What does the future of work mean for the bread and butter HR issues of attracting, retaining and managing talent? The pandemic forced leaders and managers to figure this out for ourselves and as the dust settles, it is time to think whether HR and other parts of an organisation have to re-evaluate these processes. CJBS Alum Mathias Huber has extensive experience in people management, first in consulting projects with McKinsey and now with Viessman. Join us to hear his thoughts on what leaders, ...
Sep 04, 2023•42 min
Starting with the fall of Silicon Valley Bank, this crisis has been a long time coming. From the forced merger of UBS and Credit Suisse to the growing pressure on US regional banks, the cracks are showing. What caused this crisis? Was it years of quantitative easing, or is it a case of lax regulation? Are we seeing the exposure of fundamentally weak banks, or is this as bad as it will get? Simon Taylor, Cambridge Judge Business School faculty explores the ongoing banking crisis that has been sha...
Jun 13, 2023•46 min
We explore how businesses can minimize waste, promote sustainability, and generate economic growth by adapting concepts of the circular economy. We will learn how circularity can be implemented in an industry and how it can benefit the environment while still maintaining a profitable business model. Rina L. Einy has a lifelong career in the fashion industry and started culthread, a slow fashion brand that uses recycled materials to make stylish and top-quality clothing. This is an important conc...
Jun 08, 2023•16 min
Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine was the latest in a series of crises that have engulfed the world and affected businesses, countries and societies. Then there was covid, the US-China tensions, the rise of Trump and other strongmen political leaders, the current banking crisis. Are we truly in an age of permacrisis? Helen Thompson helps us make sense of what's going on. She looks at how slow-moving forces in the energy and currency markets have created tensions within, and between major coun...
May 24, 2023•45 min
How do investors and big pharma assess deals with startups and other companies? It isn't always an M&A, it could be an alliance, a licensing arrangement or some other form of partnership. Anna Gran has worked in many roles in big pharma to spot these opportunities, using her deep science background and an MBA from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. She will talk about these issues and share points about her career. You need to watch this if you are in a startup in healthcare ...
May 24, 2023•45 min
The 2023 Employment Report showed a strong performance by Cambridge Judge Business School MBA students. The class of 2021-22 did extremely well in the face of an uncertain employment landscape with considerable global economic headwinds, with many going into top consulting firms and other interesting areas. A good part of their success came from the School's Careers Office and Careers Director Sadia Cuthbert will join us to bring out the main themes from the Employment Report. This episode shows...
May 04, 2023•47 min
Generative AI such as ChatGPT have captured the public's imagination with its text outputs that alternates between genuinely useful, to the downright boring, to what Microsoft calls "usefully wrong". People are predicting that this use of AI will mean the end of everything from Google's domination of search to the mass retrenchment of copywriters. How will these predictions come to pass? Professor Michael Barrett will talk about how technologies like AI get adopted and propagated. Kellyann Ripna...
May 04, 2023•46 min
From difficulties in obtaining funding to the lack of support and advice, minority-owned businesses face challenges that can make it difficult to succeed. Meet Cambridge Judge Business School research fellows, Professor Simone Phipps of Middle Georgia State University and Professor Leon Prieto of Clayton State University, who will be joined by Yvonne Lardner, an Associate Research Fellow at CJBS, who has done extensive research in the experiences of Black founder-owners in the UK, and hear about...
Mar 28, 2023•46 min
Despite technological advances, healthcare costs remain high or access is constrained. The Healthcare Utility Initiative seeks to solve this. What if healthcare providers become more like utilities to deliver high-quality products and services at low, equal costs. The initiative aims to develop rapidly scalable not-for-profit business models for healthcare service innovation to improve healthcare delivery, and keep access and costs low. The co-founders of the Healthcare Utility Initiative, Carte...
Mar 20, 2023•47 min
For decades, banking meant the usual suspects of big household names. There were national champions and only a few truly global financial institutions and almost no new entrants. Technology and regulatory changes have ushered in an age of challenger banks. Banks that offer new products or repackaged existing products for retail and business customers. Will these challenger banks survive and what do they do that incumbents don't do? We hear from two speakers connected to Cambridge Judge Business ...
Mar 14, 2023•48 min
Automation, AI and Machine Learning are just some of the terms that are driving old-timers in B2B sales and marketing out of board rooms and corporate suites. Learn from some Cambridge MBA alumni on how technology is changing sales, marketing and customer success in B2B.
Dec 13, 2022•46 min
MBA alumna Jules Robertson talks about the business models and trends around shared work spaces, that were developed and sprung up during and after the global pandemic. From collaborative days to popular locations in cities, what attracts the best talent to your business in the new global flexible market.
Mar 21, 2022•15 min
Dr Ronita Bardhan from the University of Cambridge School of Architecture, talks about her recent study about working patterns and models post-pandemic. As we navigate the new hybrid and flexible working environment the data and insights she discusses shed light on the journey we are all taking. Link to Dr Bardhan's You Tube page where she talks about social housing, among other topics, in India: https://youtu.be/7JRNDzdiBtM
Mar 11, 2022•28 min
Cyber security to invasion - the unsettling position after the recent invasion of Ukraine - Cambridge Judge Business School Faculty talks about the East and the economic impact of war.
Mar 03, 2022•22 min
What business leaders think about innovation in 2022 - MBA alumnus Marco Donzelli (MBA 2009) talks about the market recovery after the pandemic, as Global CEO of global accounting and advisory network, HLB International. HLB Ltd released their annual survey recently and this year's theme was innovation. The results cover discussions from company culture, to innovation and bold leadership to navigating risk in a new global outlook. For reference - HLB Ltd Annual survey link: https://www.hlb.globa...
Feb 18, 2022•23 min
MBA graduate Robert Ippolito (MBA 2017) talks about starting businesses across Latin America; in the coupon sector and working with the use of bitcoin. Working also in the Ed Tech sector, offering tuition for school children across 19 countries. Robert works in the sales and operations side of the fastest growing online English academy for kids in Latin America.
Feb 11, 2022•19 min
Dr Joshua Oppenheimer, a leading medical professional and founder of medical tech start up, Transformative, talks about his career transformation and changing careers. His career journey after his Cambridge MBA(MBA 2014)moves from an emergency medical doctor to the CEO of a private AI and software enterprise in the healthcare sector. Still working directly with hospital patients, Joshua manages to juggle two roles while still growing the business and managing the company growth - during a challe...
Jan 21, 2021•29 min
From founding the start up charity Halal Gems through to her role as Director of the Muslim Youth Helpline, Zohra takes us on a varied and fascinating journey through her career, since her Cambridge MBA in 2008/2009. From the food industry and supply chains to youth engagement and empowerment, her career as a founder and entrepreneur examines the challenges and thoughts that exist across varied sectors, all of which are united by a drive for change and to make an impact.
Aug 28, 2020•33 min
Cambridge Executive MBA alumni Rav Seeruthun(2013)talks about his career in the medical sector from the pharmaceutical industry through to rare diseases and respiratory medicine at Roche, the global pharmaceutical and diagnostics company, where he is now Medical Director. Rav also shares a view on the global pandemic Covid-19 from inside the industry. He covers a career in politics alongside medicine, as well as the key pivot points and changes in his extraordinary career journey.
Jul 31, 2020•34 min
Cambridge MBA Andreas Kitzing talks about the company Sponsoo, that he founded soon after completing his Cambridge MBA in 2013/14. Sponsoo is Europe's largest digital marketplace for sports sponsorship. From entrepreneurship to brand and marketing to fundraising, Andreas describes his start up journey, alongside his Cambridge MBA year.
Jul 17, 2020•30 min
The changing face of the workplace after the pandemic, how to manage and think about your mental health during a crisis, and how to build your resilience during a crisis, in order to start preparing to change your career - a personal perspective from Cambridge MBA Executive Director, Conrad Chua.
Jul 06, 2020•7 min
Cambridge MBA Executive Director gives a range of advice for conducting interviews remotely, either in the new virtual world under Covid-19 conditions in 2020 or indeed when the recruiter is half way across the globe. Putting your best self forward in every scenario.
Apr 24, 2020•9 min
Conrad Chua, Executive Director of the Cambridge MBA talks about how we can prepare for the future, how we can present and manage ourselves in the current climate of uncertainty, and how MBAs can still work on their career change and ambition.
Mar 27, 2020•10 min
Covering a career in conservation and the environment, bringing social innovation and entrepreneurship to the table after his MBA year for alumni Paul Herbertson (MBA 2010). Covering business skills in a larger NGO environment to a smaller start up: financial modelling and business strategy, innovation and scaling. Now Director of a tailored conservation focused travel agency, Paul talks about his career change from charity to startup. He tells the story of a career with global impact in the con...
Feb 28, 2020•26 min
Career coach and talent acquisition consultant, Kate Harman, outlines the Case Interview process; she shares her tips and interview insights after over a decade recruiting talent at Boston Consulting Group, London, UK.
Feb 14, 2020•12 min
Serial entrepreneur Michael Birdsall (MBA 2012) talks about his rapid startup growth across Asia and North America, in the education and tutoring sector. From scaling up, client relations, tech platforms, to managing vastly different geographies and company culture through enormous growth. Now a startup sales success story - Michael talks about his exit strategy, stepping out of the Founder position in 2019.
Jan 31, 2020•26 min
Covering a career in leading technology companies across Europe, Asia and the UK, from Amazon, to Adstream to Jagex Games. Hamza Mudassir (MBA 2012) talks about digital transformation and the role storytelling might play in these large-scale digital transformation projects - from product management to corporate strategy. Hamza is now a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School in Strategy.
Jan 17, 2020•28 min
Dr. Ritika Dave talks about her career in medicine, via the Cambridge MBA(2012), through to the 'business' of science with such giant pharmaceuticals as Astra Zeneca; as well as covering her years of experience in the consultancy world, with consultants L.E.K. Consulting. Ritika covers her career changes and the lessons she has learnt on the way, from analytics to asking the right questions.
Jan 03, 2020•18 min
As we end 2019, we hear from the year's podcast host Conrad Chua about career tips, and an outlook for the future to de-clutter your life, to help you enter a new decade with a focus on what matters most.
Dec 20, 2019•7 min
Jon Kwan, global careers consultant and career coach talks about the power of informational interviews as well as using design thinking in your career; and more widely about the job search in Asia. With a background of his own career change, for example, from Canada to Singapore; Jon takes us beyond the 'coffee chat' and the steps to take to find the 'right fit' in your global job search.
Dec 04, 2019•23 min
