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A new five-day Executive Education programme, 'Making Your Organisation Innovative', aims to embed innovation as a core organisational activity rather than the work of one department.

Professor Stelios Kavadias says the programme will explain the importance of properly leveraging a key driver of innovation - creativity. Creativity lies not just with individuals but it requires many individuals to collaborate so that ideas flow and new solutions can emerge and be tested.

Innovation needs more than just money

Can risky decision-making, essential to the entrepreneurial process, be taught?
New research shows that entrepreneurs are highly-adapted risk-takers, and that this functional impulsivity is key to their success. It can also be taught; Dr Vyakarnam explains how.

Entrepreneurs - born or made?

Spring 2010 Documentary Podcast

Companies coming out of the recession are increasingly looking to India and China for new markets to penetrate and develop but, when they do, what lessons can they learn from other big players in the take-over business in countries like Japan and how should they manage those large "virtual teams" that criss-cross the globe? And would closer political union help the EU countries to compete in these emerging markets?

Global business, global values (part 1)

Global business, global values (part 2)

A new British government facing a new global crisis in the financial systems has turned the spotlight on the need to focus on the success of small and medium sized enterprises in the economy. Business Secretary Vince Cable used his first speech to warn that the economic recovery was still "fragile" and that the crisis in the Eurozone was likely to hold back growth. He spoke of the need to cut Britain's "massive" debt, and of the "dysfunctional banking system".

The search for profitability and business success in the private and public sector (part 2)

Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE DL, Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer and Visiting Entrepreneur at the School's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning

Following his Enterprise Tuesday seminar on 4 November 2008, Lord Karan Bilimoria talks about the implications of going global with an idea.

Lifestyle or global business? A major decision faced in any entrepreneurial career

The Centre for India and Global Business at Cambridge Judge Business School in Cambridge is creating a new dialogue for Western understanding of the emerging markets in India and China. On the one hand the rise of India and China as fast-growing global markets and world-class sources of innovation threatens the West but on the other the West needs a greater understanding of how it can succeed in these new giant Asian markets. Each needs the other but economic and cultural differences often hinder business development.

At a special two day Conference entitled "Innovation in India and China", Navi Radjou, Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business, and Jaideep Prabhu, Nehru Professor of Indian Business, brought leading minds from the worlds of business, marketing, film, fashion and culture together to enable East and West to meet and find out how to create value from these emerging markets.

Innovation in India and China (part 1) (Centre for India & Global Business Conference)

Centre for India & Global Business

The Centre for India and Global Business at Cambridge Judge Business School in Cambridge is creating a new dialogue for Western understanding of the emerging markets in India and China. On the one hand the rise of India and China as fast-growing global markets and world-class sources of innovation threatens the West but on the other the West needs a greater understanding of how it can succeed in these new giant Asian markets. Each needs the other but economic and cultural differences often hinder business development.

At a special two day Conference entitled "Innovation in India and China", Navi Radjou, Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business, and Jaideep Prabhu, Nehru Professor of Indian Business, brought leading minds from the worlds of business, marketing, film, fashion and culture together to enable East and West to meet and find out how to create value from these emerging markets.

Innovation in India and China (part 2) (Centre for India & Global Business Conference)

Every now and again there comes a time in the development of a field of inquiry when some bright spark gets up and challenges traditional thinking by turning accepted theories on their heads. Well, it seems the world of International Business scholarship is experiencing just such a moment with the publication of a new book by an accepted authority on business strategy.

Professor Alain Verbeke, guest speaker at the 2009 CIBAM Distinguished Lecture, has written International Business Strategy that will have boardrooms poring over its every word in great detail. It dispels guru messages using real cases and constructs a new framework for the essence of international business strategy and the foundations of global corporate success. Gurus, he thinks underestimate the complexity of the markets.

Rethinking the classics in international business strategy

Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Qiang Xiao, Sir Martin Rees, Lord Wilson of Dinton, Professor Natalie Fenton, Professor Mathias Döpfner, John Witherow, Marietje Schaake

Not since Gutenburg invented the printing press in the 1450s has the world experienced such a defining shift in how people communicate with one another. The first book to ever be printed was the Bible in Latin, and now six centuries later we can all be engaged in a never ending worldwide conversation via email, Twitter, blogging, and a host of other new media tools and so-called "social networks" such as Facebook and LinkedIn. But this huge 'Global Digital Revolution' has called into question the future of the print media, and will change the way public services are delivered and how all our democracies work. We report on a special CRASSH symposium (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) held at Cambridge Judge Business School to discuss these hot topics.

The global digital revolution

Professor Mathias Döpfner

Good quality journalism will win the battle for audiences in the new digital age, says Professor Mathias Döpfner of Axel Springer. He believes the newspaper industry is now moving in the right direction to charge for online content.

The secret to paid-for online content is quality

Dr Jo Mills, Programme Director, CfEL

The time is right to support entrepreneurship and talented individuals, as governments worldwide set up a raft of entrepreneurial initiatives. The Centre for Entrepreneurial learning at Cambridge Judge Business School launches a new Diploma in Entrepreneurship which taps into the entrepreneurial ecosystem at Cambridge; Programme Director Dr Jo Mills explains how this collaborative network will work.

Entrepreneurial ecosystems

Cambridge Service Alliance Conference 2011

As European economies bump along the bottom a new approach to manufacturing industries is helping to make businesses more successful in the longer term. Companies which have traditionally manufactured products are now branching out into the service sector. "The Servitisation of Manufacturing" is leading to new alliances and collaborations both in the private and public sector with lessons for all to learn.

Competitive advantage through new business models

Daniel Calleja-Crespo, Deputy Director General of the European Commission, says the blurring of boundaries between manufacturing and services creates new opportunities for business growth and many new jobs.

Revolution not evolution

Launching a new series of Cambridge Leadership Seminars, Lord Dennis Stevenson, Chairman in Residence at Cambridge Judge Business School, said he feels entrepreneurship attracts too many incorrect issues and thoughts.

Setting up your own business is a decision about a way of life

It is said that entrepreneurship is a way of life. Goncalo Vasconcelos, a Cambridge MBA entrepreneur, talks about the life and business choices that led him to growing his idea, the Syndicate Room, in Cambridge.

An interview with Conrad Chua, Head of Marketing and Admissions for the Cambridge MBA.

Cambridge MBA Goncalo Vasconcelos: Entrepreneurship is a way of life

Cambridge MBA 2008 Kristof Pelckmans talks about the lessons that he has learnt from pursuing three different entrepreneurial ideas at the same time, including how he drew inspiration for his company from a visit to the butcher shop.

An interview with Conrad Chua, Head of Marketing and Admissions for the Cambridge MBA.

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Pankaj Singh