Cambridge Judge Business School

Cambridge Judge Business School has announced its 2026 Excellence in Teaching Awards, celebrating the educators whose teaching has made a real and lasting difference.

👏 Congratulations to this year's recipients: Prithviraj Chattopadhyay, Mark de Rond, Elizabeth George, Alan Jagolinzer, Houyuan Jiang, Oğuzhan Karakaş, Paul Kattuman, Simon Learmount, Shasha Lu, Lidia Mishchenko, Simon Stockley, and Neil Stott.

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Three Cambridge Judge students launched a policy hackathon this May. Nearly 200 people applied.

Multidisciplinary teams tackled five challenges set by government and industry, from healthcare access to cross-border fraud, at the intersection of technology and society.

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What makes a product cool? According to new Cambridge Judge research, it comes down to usefulness more than style.

Dr Eden Yin's cross-cultural study finds that consumers consistently rate personal coolness, how a product makes them feel, above social coolness, how others perceive it. Functional innovation scores just as highly as aspirational design.

💡 "Demonstrating that functional innovation is cool flies against conventional wisdom that often frames cool products as style-driven rather than practical." — Dr Eden Yin

For product managers, the implication is straightforward: utility is a global coolness strategy. Read the full insight via the link in the comments. 👇

Pride Month 2026 🌈

This June, Cambridge Judge is celebrating inclusion, belonging and diversity across our community.

From engaging activities to important conversations, we’re bringing students, staff, faculty and partners together to help build an inclusive Pride culture for all.

Join us, get involved, and celebrate with us 💬✨
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Most people expect a Cambridge MFin interview to be a technical grilling 📋. Four current students found something different entirely.

The format was conversational, not combative. The focus was on your story, your reasoning, and why Cambridge now. The interviewers weren't trying to catch anyone out. They were trying to understand how each candidate thinks, what they've learned from their work, and how they'd contribute to the cohort 🎓.

"It felt like a professional yet open discussion rather than a high-pressure cross examination." - Jemima Keren Gyamfi, MFin

One thing all four students agreed on: strong candidates came ready to ask questions as well as answer them. The interview runs both ways 💬.

Fewer than 12% of organisations have moved agentic AI beyond the pilot stage. Is yours one of them?

Cambridge Judge Business School is launching three new Executive Education programmes in July, built for senior leaders who need to act, not just experiment.

🔧 Agentic AI: Design, Build, Govern — 9-10 July
🏛️ AI Governance for Boards and CXOs — 15-17 July
📊 AI Strategy for Enterprises — 22-24 July

"The technology is moving in months, sometimes weeks, yet most boards are moving at the pace of their quarterly meetings." — Professor Matthew Grimes, Cambridge Judge Business School

📌 Learn more and book your spot: 🔗 https://loom.ly/anxuzeU

Cambridge Judge launches 3 new AI programmes in Executive Education New programme offerings on aspects of artificial intelligence ranging from agentic design to enterprise strategy to governance signals a major acceleration in AI-related focus for the Executive Education division of Cambridge Judge Business School.

A King's Award for Enterprise. A hologram mirror that coaches you in real time. And a founder who left investment banking because he refused to accept that good health was a luxury. 🏆

Varun Bhanot, a Cambridge Judge Business School alumnus, has just been recognised in the Innovation category for MAGIC AI, the personalised home fitness company he built from a simple but serious conviction.

"We built MAGIC AI to use intelligent technology not as a gimmick, but to help people genuinely know their own bodies and take control of their health." says Varun.

What does football have to do with the global water crisis? 💧

More than most people think. And that gap in awareness is precisely the problem.

Kashif Siddiqi played for the Pakistan national team, Oxford United, and Real Kashmir FC. He also co-founded Football for Peace, a charity now part of the Cambridge Peaceshaping and Climate Incubator at Cambridge Judge Business School, and the organisation behind Rehydrate the Earth: a 10-year campaign to protect and restore water systems across four continents.

The case he makes is quietly urgent. England holds 85% of the world's chalk streams. Many are running dry, lost to pollution, over-extraction, and aquifers depleted faster than they can refill.

"Football touches 6 billion people and growing. Let's together use this power to return the water, and you return the peace." — Kashif Siddiqi, Football for Peace