Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and World Economic Forum host MENA Regional Fintech Roundtable
Two-day virtual event convenes central bankers, regulators, development organisations and leading FinTech firms to examine practical partnerships for digital finance growth. Finance at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and the World Economic Forum have announced the successful completion…
Sustainable accounting
David Pitt-Watson, who has been Pembroke Visiting Professor of Finance and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge Judge, talks about a campaign to stop companies benefiting from 'stranded assets' that unduly inflate profits. by David Pitt-Watson Most people, most governments, and indeed…
Award-winning course
A course taught at Cambridge Judge Business School focusing on the purpose of the finance industry, and hence its critical role in promoting sustainability, wins the annual Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business. A course designed at Cambridge Judge…
American exceptionalism
The outperformance of US equity markets in the last century has continued in the 21st century, says a new study co-authored by Elroy Dimson of Cambridge Judge Business School. Professor Elroy Dimson The 20th century has widely been dubbed "The…
Social mission
Professor Muhammad Yunus, who won a Nobel Prize for pioneering microcredit in Bangladesh, tells the CJBS Perspectives video series on leadership about how he was inspired to provide financial services to the excluded. Professor Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel…
Janet Mui: making sense of economic development and facing the future
As we launch the 2021 Wo+Men's Leadership Centre Annual Conference, we caught up with Cambridge MBA alumna Janet Mui, who is a speaker on the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion panel at this year's conference. Janet graduated from Cambridge Judge in…
Career pivots and personal growth – for our recent Cambridge MBA graduates
As the latest MBA Employment Report from Cambridge Judge Business School is published, showing how students re-entered the workplace after their MBA (and during a global pandemic!), we meet a few and find out how their MBA year has led…
Want to be an investment banker?
Cambridge MBA career pathways explored. We meet a Cambridge MBA alumna working in this sector and ask how her MBA education skills led her into a career in investment banking. We also hear from industry experts about what is involved…
Opposing views
The likelihood of activist hedge funds targeting and making money is higher when large short sellers also target the same company, finds a new study co-authored by Dr Pedro Saffi of Cambridge Judge Business School. Dr Pedro Saffi Activist hedge…
Investors’ Chronicle: Trapped by our past
According to a study co-authored by Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, fund managers “who as children had seen their parents divorce or one of them die took less risk with their…