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The standard test for alpha, the part of an investment’s return that cannot be explained by exposure to risk, has been a venerable pillar of financial economics since 1989. But that test is showing its age in this era of big data and AI. A new test, proposed in a paper co-authored at Cambridge Judge Business School, is designed for our time of financial uncertainty, stress and shocks.

A series examining how artificial intelligence is transforming manufacturing draws to a close with this third article by Ujjwal Pandey, Visiting Associate at Cambridge Judge Business School and co-founder of procurement platform OptiSpend AI, and Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing at Cambridge Judge. The first 2 articles focused on where AI is already delivering results, showing how AI can help manufacturers improve productivity, reduce costs and make better decisions. Now comes the really hard part.

Emotional intelligence (EI) has been studied intensively since the early 1990s, and a stubborn stereotype has developed that women possess more EI than men. Yet is that really the case? A meta-study of 1,279 academic articles comprising 609,278 participants from 76 countries over 3 decades finds a far more nuanced result.