Philanthropy in the arts world
The roles of 'respectability' (age and recognition) and 'reputability' (artistic merit and celebrity) are very different in driving philanthropic donation to cultural organisations, finds new study co-authored by Dr Thomas Roulet of Cambridge Judge Business School. Within the worlds of…
Fagun Thakrar expands creativity focused not-for-profit
Cambridge Executive MBA participant Fagun Thakrar's foundation aims to improve the lives of young people through the arts. Cambridge Executive MBA participant Fagun Thakrar (EMBA 2019) is expanding operations and outreach of her not-for-profit focused on helping young people through…
Artistic enterprise
The November series of the Enterprise Tuesday sessions at Cambridge Judge Business School focused on the arts – including the creative economy and storytelling. Here are some takeaways. The UK's cultural and creative industries are world leading, with creative people…
Animated insights on performance in the cultural & creative industries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4nsmar4c9U Dr Allègre Hadida A few years ago, Dr Allègre Hadida, Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Cambridge Judge Business School, created with the help of a student an engaging animation that summarises existing knowledge about the different nuances of performance…
Female leadership: balancing your compass across the broadcast landscape
We join Kate Wendelboe (MBA 2011) as she shares a career journey in broadcasting and beyond, as well as her experience of women in leadership and mentoring programmes across this ever-changing sector. "I started my career in marketing, working for…
Andi Davids, Strategy Director on award-winning BBC Two rebrand, joins new creative agency
Andi Davids (EMBA 2015) is providing strategic leadership at a London-based creative agency Recent Cambridge Executive MBA graduate Andi Davids has taken on a new role at Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR), a London-based design-led creative agency. Andi leads a team…
‘Fame’ in creative industries: who says critics don’t matter?
In creative industries (and beyond), an 'expert' critical elite mediates 'peer' and 'market' reputation into fame, says a new study published in the journal Organization Studies. "Fame" is a central theme in creative industries like music, film and art –…
How technology has changed the game of creative production and consumption
Allègre Hadida hosted the Entertainment Master Class (EMC) at Cambridge Judge Business School earlier this year. Founded in 2008, the EMC is now established at Cambridge Judge as a peer-to-peer executive training academy for the television industry, and aspires to be…
Goliath takes up the slingshot (part 3 of 3)
While creatives and corporates fight it out for control of production, one thing hasn’t changed – the audience always comes first. In the last in our series looking at how technology is changing creative production and consumption, we discover how…
