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 […]
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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, […]
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”) […]
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 […]
Leaving your comfort zone: reflections on my Cambridge Venture Project experience
It is hard to believe that, in the blink of an eye, three months of the MBA has already passed. Reflecting back on the first term, we’ve completed seven core classes, attended career workshops and guest speaker events, not to mention participated in ongoing extracurricular activities and numerous social events as well. One of my […]
Flash Forward: Looking back on Michaelmas term
The first term seemed to just happen, in the flashes of flashes. It has been a period of both getting settled into a new home and experiencing a unique curriculum that has given me invaluable insights into the makings of great leaders and managers. Yet it has not been until well into the winter break […]
Pursuing the praxis of leadership
‘What is leadership?’, ‘What are the criteria for successful leadership?’, ‘How does an individual develop into the best possible leader?’ …although there are thousands of papers and articles published with a multitude of concepts and definitions, they can hardly shed light on all our questions. Since the start of our MBA programme, we have been […]
From structural engineer to MBA
Even now, almost two months into the programme, it is only just starting to hit home quite where I am and what I’m doing. The life I left behind in Canada just a few months ago seems years in the past, with working-life happily paused for the time being. As an engineer, and self-professed geek, […]
One month in- matriculated and project ready!
I am now one month into my Cambridge MBA experience but it feels like so much longer (in a good way!). Every day is so full of information, networking, practical sessions and fun that I’m already starting to feel like a member of this society, like I truly belong here. There’s been a lot happening […]
My MBA year-in-review: part 3
In the final part of her year-in-review Jacqui gives us the lowdown on the summer phase of the Cambridge MBA year and her plans for the post-MBA future. Term 3: Summer May Ball – A quintessential Cambridge experience, we donned ball-gowns and tuxes and entered into a world of decadence and true glamour. […]
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 […]
So you want to launch an app? Lessons from a wisened MBA…
Padel Tennis Pro was intended to be a cheap, three-month endeavor to build a new mobile game. With gameplay mechanics not totally dissimilar to the early 2000s classic ‘Curveball’ – how hard could it be? Nineteen months, five fired developers, one rushed Kickstarter campaign, one AppStore rejection, many sleepless nights and an international political […]
A masterclass in “Googleyness”
One of the first case studies I read on the MBA programme was “Keeping Google “Googley”” and I thought to myself, this is the corporate equivalent of Alice in Wonderland! How could an organisation function so far removed from reality? But that was my reality-the world of banking and bureaucracy-in a time when the world was […]