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The Yale Healthcare Case Competition 2018
In Febraury of this year, a team of Camrbridge MBAs, Gabriel Thia (Singapore), Hannah Kanamori (Japan), Xin Qi (China) and Yiwei Li (China) and Takehiro Aoki (Japan) were awarded the first place at the Yale Healthcare Case Competition (YHCC). The YHCC is an annual international case competition organised by the Yale School of Management, […]
Sudo Hackathon: If you can’t code, what do you do?
“If you can’t code, what do you do?” I often get this question when I say I went to a hackathon. The simple answer is twofold: partner with developers to make sure you’re getting the right stuff done; and surround great code with a concise and compelling business story. There are other ways to go […]
From medical school to the Cambridge MBA
Journey to Cambridge I had just finished a call shift in the labour and delivery department and I was en route to the library. I stopped by the hospital cafeteria for a fresh cup of coffee and sat down ready to write. MBA applications coincided with my obstetrics and gynecology rotation, and essay writing and […]
Healthcare Student Interest Group trip to Congenica
On 3 November, the Healthcare Student Interest Group (SIG) conducted their first off-campus activity – visiting biotech company Congenica Ltd, which is a leading company in human genome analysis. The purpose of this visit was to understand the future of healthcare industry and to network with people in the industry. In a modern office building […]
A powerful bonding experience — Team Addenbrooke’s GCP week 3
“I’ve worked with a lot of MBA students over the past few years. And this group is by far the friendliest group and has worked exceptionally well together as a team.” – Lawrence Ashelford, introducing the Addenbrooke’s GCP team at the final presentation. The team was a bit nervous at the outset of the final […]
Delivering the presentation — GCP Team WHO week 3
Three weeks of research, brainstorming and client interviews, led us to this day. We are finally on board our flight to Geneva, Switzerland, to meet our client and present our final deliverables! This will be our first time meeting our client face to face, but we had no qualms about it as we kept in constant […]
In full swing — GCP Team WHO week 2
As our project with the World Health Organisation (WHO) goes into full swing, we found ourselves having to split into sub-teams to conduct interviews with various departments within the client’s organisation. We went through the school’s well-equipped databases, scrutinised reports and publicly available information, and presented our individual findings to one another. Hours were spent […]
A super cappuchino team — GCP Team WHO week 1
Our team is made up of 5 students: Allegra from Germany, Ciro from Italy, Nid from Thailand, and Ling and Lynn from Malaysia. Our team members have not gotten a chance to properly know one another since the start of the MBA programme in September last year, so our first week, apart from kicking off […]
Trading the stethoscope for a clipboard — GCP Team Addenbrooke’s update
The Addenbrooke’s GCP team has had a busy week in board rooms, hospital wards and operating theatres. Coordinated by Aditya Nigudkar, the team connected with approximately a dozen different health care providers and managers across different specialties as part of their qualitative research. Kit Hobbs organized a site visit to South West London Elective Orthopaedic […]
Introducing the Addenbrooke’s Hospital Global Consulting Project 2016 Team
Aditya Nigudkar, Kit Hobbs, Dante Palazzo and Neil Dubey are the four group members of the Addenbrooke’s Hospital Global Consulting Project (GCP). We’re very excited to utilise our diverse backgrounds and resources at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) to improve our local healthcare systems. Although the specifics of our project are confidential, we are performing […]
A summer challenge: On the front line of healthcare
After a thoroughly enjoyable nine month journey on the MBA so far, I’ve extensively transformed myself – learning from everyone around me. Cambridge really does gets the best out of you; challenges are not new to anyone here as everyone in the class […]
Global Consulting Projects 2015: Week three continued
CLIENT: DNANEXUS Team members: Krish Vallurupalli, Alberto Facelli, Lee (Minjing) Li, Ram Rajan, and Shinichiro Shinozaki THE CASE OF YOUR IDENTITY IN THE CLOUD: It’s been three weeks and we are almost towards the end of our Global Consulting Project (GCP). Our trials and tribulations have somehow brought us closer together as a team of five MBAs travelling from Cambridge to […]
Global Consulting Projects 2015: Week one continued
During the Global Consulting Project, MBAs form teams to consult with blue-chip multinational corporations or international organisations on a particular aspect of their business. We asked a selection of the GCP teams to send us a snapshot of their week’s activities. Come back for next week’s installment. CLIENT: MERCK CONSUMER HEALTH Team members: Veena Adityan, Bhawna Arora, […]
My MBA year-in-review: part 2
The new academic year saw an increasing amount of global travel for Cambridge MBA, Jacqui Gilbert. It was the season for competitions: both business-centered challenges and sports tournaments. The term also saw Jacqui become a ‘googler’ for her Global Consulting Project, the flagship practical project undertaken during the Cambridge MBA year. Term 2: Lent Global […]
Biomedicine, Biobusiness and Biodollars
Learning more about the healthcare sector was the main reason I chose the Cambridge MBA and I have not been disappointed. Having worked with pharmaceutical companies, governments, health insurance firms (public and private), and multilateral aid agencies, I expected my learning to be only incremental–but I could not have been more wrong. The Pharmaceuticals and […]
Social Impact Exchange Day: Uniting the social impact minds of three leading business schools
On Sunday 25th May 2014, students from Cambridge Judge Business School attended a Social Impact Exchange Day, alongside peers from Oxford Said Business School and London Business School. The day’s activities, organised by the co-chairs of the Social Impact Clubs at the three business schools respectively, offered students an insight into careers in the social impact […]
Global Consulting Project 2014: GOAL – Tongo and the VSL visit
The beginning of our second week in Sierra Leone has been spent out in the field again, speaking with local villagers in Tongo, Lower Bambarra. This has been an invaluable exercise for us all, and it has also enabled us to see a lot more of rural Sierra Leone than we thought we would. […]
Global Consulting Project 2014: GOAL on the road in the Kenema…
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 […]
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. […]