News and insights from the CEC

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Companies often struggle to adopt circular principles, but 4 key models can help firms reduce resource use and fossil fuel consumption, says research at the Circular Economy Centre.

Soufani Khal.

Khaled Soufani, Management Practice Professor of Financial Economics & Policy, describes his journey to be Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge and suggests how we can all adopt sustainable principles into our everyday lives.

Soufani Khal.

Professor Khaled Soufani, Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses the importance of supply chains and reusing waste at a conference addressed by the King of Spain Felipe VI.

Seeking a more resource efficient and competitive Europe.

There are four business models that firms can use to take advantage of circular economy principles, Khal Soufani of Cambridge Judge tells the Swedish Parliament.

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Faculty news

Circular but costly

Circular supply chains are more sustainable, but they will be rare unless consumers compromise on cost, says a new Harvard Business Review article by Khaled Soufani and Christoph Loch of Cambridge Judge Business School.

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Each of our research centres has unique ways to engage with non-academic organisations and, through that, to generate positive social, economic and environmental impact. This month we decided to share with you the projects of the Circular Economy Centre (CEC) at Cambridge Judge Business School. For the past three years, teaching, research, mentoring and impact have gone hand-in-hand at the Centre thanks to three key projects. Circular Economy (CE) and the Internet of Things (IoT) Through its main ongoing project, the Circular Economy Centre is developing an innovative framework of interplay between the circular economy and the Internet of Things with European academic institutions and practitioners. Since 2017 the Centre is involved in the European Horizon 2020 CE-IoT project funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE action. Through this project, many students, under the supervision and guidance of Dr Soufani, the Centre's director, provide consultancy services to the different industry partners. These services help partners to leverage the interplay between the circular economy and IoT, and to explore novel ways to change the nature of products, services, business models and ecosystems accordingly. The CE-IoT has been very impactful for all industry partners so far. For example, Cablenet in Cyprus benefited from…

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Philanthropy

Top 15 reads of 2020

The news and insight section of Cambridge Judge Business School's website attracts audiences with eclectic interests ranging from business to healthcare to the arts. In 2020, attention was focused on articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival features experts including Kamiar Mohaddes and Khal Soufani of Cambridge Judge Business School.

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Insight

Round and round

Four strategies have emerged in academic studies on the "circular business model", says article co-authored by Khaled Soufani, Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge. The "circular" business model is a relatively new concept in academic literature but four basic strategies have emerged, finds a new review study co-authored by Dr Khaled Soufani, Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School. The four strategies relate to "cycling" or the recycling of materials, "extending" the lifespan of materials, "intensifying" the use of items, and "dematerialising" or finding other ways of getting greater use from resources, says the article published in the Journal of Cleaner Production. By providing an overview of the circular business model along with its framework and definition, the review "paves the way for a common understanding and language that can be used to develop the theoretical concept and a conceptual anchor for the nascent empirical exploration of the field," says the article. Co-author Khal Soufani, who is Faculty (Professor level) in Management Practice and Director of the Cambridge Executive MBA at Cambridge Judge, will speak on the topic of "Sustainability, circular economy and impact investing" on the final day of the Cambridge Zero…

CORDIS – Where the circular economy and the Internet of things meet

A team of EU-funded industrial partners and academic research institutions is exploring how to develop a framework for a circular economy (CE) enhanced by the Internet of things (IoT).


California Management Review – Circular Economy special issue

Read the special issue of the California Management Review guest-edited by Directors and Fellows of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge. This issue features articles and blogs by the CEC team as well as other academics from across the globe.


Getting to Know the Circular Economy Model (Arabic)

An article on the circular economy co-authored by Professor Khaled Soufani is published in HBR Arabic.


East Anglia in Business – Building a circular economy

Few days go by without references in the media to sustainable business and the circular economy, but what’s meant by these concepts, how do we implement them and are there tensions implicit in doing so?

Podcasts

Cambridge Zero Climate Talks

Dr Khaled Soufani, Circular Economy Centre, Team CityJam, runners-up of the Cambridge Carbon Challenge 2020, Dr Ed Turner, Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge and Dr Laurie Wright, Warsash Academy at Solent University.

In this interview with Dr Antoinette Nestor of Cambridge Zero, Dr Khaled Soufani discusses the role of the circular economy as an enabler to achieve sustainability targets, what is meant by ‘circular business models’ and how it could help the economy emerge from the COVID-19 as part of ‘green growth’.

Listen to the Cambridge Zero Climate talks

Circular Economy 101 with Panikkos Poutziouris

In the second podcast from the Circular Economy Centre (CEC) at Cambridge Judge Business School, Panikkos Poutziouris, Fellow in Circular Economy Centre and Rector at the University of Central Lancashire Cyprus, talks about the circular economy in a business and policy context.

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Circular Economy 101 with Nada Chahadi and Professor Mark Esposito

In the first podcast from the Circular Economy Centre (CEC) at Cambridge Judge Business School, Nada Chahadi, Associate at the Circular Economy Centre, and Professor Marc Esposito, Fellow at the Circular Economy Centre, discuss their research and ideas around the circular economy.

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Webinars

Principles of Circular Economy & its Business Application

Dr Khaled Soufani delivers a Business Briefing webinar on Principles of Circular Economy & its Business Application.

Sustainability, circular economy and impact investment

Dr Khaled Soufani, Director of the Circular Economy Centre (CEC), discusses sustainability, circular economy and impact investment at the 30th University of Cambridge Alumni Festival.

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