What do Mohamed El-Erian (President Queens’ College, Cambridge, & former CEO of PIMCO), Fagun Thakar (Actress, Director, CEO of Fagun Foundation & Cambridge EMBA ‘21), and Timo Boldt (Founder & CEO of Gousto) have in common? Together with many other esteemed guests, they were part of our ‘Leading Insights’ series this year. ‘Leading Insights’ was […]
My education start up – MIRAIing – an MBA career journey into entrepreneurship
About my entrepreneurial journey Honestly speaking, I did not think about becoming an entrepreneur seriously until my Cambridge Judge life started. Before joining the Cambridge MBA, I was working in the public sector, providing international cooperation in the Japan International Cooperation Agency. My career goal after my MBA was a career change to work in […]
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 […]
My Champions
My whole life, I have sought out great teams that have made me better; working with others towards something bigger than myself is the most intrinsically joyful experience. My father was my champion; he encouraged me in all of my sporting events, helped me start and run a company, and taught me how to develop […]
Going Native – my Cambridge MBA Global Consulting Project with Native Design
What was your Cambridge MBA Global Consulting project experience like overall? Doing an MBA is about charting out a transformational journey. I wanted my journey to lead me from the world of finance to the world of Design Thinking. The Global Consulting Project (GCP) with Native Design at Cambridge Judge Business School gave me an amazing […]
“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 […]
My Cambridge MBA Global Consulting Project (GCP) with United Nations Defeat-NCD Partnership
I had the privilege of doing my MBA Global Consulting Project with the United Nations Defeat-NCD Partnership. My teammates and I – Dhananjay Dixit, Jim Chang, Tim Belitza, and Yoshin Nakamura – successfully developed a business case and investment pitch for a set of satellite cancer centres in Rwanda, to improve health outcomes impacted by […]
Cambridge Women Can
We spoke to Cambridge MBA student Toni Thorne, after she took part in promoting, as well as co-hosting a session at the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre Annual Conference – entitled Cambridge Women Can. How was the session you co-hosted and managed (remotely)? I hosted the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion panel entitled “Building Beyond the Buzzwords” with […]
Taking parental leave as a startup CEO – Sponsoo Founder and MBA alumnus
I just returned from the first out of four months of (part-time) parental leave. While I was spending time with my wife and my newborn son, I had lots of opportunities to think about my situation – wondering why it was still relatively uncommon for startup founders to officially take some time off. Here are […]
Our MBA Global Consulting Project (GCP) – World Wide Fund for Nature
What was your Cambridge MBA Global Consulting Project experience like overall? The Global Consulting Project (GCP) was an opportunity for our team to bring together our past experiences, our current learnings, and our future goals. We were looking for an opportunity to make a practical difference for a cause we really believed in. While the […]
McKinsey MBA winners 2021
A Cambridge MBA team consisting of Oliver Tromp, Dhananjay Dixit, Michael Rees and Vaibhav Nasery were declared winners of the 2021 edition of the McKinsey Venture Academy. This prestigious social venture competition saw over 70 teams across the UK compete with their socially focused ventures for the chance to receive up to £10,000 in seed […]
MIINT Competition – impact investing on my MBA
“The MIINT Competition was an amazing experience and one of the highlights of the Cambridge MBA. It enabled me to learn about impact investing in a very practical way and to benefit from top notch learning resources prepared by the organisers and industry practitioners. During the sourcing stage of the competition, I particularly enjoyed the incredible […]
From the Military to an MBA at Cambridge
Katherine Danielson served for seven years in the U.S. Army as a broadcast journalist and public affairs specialist. Her work was consistently published on military news stations as well as international media outlets such as CNN, BBC, Reuters, and Al Jazeera. She was deployed to Iraq to cover the final year of the U.S. military mission across […]
Our Cambridge MBA adventure – together
Hello! We are Nicole and Travis here to share a bit about our experiences as a couple doing the MBA programme, together. A bit about ourselves: Nicole’s background is in global health and she has worked as a project manager for health technologies. Travis is a mechanical engineer who has worked at an energy company. […]
Polo at Cambridge – the Varsity match
This year I was the captain of the Cambridge University Polo team during the Varsity match at Guards Polo Club. While I was selected for the team in 2020 during my MPhil in Biology at Cambridge University, the Varsity match was cancelled at that time, due to Covid. I moved from Clare College during my […]
Charity run challenge – Aiducation
Aiducation International is an international NGO based in Switzerland that helps to provide high school scholarships to bright and motivated youth in developing countries so that they can be future global leaders. Many students can attend school up to the high school level through government funding or other types of NGO support, but find challenging […]
Cambridge University Energy Network: 2021 annual conference.
Pathway towards a Net-zero Economy: Challenges and opportunities. This year I am honoured to lead the organisation of Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN) Conference, along with the Energy & Environment Special Interest Group (SIG) from Cambridge Judge Business School. The conference is one of the most prominent energy events across the entire Cambridge ecosystem. We […]
Serendipity or hacking your way around luck.
In mid April I had the opportunity, along with some of my MBA cohort, to speak with Cambridge Judge alumnus Hamza Mudassir about his career path and views on his post MBA decisions. Encouraging us to trust in our capabilities and the attractiveness of Cambridge MBA graduates when it comes to finding a job, he mentioned […]
Public Speaking and Government & Policy – a SIG focus
We continue our series meeting the Class of 2020 Special Interest Group leaders, as they develop their career interests in line with their MBA learning. Co-chair for Government and Policy SIG, Xavier Gomez Maqueo, Our main plan is to find opportunities to help our members grow professionally in the public sector. These include identifying job […]
From energy to tech – beyond MBA academics
As we continue our series on the Special Interest Groups from MBA Class of 2020 we meet the Co-chairs of the Energy & Environment SIG and those from the Tech SIG, taking their sector passions and experience beyond the MBA classroom. Venkatesh Hemadribhotla, Co-chair, Energy & Environment (EE) SIG, The vision for the EE SIG […]