Laura French

World Finance • 29th January 2025

Sleep deprivation: A global 'epidemic'

In 2014, the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared sleep disorders a “public health epidemic”; two years later, the World Health Organisation released a study, Sleep Problems: An Emerging Global Epidemic? Roll on a decade, and the world is finally starting to take note...

Cambridge Judge Business School • 11th December 2024

What to expect from the future of AI: Experts give their insights

If there’s one word that’s all-out dominated the tech landscape over the past couple of years, it’s AI – and businesses are starting to capitalise. In a recent McKinsey survey, 65% of those asked said their companies were regularly using generative AI...

World Finance • 20th July 2023

Rise of the robots

In November 2022, artificial intelligence company OpenAI released ChatGPT – a language-processing chatbot that can do everything from coding and creating webpages to writing sonnets, raps and dissertations – in eerily human-like words...

Cambridge Judge Business School • 19th July 2023

Overcoming imposter syndrome – 5 skills and tips to elevate your career

If you’ve ever felt like a fraud or questioned the worthiness of your achievements, chances are you’ve suffered from ‘imposter syndrome’ – and you aren’t alone...

Cambridge Judge Business School • 23rd February 2023

How can leaders make their organisations more psychologically safe?

In the words of leadership expert Dr Timothy Clark – author of ‘The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety’ – psychological safety is “a condition in which one feels included, safe to learn and safe to contribute...

Cambridge Judge Business School • 6th December 2022

What does the tidal wave of tech redundancies mean for careers in the field?

Tech giants are feeling the squeeze with a tidal wave of redundancies across the sector, but what does this mean for careers in the field?

World Finance • 1st November 2022

Going supersonic

When Concorde was taken out of service in 2003, it looked like the end for three-hour hops between London and New York. Deafening sonic booms, prohibitive prices and safety concerns – fuelled by the crash in France in July 2000 – spelt the end for this headline-dominating venture...

World Finance • 5th August 2022

Betting on a meta future

In the 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, author Neal Stephenson envisioned a ‘metaverse’ – a world where, in the face of a global economic collapse, the protagonist dons a headset...

World Finance • 15th February 2022

From vegan living to lab-grown meat: The future of food

In November, McDonald’s began rolling out its McPlant burger in the US, following its launch a month earlier in the UK. The same month, Cadbury introduced its plant bars...

Cambridge Judge Business School • 11th February 2022

What's holding women back from entrepreneurship?

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs – take a quick look at some of the biggest names in entrepreneurial history and it’s hard to avoid the fact men make up the overwhelming majority...

World Finance • 19th January 2022

Albert Bourla: The man who saved the world

“On March 19, 2020, as COVID-19 swept across the world, I challenged everyone at Pfizer to ‘make the impossible possible’: to develop a vaccine more quickly than anyone ever had before..."

World Finance • 24th August 2021

The most powerful brand campaigns of the last 100 years

In May, Oatly made its market debut – and it didn’t disappoint. The now-iconic brand raised more than $1.43bn in the space of a day...

World Finance • 23rd August 2021

Jane Fraser: A new dawn for Citi

For the first time in history, a woman is at the helm of a major Wall Street bank – the third-largest of its kind in the US, with a market capitalisation of no less than $164bn...

World Finance • 17th March 2021

Are we ready for a cashless world?

Cash usage is falling at unprecedented rates in economies across the world, and many believe the pandemic may have hastened the trend...

World Finance • 15th March 2021

The biggest companies to have been born in a recession

The World Bank predicted the global economy to shrink by 5.2 percent in 2020 – the worst performance since the end of the Second World War....

World Finance • 4th March 2021

Shattering the glass ceiling

When Jane Fraser steps into her role as Citigroup’s CEO this February, she’s set to make history as the first woman at the helm of a major Wall Street bank...

World Finance • 3rd March 2021

Out of office: the global shift towards remote working

In the early 1970s, NASA engineer Jack Nilles proposed telecommuting as an alternative to centralised office working. His vision was to reduce traffic...

World Finance • 14th July 2020

Mental health in the workplace

The world is no longer ignoring mental health. It can’t. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), around 450 million people are currently...

World Finance • 29th October 2016

The rise of the gig economy

If the Industrial Revolution gave rise to the self-made man, then one could rightly argue the digital revolution has given rise to the self-sufficient millennial...

World Finance • 26th October 2016

The most powerful woman in finance

It wouldn't be a stretch to suggest that Ana Botín, Executive Chairman of Santander Group, is the most powerful woman in banking...