This spring, a group of Cambridge MBA students embarked on a transformative GlobalConsulting Project (GCP) with the Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF), marking a significantacademic and cultural expedition into the Middle East. This student-sourced initiative, networked with a MFin alumnus now at DFDF, was not just a test of our analytical acumen but also a […]
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Siemens Advanta – our Cambridge MBA Global Consulting Project
What was the Cambridge MBA Global Consulting Project experience like overall? The Global Consulting Project with Siemens Advanta was an exciting opportunity to use our past experiences and MBA theory to tackle a real-world live project that created both short-term and long-term impacts on Siemens in the UAE market. With the guidance of our mentor and […]
Dubai Careers Trek – Lana’s View
Walking into the lobby of the Dubai trek meeting point at 8am felt like the very first day of school. The excitement was palpable and echoes of “which college are you in?”, “when do you get to Cambridge?”, and “how many suitcases do you have” (the last one was mine) could be felt across the […]
Dubai Careers Trek – David’s View
Tuesday 8am: arriving at the office on my last day of work after seven years, I had a lot on my mind. Goodbyes, packing up my apartment and the fun of dealing with Dubai’s utility companies meant I had given little thought to the following day’s careers trek. However, by mid-afternoon on Wednesday I was […]
Global Consulting Projects 2015: Week three
CLIENT: GULFTAINER Team members: Lily Huang, Claus Buckert, Davy Gant, Vasileios Paschos, and Stephanie Pyne. It has been two weeks since our Global Consulting Project (GCP) team touched down at Dubai International Airport. We were promptly met by two company drivers with two individual trucks—because our luggage evidently deserved its own transportation to […]
How to approach an MBA competition
In just one month we’ll be in Dubai, pitching an innovative social start-up idea to an executive jury, as a regional finalist team in the Hult Prize Competition (the development challenge set by former President Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative). We’re incredibly excited to be part of a competition that has been named “the […]
My MBA year-in-review: part 2
The new academic year saw an increasing amount of global travel for Cambridge MBA, Jacqui Gilbert. It was the season for competitions: both business-centered challenges and sports tournaments. The term also saw Jacqui become a ‘googler’ for her Global Consulting Project, the flagship practical project undertaken during the Cambridge MBA year. Term 2: Lent Global […]