The Conversation: UK to perform worst of major economies in 2023, says IMF – here’s how to achieve long-term growth
Michael Kitson, Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics at Cambridge Judge Business School, says in an article in The Conversation that three key areas - capital investment, innovation policy and institutional leadership - hold the key to boosting stagnant UK productivity…
Looking at 2023
Cambridge Judge Business School faculty offer their insights and opinions on what to expect in 2023 in areas ranging from entrepreneurship to climate change to disinformation. How many people predicted at the start of 2022 that, by Halloween, Britain would…
Cambridge MBA student’s letter on cleaner energy opportunity published in Financial Times
Discussion and debate in Cambridge MBA Macroeconomics course results in an MBA student’s letter to the Financial Times on the renewable energy opportunity posed by 40-year high inflation. Along with many other top media outlets, the Financial Times is very…
Looking at 2022
Cambridge Judge Business School faculty offer their insights and opinions on what to expect in 2022 in areas ranging from climate change to workplace technology to business education. Predictions are by definition an inexact endeavour: few predicted at the start…
Poets & Quants: 15 Executive MBA Professors who made a difference in 2021
Christie Marr, currently on Executive MBA programme at Cambridge Judge Business School, nominated Michael Kitson as an academic who made a difference: “The lecturers at Cambridge Judge were all excellent and the different modules really complemented one another. If I…
Business Because: Five ways Covid has changed global business
Cambridge MBA alumnus and Strategy Director at Global Pharmaceutical Company Lalit Peddakota and Cambridge MBA programme Director Michael Kitson discuss how coronavirus pandemic has impacted businesses worldwide. “The pandemic showed us what is possible […] I attended internal and external…
Financial Times: Real-world economics gains ground in business studies
Michael Kitson, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics and Director of the MBA Programme at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on economics teaching in higher education: “If we went back 15 years ago, MBA students were primarily looking for the…
Rescue plan
Joe Biden’s US$1.9 trillion stimulus won't be enough to reignite world economy on its own, says Michael Kitson of Cambridge Judge Business School. By Michael Kitson The economic orthodoxy has long been that governments should try to balance their books…
The Conversation: Joe Biden’s US$1.9 trillion stimulus won’t be enough to reignite world economy on its own
Michael Kitson, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses Joe Biden’s US$1.9 trillion stimulus to reignite the US economy. “The impact of this fiscal stimulus on the US economy will depend on how consumers and…
Sohu: from West to East
The state-directed nature of Chinese capitalism that allows longer-term investments is likely of greater concern to the United States than current trade imbalances, says Michael Kitson. “Arguably it’s this form of capitalism, this longer-term perspective that will enable China to…