In a recent study, senior business school professors from the University of Cambridge, University of Minnesota, the London Business School and the University of Southern California collaborated to identify the key drivers of success.
"None of it is science fiction, " declares Mark Welland, a professor and director of the Cambridge University side of the collaboration.
At the less traditional end of the scale was a lecture this month at the UK's Judge Business School, part of Cambridge University, one of a series intended to explore the crossover between commerce and culture.
On Monday, Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore, published legal opinion from Prof James Crawford of Cambridge University and Prof Alan Boyle of Edinburgh University saying that an independent Scotland would be seen as a separate state under international law.
Lead author Professor Bruce Ponder, Director of Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, said researchers did not yet know how these genes interacted with each other.
These are the Wellcome Library, King's College London, the Churchill Archive Centre Cambridge, University of Glasgow, University College London and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Professor Ian McConnell, of Cambridge University, a member of the group that produced the report, said one example of the potential benefits would be the development of African cattle resistant to sleeping sickness.
"Financialphobes can be intelligent people who are high achievers in most areas of their lives - they are not irresponsible, feckless or spendthrift, " said Dr Brendan Burchell, of Cambridge University's faculty of social and political sciences.
Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and colleagues at the Hutchison Medical Research Council Centre in Cambridge, working with Dr. Luca Pellegrini and Professor Tom Blundell at the Cambridge University Department of Biochemistry, discovered that the BRCA2 gene controls a key molecule called Rad51.
Prof David Reynolds, from the University of Cambridge and author of The American Occupation of Britain, says that personal contact with GIs quickly "penetrated beyond the movie image of glossy Americans into a discovery that they were human beings, warts and all".
The Anglo-Italian dig is a joint project between the University of Southampton, the British School at Rome, Cambridge University and Archaeological Superintendency of Rome.
Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, is one of only five exceptional female scientists from around the globe to receive an award this year.
The manager of The Cambridge Gift Shop, one of the official retailers of the University of Cambridge clothing, said that in recent months, the shop welcomed many visitors from North and South America, including a significant number from Brazil, according to the local tourist organization.
Arnoud De Meyer quit his job as director of the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School last year to become president of the Singapore Management University.
Professor Nick Day, from the University of Cambridge, who led part of the UKCCS project, said the Bristol ideas were dubious.
Prof Athene Donald, a physicist and gender equality champion at the University of Cambridge also feels a lack of role models is partly to blame.
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This is an as yet speculative and incomplete proposal made by James Hartle, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Stephen Hawking, of Cambridge University.
The new study, from University of Cambridge, scanned the brains of 22 young women with CD, who were between 14 and 20 years old, and compared them to controls without CD.
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The University of Cambridge is to set up a school of entrepreneurship in another sign that one of Britain's top universities, which only recently set up a management school, is at last embracing business.
Danielle Turner, from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, says modafinil could revolutionise current understanding of the way we form and retain memories.
Dr Iris Moeller of Cambridge University and her colleagues, study those often-forgotten features of our coastline, the salt marshes.
Lead researcher Professor Gordon Smith, an expert in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Cambridge, told BBC News Online that the ability of a woman to become pregnant twice while still a teenager was probably a modern phenomenon.
University of Cambridge International Examinations' (CIE) Head of International Education (Ministries), Dr Newman Burdett - who attended both the Kuala Lumpur conference - said the June event had given CIE the opportunity to meet with Ministry personnel face-to-face, and to further strengthen and renew partnerships.
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One of Dr Weiss's former students, Sarah Parcak, of Cambridge University, presented data to the meeting on how a third period of cooling and drying, 4, 200 years ago, destroyed the Old Kingdom of Egypt.
According to a 2007 study by the OpenNet Initiative--a collaborative effort by researchers at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and the University of Toronto to investigate Internet censoring--as many as 26 countries engage in some type of Web censoring.
Per Ola Kristensson and Keith Vertanen, at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, have developed a method of allowing speech-recognition programs to share their thoughts, as it were, with the user, in order to speed up the correction process.
Prof Ian Goodfellow, at the University of Cambridge, says it is hard to tell the exact significance of the new strain.
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Prof Paul Pharoah, from the University of Cambridge, said the fact the risk did not increase with increasing amounts of night shifts suggests the link seen may not be causal.
Professor Azim Surani, of the University of Cambridge, said the research should allow scientists to create a large range of human stem cell types, which could prove invaluable in studying disease.
The approach advocated by Aubrey de Grey of the University of Cambridge, in England, and presented at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is rather more radical.
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