The Islamic finance industry is facing a great future, not only because it offers a stable banking system, but also because its benefits are being realised by a greater number of people.

Launching his new Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education programme on Islamic finance, Dr Kamal Munir, Reader in Strategy & Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, says the British government's move to issue an Islamic bond is good news for the industry.

Islamic finance: the future is great

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

Cambridge Judge Business School's Women in Business Group recently invited Smaranda Gosa-Mensing, Professional Development Manager and Head of Learning UK at McKinsey and Company, to speak to students about McKinsey's Centered Leadership model. Before the talk, Smaranda spoke to Cambridge MBAs Priya Shah and Bruna Raggi Terra Seii about Centered Leadership, how it can help men and women in the workplace, and the challenges that women face in the workplace.

McKinsey's Centered Leadership model is effective for both individuals and organisations

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)

It was billed as the Cambridge Chapter launch of '85 Broads', a global network of trailblazing, visionary women who aspire to use their talent and leadership savvy to affect change for all women globally. The speakers at the day-long conference offered advice on how to overcome adversity, how to make the recession an advantage, why it's good not to fear failure and how to find the resources to keep digging deep. It clearly 'inspired', 'connected' and 'transformed' the many women who attended it.

Women in leadership: clarion call to action for women (part 1) (85 Broads Launch)

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

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

Leadership plays a huge part in the transformation and visioning of the future organisation but cynicism is a major barrier in that process; and, as the operating environment becomes increasingly uncertain, vision is becoming more important than planning.

Leadership, vision, cynicism and social issues

A great business school at the heart of the University of Cambridge, advancing knowledge and leadership through people who leave a mark on the world.

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