while others learn to suppress their individual creativity. Dr Hadida has been running creative business workshops with the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, and believes that there are ways in which businesses can tap into the creative side of the brain and in so doing, double their workforces without doubling their costs! http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/hadida_creative.html 2009_hadida_creative 28 Jul 2009 15:50:00 GMT Historically, Japanese firms have not been prominent players in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. In industries where this is the normal route for expansion, this reticence has been holding its firms back. Determined not to be upstaged by countries like India, China and Korea in breathing new life into its companies, Japan is instigating global mergers in sectors as diverse as brewing, sheet glass, and banking. Dr George Olcott has been studying the issues and cultural differences behind these recent mergers and acquisitions. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/olcott_doing.html 2009_olcott_doing 20 Jul 2009 15:50:00 GMT It was billed as the Cambridge Chapter launch of '85 Broads', a global network of trailblazing, visionary women who aspire to use their talent and leadership savvy to affect change for all women globally. The speakers at the day-long conference offered advice on how to overcome adversity, how to make the recession an advantage, why it's good not to fear failure and how to find the resources to keep digging deep. It clearly 'inspired', 'connected' and 'transformed' the many women who attended it. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_85broads.html podcast_85broads 20 Jul 2009 15:50:00 GMT Services science has become one of the major areas of research into the nature of innovation within organisations and within national economies. Judge Business School, in conjunction with IBM, a leading organisation at the vanguard of services science research, recently designed an elective on services sciences for its current MBA class. Key speakers Kevin Bishop, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Northeast Europe, IBM, Michael Lyons, Manager, BT Group Chief Technology Office, and David Simoes-Brown, Head of Open Innovation at NESTA, speak about the benefits of such courses, which provide a structured framework and the core skills necessary for developing innovative concepts. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_ibm_emerging.html podcast_ibm_emerging 14 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT Sir Nicholas Serota is Director of the Tate. It is said of him, that Tate Modern, would just be a room added onto Tate Britain, without his personal vision, drive and restlessness. Sir Nicholas has a few surprising tips for managers wanting to effect change in their organisations, including the "gem" that you should appoint people around you who challenge your own views. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_serota_challenging.html podcast_serota_challenging 14 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT Antenna Group operates TV, radio and online businesses and distributes content around the world, offers tips on capturing value ahead of a crisis. Mr Kyriakou discusses how entrepreneurial vision and foresight can both recognise and create opportunity using the NOVA Televizia case study as an example. The NOVA Televizia sale, which was closed on 15 October 2008 for a modest $3m, realised one of the highest ever rate of return on investment in media and confounded falling valuation trends, when it was sold eight years later for €628m as a cash asset disposal to Sweden's Modern Times Group (MTG). http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cibam/2009/podcast_kyriakou_anatomy.html podcast_kyriakou_anatomy 10 Jul 2009 15:52:00 GMT IBM's Steve Street explains why the financial meltdown, which demonstrates the limitations of a purely financial model, will motivate a move towards multiple sources of value. Services are crucial for our economy, the crisis has shown this very clearly, therefore it makes sense to look more scientifically at this important part of our society. We are, Steve believe, on the cusp of a radical transformation in the way services are delivered. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_street_services.html podcast_street_services 10 Jul 2009 11:04:00 GMT The Centre for India and Global Business at Judge Business School in Cambridge is creating a new dialogue for Western understanding of the emerging markets in India and China. On the one hand the rise of India and China as fast-growing global markets and world-class sources of innovation threatens the West but on the other the West needs a greater understanding of how it can succeed in these new giant Asian markets. Each needs the other but economic and cultural differences often hinder business development. At a special two day Conference entitled "Innovation in India and China", Navi Radjou, Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business, and Jaideep Prabhu, Nehru Professor of Indian Business, brought leading minds from the worlds of business, marketing, film, fashion and culture together to enable East and West to meet and find out how to create value from these emerging markets. Boni Sones reports. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cigb/2009/podcast_cigb_innovation.html podcast_cigb_innovation 29 Jun 2009 19:42:00 GMT Lord Dennis Stevenson was previously Chairman of HBOS, and until recently was also Chairman of Pearson, the world's largest educational publisher and owner of the Financial Times. He is a member of Judge Business School's Advisory Board and is also Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission. As part of the Cambridge Leadership Seminars, he told MBA students how he got started on his high flying career, why he thought Britain was pulling out of the recession, and urged them to consider jobs both in enterprise and in the public sector. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_stevenson_leadership.html podcast_stevenson_leadership 29 Jun 2009 19:23:00 GMT Maurice Levy, Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, and Kevin Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, are definitely "opposites" who attract. Together they have built up a successful global brand which dominates the world of advertising. It was, says Maurice, a "simple" vision to value our "people" and to trust in them. Now the Publicis Groupe is one of the world's top four leading advertising and communications organisations. Maurice Levy speaks about his agency, his views on building a brand and multinational company in the age of globalisation and his opposite half and "twin mind" Kevin Roberts. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_levy_national.html podcast_levy_national 25 Jun 2009 09:00:00 GMT Could the current financial crisis have been predicted from historians knowledge of past down turns and depressions globally? Dr David Chambers, University Lecturer in Finance and Deputy Director of the School's Master of Finance programme, thinks so. An analysis of what happened in the crash of the 1930s may prove a good way to predict how long it may take us to get out of the current financial difficulties. Structural problems, Dr Chambers says, need to be faced up to before a recovery is likely, and there could well be a few false dawns along that road to recovery. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/chambers_lessons.html 2009_chambers_lessons 25 Jun 2009 09:00:00 GMT Senator Yves Leterme, Former Prime Minister of Belgium, compares the Anglo-Saxon and the Rhineland models of socio-economic development The current economic crisis he believes has stemmed from an over purification of neo-liberalism, which saw many economies move from over-regulation, to de-regulation, to self-regulation to non-regulation. The cure? A blending of the best of the Anglo-Saxon and Rhineland systems. Senator Leterme explains how. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_leterme_neoliberalism.html podcast_leterme_neoliberalism 18 Jun 2009 16:45:00 GMT Not since the winter of discontent in 1979 has our economic and social well-being, societally and personally, been so dependent on how effectively people, as human capital, are managed. Ineffective HRM can inhibit organisational performance, destroy value and competitiveness; Dr Jonathan Trevor explains how the current financial crisis is an example of just such a human capital crisis. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/trevor_human.html 2009_trevor_human 18 Jun 2009 16:25:00 GMT Professor Peter Guthrie discusses some of the barriers to improving energy efficiency measures in the built environment. He explains that a staggering 75% of existing buildings in the UK were built before 1975 and that the vast majority of these will still be in use in 2050. The technologies to retro-fit these buildings and improve their energy efficiency already exists. What is needed, he argues, is a real-time change of behaviour. Working with the property group Grosvenor on these issues, he explains how he hopes their new research with help influence built environment policies. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/guthrie_energy.html 2009_guthrie_energy 16 Jun 2009 09:00:00 GMT Professor Martin Kilduff considers how our effectiveness in our jobs is influenced by our social networks. His paper "Job Design: A Social Network Perspective" is an Aladdin's cave of good tips for managers and employees alike. Professor Kilduff explains how our colleagues around us and our informal groupings in the workplace play a significant role in how effectively we carry out our jobs. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/kilduff_social.html 2009_kilduff_social 16 Jun 2009 09:00:00 GMT Dr Eden Yin and Dr Omar Merlo discuss the importance of marketing and brand building during a recession and warn that long term value creation must not be sacrificed to short term challenges. They explain how companies that survived previous recessions all continued to invest in their brands during these down turns, eventually emerging stronger. The answer: striking a delicate balance between maintaining a consistent brand image and flexible brand management. Drs Yin and Merlo explain how this can be achieved. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/yinmerlo_budget.html 2009_yinmerlo_budget 29 May 2009 09:00:00 GMT Dr Matthias Holweg explains why the UK government needs to stop its ambivalent attitude towards the declining UK car industry, which although still competitive, is very fragile. It needs to fight for it now if it wants to save it and retain a balanced economy. If not, it faces having an economy built solely on the services industries, which as Dr Holweg points out, is a dangerous strategy as the recent crisis shows. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/holweg_britain.html 2009_holweg_britain 29 May 2009 16:02:00 GMT Now is the right time for the social enterprise business model to rise to the top of the agenda, argues Dr Helen Haugh. Its pro-social approach offers opportunities to find new ways of delivering existing services and delivering new services to meet un-met needs. This social innovation can be used to address various intractable problems that society faces globally around health issues, access to healthcare, inequality, education, poverty and social exclusion. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/haugh_rebuilding.html 2009_haugh_rebuilding 29 May 2009 15:56:00 GMT The recent Darzi report recommends an increase in clinical leadership in the NHS. Whilst Professor Stefan Scholtes believes it is important to have more clinicians on the board, he cautions that this approach needs to be thoughtfully implemented, arguing that the key is to motivate clinicians to want to become managers, and to then train them up, equipping them with the necessary managerial skills to make economically sensible decisions about the distributions of resources. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/scholtes_clinical.html 2009_scholtes_clinical 27 May 2009 19:20:00 GMT In these credit crunch times, organisations need to be able to act smarter and effectively do more with the less. Highly motivated and talented people will therefore be at a premium. However, what makes these individuals creative and innovative can also make them tricky to manage. So, how should organisations best maximise these volatile and strong-willed premium resources? Dr Mark de Rond, drawing on his unique research into the team dynamics of the Cambridge boat race team, offers advice on how to resolve the tensions that naturally arise in high performance teams. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/derond_managing.html 2009_derond_managing 27 May 2009 19:20:00 GMT Do men and women really have different management styles? Professor Dame Sandra Dawson talks about why she believes we need more women in the board rooms, her thoughts on why this should not be legislated for and the problem with the real and imaginary glass ceilings. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/dawson_women.html 2009_dawson_women 20 May 2009 18:00:00 GMT Today's ICT revolution is changing the way corporations, governments and non-profits are organised. The pyramid hierarchy is being replaced by a complex network of nodes where command and control has little leverage. Successful leaders will now be those who can demonstrate collaborative skills, achieving results by working with their peers; influencing, seducing and convincing them. They also need to have a friend in Lady Luck. Professor Arnoud De Meyer explains the role business schools need to play in this cultural shift. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/demeyer_logic.html 2009_demeyer_logic 20 May 2009 18:00:00 GMT One of the authors of the recent Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs report by the World Economic Forum explains why entrepreneurship is in fact a social movement and not purely the function of elite business schools. He argues that entrepreneurship can be taught and indeed must be taught to all. It has the ability to generate social inclusion and employment, empowering communities and stimulating economic growth during this current global crisis. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/vyakarnam_entrepreneurship.html 2009_vyakarnam_entrepreneurship 9 Apr 2009 18:15:00 GMT Dr Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, explains the concept of "naked shorting", and how he predicted as early as three years ago that the corruption of the regulator of the US capital market would lead to the systemic collapse we have now witnessed, why we need to watch the bank rescue plans and not the stimulus plans and his next predictions for the future. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_byrne_healthy.html podcast_byrne_healthy 9 Apr 2009 18:15:00 GMT Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, believes we are seeing not a global recession but a global catastrophe and a radical restructuring of the world. The leaders who emerge from this will be those who are able to emotionally inspire others, and re-introduce trust in a world of uncertainty and fear; they will be able to capture the power of language, they will be, like Barack Obama, the storytellers. Kevin Roberts explains why he believes the revolution will begin with language. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_roberts_new.html podcast_roberts_new 2 Apr 2009 15:42:00 GMT As the global recession sinks into becoming a deepening global depression, and new financial measures such as "quantitative easing" are brought in to try and stabilise markets, Judge Business School's podcast series has been talking to its academics to find out how business can best cope with the changing financial climate it now finds itself in. Boni Sones reports on this positive advice from the experts. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/facingfacts_2009spring.html facingfacts_2009spring 1 Apr 2009 14:56:00 GMT In the current climate, where business has almost become an ethics-free zone, Dr Stiles talks about his new research which looks at the negative emotion of shame and how he discovered that used properly, it can actually play a positive role in the workplace in helping both to motivate people and to encourage them to regulate their behaviour. He says, "Shame is always seen as a negative emotion. But in fact there are some positives for companies in using the mechanism of shame to help ensure that people do try and live up to the expectations we have of them." http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/stiles_shame.html stiles_shame 23 Mar 2009 17:02:00 GMT Dr Mark Thompson explains why the UK Government would benefit from the introduction of an open IT procurement process, supported by open standards and open source models. This model would create a modern and efficient procurement system, delivering to time and to quality, IT services for today's generation of "Internet native" IT literate citizens. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/thompson_government.html 0903thompson_delivering 13 Mar 2009 09:00:00 GMT Rob Lees, co-author of When Professionals Have to Lead and a member of the School's "Programme for Excellence" faculty, describes the background to the launch of two new open programmes, The Law Firm Partner and The Professional Service Firm Partner. He highlights the programmes' distinguishing features, in particular their unique blend of academic and practically based sessions which provide partners not only with an in-depth understanding of the concepts of PSF management and the partner role, but also with the skills to translate and apply those concepts in their daily working lives. And, he maintains, in the current economic environment, having partners with those skills will be decisive in determining which firms succeed in the next few years. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/execed/2009/podcast_lees_winning.html podcast_lees_winning 6 Mar 2009 09:00:00 GMT Corporations and governments are having to face up to the new challenges of how to operate in a global business environment where the financial sector is broken and needs fixing, and protecting the environment is a major concern for all. "Sustainable competitiveness" is the new catch phrase as business leaders and government's embrace a different language. Phrases like "business ethics", "environmental protection" and "wealth distribution" are being talked about in board rooms and cabinets around the globe. The Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM) at Judge Business School in Cambridge invited some of the leading thinkers in "Green Business and Green Values" to share their thoughts on how to meet these new business challenges in the 21st century. The conference was sponsored by BERR (Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform), and organised by Dr Christos Pitelis, the Director of CIBAM. Boni Sones reports. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cibam/2009/podcast_cibam_green.html podcast_cibam_green 19 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT If success in the creative sector is crucially dependent on a combination of talent and popular response to it, what role is there for leaders and managers? Talented individuals are notoriously difficult to manage and public reactions to arts and media offerings equally hard to predict. Yet professional managers and leaders have emerged who have helped Britain become the world leader it is today in the creative sector. Dame Patricia Hodgson of the BBC Trust explains the kinds of challenges they face and the breadth of skills they need in order to be able to operate successfully in a creative environment. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_hodgson_media.html podcast_hodgson_media 17 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT Is it shaped by social imperatives or should it be held as an economic negotiation? Dr Jonathan Trevor discusses this contentious issue, calling for an increase in transparency and more direct dialogue and consensus between shareholders and executives on what constitutes good governance as opposed to a reliance on using intermediary bodies: "We need to bridge the gap between the interests of shareholders and the interests of the executives. One size does not fit all and it is where we have seen prescriptive 'best practice' applied without contextual sensitivity, that we've seen the systems fail, with executives being incentivised for what amounts to bad behaviour with negative outcomes for the companies involved." http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/trevor_bridges.html trevor_bridges 17 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT Cambridge Angels Jack Lang and Dr Andy Richards, along with venture capitalist Laurence Garrett, talk about why the current economic gloom is in fact a great opportunity for start-ups, especially for those whose products will immediately satisfy customer needs as opposed to the tougher 'new product, new market' model. But, they stress the importance of targeting your investment model at the right type of investor, as well as the need for start-ups to understand what is 'fashionable' in the investor market and to be able to steer their way through these changes. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cfel/2009/podcast_angels_better.html podcast_angels_better 17 Feb 2009 17:36:00 GMT The performance and efficiency of the world's national oil companies - i.e. those still wholly under government ownership - could be increased very dramatically by privatising them, new research finds. The results of such performance improvements would be staggering, explains Dr Michael Pollitt, and could see global oil and gas production in the first year alone increase by 2.7 million barrels of oil equivalent per day - which is more than all of France's current oil and gas consumption. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/pollitt_oiling.html pollitt_oiling 17 Feb 2009 13:00:00 GMT As the worst recession in recent history takes root worldwide, managers are doing what they always do in tough times: first they start worrying, and then they start cutting costs. This is a natural response to try and balance the books when revenues have started to dry up and credit is hard to come by, but cutting costs involves only half the equation and ignores a more strategic response that could cause less pain in the short run, and result in more gain in the long run. Namely: to use the opportunity provided by hard times to introduce serious innovation into the business, in particular to innovate the firm's business model. This begs the questions: what is a business model, and what does innovating a business model involve? Professor Jaideep Prabhu explains, using Amazon.com as an example of a successful business model innovation that shook the world. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/prabhu_crisis.html prabhu_crisis 17 Feb Mon 2009 11:12:00 GMT If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences: the maxim of the 'self fulfilling prophecy'. Forecasts that are sufficiently believed, cause people to act in ways that make the prediction come true. Forecasts about the economy can have this self-fulfilling character. Prognostications of popular media commentators on the economy form a large part of the basis of everyone's beliefs about future economic circumstances; if 2009 turns out to be a dreadful year for the economy, to a large extent it will be because people believe it will be. Dr Paul Kattuman explains the phenomenon of the way media forms beliefs and the role it is playing in driving economic behaviour. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/kattuman_green.html kattuman_green 17 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT In the current contracting economy, the pressure to achieve better cost savings is higher than ever. In the fourth edition of The Lean Toolbox Dr Matthias Holweg and his co-author John Bicheno provide a no nonsense, no waffle explanation of the dynamic evolution of lean from its roots in manufacturing to its adaptation to product development, service and even healthcare operations. Dr Holweg explains why lean, and its ability to improve the customer value proposition, can be also provide a longer term cost benefit to any organisation. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/holweg_leaning.html holweg_leaning 13 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT Today's consumer driven culture is ecologically unsustainable; this fact poses a clear challenge to governments who must agree responses to climate change and other issues. But what role can business play? Jim Leape, Director General and Chief Executive of WWF International, explains how companies can help drive a shift to sustainability in their sectors and more broadly, the roles that NGOs can play in catalysing such a shift. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/mba/2009/podcast_leape_sustainability.html podcast_leape_sustainability 11 Feb 2009 11:11:00 GMT Has risk modelling and risk management lost its way? Professor Stefan Scholtes argues that contrary to popular belief, the risk management models in use today are not too simple - they are in fact far too complex. The goal of risk modelling, he says, is not and should never be to replicate a complex reality in a complex model. The fundamental flaw in using risk modelling in this way has been clearly revealed by the banking crisis. What we need, he argues, is a complementary balance between modelling and intuition; models that relate to and enforce our mental abilities, not replace them. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/scholtes_art.html scholtes_art 11 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT More and more companies are being forced to make redundancies as the downturn deepens. Whilst the outcome of downsizing is rarely seen as good, it can still be a success if the process is fair. Dr Philip Stiles gives some advise on 'soft landings' and how to make the process less traumatic for both those being made redundant and for their managers. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/stiles_bitter.html stiles_bitter 11 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT Professor Dame Sandra Dawson led a team of consultants who advised the Department of Health on the establishment of their recently announced National Leadership Council, which has been designed to champion leadership in the NHS as it enters a new stage of reform. She explains that in order to achieve true transformational change, leadership for large and diverse organisations needs to encourage, guide and support development from the grassroots up through the use of leadership pipelines and mentoring. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/dawson_change.html dawson_change 9 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT In today's fast moving technological world, successful companies will be those brave enough to invest in start-ups and create their own competitors. Taking the example of Kodak, who floundered in the face of emerging digital technologies, Dr Kamal Munir explains the importance of adaptation, but points out, that merely hooking new technologies into a business model to prolong the life of existing technologies is not enough: "Companies need to invest equity into start-ups, they need to create their own competitors, they need to get over their fear of cannibalising their existing products. Importantly, in today's climate of recession, this can be an inexpensive strategy and can give a company a new life line. Kodak, for example, should have really started up Facebook." http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/munir_brave.html munir_brave 9 Feb 2009 12:15:00 GMT Necessity, goes the adage, is the mother of invention. Alas, mere invention is not good enough these days. Far more important is converting inventions into innovations: namely, products and services that improve consumers' lives and firms' performance. Just ask Steve Jobs and all those who rush to buy every new fruit which falls from the Apple tree. How then can entrepreneurs and firms improve their ability to convert inventions into innovations? Professor Jaideep Prabhu gives his views. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#prabhu_haste.html prabhu_haste 5 Feb 2009 14:17:00 GMT Policy makers cannot walk and chew gum. Crises are handled one by one with the most immediate driving all the rest off the agenda. However, Nick Butler, Chairman of the Centre for Energy Studies at Judge Business School, argues that by using public policy, such as tax reliefs, to induce private investment in the development of clean, low carbon technology, Government could simultaneously address need and opportunity and in so doing, help avert recession. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/butler_energy.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0811butler_energy 3 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT Dr Michael Lynch OBE, Founder and CEO of Autonomy, explains the importance of building a team capable of delivering your vision - a top team full of the right talent will be able to convert an idea in a tough and competitive market into a real global success. However in order to build this dream team you need to be prepared to take a few risks. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cfel/2009/podcast_lynch_dream.html podcast_lynch_dream 3 Feb 2009 19:16:00 GMT The International Labour Organisation has forecast a rise in unemployment by 20 million world-wide, by the end of 2009. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has forecast a loss of up to 10 million jobs within the OECD group of countries, and up to 25 million jobs world-wide between 2008 and 2010. However, would a strategy of cutting wages as opposed to cutting jobs in the face of this recession create the conditions for economic recovery? Dr Paul Kattuman believes it would. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/kattuman_downturn.html 0901kattuman_downturn 31 Jan 2009 09:00:00 GMT Nick Butler, Chairman of the Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies, is formally launching The Keynes Society this Spring, a concept inspired by the urgent need for some new economic thinking at this critical time. It will involve a non partisan group of people from around the world who are interested in economics and in policy. The aim would be to open up discussion rather than to replace one orthodoxy with another and given Keynes' breadth of interests there is no reason to set boundaries on what it will cover - the economics of science, climate change, higher education and the arts could all do with some radical thinking. Nick Butler explains the lessons Keynesian economics has for us today. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2009/butler_keynes.html butler_keynes 21 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMT Can we turn adversity into opportunity? Yes, we can. As 2008, a year that shook the world and began the restructuring of the global economies, draws to a close, we take a look at the year ahead. Which economies are likely to find it easiest to ride out the current recession and what management tools and skills should opinion formers and business leaders draw on to ensure they provide the right climate for firms to do well? Strangely, not all the news is bad news, as we have been finding out in our recent interviews with academics and associates of Judge Business School. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/facingfacts_2008winter.html facingfacts_2008winter 15 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMT Falling demand for oil is not just an immediate reaction to the current financial crisis but a response to the structural impact of five years of very high oil prices, says Dr Pierre Noel, an expert in energy economics and policy, who notes that oil prices will rise again due to the cyclical nature of the business. However, Dr Noel believes that OPEC exacerbates these ups and downs by overshooting in both directions and considers the long term implications as the OPEC cartel gathers strength. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/noel_oil.html noel_oil 12 Dec 2008 12:10:00 GMT As the 2008 UN climate change talks struggle to a conclusion in Poland this week research undertaken at Judge Business School shows exactly how vital it is that international leaders reach an agreement on cutting the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Work by Dr Chris Hope suggests that the mean net present impact on the world's climate, economy and society of cutting down tropical rainforests is a staggering 12 trillion dollars. It is the first time that researchers have put a figure on the present climate change impacts of deforestation. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/hope_earth.html 0812hope_earth 10 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMT Professor Peter Williamson believes that in 2009, for the first time, it will be the emerging economies who will be providing 100% of the world's economic growth. Their ability, in particular China's, to successfully unlock access to mass markets by providing affordable 'value for money' new technology, is a key driver of their growth. This cost innovation model, he explains, can offer the West invaluable lessons on how to survive the current global economic downturn. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/williamson_value.html williamson_value 9 Dec 2008 12:47:00 GMT With elections in India in a few months, the war on terror must be squarely at the centre of the political agenda. Not far away will be regulation of finance. As Sonia Gandhi put it, the poor had nothing to do with fancy sounding financial instruments. The livelihoods of the poor are at great risk now that financial globalisation has spread the damaging effects of some types of innovative finance across the world. Dr Paul Kattuman looks at the unintended consequences of complex, unproven financial products and the lessons that need to be learnt from the crisis. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/kattuman_regulating.html 0812kattuman_regulating 9 Dec 2008 12:50:00 GMT The recent election of Barack Obama raises the question: can a single individual make a difference to how a large group such as a nation thinks and acts in the long term? Or, in the more modest context of business: can a CEO drive the employees of a firm to become more innovative and perform better over time? If it is agreed that corporate culture plays a preeminent role in making firms more innovative, then a natural question to pose is: how is such a culture created and maintained? Specifically: does the individual at the head of the firm have a role to play in all this? Professor Jaideep Prabhu gives his views. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/prabhu_cerebral.html 0812prabhu_cerebral 5 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMT In the past pay was simply a necessary cost of doing business. Today pay is viewed as an inducement model; it is the carrot, not the stick. However Dr Jonathan Trevor explains that this practice of using pay as a strategic management tool has been over embellished by HR departments. The resulting imbalance between top executives pay and that of all employees is in fact counterproductive, fostering an unintended climate of negative employee relations. Dr Trevor explains why the "art" of management science needs to be re-dressed and why pay wont motivate people to work harder. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/trevor_pay.html trevor_pay 3 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMT "We are creating a massive ecological debt by borrowing from the future at a rate that is completely incompatible and unsustainable. We need a new form of capitalism, one where we value the environment, business as usual is therefore not an option." Just what is climate leadership, how can it be implemented and what lessons can we learn from the financial dimension of sustainability. Dr Stephen Peake explains. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/peake_climate.html peake_climate 30 Nov 2008 09:00:00 GMT Why are the majority of entrepreneurs white males, what are the underlying mechanisms, just how important is legislation in tackling discrimination and what will be the impact of global recession on migrant women workers? Visiting Professor Edwina Pio explains. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cfel/2008/podcast_pio_gender.html podcast_pio_gender 28 Nov 2008 17:02:00 GMT At a time when the global economic slowdown is encouraging countries and companies to introduce neo-protectionist policies - including possible moves by the new US President-elect to penalise American firms who relocate jobs outside the US - we should not ignore the efforts of smaller developing countries to catch-up, says Judge Business School's Dr Christos Pitelis. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/pitelis_competitive.html 0811pitelis_competitive 21 Nov 2008 15:54:00 GMT Next time you are at a social gathering, instead of chatting just to friends and colleagues, why not strike up a conversation with a complete stranger? For the effects of making contacts outside your usual circle may, according to new research by Judge Business School's Professor Martin Kilduff, be much further-reaching than you think. A diverse range of social contacts can affect not just your enjoyment of a particular social occasion but also your work performance and promotion prospects. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/kilduff_personality.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0811kilduff_personality 20 Nov 2008 09:00:00 GMT New research shows that entrepreneurs are highly-adapted risk-takers, and that this functional impulsivity is key to their success. It can also be taught; Dr Shai Vyakarnam explains how. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/vyakarnam_entrepreneurs.html vyakarnam_entrepreneurs 11 Nov 2008 09:00:00 GMT When is an idea a business opportunity? Dr Hermann Hauser, Co-Founder of Amadeus Capital Partners and Visiting Entrepreneur at the School's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, discusses the secrets of taking an idea and turning it into an enterprise following his Enterprise Tuesday seminar on 11 November 2008. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cfel/2008/podcast_hauser_opportunities.html podcast_hauser_opportunities 5 Nov 2008 09:00:00 GMT Following his Enterprise Tuesday seminar on 4 November 2008, Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE DL, Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer and Visiting Entrepreneur at the School's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, talks about the implications of going global with an idea. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/centres/cfel/2008/podcast_bilimoria_business.html podcast_bilimoria_business 3 Nov 2008 11:41:00 GMT Firms and governments across Europe and North America are banking on innovation, or the successful commercial exploitation of new ideas, to kick start economies and help save the west from the current economic crisis and looming recession. Professor Jaideep Prabhu at Judge Business School challenges the consensus that legislation at country level is the best way to boost the ability to innovate within firms and countries. He argues instead that in today's rush to innovate, the successful economies will be those whose firms have internalised attitudes and practices that foster innovation into their corporate culture. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/prabhu_innovation.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0811prabhu_innovation 21 Oct 2008 12:13:00 GMT A new report by Dr Michael Pollitt of Judge Business School argues that the work of the regulator can be put to better use in focusing on two current issues; tackling the problem of climate change and protecting consumers suffering from 'fuel poverty'. In order to adopt this new role, however, the UK needs a fresh model for the regulation of its electricity and gas industries. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/pollitt_electricity.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0810pollitt_electricity 15 Oct 2008 12:05:00 GMT In the near future, an international alliance of countries committed to reducing worldwide carbon emissions might have to use force to bring recalcitrant states into line, according to new research from Dr William J. Nuttall at Judge Business School. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/nuttall_scenario.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0810nuttall_scenario 23 Sep 2008 11:48:00 GMT "To a certain extent, the failure of banks following the credit crunch was the result of business model innovation," says Judge Business School's Dr Chander Velu, co-author of new research in this field. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/velu_businessmodels.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0809velu_businessmodels 11 Sep 2008 14:52:00 GMT Professor Alan Hughes, Director of the Centre for Business Research at Judge Business School, has studied the US innovation-led growth story. He explains that businesses can learn much from copying the US, but cautions that in order to create a truly effective innovation programme, the underlying factors that have driven the recent growth in the US need to be fully understood and coupled with an analysis of what is unique about each organisation's own economy. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/hughes_innovation.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0809hughes_innovation 4 Sep 2008 11:16:00 GMT In the battle for new ideas, many businesses gain valuable insights and new research from their links with universities. Business parks, academic consultants and technology transfers, for example, all play a part in helping businesses compete. But what determines which universities link with a particular business? And what ensures that a corporation gets the ideas and knowledge that add real value to their business? It was to answer such questions that Michael Kitson of Judge Business School conducted extensive research with over 30 UK universities and businesses to unravel the secret dynamics of such links. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/kitson_businesslinks.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0809kitson_businesslinks 27 Aug 2008 17:01:00 GMT Incorporating high-technology in low-cost products, offering more product choices and turning high-end specialty products into competitively priced mass market items, Chinese companies are rewriting the rules of business. So argues Professor Peter Williamson of Judge Business School in his book, Dragons at Your Door, co-authored with Professor Ming Zeng. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/williamson_dragons.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0808williamson_dragons 2 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Deception in organisations can start with a few 'bad apples' but the rot often spreads much wider and deeper. New research from Dr Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos reveals how apparently good people - churchgoers in Enron's case - can gradually become corrupt, sometimes as a result of social pressures within the organisation. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/zyglidopoulos_lies.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0807zyglidopoulos_lies 2 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT In the 1970s, the instant camera company Polaroid was riding high with a reputation for innovative, cutting-edge products. It was in that decade, however, that it made a decision to launch a new, highly ingenious fully integrated instant camera and film system called the SX-70, a decision that would have dramatic and devastating consequences for the company. Dr Kamal Munir of Judge Business School shows in this research how a seemingly innocuous technical decision to develop a new innovation can have unforeseen consequences on a company's production system, supply chain, vendor networks and the financial markets. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/munir_polaroid.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0807munir_polaroid 2 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT A new model for understanding how multinationals can gain a competitive edge from their manufacturing networks has been created as a result of a recent study by Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director of Judge Business School, and Professor Ann Vereecke and Professor Roland Van Dierdonck of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/demeyer_competitive.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0807demeyer_competitive 2 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Recent research by Judge Business School's Dr Matthias Holweg and Professor Nick Oliver, based on interviews with former CEOs, top managers, government and trade union officials showed that the British car company MG Rover finally ceased production in 2005 because of historic management failings that had never been properly addressed. http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2008/holweg_mgrover.html http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/research_focus/index.html#0807holweg_mgrover