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, […]
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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 […]
Celebrating LGBT History month with Pride
As the LGBTQ community develops further connections across the Business School, and in celebration of LGBT History Month in the UK every year, we meet the students leading the Cambridge MBA’s Class of 2021/22 Pride @ CJBS Special Interest Group this year. Ihor Kravets, Pride @ CJBS Co-chair and Cambridge MBA Class of 2021/22 LGBTQ+ ROMBA scholarship recipient. This […]
2022 Cambridge Judge MBA Chinese New Year Party
Over 170 students at the Cambridge Judge Business School rang in the new lunar year at a Chinese New Year celebration on January 31. The Lunar New Year holiday is celebrated in many countries throughout Asia, and it is the most important holiday of the year in China. The celebration was organised by a group […]
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 […]
Making connections – my first term at Cambridge
What the Cambridge MBA offered me in the Michaelmas Term was not just the eight core MBA courses, but the Cambridge Venture Project, the careers training, and the 221 amazing classmates from the cohort. What impressed me the most was the opportunities to connect with the broader Cambridge ecosystem through the MBA programme. I had […]
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 […]
Michaelmas Term MBA Experience
For most of us, 2021 has been a fast ride. It still feels like it was only last month that I ended my four and half year’s career at Blackrock to join the MBA programme at the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School. Yet, here we are now towards the end of 2021 and I […]
Cambridge through the lens
Professional photographer Amanda Lee Tromp travelled to Cambridge from the States, with her husband Ollie Tromp for his MBA year at Cambridge. Here we celebrate a year of her photography as she captures Cambridge through the seasons, along with the MBA Class of 2020/21 from their Matriculation to their end of term Formal Hall dinners. […]
We got this! – Oxbridge Oxygenates
When I was asked by Cambridge Judge faculty Michael Kitson during the Cambridge MBA interview, “If there was one thing you would like to change about Cambridge, what would that be?” I was stumped. For a place that I have revered all my life, thinking about a change was not easy. “Access”, I said! Access of a […]
Leaving a legacy in the impact space
Prior to starting my MBA at Cambridge, I attended a Forté Foundation workshop that encouraged us to find our personal purpose statement. I chose “value: to know mine and to show others theirs”. Little did I know that a short-year later, I would be in a new position that would be giving me the opportunity […]
Student Initiative Bulletin – the resilient MBA cohort
A rainy Cambridge Saturday morning (yeah, I know that does not really narrow anything down) at the beginning of the year, Chaitanya, Cynthia and Harsh sat at a table brainstorming ideas for a student newsletter. After hours of discussions (and pots of tea) around the narrative, the structure and the content – the Cambridge Student […]
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 […]
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 […]
Siemens Advanta – our Cambridge MBA Global Consulting Project
What was the Cambridge MBA Global Consulting Project experience like overall? The Global Consulting Project with Siemens Advanta was an exciting opportunity to use our past experiences and MBA theory to tackle a real-world live project that created both short-term and long-term impacts on Siemens in the UAE market. With the guidance of our mentor and […]
My Champions
My whole life, I have sought out great teams that have made me better; working with others towards something bigger than myself is the most intrinsically joyful experience. My father was my champion; he encouraged me in all of my sporting events, helped me start and run a company, and taught me how to develop […]
“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 […]
Cambridge Women Can
We spoke to Cambridge MBA student Toni Thorne, after she took part in promoting, as well as co-hosting a session at the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre Annual Conference – entitled Cambridge Women Can. How was the session you co-hosted and managed (remotely)? I hosted the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion panel entitled “Building Beyond the Buzzwords” with […]
McKinsey MBA winners 2021
A Cambridge MBA team consisting of Oliver Tromp, Dhananjay Dixit, Michael Rees and Vaibhav Nasery were declared winners of the 2021 edition of the McKinsey Venture Academy. This prestigious social venture competition saw over 70 teams across the UK compete with their socially focused ventures for the chance to receive up to £10,000 in seed […]
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 […]