How did I go from having nothing more than the desire to start my own business to being Co-Founder of a startup that won the Coller Competition in a matter of eight months? “It’s all about who you know.” We’ve all heard it many times and even subscribe to the philosophy, but how are you […]
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MIINT – Impact Investing on the Cambridge MBA
During the first six months of our Cambridge MBA and MFin, a team of five of us – Guangze Lu, Haruka Hoshino, llman Dzikri Ihsani, Shubham Jaipuria, Yingying Wang – took part in an impact investing competition run by MIINT – MBA Impact Investing Network & Training. The competition is a competition between business schools […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]