New study aims to assess global fintech industry’s resiliency to COVID-19
Joint study between Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and the World Bank Group to provide essential data to assess the medium-to-longer term impact of the global pandemic on fintech firms worldwide.…
Financial Times: How MBA students have faced a year of uncertainty
Current student Hanna-Lil Malone talks about her experience studying MBA during Covid-19. As the head of Cambridge Judge’s Wo+Men’s Leadership group, Hanna said coronavirus pandemic “has encouraged creative thinking and, in turn, communication not just among students in her programme…
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…
Think about how we think
Pandemic shows that organisational scholars need to see the world as systems of interdependent activity rather than individual entities, says Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has shown that academics need to see the world in a new way:…
Levelling up
More equal societies can mitigate crisis risk, says keynote speaker at annual Risk Summit of the Centre for Risk Studies. Governments should act "more as an insurer" by seeking more equitable societies rather than simply responding to crises, the CEO…
An MBA during global upheaval – COVID-19 vs 2008
How one Cambridge MBA’s experience in 2008 reveals lessons for MBAs of today: for Marina Maslowski Marsat (MBA 2008), embarking on the Cambridge MBA just as the global financial crisis broke in 2008 was a new challenge she hadn't anticipated.…
Supply chain resiliency
Will coronavirus disruptions prompt a new focus on supply chain risk and resiliency for business? A video interview with a global supply chain expert conducted by Sytske Wijnsma, a PhD candidate at Cambridge Judge Business School, was utilised in a…
Financial resilience for off-grid solar
Diversification of funding sources is more important than ever say the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and World Bank. By Davinia Cogan, Jonathan Cooney and Dana Rysankova Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.Mike Tyson Sadly,…
Soldo: To thrive remotely, leaders need resilience
An interview with Dr Kishore Sengupta, Reader in Operations Management at Cambridge Judge Business School on how working remotely, leadership and resilience. “Leaders, more than anyone, must dig deep into their own reserves of resilience and discover a little more…
The key to developing resilience: lessons from Twickenham
How do business leaders develop resilience? At a lunchtime seminar between the men's and women's Varsity rugby matches at Twickenham on 6 December, Dr Philip Stiles of Cambridge Judge Business School and a panel of sports figures discussed tips ranging…
