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Centre For Business Research
Cambridge Judge Business School is the business school of the University of Cambridge. The School is a provider of management education. It is named after Sir Paul Judge, a founding benefactor of the school. The School is a department of the university's School of Technology administrative group. The School is embedded in the high tech cluster called the Silicon Fen, with its own accelerator and close ties with Cambridge Enterprise, the university's technology transfer office. The School is situated on the site of the Old Addenbrooke's Site on Trumpington Street, near the Fitzwilliam Museum. The building was converted by John Outram, and in 2018, a new adjacent building was opened to host classes and executive education activity: the Simon Sainsbury Centre. History Founding and early years The School was established in 1990 as the Judge Institute for Management Studies. In 1991, donations from Sir Paul and Lady Judge, together with the Monument Trust, provided the fun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public University
A public university, state university, or public college is a university or college that is State ownership, owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. In contrast a private university is usually owned and operated by a private corporation (not-for-profit or for profit). Both types are often regulated, but to varying degrees, by the government. Africa Algeria In Algeria, public universities are a key part of the education system, and education is considered a right for all citizens. Access to these universities requires passing the Baccalaureate (Bac) exam, with each institution setting its own grade requirements (out of 20) for different majors and programs. Notable public universities include the Algiers 1 University, University of Algiers, Oran 1 University, University of Oran, and Constantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria
Karan Faridoon Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, (born 26 November 1961) is a British Indian businessman, member of the House of Lords, and former Chancellor of the University of Birmingham. Bilimoria founded the global beer brand Cobra Beer, and served as the company's chairman until November 2024. In addition to his business activities, Bilimoria is a politically active independent crossbench member of the House of Lords, served as Chancellor of the University of Birmingham from 2014 to 2024, and is the former President of the Confederation of British Industry (2020–2022) and Vice President (2022–2024). Family background Karan Bilimoria was born in Hyderabad, India into a Zoroastrian Parsi family which hailed from Gujarat. As the surname 'Bilimoria' denotes, the ancestral home of the family is the small town of Bilimora, situated on the banks of the river Ambika, in Gandevi taluka of Navsari district of Gujarat state. Bilimoria's family had a strong background in trade and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OPEC
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC ) is an organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to collectively influence the global oil market and maximize Profit (economics), profit. It was founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. The organization, which currently comprises 12 member countries, accounted for 38 percent of List of countries by oil production, global oil production, according to a 2022 report. Additionally, it is estimated that 79.5 percent of the world's proven oil reserves are located within OPEC nations, with the Middle East alone accounting for 67.2 percent of OPEC's total reserves.Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. (2023). ''OPEC Annual Statistical Bulletin'' (58th ed.), 90 pages. Retrieved from https://asb.opec.org/. ISSN: 0475-0608. (See pages 7 and 22). In a series of steps in the 1960s and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diezani Alison-Madueke
Diezani K. Agama (born 6 December 1960) is a Nigerian politician who was the first female president of OPEC. She became Nigeria's minister of transportation on 26 July 2007. She was moved to Mines and Steel Development in 2008, and in April 2010 was appointed as the first female Minister of Petroleum Resources in Nigeria. She was also elected the first female OPEC president at the 166th OPEC Ordinary meeting in Vienna on 27 November 2014. Early life and education Diezani K. Agama was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Her father was Chief Frederick Abiye Agama. She had her early education in Shell camp and attended Hussey Model School after the Nigerian civil war. In 1968, she enrolled in Township School, Port Harcourt and then went on to Holy Rosary Government Girls Secondary School where she sat for her WASCE in 1975. She proceeded to Federal School of Arts and Sciences in Mubi, Gongola State (now Adamawa State) for her A' Levels and then moved to the United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauro Guillén
Mauro F. Guillén (born 1964) is a Spanish-American sociologist and political economist who is currently the William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management at the Wharton School. In March 2021, he was named Dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School, and a Fellow of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge; he returned to Wharton in 2023. Until July 2021, he directed the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research, and was the Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies from 2007 to 2019. His book ''2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything'' was a ''Wall Street Journal'' bestseller and a ''Financial Times'' Book of the Year. Biography Education Born in Spain, Guillén graduated from the University of Oviedo in 1987 with a BA in political economy and business management. He arrived in the United States in 1987 to study sociology at Yale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Loch
Christoph H. Loch was the Director ( Dean) of Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge from 2011 until 31 August 2021, when he was replaced by Professor Mauro Guillén who joined from Wharton (University of Pennsylvania). He also held a fellowship at Pembroke College. He was announced he would step down in the summer of 2021 after two mandates. Professor Loch took office on 1 September 2011, having previously held the position of GlaxoSmithKline Chaired Professor of Corporate Innovation and Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD, where he also served as Dean of the INSEAD PhD programme from 2006 to 2009. He is associate editor of the ''Journal of Management Science'', and he serves on the editorial boards of the ''Journal of Engineering and Technology Management'' and the ''Journal of Research Technology Management''. In September 2024, he joined IESE Business School as Professor of Operations, Information and Technology. Loch holds a Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Meeks
Geoffrey (Geoff) Meeks (born 1949) is a British accounting scholar and Professor of Financial Accounting at the University of Cambridge, known for his work on M&A and on "Accounting standards and the economics of standards." Biography Meeks obtained his BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 1971Curriculum Vitae: Geoff Meeks : University of Cambridge, Judge Business School , at jbs.cam.ac.uk. Accessed 12-03-2015. and a Ph.D. in Accounting and Economics from the University of Edinburgh in 1975 Meeks started his career as accountant trainee in in 1971. From 1972 to 1975 he was Research Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnoud De Meyer
Arnoud De Meyer is a Belgian business academic at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business of Singapore Management University (SMU). He was previously President of SMU, Director of the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge, and founding Dean of INSEAD's Asia Campus in Singapore. Career An electrical engineer by training, De Meyer obtained a graduate degree in business administration from the University of Ghent and worked as an instrumentation engineer for a few years before returning to the university to complete a PhD in management. After that, he started on the path of being a business academic. He was associated for 23 years with INSEAD as a professor and as Dean for INSEAD's MBA programme, Executive Education and the Euro Asia Centre. He was also the founding Dean of INSEAD's Asia Campus in Singapore and wrote extensively with Frank-Jürgen Richter. After that, he was appointed Director of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge from 2006 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Dawson (academic)
Dame Sandra June Noble Dawson, BA (born 4 June 1946) is a British social scientist and academic. She was Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2009, making her the first woman to be master of a formerly all male College at the University of Cambridge. She was the inaugural KPMG Professor of Management Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School. She has a BA in sociology and history from Keele University. Academic career Dawson was also Director of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge from 1995 to 2006 and one of the Deputy Vice Chancellors of the University of Cambridge between 2008 and 2012. Prior to this Dawson was Professor of Organisational Behaviour within the National Health Service (1990-1995) and Deputy Director of the Management School (1987-1994) at Imperial College London. Other work In 2010, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling appointed her as a non-executive director at the United Kingdom's Financial Services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Research Excellence Framework
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a research impact evaluation of British Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It is the successor to the Research Assessment Exercise and it was first used in 2014 to assess the period 2008–2013. REF is undertaken by the four UK higher education funding bodies: Research England, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Medr (preceded by Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW)), and the Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland (DfE). Its stated aims are to: *inform the allocation of block-grant research funding to HEIs based on research quality; *provide accountability for public investment in research and produce evidence of the benefits of this investment; and *provide insights into the health of research in HEIs in the UK. To support these aims, research has increasingly highlighted the need for evidence-based approaches to measuring research impact. For example, Jensen et al. (2021) emphasized that high-quality research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge Centre For Alternative Finance
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance was established in 2015, and is a part of the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. The Centre is a research and education institute focused on researching technology-enabled financial innovation and its interplay with policy, regulation, supervision and infrastructure. CCAF’s approach includes publishing empirical research, creating digital tools to provide data and insights, and hosting learning opportunities, events, and online capacity building programmes for regulators and industry stakeholders to equip themselves with the necessary knowledge to navigate the evolving financial innovation landscape. The centre includes 4 dedicated research clusters and a Capacity Building and Education Team. CCAF aims to inform policymakers, regulators, governments and industry stakeholders about alternative financing instruments, channels and systems emerged outside of the traditional financial sector as well as underlying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master In Management
The Master of Management (MM, MiM, MMgt) is a master's degree comprising one or two years graduate level coursework in business management. In terms of content, it is similar to the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree as it contains identical management courses but is open to prospective postgraduate candidates at any level in their career unlike MBA programs that have longer course credit requirements and only accept mid-career professionals. In many cases it is synonymous with the Master of Science in Management (MSM or MiM) and is also related to the Master of Science in Commerce (MS-Comm or MS-Com). As the program is designed for students interested in entering leadership roles, the degree attracts applicants from diverse academic disciplines. A global survey of business schools offering MIM programs shows a robust growth in applications in times of global recession triggered by COVID-19. This growth in applications shows the demand for pre-experience prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
