Year: 2025
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Why a big-picture approach holds the key to social innovation
Social innovation is usually evaluated on short-term impact, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Research by Helen Haugh of Cambridge Judge Business School takes a longer-term perspective, focusing on 3 key approaches to how social innovation can have true transformational effect to help address society’s grand challenges. Read more
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Paper says UK economic data issues reflected defective methodology
Data that seriously distort Britain’s post-war economic history arose because the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) made errors that should have been easily spotted and adopted a highly defective methodology, says a new working paper written by Bill Martin, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at Cambridge Judge Business School. Read more
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MBE for graduate of Master of Social Innovation programme
Bill McHugh, an alumnus of the Master of Social Innovation degree programme at Cambridge Judge Business School (MSt 2017), was named an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for services to local government, heritage and the community in South Yorkshire in the recent King’s Birthday Honours. Read more
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New podcast series: the journey to regeneration
What if business didn’t just do less harm, but actually made the world better? The new podcast from Executive Education – Cambridge Executive Business Insights: Journey to Regeneration with Christopher Marquis, explores how businesses can be truly regenerative – not just sustainable – and have a positive impact on people, places and the planet. Read more
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Can bond vigilantes be reassured by a higher economic cost of default?
Market expectations about sovereign default can be crucial determinants of political decision making and can even become self-fulfilling in triggering sovereign default. I provide novel causal evidence that an increase in the economic cost of default can credibly commit a government to repay and can curb market expectations for the propensity of a default event… Read more