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…
BBC: A room in Mumbai
A research on Bollywood films and energy by Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing at Cambridge Judge Business School, featured in BBC animation about slum rehabilitation a housing in Mumbai. (subs) Watch the video [bbc.co.uk]…
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…
Film and energy
Using Bollywood films to examine energy and household appliance use across four decades in India. Energy studies are often highly technical. A new study from the University of Cambridge takes a far more colourful approach, using 19 Indian feature films…
More with less
Coronavirus pandemic has boosted frugal innovation around the world in both developed and developing countries, says Professor Jaideep Prabhu, in a webinar for the What's Next? How to Survive and Thrive in a Post COVID-19 World series. Here's an opportunity…
Quicker response in a crisis
"Frugal innovation" can help governments respond better to the COVID-19 pandemic, says article co-authored by Professor Jaideep Prabhu in Stanford Social Innovation Review. The concept of "frugal innovation" can help governments and civil society organisations around the world respond better…
Food security
Nutrition and education beyond COVID-19 from Professor Jaideep Prabhu. Reducing food waste through innovation can play an important role in eliminating hunger and malnutrition as the world looks beyond the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis, Professor Jaideep Prabhu of Cambridge Judge Business School…
Harvard Business Review (France): Why companies should do better with less
In the French edition of the Harvard Business Review, Navi Radjou, Fellow in Marketing at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses frugal innovation and how French companies could adapt it: “Frugal innovation is a real breakthrough strategy, which aims to do…
East Anglia in Business: ‘Frugal innovation’ isn’t just for developing countries
Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses frugal innovation and how large and small companies can benefit from it. “Thanks to digital manufacturing (and frugal innovation more generally), many small companies are now able to survive…
Pharma journey
From Greece to Scotland Yard to providing drugs for clinical trials: Cambridge MBA alumna Vanessa Dekou (MBA 2002) built a global pharma business from scratch. Vanessa Dekou Cambridge MBA alumnus Vanessa Dekou re-mortgaged her London house to set up her…
