A strange kind of intimacy: executive education in a pandemic and beyond

18 May 2021

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.

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The conference will examine the effects that the projected fantasies of subordinates have on managers when the latter begin to believe in them.

The intoxication of power

18 September 2013

Why are so many companies brought down by an excess of self-confidence, and rash decision-making by out-of-control egos at the top? A Cambridge conference aims to explain why power corrupts, and whether corporate leaders could learn a few lessons from the humble crow.

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Mike Marin.

The crisis of shareholder primacy

19 March 2012

If we want to prevent the next financial crisis, a new model of corporate governance is needed to replace shareholder primacy in financial institutions. Gates Scholar Mike Marin explains why.

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