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My Cambridge Venture Project experience: towards a Net Zero future

One of the reasons I chose the MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School was the experiential, collaborative, and practical nature of the Cambridge programme. The Cambridge Venture Project (CVP) that we just concluded this term delivered on that. The CVP, which is an eight week live Case Project in the Michaelmas Term, was a chance […]

A Forté adventure – My MBA year ahead

A Forté adventure – My MBA year ahead

I was excited to attend the 2022 Forté MBA Leadership Conference in Los Angeles.  This annual conference is organised by the Forté Foundation, a non-profit consortium of leading companies and business schools working together to launch women into fulfilling, significant careers through access to business education, work opportunities and a network of successful women. The conference welcomed Forté […]

More exceptional stories from the Cambridge MBA

We caught up with MBA Class of 2021/22 student Rosin Patel to hear about the exceptional stories and MBA insights that he has recorded and shared on his podcast series MBA Mic. Interviewing and hearing stories fortnightly from his cohort of 220 classmates, Rosin has captured career sector insights from founders and serial entrepreneurs to […]

The 21st Wharton Buyout Competition

The 21st Wharton Buyout Competition

We had the honour to represent Cambridge Judge Business School in the 21st Wharton Buyout Competition organised by the Wharton PE/VC Club at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and sponsored by Kirkland & Ellis. Among the participating teams from top MBA programmes in North America, Europe, and Asia, we were one of the […]

Africa Together Conference 2022

Africa Together Conference 2022

The Africa Together Conference was held in May of this year. The event was organised by the African Society of Cambridge University, in partnership with the Cambridge Africa Business Network (CABN) from Cambridge Judge Business School. This conference celebrates the continent’s outstanding achievements and is known for bringing together great minds and speakers who have […]

Motivating and mentoring Gen Z and Millennials across the globe – Divya Dewan

Forté Foundation scholar and current MBA student, Divya Dewan describes her upbringing as ‘being raised by a tribe of musicians’ and a ‘clan of female founders’. She started her global adventures, aged just 10, as part of a touring ‘Mozart Choir for Peace’, bringing together young singers from both Europe and India, to learn and […]

The Cambridge Venture Project, a pivotal part of the Cambridge MBA experience

The Cambridge Venture Project, a pivotal part of the Cambridge MBA experience

One of the unique experiences of the Cambridge MBA is the Cambridge Venture Project (CVP), anopportunity to consult for an external organisation, on a live case, in a field distinct from one’sbackground and along with a diverse group of batch mates during the first term of the MBA. Andthis has been an incredible journey for […]

From colleagues to classmates, to competitors – our career switch from Shell to McKinsey and Bain

Introduce yourself: Nate: Both Audrey and I are actually “Shell Babies” – we both joined Shell on the Graduate Programme right out of college and stayed there until we enrolled in the business school. I joined Shell in 2014 as a Production Engineer in their newly constructed lubricants blending plant in Indonesia and have moved […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Leading with Pride in 2021

‘Creating spaces where people can be un-apologetically themselves’, said Claudia Chau, at the recent Diversity Coalition events held at Cambridge Judge. During LGBT History Month in the UK we meet the three female leaders heading up Cambridge MBA’s Class of 2020 Pride @ CJBS Special Interest Group this year. Claudia Chau, Pride @ CJBS co-chair […]

MBA Global Consulting Project – Advancing the Economic Development of African Fe

The Cambridge MBA opens new doors, it allows you to be curious and to explore unexpected opportunities; to develop a global network, make lifelong friendships and benefit from renowned academic faculty. This is what I was promised, and I feel privileged that this was what I discovered to be true. The Global Consulting Project (GCP) […]