News and insights from the CEC

Khaled Soufani, Management Practice Professor of Financial Economics & Policy, describes his journey to be Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge and suggests how we can all adopt sustainable principles into our everyday lives.

Professor Khaled Soufani, Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses the importance of supply chains and reusing waste at a conference addressed by the King of Spain Felipe VI.

There are four business models that firms can use to take advantage of circular economy principles, Khal Soufani of Cambridge Judge tells the Swedish Parliament.

Circular supply chains are more sustainable, but they will be rare unless consumers compromise on cost, says a new Harvard Business Review article by Khaled Soufani and Christoph Loch of Cambridge Judge Business School.

Each of our research centres has unique ways to engage with non-academic organisations and, through that, to generate positive social, economic and environmental impact. This month we decided to share with you the projects of the Circular Economy Centre (CEC) at Cambridge Judge Business School. For the past three years, teaching, research, mentoring and impact have gone hand-in-hand at the Centre thanks to three key projects. Circular Economy (CE) and the Internet of Things (IoT) Through its main ongoing project, the Circular Economy Centre is developing an innovative framework of interplay between the circular economy and the Internet of Things with European academic institutions and practitioners. Since 2017 the Centre is involved in the European Horizon 2020 CE-IoT project funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE action. Through this project, many students, under the supervision and guidance of Dr Soufani, the Centre's director, provide consultancy services to the different industry partners. These services help partners to leverage the interplay between the circular economy and IoT, and to explore novel ways to change the nature of products, services, business models and ecosystems accordingly. The CE-IoT has been very impactful for all industry partners so far. For example, Cablenet in Cyprus benefited from…

The news and insight section of Cambridge Judge Business School's website attracts audiences with eclectic interests ranging from business to healthcare to the arts. In 2020, attention was focused on articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival features experts including Kamiar Mohaddes and Khal Soufani of Cambridge Judge Business School.

Four strategies have emerged in academic studies on the "circular business model", says article co-authored by Khaled Soufani, Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge. The "circular" business model is a relatively new concept in academic literature but four basic strategies have emerged, finds a new review study co-authored by Dr Khaled Soufani, Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School. The four strategies relate to "cycling" or the recycling of materials, "extending" the lifespan of materials, "intensifying" the use of items, and "dematerialising" or finding other ways of getting greater use from resources, says the article published in the Journal of Cleaner Production. By providing an overview of the circular business model along with its framework and definition, the review "paves the way for a common understanding and language that can be used to develop the theoretical concept and a conceptual anchor for the nascent empirical exploration of the field," says the article. Co-author Khal Soufani, who is Faculty (Professor level) in Management Practice and Director of the Cambridge Executive MBA at Cambridge Judge, will speak on the topic of "Sustainability, circular economy and impact investing" on the final day of the Cambridge Zero…

Khaled Soufani and Daniel Ralph of Cambridge Judge Business School are honoured with the School's 2020 Sandra Dawson Research Impact Award. Dr Khaled Soufani and Professor Daniel Ralph of Cambridge Judge Business School have been named winners of the 2020 Sandra Dawson Research Impact Award for the impact of their research on non-academic stakeholders. Dr Khal Soufani, Faculty (Professor level) in Management Practice, Director of the Executive MBA Programme and Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge, was honoured for his work on the University of Cambridge's multi-departmental project on eliminating plastic waste, and for research into the introduction of circular economy principles in the Internet of Things, a project sponsored by the European Union. Khal and his team helped set up the Cambridge Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastic Waste. The industry partner that is working with the team, Huntingdon, UK-based packaging manufacturing firm Charpak, has said: "To be collaborating with the University of Cambridge on their Research Project extends our vision of starting with local circularity; with a view to this circular model being deployed further afield, UK-wide and internationally." An article co-authored by Khal in California Management Review, "Introducing a circular economy: new…