This directory provides any organisation interested in engaging with Cambridge Judge Business School access to the specific expert knowledge and analytical skills that our faculty developed over several years of rigorous research.
It aims to serve the needs of businesses, charities, social enterprises, government bodies, public service organisations, and civil society sector groups, which are looking for expert advice, support to solve an issue or opportunities to engage with our faculty. It contains the expertise-related details of academic staff who are happy to be contacted on their areas of research and teaching.
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| Subject area | Faculty member | Topics of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting | Boisseau-Sierra, Marion | Public sector accounting; credit rating agencies; international accounting standards and quality; implications of solicited sovereign credit ratings |
| Accounting | Chu, Jenny | Capital market & stakeholders’ reactions to accounting information; sell-side analysts; earnings equality; accounting measures for climate change; incentives to misreport data; financial reporting quality; audit efficacy |
| Accounting | Cole, Othman | Project finance; capital structure of companies; accounting of carbon emissions |
| Accounting | Jagolinzer, Alan | Financial reporting standards; international accounting; executive compensation and incentives; insider trading; compensation and governance implications for universities |
| Accounting | Meeks, Geoff | Creative accounting; accounting regulation; financial reporting; bankruptcy; IPO reporting |
| Accounting | Willis, Michael | Disclosure regulation; regulatory enforcement; financial reporting choices |
| Analytics | Oraiopoulos, Nektarios (Aris) | Data-driven decision-making; experimentation; business model development |
| Behavioural insights | Feduzi, Alberto | Individual, strategic and organisational decision-making under uncertainty; understanding and managing unknown unknowns and Black Swans; behavioural strategy |
| Behavioural insights | Mak, Vincent | Application of behavioural economics and social psychology to help develop policies, strategy, and managerial decision making |
| Behavioural insights | Sah, Sunita | Negotiations; ethics, trust; social influence; advice; advisor-advisee relationships; decision-making; influence; judgments; consent and compliance; defiance; embarrassment; power; behavioural economics |
| Behavioural insights | Vecchi, Patrizia | Collaboration; social networks, teamwork; workplace relationships; gender and diversity |
| Biopharmaceuticals | Oraiopoulos, Nektarios (Aris) | Drug development process; R&D management; licensing and strategic partnerships |
| China | Goodall, Keith | Corporate governance in Sino-foreign joint ventures; MNEs in China and Russia; HRM and knowledge transfer in China; expatriates in China |
| China | Reiner, David | Chinese efforts in cutting CO2 emissions; retail energy markets |
| China | Williamson, Peter | Strategies for success in China; the internationalisation of Chinese companies |
| China | Yin, Eden | Innovation strategies of Chinese firms; internationalisation strategies for Chinese firms; building China’s global brands |
| China | Zhang, Jin | China’s commercial aircraft industry; state-business relations; multinational firms in China |
| Circular economy | Howard-Grenville, Jennifer | Business strategies for environmental sustainability |
| Circular economy | Soufani, Khaled | Economics of re-use/repair/recycling; plastics management; the Internet of Things |
| Corporate finance | Lambrecht, Bart | Real options and investment under uncertainty; M&As; corporate payout policy; bankruptcy; the financing of firms; housing and household finance; corporate capital structure |
| Corporate finance | Nguyen, Bang Dang | Relationship between corporate finance and corporate governance; political connections and firm value; executive compensation |
| Corporate governance | Dissanaike, Gishan | Management turnover; capital structure in emerging markets; competition policy; signalling effects of equity issuing; corporate financing |
| Corporate governance | Genakos, Christos | Corporate incentives and performance; competition policy; responses to regulation; the relationship between management and productivity |
| Corporate governance | Howard-Grenville, Jennifer | Organisational change & restructuring; organisational culture, identity and routines |
| Corporate governance | Kor, Yasemin | CEO and executive team competencies; board governance; strategy formulation and renewal; CEO-board interaction |
| Corporate governance | Karakas, Oguzhan | Corporate voting rights; ownership and control; corporate social responsibility |
| Corporate governance | Learmount, Simon | Corporate ownership; international comparison of corporate governance systems; HRM impact on organisational trust |
| Corporate governance | Menges, Jochen | Role of emotions in leadership and following; psychological traits experiments; social dynamics in organisations |
| Corporate governance | Rau, Raghavendra | Executive compensation in relation to governance; CEO behaviour and risk; incentive systems; M&As, CSR; ESG; cost of capital; boards of directors; ethics |
| Corporate governance | Roulet, Thomas | Public opinion & legitimacy; reputation management; media reporting of misconduct; stakeholder management |
| Corporate governance | Sah, Sunita | Institutional corruption; corporate transparency and disclosure; compliance; corporate policy; conflicts of interest |
| Corporate social responsibility & sustainability | Grimes, Matthew | B Corps; corporate purpose and mission; CSR; sustainability |
| Corporate social responsibility & sustainability | Haugh, Helen | Corporate engagement with social issues; business ethics; sustainability |
| Corporate social responsibility & sustainability | Howard-Grenville, Jennifer | Business strategies for environmental sustainability |
| Corporate social responsibility & sustainability | Kroezen, Jochem | Gender equality; sustainable livelihoods; collective action in business contexts |
| Corporate social responsibility & sustainability | Soufani, Khaled | Sustainable economic growth and innovation; |
| Economics & policy | Genakos, Christos | Industries organisation; regulation-, antitrust-, and pricing-related issues |
| Economics & policy | Kattuman, Paul | Applied statistics; corporate performance; systems dynamics |
| Economics & policy | Kitson, Michael | Macroeconomic policy; regional economics; interest rates; central banks; UK budget; trade talks; innovation policy; university-business knowledge exchange |
| Economics & policy | Mohaddes, Kamiar | Macroeconomic policy (with a focus on fiscal polices and public debt); energy economics (with a focus on oil); economics of the Middle East (with a focus on Iran and other oil exporting countries in the Gulf); macroeconomic policies in resource-rich Arab |
| Economics & policy | Reiner, David | Climate change policies; public opinion and environmental policy; international environmental negotiations; public perceptions of new technologies |
| Economics & policy | Runde, Jochen | Making decisions in extreme uncertainty; understanding of technology |
| Economics & policy | Sah, Sunita | Conflict of interest policies; disclosure policies; financial disclosure policies; regulation; consumer protection |
| Energy | Cole, Othman | Competitiveness of oil & gas companies; management of oil crises |
| Energy | Pollitt, Michael | Privatisation and regulation of the energy industry; national infrastructure for energy and utilities; energy policy; performance assessment of energy providers; carbon markets |
| Energy | Reiner, David | Low carbon energy transitions; consumer behaviour in retail energy markets; energy policy design |
| Energy | Taylor, Simon | Financing of energy infrastructure, especially of nuclear power |
| Entrepreneurship | Coleridge, Chris | Top management teams in entrepreneurial ventures; management of startups in the fintech, construction, healthcare and digital sectors; creation and management of hubs and accelerators |
| Entrepreneurship | Grimes, Matthew | Entrepreneurship; startups; digital platforms; social entrepreneurship; incubators / accelerators; crowdfunding; entrepreneurial ecosystems |
| Entrepreneurship | Soufani, Khaled | Financial strategy of small-medium sized enterprises; management of family businesses |
| Entrepreneurship | Stockley, Simon | Entrepreneurship education; high-tech ventures; entrepreneurial behaviour |
| Finance | Chambers, David | IPOs; asset management; endowments and foundations; the relationship between law and finance; currency speculation; carry trade |
| Finance | Cole, Othman | Islamic finance; M&As |
| Finance | Dimson, Elroy | Asset and funds management; financial market history; long term investing; endowments and foundations; responsible investment; active ownership; ESG investing |
| Finance | Dissanaike, Gishan | Stock markets role in corporate governance; portfolio strategies; the efficiency of stock markets |
| Finance | Karakas, Oguzhan | Corporate finance; private equity; dynamic investment strategies |
| Finance | Kirilenko, Andrei | The intersection of finance, technology and regulation; high frequency trading and the flash crash; asset pricing and digital development |
| Finance | Rau, Raghavendra | Corporate finance; information and prices for investments; investment banks; analyst behaviour; irrational investor behaviour, behavioural biases in investors and managers |
| Finance | Rogo, Rafael | Financial disclosure; information economics; mergers and acquisitions; debt contracts |
| Finance | Saffi, Pedro | Corporate valuation (firms, projects, etc.); investment funds performance analysis; trading strategies and signals; short selling; limits to arbitrage; liquidity risk |
| Finance | Sah, Sunita | Conflicts of interest; disclosure; misconduct; ethics; regulation; advisor-advisee relationships; bias; consumer protection |
| Finance | Sarno, Lucio | International finance; currency markets; asset management and pricing |
| Finance | Wardrop, Robert (Bob) | Impact of new financial systems; market trust; crowdfunding |
| Fintech | Kirilenko, Andrei | Fintech; the design of automated financial markets and instruments |
| Fintech | Rau, Raghavendra | New forms of fintech models; pricing; regulatory issues; technological disruption in finance |
| Fintech | Wardrop, Robert (Bob) | Fintech innovation; global benchmarking of fintech; fintech regulation |
| Healthcare & pharma | Barrett, Michael | Development of artificial intelligence (AI) and online communities for health support; digital innovation for personalised medicine |
| Healthcare & pharma | Jiang, Houyuan | Healthcare operations management; contracts among healthcare payers and providers; efficiency in resource usage in hospitals; performance incentives in heatlhcare |
| Healthcare & pharma | Kavadias, Stylianos (Stelios) | New drugs development; R&D processes in pharmaceutical companies; the future of pharma and biotech |
| Healthcare & pharma | Khwaja, Ahmed | Health expenditure and insurance; pharmaceutical retail chain expansion; health-related consumption decisions; cross-product spill overs from pharmaceutical R&D; new product development |
| Healthcare & pharma | Sah, Sunita | Medical ethics; medical decision-making and advice; doctor-patient relationships; disclosure policies; patient compliance; conflicts of interest and physician and patient perception of conflicts of interest |
| Healthcare & pharma | Scholtes, Stefan | Organising high-quality and affordable healthcare services; transformation of local health ecosystems; determinants and consequences of clinical decisions in patient flow systems |
| Human resource management | de Rond, Mark | Shaping teamwork; collective problem solving in extreme environments; restoring organisational practices after breakdown |
| Human resource management | Goodall, Keith | Human Resource Development; knowledge- and culture-related issues in international ventures |
| Human resource management | Richter, Andreas | Effective relations across teams and functions; organisational creativity; teamwork effectiveness; employee learning & development |
| Human resource management | Roulet, Thomas | Mentoring and mental health; stigma and diversity |
| Human resource management | Stiles, Philip | Organisational culture; the influence of emotions on work motivation; performance & talent management |
| India | Prabhu, Jaideep | Innovation; marketing strategies; FDI in India; microfinance |
| Information systems | Barrett, Michael | Knowledge transfer in cross-cultural and multidisciplinary teams; IT systems offshoring/outsourcing; mobile infrastructure in developing countries |
| Information systems | Jones, Matthew | The relationship between information systems and social and organisational change |
| Information systems | Pachidi, Stella | Introduction of analytics and AI in organisations; managing digitalisation challenges in organisations; usage of big data for marketing and supply chain decisions; knowledge transfer |
| Information systems | Sengupta, Kishore | Implementation of IT for e-government; the interaction between information systems and supply chain management |
| Innovation | Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz) | R&D offshoring/outsourcing; diffusion of new practices; technological and business model innovation; disruptive technologies; digital innovation; blockchain; autonomous driving; ecosystems |
| Innovation | Barrett, Michael | Service innovation in public services and businesses; ecosystem leadership; co-working spaces; fintech and disruptive innovation in banking; mobile platforms for financial inclusion and clean energy; the Internet of Things |
| Innovation | Coleridge, Chris | Collaborative innovation; innovation ecosystems; management and commercialisation of innovations; startups and innovations supporting negative carbon emissions |
| Innovation | Feduzi, Alberto | Innovation and entrepreneurial behaviour |
| Innovation | Hutchison-Krupat, Jeremy | Innovation implementation; incentives for collaborative innovation; resource allocation; ideas selection; enablers of new product development |
| Innovation | Kavadias, Stylianos (Stelios) | New product development (implementation, relationship with organisational structure, R&D); innovation challenges; strategic change in startups |
| Innovation | Kim, Yeun Joon | Creativity and innovation; innovation of work processes and products |
| Innovation | Loch, Christoph H. | Engineering complex systems; managing novel and ambiguous initiatives; resource allocation; innovation processes; performance measurement in R&D |
| Innovation | Oraiopoulos, Nektarios (Aris) | R&D strategies; co-development of innovations; experimentation |
| Innovation | Prabhu, Jaideep | Frugal innovation; role of organisational culture in driving innovation; market scoping for new technologies |
| Innovation | Yin, Eden | Open innovation; new product growth in high-tech industries |
| International business | Prabhu, Jaideep | The internationalisation of firms from emerging markets; innovation in multinationals; cross-border R&D allocation decisions |
| International business | Stiles, Philip | HR functions in multinationals |
| International business | Williamson, Peter | Globalisation and its implications for corporate strategy; business ecosystems and their monetisation; strategic alliances; strategies for a carbon-constrained world; global M&As; internationalisation and performance |
| Islamic finance | Paolella, Lionel | Sukuk; Shariah scholars; reputation in the Islamic banking sector |
| Japan | Learmount, Simon | Japanese corporate system |
| Law firms | Paolella, Lionel | Reputation spill overs in law markets; gender gap in law firms; customer preferences in the law market |
| Leadership | Kim, Yeun Joon | Effective leadership; leadership and culture |
| Leadership | Menges, Jochen | CEO/leadership issues; leadership effects on organisations; leadership traits; charisma and public speaking |
| Leadership | Sah, Sunita | Managerial decision-making; leadership programmes for clinicians and healthcare managers |
| Leadership | Scholtes, Stefan | Leadership programmes for clinicians and healthcare managers |
| Leadership | Vecchi, Patrizia | Leadership development, informal leadership, power and influence |
| Manufacturing | Barrett, Michael | Smart manufacturing; digital innovation in manufacturing systems |
| Manufacturing | Lawson, Benn | Product design; digital fulfilment in manufacturing |
| Manufacturing | Loch, Christoph H. | Manufacturing management and strategy |
| Marketing | Khwaja, Ahmed | New market entry; customer and employee relationship management in service industries; the effects of employee engagement on customer satisfaction |
| Marketing | Lauga, Dominique | Marketing strategies; innovation and product development; advertising; product & brand choices |
| Marketing | Lu, Shasha | Technology opportunities in marketing; video-based data as predictor of consumer preferences |
| Marketing | Mak, Vincent | Psychological factors in decision-making; internet search behaviour; pricing, in particular “pay what you want” pricing strategy |
| Marketing | Prabhu, Jaideep | Marketing strategies in emerging markets; community trust and its effects on decisions of low-income individuals |
| Marketing | Yin, Eden | Branding strategies in the digital era; the international take-off of new products |
| Media, arts & culture | Hadida, Allègre | Management of the creative arts & media; impact and integration of new technologies on traditional arts and audiovisual content; roles and resources in cinema; motion picture performance |
| Mutual funds | Rau, Raghavendra | Fund performance, fund organisation, compensation |
| Operations management | Davies, Jane | Stock market valuations of flexible supply chains; the role of operations in entrepreneurial growth; supply chain integration; product modularity |
| Operations management | Erhun, Feryal | Stakeholder management in supply chains; sustainable supply chains |
| Operations management | Jiang, Houyuan | Task allocation problems; optimisation of resources and processes; competitive choices in the presence of asymmetric information |
| Operations management | Lawson, Benn | Supply chain strategy; supplier relationship management; sustainable procurement; integration of suppliers and product design |
| Operations management | Orlikowski, Wanda | The impact of technologies in the workplace, especially on structures, cultures, work practices, and organisational change; the conditions and consequences of digital work |
| Operations management | Sengupta, Kishore | Project management; knowledge transfer management |
| Pakistan | Munir, Kamal | Political and socio-economic changes in Pakistan; economic development and competitiveness of Pakistani companies; energy, banking, telecom, education and textile sectors; privatisation |
| Psychometric measurement | Stillwell, David | Psychometric testing; psychometric adaptive test development; real-time analysis of online digital footprints; behavioural prediction; state-of-the-art school examinations; evaluations of employees, culture and satisfaction through natural language proces |
| Risk | Ralph, Daniel | Risk in business decision-making; risk aversion in electricity markets; models for optimisation problems and equilibrium systems; cyber-attack risk; insurance |
| Social innovation & entrepreneurship | Haugh, Helen | Social and community entrepreneurship |
| Social innovation & entrepreneurship | Stott, Neil | Social and community innovation; social entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and extrapreneurship; innovating in poor contexts; history of social and community innovation; education of social innovators |
| Social innovation & entrepreneurship | Tracey, Paul | Reputation management; social startups; grassroot activism; education of social entrepreneurs; social innovation in and organisation of regional clusters |
| Social media & networks | Stillwell, David | Social networks/social media; big data; digital economy; psychology and decision-making in the context of social networks |
| Strategy | Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz) | Reputation management; bottom-of-the-pyramid strategies; strategy innovation |
| Strategy | Hadida, Allègre | Creativity and improvisation in business; decision-making in volatile environments; temporary (project-based) organisations |
| Strategy | Heide, Jan B. | Distribution systems; strategic partnerships; marketing strategy |
| Strategy | Munir, Kamal | Disruption and the new rules of competition; strategy in turbulent and disruptive environments; positioning in ecosystems; platform-based strategies; new business models; videogame, banking, streaming and big Tech (FAANG) industries |
| Strategy | Paolella, Lionel | Strategy formulation and implementation; organisation alignment |