Every September hundreds of MBA students and alumni from top global business schools travel to Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, a famous sailing destination, to take part in the Bocconi MBA Conference and Regatta. Twenty-five schools compete in three separate races divided by boat class. CJBS Sailing Club, launched in 2016, was invited for the second […]
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Founders Factory: a visit by the Entrepreneurship SIG
We arrived at the Founders Factory in London, for an evening of presentations given by three early stage startups. They ranged from a startup that is still forming market understanding and product offering to an early-stage company that has started selling to a limited audience. The companies included a media company that pulls together daily […]
McKinsey Impact Experience Weekend: Peru
At the end of September, only two weeks into my MBA, I flew to Lima, Peru to participate in the McKinsey & Company Impact Experience Weekend. McKinsey organised this event in five countries of Latin America. The idea behind the weekend was for students to understand what it was like to work for McKinsey & […]
One month in: my experience.
I am one month into the Cambridge MBA and our study group has just been given our first project. I’m working with a UBS trader from New Zealand, a French doctor and an Indonesian ex-McKinsey consultant. The class is made up of over 200 students, 50 plus nationalities, and the talent that I’m surrounded with […]
Silicon Valley Career Trek
Five-months before the start of the 2018 MBA program, an enthusiastic group of incoming students came together to organise a career trek to Silicon Valley. Well, perhaps “came together” is a bit of a euphemism, as all of the organisers were located in different countries! We organised a five day trek across the […]
The beginning of a transformational experience.
Cambridge…a name associated with history, prestige and Nobel Prize winners. I was both excited and scared with the prospect of becoming a Cambridge student. Since I was a Round One applicant, almost 10 months passed from the time that I was accepted into the programme to the day that I actually started it. […]
My Cambridge MBA Story – Maria Zarate
Growing up as a Peruvian immigrant in the United States, I learned to adapt to and appreciate other cultures. I studied and grew an interest in learning languages to try to connect with more people and break down communication barriers. To gain a better understanding of the world, I have spent the last three years […]
From the Wilderness to the Classroom
Picture this: It’s six o’clock in the morning. The sun is just breaking through the distant horizon but the birds are already chirping like a discordant choir. The air is brisk and you are loath to leave your warm sleeping bag but, knowing that you have a full day of adventure ahead, you slowly crawl […]
Vishal J Jain: My Singapore Trek 2018
Career Treks are a great way for any MBA student to network, learn about new industries, and experience a whole new country and culture before starting their MBA journey. This Trek explored the four key employment verticals in the Singapore market: Consulting, Finance, Technology, and Industry. It covered such luminary giants as Google, Facebook, Deloitte, […]
Annual Oxbridge Business School Debate
For 800 years, Oxford and Cambridge have enjoyed a friendly rivalry. This can be seen in sporting events such as the Boat Race, but also at Union debates. One of these historic debates was held at Cambridge Union on 16 May where I had the honour of being chair of the Annual Oxbridge Business School debate. […]
SCB Future Leader Challenge report
The SCB Future Leader Challenge (SCB FLC) is Thailand’s first business case competition for master’s degree students. It is jointly organized by Siam Commercial Bank and Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, to promote learning and develop the potential of next generation’s leaders. This year, around 200 teams from global top universities, […]
Just be straightforward: trek to Alibaba
While Alibaba comes up very frequently in business school classes and conversations, very few of us truly understood the depth of the company’s business and their international operations. So, to help demystify the tech giant that is Alibaba, the Retail Student Interest Group (SIG) got in touch with their London office and organised a company […]
GCP Despatches from the Field (Week Four): illwerke
In our last “GCP Despatches from the Field”, one MBA student shares his experience of working with illwerke VKW. If anyone were to ask us whether the Global Consulting Project turned out as expected, the answer would probably be a resounding no – in the best possible way. Working on our project as a close-knit […]
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, […]
GCP Despatches from the Field (Week Three)
In this, the third of our “GCP Despatches from the Field” series, Diana shares her experience of her team’s project with Transformative, where they were based in various locations around the world. Tranformative (UK, USA) Diana Robinson Our GCP project was with Transformative, an exciting start-up that does predictive analytics in healthcare, specifically addressing sudden […]
GCP Despatches from the Field (Week Two): Carnegie Hall
In this “GCP Despatches from the Field” series, Isabel shares her experience of her team’s project with Carnegie Hall in New York. Carnegie Hall (New York, NY, USA) Isabel Siragusa We knew we had arrived at Carnegie Hall the moment we walked into our designated work space and it was actually a practice room complete […]
GCP Despatches from the Field (Week One): Actis and Uber
In the first of our “GCP Despatches from the Field” series, students Firas and Swalti give us a first glimpse into what they’ve been up to in Amsterdam with Uber EMEA, and in London with Actis. Uber EMEA (Amsterdam and Cambridge) Firas Marafie Week one of our Global Consulting Project was a good reminder of […]
Why do women seem to invest less in career development?
Investing in your career is a vital part of growing and developing as a professional, for example by taking an MBA. However, the statistics suggest that many less women are doing that than men. Why is this? A range of ideas have been put forward, but for me three things seem to come up again […]
Cambridge MBA Japan Trek
From 7 to 12 January, with much enthusiasm and excitement, 20 students embarked on a trek which had not taken place from Cambridge in several years: the Japan Trek. Seven Japanese students held weekly meetings from the summer of 2017, discussing how to best showcase both the historical and business cultures of Japan – and […]
CVP Stories: From architecture and construction to AI and machine learning
I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of January! I arrived in Cambridge four months ago and the time has literally flown by. A lot of things happened over the past months. The MBA Programme is so intense that you do not have many possibilities to slow down and take a breath – unless you […]