Latest episodes
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Urs Rohner, Credit Suisse Group: Leadership is about solving problems
According to Urs Rohner, Chairman of the Credit Suisse Group, problem-solving is the day job in leadership. Although designing the right strategy is an essential element, the execu…
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António Horta-Osório, Lloyds Banking Group: In defence of business schools
A leading banker has defended business schools in the wake of criticism emerging from the financial crisis. The schools were accused of producing managers who were too focused on t…
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12 min
Rory Sutherland, Ogilvy & Mather UK: Economists should think like biologists
Students at business schools should think like biologists, according to acknowledged advertising authority Rory Sutherland of Ogilvy & Mather UK. Conventional economic theory is ex…
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7 min
National Stock Exchange of India: a world-class and transparent institution
In just under two decades Chitra Ramkrishna, MD & Chief Executive Officer of India's National Stock Exchange (NSE), and her leadership team have transformed India's securities mark…
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9 min
Entrepreneurship is crafted
Chandran Sankaran, Founder and CEO of Zyme Solutions, told MBA students that entrepreneurship is about creating self-sustaining businesses and entities. It's about changing the sta…
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8 min
Transparency is paramount in organisational change
Director General of the GSMA Anne Bouverot stressed the importance of 'transparency' in dealing with staff involved in merged companies when she addressed MBA students in her Cambr…
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Women are key to Procter & Gamble success in Africa
Women are at the heart of consumer giant Procter & Gamble’s drive to build business and organisations for sustainable growth in emerging markets like sub-Saharan Africa says Lauren…
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10 min
Steve Overman of Nokia on marketing tools and approaches
Steve Overman, former Vice President of Global Brand and Marketing Creation for Nokia Corporation, discusses marketing tools and approaches. Steve was a guest speaker for the Cambr…
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13 min
Cadbury Collection complete
The Cadbury Collection, consisting of papers relating to the activities, discussions, findings and recommendations of the 1990s enquiry into "Financial Aspects of Corporate Governa…
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9 min
Never miss the opportunities that emerge from a crisis
In five years Peter Löscher led industrial giant Siemens out of a worldwide bribery scandal back to leadership of global sustainability and winning back public trust. Peter Löscher…
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Entrepreneurs must accept rejection but keep going
Rejection has to be accepted by entrepreneurs and although it is hard to handle, keep going. That's the advice from Dr Lisa Drakeman, whose high-flying bio-tech career led to four…
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8 min
Kindness and gratitude can lead to success
Kindness and gratitude are two key qualities required to be successful in business leadership, according to Pinky Lilani, Founder and Chief Executive of Spice Magic, and one of the…
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10 min
Pacific global leadership is in the ascendancy
Former UK government education adviser Sir Michael Barber talks about the challenges to be faced if the potential of this, the 21st century, is to be realised. The challenges to be…
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8 min
Growing momentum for prison reform in Africa
Alexander McLean, Founder and Director General of the UK-based charity The African Prisons Project (APP), talks about the work it is carrying out and the part played by Cambridge J…
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11 min
Recession apart, we still like chocolate
Co-Founder Peter Harris explains the continued success of Hotel Chocolat, a company that is maintaining its steady growth rate despite the recession. Innovation, authenticity and e…
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11 min
The sky's the limit: Raspberry Pi goes for Brazil, India and China
In little more than a year, the tiny, credit card-sized computer that costs about 20 pounds has smashed all expectations, rolling off UK production lines at the rate of one every f…
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9 min
Philosophy of mission, passion and obsession
One of the world's leading coffee producers, Andrea Illy, talks about the driving forces behind his family-owned business, which was created from a dream to offer the best coffee p…
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11 min
Want to help? First research
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Chairman and Founder of BRAC, the world's largest NGO, says the role of social innovation is important for developing countries where new ways have to be foun…
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9 min
Setting up your own business is a decision about a way of life
Launching a new series of Cambridge Leadership Seminars, Lord Dennis Stevenson, Chairman in Residence at Cambridge Judge Business School, said he feels entrepreneurship attracts to…
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Managing in submerging markets
Adrian Kyriazi, MD and Head of Greece/Cyprus, Poland & Eastern Europe at Credit Suisse Private Bank, talks about managing in submerging markets and the restructuring of the private…