Our second day in Kenema has been spent in a Toyota 4×4 (an awesome vehicle if ever there was one) travelling cross-country via muddy, rocky, hilly roads and into small villages for site visits. The purpose of the site visits was for us to see who the customers of Alafia latrines are, and what the customer […]
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Global Consulting Project 2014: Introducing team: GOAL, Sierra Leone
[THE BRIEF]: We’re four MBA students from Cambridge Judge Business School about to embark on a 2.5 week trip to Sierra Leone to examine the Alafia sanitation marketing programme that GOAL are running in Kenema, the third largest city in Sierra Leone. There’s a day to go before the four of us fly out. […]
GCP Lessons Learned
As quickly as it came, it was over. When the Global Consulting Project first started, it seemed that five weeks seemed an awful long time to spend with four people, 24-7. But alas, now that it’s done and dusted, I’m finding myself missing my team and reflecting on the unforgettable experience we had together. So […]
Multiple players in the Chinese energy efficiency market
So now we are past the mid-point of the Global Consulting Project and it is time to start preparing for the final presentation in less than 10 days. This, of course, implies giving up some of the GCP habits we have developed since beginning the project a few weeks back. No more reading outdated issues […]
GCP experience in Sri Lanka
Vanakkam (Hello) from Batticaloa (Batti), Sri Lanka (or, the region of the singing fish, as the locals call it) I’m composing this post while sitting in a local bus that is winding through the roads of Batti, having just finished a field visit to view palmyrah tree products woven by local women. In the background, […]
Interviews, Insights, and Personal Interests
The third week of our global consulting project is coming to a close, and for the past week and a half, it’s pretty much been all interviews, all the time. As we work to squeeze the financial data that we need from our client to address the cost efficiency problems we’re investigating, we’ve started a […]
Global Consulting Project in Brazil: a warm welcome
It’s amazing that the first week of our Global Consulting Project has passed already, after a flurry of exams and papers that closed off the Lent term. For a few of us (Jessica, Malte and myself), it’s our first time in South America while for Natasha and Belle, it’s a much-welcomed trip back home. […]