The Times: Fundraising is a picnic for meal-box service Gousto
Gousto, the UK meal-box subscription service, has raised $100 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and $50 million in new debt capital from HSBC and Barclays, reports The Times. The startup was co-founded in 2012 by Timo Boldt, Cambridge Executive…
The New York Times: Kazakhstan’s huge Bitcoin mining industry is upended by unrest
A report from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, at Cambridge Judge Business School, on geographic shifts in Bitcoin mining, quoted in the New York Times. “Kazakhstan accounted for around 18 percent of the global hashrate in August last year,”…
MIT Sloan Management Review: How hyperflexibility can benefit – or burn out – your team
Thomas Roulet, Associate Professor in Organisation Theory and Deputy Director of the MBA Programme at Cambridge Judge Business School, co-authored an article in MIT Sloan management review about flexible time off policies and why they might backfire. “The pandemic-driven shift…
Poets & Quants: The crystal ball: Business schools acknowledge challenges, put positive shine on 2022
Margaret O’Neill, Head of Careers at Cambridge Judge Business School, shares what 2022 might bring to business education. “2022 will continue to be unpredictable for business and the global economy, and wise leaders will be required to weather storms, sustain…
The Times: Ian Cowie: Five investment reasons to be cheerful
A book co-authored by Professor Elroy Dimson, Chairman of the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, is cited in the article. The book entitled Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns was released…