Cambridge Executive MBA Team Takes Up Cycling
Bringing the Tour de France to India – a nation with scarcely any culture of sports cycling – has proved an ambitious task for its organisers. But despite the challenges, the Tour de India ran its first races in Mumbai, Srinagar and Delhi in 2012. The following year, with Jaipur replacing Srinagar in the three-city tour, the event gained official recognition from UCI, the world governing body for competitive cycling.
A group from the Executive MBA programme at Cambridge Judge Business School are planning the next stage of the Tour de India’s development, in fulfillment of their Team Consulting Project. “We’re looking at scaling up the Tour in both time and capacity over a period of five years. When we came on board, we could see there was a great vision and plenty of passion, but we perhaps weren’t seeing much longer-term planning. So how could we add value?” asks lead member Rav Seeruthun.
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Judge Joins European MBA Panel and Q&A Event
Judge Business School will be participating in a European MBA Panel and Q&A session in Berlin. Judge will join a few other top schools in Europe to discuss why you should study for an MBA in Europe. The event will be held March 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin. The event is open to anyone who is interested in pursuing a MBA degree. There will be a networking cocktail reception held proceeding the panel discussion and Q&A session.
Including Judge and European School of Management and Technology, there will be four schools participating in this panel discussion. The other two schools that will be represented are the Rotterdam School of Management and the SDA Bocconi School of Management. During the Q&A part of the event, prospective student will have the opportunity to ask about the MBA programs at the schools as well as international requirements and the benefits of completing the MBA in Europe. Those interested in attending must register online. To register for the event, email degrees@esmt.org.
Cambridge Judge Professor Visits and Speaks in Mumbai
Plenty of blame was cast for the financial crisis of 2007-2008, but finance education and training has hardly been blameless – this is the argument of Simon Taylor, University Lecturer in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School.
A “standard set of finance concepts and tools” have been used to train people in the finance industry for decades, but many of those are based on very shaky foundations, Taylor told an audience in Mumbai on 28 January.
“We have to make students aware of what is known, but also how limited, fragmented and tentative that knowledge is,” Taylor says, urging that several elements should become standard fixtures in the education of financiers and others entering the investment industry.
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Judge Business School Research Shows How Shame Can Promote Productivity
Shame, according to the famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, is a “soul-eating emotion” – and because some mistakes at work are inevitable, such soul-destroying shame is a common workplace occurrence.
Yet newly-published research co-authored by Andreas Richter, University Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Cambridge Judge Business School, concludes that managers and fellow employees can help channel workplace shame into creativity if the situation is handled skilfully and sensitively.
“People naturally want to overcome their workplace shame by demonstrating their value to the organisation, and one way of doing this is to show creativity,” says Richter. “The study finds that managers can facilitate this by providing an appropriate environment.”
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Judge Business School EMBAs Help Each Other Out At Gousto
They met at the Executive MBA programme at Cambridge Judge Business School, where both still study. Now, Timo Schmidt and David Cruickshank will work together at fast-growing UK food company Gousto.
David is now joining Gousto as Executive Vice President of Operations, working closely with CEO Timo to roll out new systems and processes. Zipcar was acquired in 2013 by listed company Avis Budget Group, and David worked to integrate the two firms’ operational processes.
“We met in Cambridge, sharing a passion for cooking and entrepreneurship, and discussing all kinds of challenges after class,” Timo says. “David is full of fantastic ideas about how to keep momentum and really think big, and I couldn’t think of a better executive to join our leadership team.”
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Judge Business School Presents Energy Market Evolution Talk On January 29
Michael Pollitt, Professor of Business Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School, will host a conversation on the state of the energy market and how it has evolved over the last few years. Taking into account competitive market theory, Michael will consider the relationship between retail and wholesale markets, the likely consequences of a price freeze and what this all means for the individual consumer as well as for business.
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