Cambridge Judge Business School

28/08/2026

Why do so many Cambridge Judge students' stories involve stepping outside their original field?

It's because the most interesting questions rarely stay inside a single discipline.

In recent blog posts, an art market specialist asks questions about technology, markets and human behaviour. A climate finance practitioner explores the challenges of turning local climate needs into investable projects. A finance professional discovers entrepreneurship through acquisition.

Different programmes, different sectors, different starting points, but one common thread: curiosity.

Cambridge has a habit of broadening the conversation. The questions that begin in one discipline are challenged, refined and expanded by people from another, often revealing new connections and insights.

That's when curiosity becomes something more than an interest. It becomes a new way of seeing the bigger picture.

👇 See it in action with:

• Rafaela Cobo Ordonez on the world, strategy and perspective

• Amandla Uzoka-Jarrett on finance and the United Nations

• Andres Camacho on through acquisition

Links in the comments.

21/08/2026

Every summer there comes a point when preparations for the new academic year gather pace and the new students' arrivals are imminent.

Looking back through photos of previous early term days for new cohorts, we're always struck by the same thing: the sense of energy and possibility, obvious in their faces.

People arrive in Cambridge from different places, at different stages of life and career, not yet knowing the friendships they'll make, the conversations they'll have, or where their experience will take them. It's our favourite time of year.

18/08/2026

What can prison officers teach us about judgment?

In a study based on 12 months of ethnographic research inside an English prison, Cambridge Judge PhD graduates Adrian Marrison and Jaco Lok, together with Professor Mark de Rond, explored how experienced prison officers prevent violence before it occurs.

Their research centres on what officers call jailcraft: the ability to sense subtle shifts in atmosphere that may signal rising tension.

The researchers found that prison officers engage in three forms of 'atmospheric work':

• sensing early signs of tension
• amplifying tension when greater control is needed
• dampening tension when violence appears imminent

Much of this expertise is difficult to describe and even harder to measure. Experienced officers learn to notice changes in mood, behaviour and interaction that may be invisible to outsiders.

The study argues that security is not simply about responding to incidents. It depends on people's ability to read and shape the atmosphere around them in real time.

The setting is prison, but the broader insight is clear: good judgment often begins before a problem becomes visible.

Read more about this thought-provoking study on judgment, expertise and human behaviour: https://loom.ly/mW4hMfQ

17/08/2026

Great leaders have this, according to Professor Jochen Menges, leadership lecturer at .

Our series continues with Jochen sharing more key insights from his classes educating the business leaders of tomorrow.

17/08/2026

We're delighted to celebrate Dr Allègre Hadida, Associate Professor of Strategy at Cambridge Judge Business School, who has been awarded the François Colbert Research Impact Award by the International Association of Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC).

The award recognises scholars whose research has made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of arts and culture management. Through her pioneering work at the intersection of strategy, creativity, cultural management and media organisations, Allègre has helped shape both academic thinking and professional practice.

Congratulations, Allègre, on this well-deserved recognition.

Read more: https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2026/allegre-hadida-honoured-by-arts-and-culture-group/

Allègre Hadida, Associate Professor of Strategy at Cambridge Judge Business School, was awarded the François Colbert Research Impact Award by the International Association of Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC) at the group’s conference in Rio de Janeiro in July.

11/08/2026

Many studies have explored how diversity shapes team performance. Fewer have asked what happens when status is also considered.

Research from Cambridge Judge Business School suggests that diversity alone tells only part of the story. The status attached to demographic differences, and how people seek to gain, protect or reshape that status, can influence whether diversity strengthens or weakens team performance.

Drawing together more than 20 years of work on social identity, status and team dynamics, Professors Prithviraj Chattopadhyay and Elizabeth George offer a new lens for understanding why similar levels of diversity can lead to very different outcomes.

Read more: https://loom.ly/tSAa2bA

11/08/2026

Congratulations to these Cambridge Judge Business School faculty members for their recognition at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Philadelphia!

Faculty members received two prestigious awards and were finalists for two further honours:

Karla Sayegh won the Best Theory to Practice Paper Award for research examining how healthcare professionals negotiate rules to improve coordination during disruption.

Jochen Menges co-authored the winner of the OB Division's Best Broad Relevance PDW Award for a workshop on publishing rigorous and impactful research on the future of work.

Christopher Marquis was a finalist for the George R. Terry Book Award for The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs.

Madeleine Rauch was a finalist in the Academy of Management Journal Best Article Award and was also nominated in the Best Student-Led Paper Award category.

Read more: https://loom.ly/hppf4Gk

06/08/2026

Some careers are built around a particular industry. Others are built around a particular way of thinking.

For Bhuvan Maingi (Cambridge MBA 2018), that mindset has taken him from engineering in Canada's energy sector to founding boutique strategy and ex*****on consultancy Strathen Group, where three of the four members of the firm's Leadership Council are fellow Cambridge MBA 2018 classmates.

At , he worked on projects ranging from go-to-market strategy for mOm Incubators' portable neonatal incubator to decarbonisation research for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Since graduating, he has built a career focused on turning strategy into action.

As Bhuvan puts it: "Strategy without ex*****on is theatre. Ex*****on without strategy is motion. Organisations fail in the gap between them."

📌 Find out more about applying to the for a September 2027 start: https://loom.ly/gC6GqDQ

06/08/2026

As leader, you won’t get your team to go with you unless you do this - according to Professor Jochen Menges, leadership lecturer at .

04/08/2026

“The culture is genuinely entrepreneurial. It pushes you to engage with people from completely different industries, and those conversations change how you think about your own work.”

For Alice Aubry and Budoor Almulla, one of those conversations became a new company.

The pair met on the MSt in Entrepreneurship at Cambridge Judge and went on to found Gems with Origin, a venture bringing transparency to the global coloured gemstone trade while creating more value in Madagascar.

Read their story: https://loom.ly/sT67xEs