Executive Courses: Executive courses in crisis leadership
COVID-19 initially sparked great interest in crisis leadership training, but the lessons learnt will be valuable long beyond the pandemic, writes Seb Murray. Allison Wheeler-Héau, Director of Open Programmes at the Cambridge Judge Business School, says crisis leadership skills “are…
Taking advantage of crisis
Businesses should use the COVID-19 pandemic to pivot to better service rather than making excuses, says Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing at Cambridge Judge Business School. By Professor Jaideep Prabhu The customer is always right, and they are fed up…
Network for Business Sustainability: Corporate sustainability reputation matters most during crises
Nareuporn Piyasinchai, a PhD candidate in the Strategy & International Business subject group at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses reputation management during crisis. A recent study co-authored with Dr Matthew Grimes, suggests companies should pay more attention to reputation in…
Cambridge Judge students making COVID-19 community impact
As another chapter in the Cambridge Judge against COVID-19 legacy concludes, we look back on the outcomes and experience for both student consultants and clients. In April 2020, two Cambridge MBA students began shaping the idea of helping businesses impacted…
Reputational spirals
Public criticism during crises can prompt innovation in environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices, but many firms instead get caught in a downward spiral, says Nareuporn Piyasinchai, a PhD candidate in the Strategy & International Business subject group at Cambridge…
Predicting impact
A year after UK lockdown, the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies calls for probability-based scenario approach to forecasting crises due to unreliability of well-established models. The unreliability of well-established macroeconomic models at times of upheaval such as the COVID-19 pandemic…
Renewed call out for business consulting support in 2021
Cambridge MBA students offer pro-bono consulting services to those businesses still suffering the effects of the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis. With the outbreak of the pandemic in the UK in April 2020, students from the Cambridge MBA class…
Leadership lessons in Lebanon
Dr Nasser Saidi says Lebanon needs reform and good government to turn the troubled country around. Dr Nasser Saidi, Founder and President of Nasser Saidi & Associates, believes that the Lebanese people have the skill and desire to turn their…
Improving philanthropy
COVID-19 pandemic shows the need to address the North-South power imbalance in global philanthropy, says report by the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. A new report into global philanthropy released today (15 December)…
Cambridge Judge against COVID
How an MBA gives you a platform to tackle the COVID-19 crisis head on. In April of 2020, just as the worldwide pandemic shook global economies, Cambridge MBA students Srishti Warman (MBA 2019) and Matt Lisonbee (MBA 2019) felt the…
