Embarking on the Cambridge MBA journey was both exciting and daunting, especially for someone like me, coming from a military background with limited exposure to the corporate and business realms. As an aeronautical engineer who spent over a decade in the Indian Air Force, my expertise lay in strategic and operational leadership within a highly […]
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My MBA – a return on investment? An alumnus perspective.
Recently, I contemplated the return on investment of my MBA programme at the University of Cambridge. I quickly realised my most valuable returns: Financial Skills – when I joined the programme, I felt that I lacked financial knowledge. Therefore, I took the Finance Concentration and immersed myself in entirely new topics like financial modeling, investment […]
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 […]
One term in – my Cambridge MBA experience
Three months into the MBA programme at Cambridge and the first term, Michaelmas Term, comes to a close. The last three months were stories of success, failure, excitement, fun and learning infused with intensity. Here’s a snippet into my first term in Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) University of Cambridge. Began my life here as the […]
BCG MBA Fellowship – Forté scholar Yinshan Loh shares her insights
We caught up with Cambridge MBA Class of 2020/21 student and Forté Foundation scholarship holder Yinshan Loh, as she looks back on her extraordinary Cambridge MBA year, as well as sharing her insights having been awarded the BCG Women’s MBA Fellowship during the year. Can you tell us about your support from BCG – Boston […]
Charity run challenge – Aiducation
Aiducation International is an international NGO based in Switzerland that helps to provide high school scholarships to bright and motivated youth in developing countries so that they can be future global leaders. Many students can attend school up to the high school level through government funding or other types of NGO support, but find challenging […]
Choose to challenge – MBA Wo+Men’s SIG leaders
This International Women’s Day we meet the two leaders choosing to challenge as they head up the Wo+Men’s Special Interest Group for the MBA Class of 2020/21. Sarah Sketchley and Hanna Lil-Malone each bring something different to the table, as they stood up to lead and steer the Wo+Men’s SIG during their MBA year. Why […]
How the CJBS community helped me – Manideep Aluru
I stopped working in February 2020 to take a break and travel beforestarting the Cambridge MBA programme. And then we all know what happened! Over the Summer before the MBA year started, our amazing friends from the cohort planned a number of virtual activities, from weekly virtual networking and hangouts, to glimpses of Cambridge thanks […]