Twelve years ago, I obtained my Master’s degree in the UK and have since worked in finance and investment sectors. I have served in three Fortune500 companies, mainly dealing with cross-border M&A businesses. Before my MBA at the University of Cambridge, I held positions as the Investment Director at a listed company in China and […]
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Venture capital and African women in business
I had the privilege moderating the Women in Business and Entrepreneurship Panel during the three-day 10th Africa Together Conference organised by the African Society of the University of Cambridge at Jesus College, Cambridge in May 2023. The motto for the conference was Forging Our Path, and it aimed to speak to the sense of agency […]
Fintech SIG – my MBA year
As London and the UK celebrates its FinTech week, I look back at the enriching FinTech engagements in the Cambridge MBA year – within the cohort, alumni and also other premier UK business schools. The FinTech Special Interest Group (SIG) at Cambridge Judge is a community of students who are interested in exploring the FinTech […]
MIINT – Impact Investing on the Cambridge MBA
During the first six months of our Cambridge MBA and MFin, a team of five of us – Guangze Lu, Haruka Hoshino, llman Dzikri Ihsani, Shubham Jaipuria, Yingying Wang – took part in an impact investing competition run by MIINT – MBA Impact Investing Network & Training. The competition is a competition between business schools […]
Fostering partnerships at The Cambridge Union
As a global citizen, it is always a privilege to engage in discussions about meaningful partnerships and cooperation between nations. I had the honour of speaking with Dr. Dritan Abazovic, the Prime Minister of Montenegro, about infrastructure investment collaboration between China and Montenegro, including the Montenegro PODGORICA highway project with China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC). Our […]
Cambridge Women Can – an alumna story
An introverted girl, who never lived away from her family her entire life, dreamed of doing an MBA in a new country. Naïve, she did not realise what she was up to! Carrying some past scares and preconceived notions, would she be able to break barriers as a woman? In the same class as some of the brightest minds, […]
Cambridge Women Can on International Women’s Day 2023
As we join the world in marking International Women’s Day 2023, we meet our Gender Equality SIG leaders and ask them what being part of the wider community of Cambridge Judge women means to them. Why did you feel an MBA was part of your career plan? Maddy, “After working at venture-backed startups in Silicon […]
A Cambridge startup diary – Liquified
When I learnt about a tech entrepreneur society with thousands of members a month before my Cambridge MBA, I realised I had to join. I was chosen for the Director of Marketing Strategy role at CUTEC. This role promised to help me refine my marketing management skills, but also help me meet hundreds of student founders […]
Second time’s a charm – starting the Cambridge MFin after my Cambridge MBA year
Being a Cambridge student has always been my dream. And in 2019, I was such an honour to have joined the Cambridge MBA, which gave me so many opportunities for my career transition, including more exposure to the finance sector. More importantly, I truly enjoyed the exceptional “Cambridge experience” that I could never have had […]
Inditex – my MBA Global Consulting Project
Entering our final term of teaching on the Cambridge MBA, I look back at the exciting opportunity I was given to work with a team of MBA students on a project with Inditex, as part of the Global Consulting Project (GCP) at Cambridge Judge Business School. The project involved understanding Internal Carbon Pricing (ICP) models, analysing […]
The 21st Wharton Buyout Competition
We had the honour to represent Cambridge Judge Business School in the 21st Wharton Buyout Competition organised by the Wharton PE/VC Club at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and sponsored by Kirkland & Ellis. Among the participating teams from top MBA programmes in North America, Europe, and Asia, we were one of the […]
BCG MBA Fellowship – Forté scholar Yinshan Loh shares her insights
We caught up with Cambridge MBA Class of 2020/21 student and Forté Foundation scholarship holder Yinshan Loh, as she looks back on her extraordinary Cambridge MBA year, as well as sharing her insights having been awarded the BCG Women’s MBA Fellowship during the year. Can you tell us about your support from BCG – Boston […]
“Doing Good” and “Doing Well” are not mutually exclusive – my Cambridge MBA MIINT experience
It was the early weeks of the Cambridge MBA and we (all 174 of us) were just acquainting ourselves with one another. Few of us had interacted over some Zoom sessions earlier that summer, but we had barely scratched the surface of the immense collaboration that was to follow. During the course of this entire […]
Launching the first ever Cambridge MBA ‘E-trek’
Speak to any incoming Cambridge MBA student and one of the most exciting aspects of the MBA experience, that will likely be mentioned, is the MBA company trek. An MBA trek is when students visit companies in a specific location or sector, to get an insider view of the day-to-day workings of an organisation and […]
Making your own path
Not everyone who comes to Cambridge wants to go into finance. Members of the cohort have interests as varied as their backgrounds and many are still exploring options. I came with a destination in mind that didn’t follow a traditional MBA path. Here, I’ve found the space to make my own. I didn’t expect to […]
A new frontier
The idea to start a podcast about investing in frontier markets originated organically from having great conversations with thought-leaders in this space, and a prompt from my partner (I’m generally 2 steps behind). The Frontier Market Investing podcast is focused on learning from leading practitioners in emerging markets, consolidating best-practices and raising the profile of […]
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 […]
A deep delve into Finance
From the very early stages, I was convinced the Cambridge programme aligned with what I was looking for in an MBA: from globally diverse classmates to brilliant lecturers, all integrated within one of the world’s best universities—the list goes on. Having previously worked for the finance industry in analytical roles based in Bangalore and Gurgaon, […]
The magic of corporate finance
To the unfortunate MBA student with a science and engineering background, corporate finance can be quite perplexing in the beginning; in fact, it may appear to be magic! First of all, it is intriguing that the value of an asset can be so subjectively quantified by market sentiment rather than by precise measurements. Second, most things […]