The journey from Cambridge (MA, USA) to Cambridge (UK) has been nothing short of an adventure. When I attended the in-person Cambridge MBA Open Day in March 2023, I felt the same sense of belonging that I experienced when I walked into Harvard University in April 2018. I see the world of Cambridge(s) to be […]
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Ich Bin Ein Berliner – The Cambridge MBA International Business Study Trip
We’ve spent the last nine days in Berlin. One of the options for the Summer Term was a week-long intensive course on international business – the IBST or International Business Study Trip. I signed up for this back in November, and it seemed like a no-brainer. It ended up being a worthwhile week as we […]
Changing careers in tech – an alumnus journey
Post-MBA life doesn’t always go to plan. I graduated in September 2020 and nearly 3 years on I’m now five months into my third job. Moving soon after graduating isn’t always unexpected – changing careers is a game of trial and error so quite a few of my MBA classmates changed roles in the first […]
My Cambridge MBA Global Consulting Project with Bessemer Venture Partners
Our final presentation recently, marks the end of our Global Consulting Project (GCP) with Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) as part of our MBA programme at Cambridge Judge Business School. In the past five weeks, our team conducted an in-depth and comprehensive study on sales strategy for efficient growth in the B2B SaaS industry. Combining various industry […]
Cambridge Women Can on International Women’s Day 2023
As we join the world in marking International Women’s Day 2023, we meet our Gender Equality SIG leaders and ask them what being part of the wider community of Cambridge Judge women means to them. Why did you feel an MBA was part of your career plan? Maddy, “After working at venture-backed startups in Silicon […]
Fighting in and out the ring – balancing my MBA, community leadership and boxing
I have always been competing in martial arts since I was 13 years old. I competed semi-professionally in Jiu-Jitsu, Mixed Martial Arts, and Boxing. However, in the last five years, I focused more on my work, career, and a vision – mainly on solving the world’s largest threat to humanity: climate change. Before my MBA, […]
The Cambridge MBA: simply unbelievable!!
My MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School has been a dream-come-true and I still can’t believe I am studying in one of the best business schools in the world! The first term of my Cambridge MBA is already over, and my learning curve has been exponential thanks to the diversity and the practical nature of […]
Balancing studies and sport (and everything in between) – my MBA experience
I have a background in pharmacology and worked in clinical trials in London for six years before starting the MBA. I came to Cambridge with a curiosity to learn more about different aspects of business that I had never been exposed to, and an appetite for growth and for some once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Already, I feel […]
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 […]
My first term on the Cambridge MBA.
Phew! I cannot believe that almost three months – one whole term of my Cambridge MBA is already over. My official MBA activities started a week before the MBA even commenced. Five of us who did not really know one another formed a team to participate in the 10th Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition […]
My Cambridge MBA outlook – gunpowder, treason, plot
This week has been interesting, to say the least. Everyone that I have talked to has been asking a lot of existential questions, Why am I here? What if I only go back to my previous job? Why can’t we get free cookies in the Business School? On a positive note, I think the fact that we […]
#ThiswillChangeYou: in ways you never imagined
With (almost) ten years of work experience and two Masters in Engineering in my resume, I was in a position where I had a strong foundation in the technical domain. Having led many projects successfully, I wanted to move to the decision-making side of the picture and use the soft skills I have developed along […]
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 […]
L’Oréal Brandstorm – an MBA Competition
When we first got together to prepare our proposal for the L’Oréal Brandstorm contest, we never thought we would reach to the UK&I finals. We started our journey by deciding the subject we wanted to focus on and as all three of us are passionate about Tech we agreed on proceeding with the Tech Trek […]
The MBA and The Varsity Match – my Cambridge rugby year
We asked our alumni to share their memories of The Varsity Matches ahead of the forthcoming 150 years of The Varsity Match celebration on Saturday 2nd April. Maggie Simpson, MBA 2020-21 Competing for Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club (CURUFC) while earning my MBA degree was the culmination of a lifetime of athletic, academic, and professional achievements. I’ve […]
What do you want and how far you are willing to go?
“Is an MBA worth it?” – Many people have approached me with the question. My standard response to that question is “It depends”. It might be irritating to know that every MBA graduate is likely to respond in a similar way but let me elaborate more on that point. “It depends on two things – […]
Varsity views – my MBA experience
I was lucky enough to play in the 2019 Varsity Match, the last to be played at Twickenham before the pandemic hit. Nearly two and a half years later, after a brief sojourn to Leicester’s Welford Road and a change in date from December to April, the match is now returning to its home and, […]
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 start of many journeys (and of MBA Mic)
Since the first day I started meeting colleagues from my MBA cohort I realisedquickly that this wasn’t an ordinary group of people that you’d just come across in ajob. Each individual has an exceptional story to tell, either about their pastexperiences or how they see the world moving forward. This made me think “365 days […]