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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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Mike Marin.

The crisis of shareholder primacy

19 Mar 2012

If we want to prevent the next financial crisis, a new model of corporate governance is needed to replace shareholder primacy in financial...

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Robert Zoellick

Head of World Bank to deliver prestigious Roskill Lecture at Churchill College

22 Feb 2012

The President of the World Bank, Robert B Zoellick, is to deliver the biennial Roskill Lecture at Cambridge University’s Churchill College this...

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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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Rufus Pollock

Open and transparent

18 Oct 2011

An exciting venture dedicated to the sharing of knowledge and information, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is creating a worldwide ecosystem of...

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Lubbock Heart Hospital, Dec 16-17, 2005

A Greek tragedy in health?

10 Oct 2011

Cambridge-led research documents rises in HIV, heroin use, prostitution, homicides and suicides in the wake of the Greek financial crisis.

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Adrian Leonard at Lloyd's

Navigating the choppy waters of risk

06 Oct 2011

Whether or not the planned intervention in the organisation of international banking sector succeeds, it will certainly impact on the City of London...

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RBC's trading floor

Biology, training, and profit sharing make best traders

24 Nov 2009

Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis.

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