Cambridge Judge Business School

Many studies have explored how diversity shapes team performance. Fewer have asked what happens when status is also considered.

Research from Cambridge Judge Business School suggests that diversity alone tells only part of the story. The status attached to demographic differences, and how people seek to gain, protect or reshape that status, can influence whether diversity strengthens or weakens team performance.

Drawing together more than 20 years of work on social identity, status and team dynamics, Professors Prithviraj Chattopadhyay and Elizabeth George offer a new lens for understanding why similar levels of diversity can lead to very different outcomes.

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Congratulations to these Cambridge Judge Business School faculty members for their recognition at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Philadelphia!

Faculty members received two prestigious awards and were finalists for two further honours:

Karla Sayegh won the Best Theory to Practice Paper Award for research examining how healthcare professionals negotiate rules to improve coordination during disruption.

Jochen Menges co-authored the winner of the OB Division's Best Broad Relevance PDW Award for a workshop on publishing rigorous and impactful research on the future of work.

Christopher Marquis was a finalist for the George R. Terry Book Award for The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs.

Madeleine Rauch was a finalist in the Academy of Management Journal Best Article Award and was also nominated in the Best Student-Led Paper Award category.

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Some careers are built around a particular industry. Others are built around a particular way of thinking.

For Bhuvan Maingi (Cambridge MBA 2018), that mindset has taken him from engineering in Canada's energy sector to founding boutique strategy and ex*****on consultancy Strathen Group, where three of the four members of the firm's Leadership Council are fellow Cambridge MBA 2018 classmates.

At , he worked on projects ranging from go-to-market strategy for mOm Incubators' portable neonatal incubator to decarbonisation research for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Since graduating, he has built a career focused on turning strategy into action.

As Bhuvan puts it: "Strategy without ex*****on is theatre. Ex*****on without strategy is motion. Organisations fail in the gap between them."

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“The culture is genuinely entrepreneurial. It pushes you to engage with people from completely different industries, and those conversations change how you think about your own work.”

For Alice Aubry and Budoor Almulla, one of those conversations became a new company.

The pair met on the MSt in Entrepreneurship at Cambridge Judge and went on to found Gems with Origin, a venture bringing transparency to the global coloured gemstone trade while creating more value in Madagascar.

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💭 New research finds that how an idea is judged depends partly on how the person judging feels about the colleague who had it. The idea itself is only part of what gets weighed.

🧊 Research co-authored by Dr Jungmin Choi, Assistant Research Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School, looks at two kinds of envy. People who did not think a colleague had earned the win marked their idea down and put less money behind it. People who thought the colleague deserved it scored the idea the same as people feeling no envy at all.

🔍 Ideas need someone to back them. Whether they find one can come down to how the people in the room are feeling.

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The Group Consulting Project is where the Cambridge Master of Finance students move from classroom to clients...

Five weeks, live mandates, real organisations at the frontier of global finance. Not case studies: real results, with genuine stakes attached.

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Medicine can be affordable and still never reach the people who need it. Professor Paul Kattuman of and PATH's Ankur Mutreja makes the case for a global "shock fund" to keep vaccines and supplies moving when ports close, fuel prices spike, or conflict blocks the route - because right now, there's no plan for what happens when shipments gets stuck.
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