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The conference will examine the effects that the projected fantasies of subordinates have on managers when the latter begin to believe in them.

The intoxication of power

18 Sep 2013

Why are so many companies brought down by an excess of self-confidence, and rash decision-making by out-of-control egos at the top? A Cambridge...

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Landfill site in Poland. The toolkit aims to encourage manufacturers to consider reusability, reparability and recycling at every stage of a product’s lifecycle, from design to the point of disposal.

Circular argument for a sustainable future

17 Sep 2013

A new online toolkit for manufacturers and retailers has been released to enable users to pinpoint areas in which their businesses could be made both...

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Bovril: a very beefy (and British) love affair

05 Jul 2013

The makers of the beef extract called Bovril were pioneers in the dark arts of marketing. Speaking tomorrow at the Oxford Symposium on Food &...

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Risky business

Down but not out

26 Apr 2013

Most business start-ups fail. But countless failed entrepreneurs go on to establish further enterprises. In his PhD research, Dr Keith Cotterill, a...

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Cambridge Nanoscience Centre

£60 million boost for science innovation

15 Nov 2012

Cambridge has received new funding as part of a £60m investment in UK universities to help encourage the development of new industrial collaborations...

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Surgeons in the field hospital in Camp Bastion

Welcome to Bastion: warzone ethnography with the combat surgeons

27 Jun 2012

A Cambridge academic was given unprecedented access to the military hospital at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, to study the teamwork of the combat...

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Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats

Beyond the box office: are industry experts getting the movie business wrong?

15 Jun 2012

What is it that makes a movie successful? A faculty member from the Cambridge Judge Business School believes that the industry and experts are...

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A vegetable vendor uses a solar lamp to light her stall

Frugal innovation

17 May 2012

Co-author of recently published book 'Jugaad Innovation', Professor Jaideep Prabhu argues that a frugal and flexible approach to innovation can...

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Islamic Bank of Britain.

Zero interest and growing fast

25 Apr 2012

From humble beginnings, Islamic finance is now a trillion dollar industry and growing at a rate some in the West find alarming. A new analysis...

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Kodak Color Film.

The rise and fall of Kodak's moment

14 Mar 2012

On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite...

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The Square Mile by night

Who owns the City?

22 Nov 2011

Foreign investors now own the majority of City of London offices, according to a new study from the Department of Land Economy.

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Colourised geek stuff

Silicon mashup as Valley hits Fen

15 Nov 2011

Interested in what our digital future will look like? This week Cambridge plays host to pioneers of some of the most exciting and disruptive Silicon...

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