No easy fix
The UK faces a 30-year challenge to level up society through building 'critical' mass to make forgotten communities thrive again, Alistair Darling tells the Pembroke Speaker Series @ Cambridge Judge. Alistair DarlingFinancial Times, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons…
Forbes: Burger King’s misogynistic tweet: when provocative social media strategies backfire
Dr Thomas Roulet, University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory at Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses provocative social media content and what consequences that might have in response to Burger King’s controversial tweet on International Women’s Day. “Burger King certainly wanted…
Financial Times: Women in meetings should be heard as well as seen
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Diageo Professor in Organisation Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on the importance of gender diversity in top management teams. Quoting the Cambridge Judge study that suggests diverse teams improve performance, Jennifer said: “You want people who…
Forbes: Workplace equality improves when women mentor men
A study on gender diversity in organisations co-authored by PhD student Shi Tang and the late Professor Sucheta Nadkarni of Cambridge Judge Business School featured in Forbes. “In sum, the equal infusion of men’s and women’s social-role proclivities in top…
City AM: We need to ‘Change the Race Ratio’
Dr Kamal Munir, Reader in Strategy & Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, was on DiverCity podcast together with Lord Karan Bilimoria discussing equality and diversity. Dr Munir suggested companies “must appoint a diversity task force, responsible for hitting inequality…
Top 15 reads of 2020
The news and insight section of Cambridge Judge Business School's website attracts audiences with eclectic interests ranging from business to healthcare to the arts. In 2020, attention was focused on articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Confirming behaviour 13 January…
Third Sector: Pandemic has uncovered ‘deep sense of dissatisfaction’ with global philanthropy, report finds
Covid-19 exacerbating global North-South disparities says new study by the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at Cambridge Judge Business School. "The shift in the power dynamic that our research revealed is clearly nascent, fragile, and patchy," wrote Dr Kamal Munir, Academic…
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)…
Financial Times: Pandemic boost to tech and digital industries worsens gender job divide
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Diageo Professor in Organisation Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on gender inequality in technology and digital sectors during Covid-19. She said the workers in tech industry “shape goods and services as “algorithms are not neutral and…
Workplace equality
Companies need 'awkward conversations' to address lack of diversity, Dr Kamal Munir of Cambridge Judge says on BBC programme. Dr Kamal Munir Companies need to have "awkward conversations" to prompt managers to fix the lack of progress in racial equality…
