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Church attendance is in long-term decline, threatening the financial stability of magnificent church buildings. Research at Cambridge Judge Business School, in collaboration with the Diocese of Ely, focuses on how church custodians respond to tensions between churches as places of worship and the financial sustainability of these magnificent edifices.

Research on Islamic finance by Lionel Paolella of Cambridge Judge Business School finds that bond buyers will accept a lower rate of return when the bonds are endorsed by high-status Shariah scholars, or skeikhs, underlining the importance of moral reassurance on products whose moral acceptability may be contested.

The common assumption that negative emotions create negative results is too simplistic, finds research co-authored by Cambridge Judge faculty member Professor Jochen Menges based on studies related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the negative emotions it generated.