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…
The shareholder value of stakeholder orientation
by Dr Scott B. Guernsey, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Dr Scott B. Guernsey Ever since Milton Friedman's celebrated 1970 article – "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits"…
“Value & Profit”: new book by Geoffrey Whittington published August 2017
Cambridge University Press has recently published a new book by Geoffrey Whittington, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Finance (CCFin). Value and Profit An Introduction to Measurement in Financial Reporting looks at the measurement methods used in…
Profit sharing
The profit-sharing system of Chinese communications company Huawei is outlined in a Harvard Business Review article co-authored by David De Cremer of Cambridge Judge. The profit-sharing plan of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and how it helps boost employee engagement is…
Finance is less about profits and more about value
Cambridge Judge Business School's Executive Education programme, the Financial Management Programme of Achievement, targets those switching into financial positions or those who've already made the transition. It comes with the 'health warning' from its creator Professor Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn…
