Honours for refugee paper
Article on refugee camp organisation co-authored by Dr Marlen de la Chaux and Dr Helen Haugh of Cambridge Judge Business School wins Best Paper Award from the journal Academy of Management Discoveries. Dr Helen Haugh An article on "parallel" organisational…
Cambridge Alumni Magazine: On boredom
An article on boredom features a research paper by Marlen de la Chaux, a PhD student at Cambridge Judge Business School. During a fieldwork trip in Kenya, Marlen noticed that life in refugee camps imposes “immense boredom” and people are…
World Economic Forum: How can we address the problem of boredom in refugee camps?
Media attention on refugees is focused on chaotic scenes in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe right now, but it is worth reminding people that most of the world’s refugees in fact live in camps in sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle…
The Conversation: Rethinking refugee camps: turning boredom into innovation
Media attention on refugees is focused on chaotic scenes in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe right now, but it is worth reminding people that most of the world’s refugees in fact live in camps in sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle…
Business Weekly: Cambridge wants refugee camps to be hotbeds for entrepreneurs
Refugee camps could be transformed into hotbeds of entrepreneurship according to new research from Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. An enlightened strategy could pump seed funding into camps and create jobs by encouraging business enterprise, Cambridge Judge argues. Dr Helen…
Business Matters Magazine: Cambridge Judge Business School calls for refugee-camp entrepreneurship
At a time of global focus on refugee issues due to the war in Syria and other displacement, new research from Cambridge Judge calls for policymakers to foster entrepreneurship at such camps to help fill an “institutional void” that leads…
Refugee camp entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship initiatives can fill the 'institutional void' of long-term refugee camps, says paper authored at Cambridge Judge Business School. At a time of global focus on refugee issues due to the war in Syria and other displacement, new research from…
Cambridge Business Magazine: Refugee camp entrepreneurs
A research paper from Cambridge Judge Business School calls for governments and policy makers to institute policies designed to foster entrepreneurship in refugee camps. Although such camps aim to provide temporary accommodation for refugees, many people spend 20 or more…
The Huffington Post: Translating Africa’s tech enthusiasm into an enterprise ecosystem
In her latest blog for the Huff Post, Marlen de la Chaux, a current PhD at Cambridge Judge Business School, looks at the emergence of ecosystems for technology entrepreneurship in Africa and investigates why the entrepreneurship ecosystems in the continent…
The Huffington Post: Why Kenya’s public transport system is fighting cashless payment
Marlen de la Chaux, a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, pursuing a PhD in Management Studies, investigates why buses and matatus in Nairobi are rejecting cashless payments from service users. Marlen said that one of…