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 […]
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My MBA year-in-review: part 1
Transformative is a word often used to describe the experience of a world-class MBA. The changes to the way you think are subtle. It is impossible to pin the shifts in your thinking to a particular moment; rather I found the MBA was a series of small nudges. The cumulative effect of these nudges creating […]
4 Crazy Things You Won’t Believe About Organising the TEDxOxbridge Conference
Obnoxious title aside, one can learn a lot more from organizing a big conference than event planning and project management. As Co-Director of Content for TEDxOxbridge 2014, I can say that an incredible amount of work went on behind the scenes leading up to the event. Here are some of the less obvious lessons […]
Social Impact Exchange Day: Uniting the social impact minds of three leading business schools
On Sunday 25th May 2014, students from Cambridge Judge Business School attended a Social Impact Exchange Day, alongside peers from Oxford Said Business School and London Business School. The day’s activities, organised by the co-chairs of the Social Impact Clubs at the three business schools respectively, offered students an insight into careers in the social impact […]
Incredible India: part two of my experience meeting the founder of Infosys
Infosys InStep Programme: The campus in Bangalore is simply amazing. All interns are given accommodation and free cab rides so they can visit the surroundings. I get to walk through beautiful gardens, fountains and futuristic buildings on my way into the office. There’s a gym, swimming pool, shops, restaurants… everything an internship participant needs. And […]
Incredible India: my extraordinary encounter with the famous founder of Infosys
Fortune Magazine says he’s one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time. And I got the chance to work with him this summer during my MBA internship at Infosys. Mr Narayana Murthy is no stranger to anyone in today’s business world. In 1981 along with six other Indian businessmen he founded Infosys, an IT services […]
The world of responsible investing…
Old buildings with picturesque views of the British countryside. An academic institution with hundreds of years of history. A lecture room filled with leading academics and practitioners. Another day in Cambridge? Actually, it was my first day in St. Andrews, Scotland. The end of the Easter term was an opportune time to take advantage of […]