ENTERPRISING MINDS
20 October 2021Bruno Cotta introduces 'Enterprising Minds', a new profile series about Cambridge innovators and entrepreneurs - and what makes them tick.
Bruno Cotta introduces 'Enterprising Minds', a new profile series about Cambridge innovators and entrepreneurs - and what makes them tick.
The Academy of Social Sciences has conferred Fellowships on Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Professor Elisabete A Silva and Professor Bhaskar Vira, in recognition of their contribution to social science.
When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, the R rate became well-known shorthand for the reproduction of the disease. Yet a new study suggests it’s time for ‘a farewell to R’ in favour of a different approach based on the growth rate of infection rather than contagiousness.
The problem with being a futurist, says Richard Watson, is that change is happening a lot faster and a lot crazier these days. We talk to him about his recent work with the Entrepreneurship Centre and why thinking about a ‘preferred’ future is a good thing.
You don't have to get a place at Cambridge to study here. The University also provides executive education and lifelong learning to lots of different people in lots of different subjects. Moving all this activity online during a pandemic has been both tough and rewarding and has led to the development of a new range of online courses for professionals, Cambridge Advance Online.
Cambridge economists add climate science to Standard & Poor’s global credit formula and find that 63 nations face downgrades by 2030 unless action is taken to reduce emissions.
Professor Mauro F Guillén, a prominent expert, award-winning scholar and teacher at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed the next Director of Cambridge Judge Business School.
As the pandemic crisis has played out across the world, different governments have taken different approaches to controlling the spread of virus and supporting citizens – with different outcomes. Can we start to draw conclusions on how best to govern future catastrophic risks?
The project will use machine learning to sequence the world’s regulatory text and create an open-source repository of machine-readable regulatory information.
Study uses 40 years of quarterly data to forecast a lengthy global recession resulting from coronavirus, with the manufacturing bases of China and East Asia predicted to fare better than most Western economies.