On the evening of 8 September, while New York city life bustled and fussed throughout the condensed metropolis of Manhattan, matriculating MBA students trickled into the ‘Cambridge in America’ office on the 17th floor of the Hippodrome building standing on the Avenue of the Americas. The NYC Careers Trek was effectively a pitstop on our way […]
New York Careers Trek – Hitomi’s View
Just a week before we start our exciting year, 18 of us gathered in the Big Apple for the Cambridge MBA New York trek. I had three objectives before joining this trek: the first was to learn about the job market in the US; the second was to network with alumni in New York; and the […]
New York Careers Trek – Bethany’s View
I arrived at the New York Trek overwhelmed. The event took place on Thursday and Friday – my flight to the UK was leaving Sunday. With my bags far from packed, I left for NYC unsure whether this was the best use of my last days in the US. However, as I make my way […]
New York Careers Trek – Roshni’s View
Alicia Keys says it best when she describes New York City in the song Empire State of Mind as a “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of / There’s nothing you can’t do /…These streets will make you feel brand new”. For many of the participants of the first careers trek held in New York, […]
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 […]
Singapore Careers Trek – Daniel’s View
There was a sense of anticipation in the air when the thirteen of us met for the first time during the briefing for the careers trek to Singapore. Everyone was enthusiastically sharing the Colleges that they will be staying in and when they would be arriving in Cambridge. After our briefing, we headed out for […]
Singapore Careers Trek – Ashvinder’s View
Close to the start of our MBA, 13 of us had the opportunity to explore the career opportunities in Singapore on 28th and 29th July, 2016. The group met each other the day before, which was a great introduction to the rest of the trek, as we exchanged backgrounds and interests, as well as which Colleges we got […]
Japan Day at CJBS
“This is the first time I’ve had authentic sake, and I’ve never thought of sake as such a tasty and smooth drink.” One of the attendees of CJBS Japan Day 2016 excitedly told us. Japan Day was started in 2015 by a team of Japanese MBA students to introduce and promote Japanese culture (“Cool Japan”) […]
Renewable Energy – The Holy Grail of Future Energy?
At the start of my MBA, I very quickly found a society which was right for me: the Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN), and it turned out to be a fantastic opportunity to get in touch with students from other disciplines also interested in energy. On 9 June, we organised the annual CUEN conference with […]
My journey from Silicon Valley to the Silicon Fen
It was a cold, windy and rainy afternoon in Chicago, the kind of day that Chicagoans dread and that makes West coast dwellers swell with pride about their choice of residence. I was sipping on my coffee, occasionally looking through the window to see if the rain had relented. My colleagues were hard at work […]
The MBA and motherhood
Choosing to play the dual role of an ambitious MBA student and an attentive mum at the same time is probably not everyone’s cup of a tea. But as choice, I believe it is doable. Here’s why I think so. A typical MBA candidate is full of ambition and bursting with talent: a stellar professional […]
A powerful bonding experience — Team Addenbrooke’s GCP week 3
“I’ve worked with a lot of MBA students over the past few years. And this group is by far the friendliest group and has worked exceptionally well together as a team.” – Lawrence Ashelford, introducing the Addenbrooke’s GCP team at the final presentation. The team was a bit nervous at the outset of the final […]
Delivering the presentation — GCP Team WHO week 3
Three weeks of research, brainstorming and client interviews, led us to this day. We are finally on board our flight to Geneva, Switzerland, to meet our client and present our final deliverables! This will be our first time meeting our client face to face, but we had no qualms about it as we kept in constant […]
In full swing — GCP Team WHO week 2
As our project with the World Health Organisation (WHO) goes into full swing, we found ourselves having to split into sub-teams to conduct interviews with various departments within the client’s organisation. We went through the school’s well-equipped databases, scrutinised reports and publicly available information, and presented our individual findings to one another. Hours were spent […]
A super cappuchino team — GCP Team WHO week 1
Our team is made up of 5 students: Allegra from Germany, Ciro from Italy, Nid from Thailand, and Ling and Lynn from Malaysia. Our team members have not gotten a chance to properly know one another since the start of the MBA programme in September last year, so our first week, apart from kicking off […]
Trading the stethoscope for a clipboard — GCP Team Addenbrooke’s update
The Addenbrooke’s GCP team has had a busy week in board rooms, hospital wards and operating theatres. Coordinated by Aditya Nigudkar, the team connected with approximately a dozen different health care providers and managers across different specialties as part of their qualitative research. Kit Hobbs organized a site visit to South West London Elective Orthopaedic […]
Introducing the Addenbrooke’s Hospital Global Consulting Project 2016 Team
Aditya Nigudkar, Kit Hobbs, Dante Palazzo and Neil Dubey are the four group members of the Addenbrooke’s Hospital Global Consulting Project (GCP). We’re very excited to utilise our diverse backgrounds and resources at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) to improve our local healthcare systems. Although the specifics of our project are confidential, we are performing […]
Kaizen spirit — the Sony Europe company trek
On 29 January 2016, 30 MBA students participated in the Sony Europe company trek—an activity organized by the Cambridge Asia Business Association (CABA). This was a great opportunity for us to go out of the classroom and see the theories we’ve learned in class applied in real life. Sony Europe (based in Weybridge, UK) is […]
My Journey with the Women’s Leadership Initiative
I consider myself extremely privileged to have been elected to help lead the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) for Cambridge Judge Business School. One of the aims of the WLI is to undertake actions that help build a more collaborative and liberating society for both genders of future generations. Our focus is on collaboration and growth, encouraging […]
An illuminated city
I recently came back to Cambridge from a weekend away and in that short time, Cambridge had been transformed into an illuminated city. For the following week, Cambridge hosted the e-Luminate Festival where every major building became an art installation. The e-Luminate Festival sums up the contrasted personality of Cambridge—the mix of modern technology and […]