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Research centre news
Paper: proper AI adoption can help advance women’s careers
Financial services leaders are being urged to take a collective, responsible approach to artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure it expands opportunity for women rather than reinforcing existing inequalities. New joint research from Nationwide, Bain & Company and Cambridge Judge Business School explores how AI is reshaping recruitment, progression and leadership pathways across the sector. The discussion paper highlights the potential for AI to either close representation gaps or entrench structural biases, depending on how it is designed, deployed and governed.
Business School announcements
New partnership with Bain on women in finance
Bain and Cambridge Judge Business School partner for Stratos Global Executive Symposium for women chief executives in financial services.
Business School announcements
Cambridge Judge MBA campaign wins Gold at Heist Awards
Cambridge Judge Business School, in partnership with Hunterlodge Advertising, has won Gold at the prestigious 2025 Heist Awards in the category of Best Postgraduate Student Recruitment Campaign, recognising the innovative campaign which sought to address leadership inequalities by tackling gender disparities in global MBA enrolment.
This year’s Master of Finance (MFin) class boasts the strongest female representation to date, with women making up 52% of the cohort. We spoke to the recipients of our Women in Finance Scholarships to hear more about female initiatives at Cambridge Judge, their experiences on the programme, and the challenges and opportunities for women in the industry.
Programme news
Women in business: changing the landscape with Feryal Erhun
Professor Feryal Erhun, the new Academic Director of the Wo+Men's Leadership Centre and Professor of Operations and Technology Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, brings extensive expertise in operations management, healthcare operations, and socially responsible supply chains. Passionate about diversity, leadership, and practice-based research, she has collaborated with organisations like Intel Corporation and Stanford University Medical Center to drive impactful change. This article is part of our MBA Teaching Spotlight series.…
Research centre news
New report: how to tackle the gender gap and shape success
New report from Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School shares practical ways to tackle the gender gap and shape success from its recent conference.
We bring together two MBA alumnae to share insights on careers, their learning journey, empowerment in the workplace, diversity, being Black in Cambridge and so much more.
Faculty news
What’s coming in 2024?
From burnout to AI and the US elections, faculty at Cambridge Judge Business School offer their hopes and fears for the year to come.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Why a Cambridge alumna created a charity to connect UK’s Chinese women
Founded during the pandemic, UK Chinese Women Connect links women in Cambridge, London and beyond including Cambridge Judge Business School alumnae.
Papers dealing with race, business and society win awards named after the late Professor Sucheta Nadkarni of Cambridge Judge, a champion of diversity who died 3 years ago.
Business School announcements
In memory of Professor Sucheta Nadkarni
2022 award winners are announced for The Strategic Management Society’s Sucheta Nadkarni Award for Outstanding Publication on Women Executive Leadership, sponsored by Cambridge Judge, and The Phillis and Nadkarni Award for Outstanding Paper on Diversity and Cognition.
Faculty news
EDI is about making our workplace a better place
Lionel Paolella, Associate Professor in Strategy & Organisation at Cambridge Judge Business School, shares his thoughts as the new Chairperson of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee at Cambridge Judge.
Opinion
Gender and the US military
Joshua Stewart, Lieutenant Colonel (US Army) & Master of Studies in Social Innovation student, says some positive steps have been made to improve gender equality in the American military, but some simple further steps could achieve much more.
Some mostly good news on gender equality
Dr Simon Taylor, Senior Faculty in Management Practice, says Women’s access to health, education, economic opportunity and political power have been improving but the picture is very uneven geographically.
Women in business and women in politics have much to learn from each other
Boni Sones OBE, Policy Associate at the Centre for Business Research and Executive Producer, ParliamentaryRadio.com, says Women in business and politics have much to learn from each other – including how to storm the smoking room and break down clubby cultures.
Four crazy things you won’t believe about organising the TEDxOxbridge conference
Jessica Toh, former MBA student, discussed how attracting women for events is not just an issue of curatorial focus as part of her blog post reflecting on the TEDxOxbridge conference.
No problem here…
Dr Neil Stott, Director of the Master of Studies in Social Innovation Programme and Executive Director of the Centre for Social Innovation discusses the dangers of gender stereotypes in leadership.
Catalysts for change
Kate Nation, Director, Turtle Dove Cambridge, insists working with young women, in any society, is of paramount importance and key to impacting on wider issues such as economic development.
Research impact
Charity Camfed, which partners with the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School, wins Social Enterprise award for its work to prevent child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge-based charity Camfed, which partners with the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School to help end child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa, was named winner of the Kate Gross Prize for Social Enterprise at the Business Weekly Awards on 21 March. “Camfed is transforming the lives of young girls in rural Africa, who then bring lasting change to their communities. This work really is game changing," said Tony Quested, owner of Business Weekly. Camfed’s UK Aid Match Appeal (CAMA), launched in partnership with the UK Department for International Development (DFID), has raised awareness of the issue of child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa. The campaign identifies girls who are vulnerable to early marriage, then supports these girls to stay in school through work with families and local authorities. The CAMA campaign raised £2.78 million in private donations and matching DFID contributions. “The real praise must go to our inspiring CAMA network, made up of social entrepreneurs and philanthropists, whose energy, passion and generosity is keeping girls in education and creating a wave…
Student and alumni news
Zuzanna Brzosko nominated for Women of the Future Award
Zuzanna Brzosko, CEO of Sixfold Bioscience, has been nominated for a 2017 Women of the Future Award in the field of Science.
Paper co-authored by Dr Helen Haugh of Cambridge Judge Business School wins Best Social Entrepreneurship Award at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management.
Alison Brittain, an alumna of Cambridge Judge Business School (MBA 1994), was named Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year for 2017.
Misc news
Business Weekly Awards 2017
Founders of 2 ventures with Cambridge Judge Business School connections – LifNano Therapeutics and Footprints Cafes – honoured at the annual Business Weekly Awards.
Paper on codes of conduct by Cambridge Judge PhD student, Maima Aulia Syakhroza wins Best PhD Paper at the Strategic Management Society annual conference in Berlin.
JustMilk wins national McKinsey Venture Academy competition.
Misc news
Business Weekly winners
Two Accelerate Cambridge ventures, GeneAdviser and Healx, are honoured at the Business Weekly Awards dinner.
Misc news
Picking up the trail where the suffragettes left off – a Cambridge win for Westminster’s women MPs
The Cambridge-based web production company of CBR policy associate Boni Sones OBE has been internationally recognised for a two-part radio documentary it produced about women in parliament.
Jo Mills of Cambridge Judge named one of top 100 entrepreneurship teachers by tech publication Hot Topics.
News
‘Hybrid’ honours
Awards for PhD student Laura Claus for studies on 'hybridity'.
Research
Professor Sucheta Nadkarni, Director of the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre discusses the practice of recruiting women to high-level positions through quotas has a negative impact on gender equality.
Programmes
Professor Sucheta Nadkarni discusses her executive education programme, Cambridge Rising Women Leaders
Forums
Members of the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre (formerly Women’s Leadership Initiative) at Cambridge Judge Business School discuss the aims of the scheme – to act as an inclusive hub for activities, networking and research on women in business globally.
Improving gender balance and awareness
Julie Brown talks about the plan to improve gender equality across the School – particularly at faculty level – and how our application for the Athena SWAN Award will help to encourage this.
Importance of celebrating women worldwide
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson talks about the journey we need to make to get true equality for women including: closing the the gender pay gap; equal educational opportunities for women across the world and ending domestic violence towards women.
Gender diversity on the Cambridge MBA
Jane Davies, Director of the Cambridge MBA explains that the programme crafts a diverse class to enhance the learning experience and how gender diversity is key to this.
Commitment to supporting gender diversity in business
Tracey Horn, Associate Director of the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre describes how Cambridge Judge is fully committed to supporting gender diversity in business.
Diversity, collaboration and growth
Siobhan Sweeney, Founding member of the Women’s Leadership student interest group talks about the true collaborative nature of Cambridge Judge Business School and the 2016 conference.
A network of women
Brooke Chadeayne (EMBA 2016) found her network of female classmates a source of inspiration and support.