Office politics (The Cambridge Judge Business Debate podcast series)
Though seemingly trivial, office politics can affect the performance of employees and organisations. The latest podcast in the Cambridge Judge Business Debate series asks how can we improve them? L-R: Philip Stiles, Mark de Rond, Simon Stockley, Michael Kitson In…
Traditional banks are struggling to stave off the fintech revolution
By Dr Kamal Munir, Reader in Strategy & Policy, and Hamza Mudassir, Visiting Fellow in Strategy, Cambridge Judge Business School Dr Kamal Munir Traditional banks are haunted by financial technology – fintech – firms. Challengers such as mobile-first banks Chime…
Food fight
Shopping trends mean blocking the big Sainsbury's-Asda merger may not protect customers, says Professor Yasemin Kor of Cambridge Judge Business School. Professor Yasemin Kor The proposed merger of supermarkets Sainsbury's and Asda is now off the table as the regulator has…
The Conversation: Shopping trends mean blocking the big Sainsbury’s-Asda merger may not protect customers
Yasemin Kor, Beckwith Professor of Management Studies at Cambridge Judge, discusses the blocking of the Sainsbury’s and Asda merger, looking at the biggest challenges supermarkets have to face and the outlook for consumers. “Customers today enjoy having the luxury of…
Light Blues win
Three Cambridge Judge students celebrate men's and women's victories over Oxford in The Boat Race. Sophie Deans (MPhil in Management 2018), Natan Wegrzycki-Szymczyk (MPhil in Management 2018), Pippa Whittaker (MFin 2018) Three Cambridge Judge Business School students celebrated as the…
The Boat Race
Three students at Cambridge Judge Business School – Sophie Deans, Pippa Whittaker and Natan Wegrzycki-Szymczyk – are named to the Cambridge University crews for The Boat Race 2019 against Oxford University, to be held on 7 April. Three current students…
MedTech Venture Competition 2019: solving health challenges through venture creation
Four early stage ventures with novel medical technologies tackling skin disease, heart defects in newborns, cancer treatment and female contraceptive treatments have won prizes at the inaugural Medical Technology (MedTech) Venture Competition developed by the Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre. The…
Reinvesting market power for the betterment of shareholders
Dr Scott B. Guernsey On the supply side, highly competitive industries are generally characterised as having many firms and low barriers to entry. The first condition implies that existing firms cannot dictate or influence prices, and the second that new…
Playful and serious
A new book co-edited by Professor Mark de Rond of Cambridge Judge – entitled Games: Conflict, competition and cooperation – looks at how games shape our lives through essays by eight prominent people. A new book entitled Games: Conflict, competition…
Only timeline will tell
Rivals are lulled into retaliatory inaction through vague or distant timelines in company press releases, particularly if repeated frequently, finds new study by researchers in UK and US. Corporate press releases are full of linguistic devices aiming to boost the…
