Career Treks are a great way for any MBA student to network, learn about new industries, and experience a whole new country and culture before starting their MBA journey. This Trek explored the four key employment verticals in the Singapore market: Consulting, Finance, Technology, and Industry. It covered such luminary giants as Google, Facebook, Deloitte, […]
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Annual Oxbridge Business School Debate
For 800 years, Oxford and Cambridge have enjoyed a friendly rivalry. This can be seen in sporting events such as the Boat Race, but also at Union debates. One of these historic debates was held at Cambridge Union on 16 May where I had the honour of being chair of the Annual Oxbridge Business School debate. […]
SCB Future Leader Challenge report
The SCB Future Leader Challenge (SCB FLC) is Thailand’s first business case competition for master’s degree students. It is jointly organized by Siam Commercial Bank and Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, to promote learning and develop the potential of next generation’s leaders. This year, around 200 teams from global top universities, […]
Just be straightforward: trek to Alibaba
While Alibaba comes up very frequently in business school classes and conversations, very few of us truly understood the depth of the company’s business and their international operations. So, to help demystify the tech giant that is Alibaba, the Retail Student Interest Group (SIG) got in touch with their London office and organised a company […]
The Yale Healthcare Case Competition 2018
In Febraury of this year, a team of Camrbridge MBAs, Gabriel Thia (Singapore), Hannah Kanamori (Japan), Xin Qi (China) and Yiwei Li (China) and Takehiro Aoki (Japan) were awarded the first place at the Yale Healthcare Case Competition (YHCC). The YHCC is an annual international case competition organised by the Yale School of Management, […]
GCP Despatches from the Field (Week Two): Carnegie Hall
In this “GCP Despatches from the Field” series, Isabel shares her experience of her team’s project with Carnegie Hall in New York. Carnegie Hall (New York, NY, USA) Isabel Siragusa We knew we had arrived at Carnegie Hall the moment we walked into our designated work space and it was actually a practice room complete […]
Why do women seem to invest less in career development?
Investing in your career is a vital part of growing and developing as a professional, for example by taking an MBA. However, the statistics suggest that many less women are doing that than men. Why is this? A range of ideas have been put forward, but for me three things seem to come up again […]
Sudo Hackathon: If you can’t code, what do you do?
“If you can’t code, what do you do?” I often get this question when I say I went to a hackathon. The simple answer is twofold: partner with developers to make sure you’re getting the right stuff done; and surround great code with a concise and compelling business story. There are other ways to go […]
Healthcare Student Interest Group trip to Congenica
On 3 November, the Healthcare Student Interest Group (SIG) conducted their first off-campus activity – visiting biotech company Congenica Ltd, which is a leading company in human genome analysis. The purpose of this visit was to understand the future of healthcare industry and to network with people in the industry. In a modern office building […]
CVP Stories: Amphibious Electric Vehicle with Jaguar Land Rover
Coming from the Middle East, I was drawn to CJBS by its promise of high-quality projects and hands-on experiences. The first of these during the Cambridge MBA is the Cambridge Venture Project (CVP). I was eager to use my Finance and Startup background to solve new problems for our client: Jaguar Land Rover. Fast forward […]
Winning the InsureTech & RegTech Venture Creation Weekend
On the weekend of 17-19 November, we (Monique Andrew, Nick Ellwood and Michael Bean) took part in the InsureTech & RegTech Venture Creation Weekend (VCW) at Cambridge Judge Business School. The VCW is an event for students, postdocs, professional and researchers working on emerging technologies and innovations in InsureTech and RegTech, who are interested in learning […]
New Battery Technology – Cambridge Venture Project
November. It is around 8pm and we are cycling in a typical cold and wet Cambridge evening. Our destination is the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge. Our objective is to meet our CVP clients. We are working on commercialisation of a breakthrough battery technology. Sounds cool, right? Because it is cool. For […]
Dubai Careers Trek – Lana’s View
Walking into the lobby of the Dubai trek meeting point at 8am felt like the very first day of school. The excitement was palpable and echoes of “which college are you in?”, “when do you get to Cambridge?”, and “how many suitcases do you have” (the last one was mine) could be felt across the […]
New York Careers Trek – Colin’s View
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 – 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, […]
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 […]