Frugal innovation and COVID-19
Reframing, reprioritising and repurposing has come to the fore during the coronavirus pandemic crisis, say Professor Jaideep Prabhu and Viren Lall. Earlier this year Professor Jaideep Prabhu of Cambridge Judge Business School led a session on "frugal innovation" along with…
Financial Times: Crisis management courses prepare EMBA students for the worst
Daniel Ralph, Professor of Operations Research at Cambridge Judge Business School comments on contingency planning. Professor Ralph teaches Cambridge Executive MBA participants about decision making in uncertain situations and what consequences that might bring. “It sounds elementary, but if you…
Think about how we think
Pandemic shows that organisational scholars need to see the world as systems of interdependent activity rather than individual entities, says Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has shown that academics need to see the world in a new way:…
Levelling up
More equal societies can mitigate crisis risk, says keynote speaker at annual Risk Summit of the Centre for Risk Studies. Governments should act "more as an insurer" by seeking more equitable societies rather than simply responding to crises, the CEO…
Management style needs to change
Dr Thomas Roulet addresses how management style needs to change in the era of remote working in his webinar - as part of the What’s Next? How to Survive and Thrive in a Post COVID-19 World series. Here's an opportunity…
Entrepreneur: Why does it take a crisis for companies to change?
Cambridge Judge alumnus Hamza Mudassir (MBA 2012) writes about change in organisations during crisis. He outlines three common breaks against change – for both companies and people: anxiety, rewards, and social status. “The three drivers discussed are a strong lesson…
Business consulting support
Cambridge MBA students offer free consulting services to tackle issues posed by the coronavirus pandemic. Students on the Cambridge MBA programme at Cambridge Judge Business School are offering free consulting services to British companies to help them deal better with…
Enterprising vision
Why it's so important to see beyond a crisis and what we can learn from enterprising people, by Bruno Cotta, Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre. It was just five years ago that entrepreneur and now philanthropist, Bill Gates, Co-Founder of Microsoft,…
Business Weekly: Businesses must heed lessons from COVID-19 crisis, says Cambridge lecturer
Companies, bosses and governments will be forced to adapt to survive and thrive in ‘Future Businessworld’ according to Dr Philip Stiles, University Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance at Cambridge Judge Business School. He says management and economic lessons need to…
Long-term effects
Dr Philip Stiles outlines five key changes to business in light of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis will usher in permanent changes to business. Philip Stiles, University Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance at Cambridge Judge Business School,…
