The China Careers Trek was a student-led initiative, jointly between the incoming Cambridge MBA class and MBAs from Oxford Said Business School. It allowed us to network with local business leaders, gain insights into regional business practices, and mingle with incoming MBA students from our class. Our trip started in Hong-Kong, which to many, is […]
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Cambridge MBA San Francisco Careers Trek
As 23 June dawned, I woke up eager to start the San Francisco Cambridge MBA Careers Trek – despite nursing transcontinental jetlag! This was my first Cambridge MBA experience, before starting the programme in September, and the international fibre of the programme was already evident, as 13 participants of our group represented eight nationalities and […]
GCP Team American Airlines – Customer Experience Improvement
THE TEAM Over March and April 2017, I chose to accept a mission to work with a team of dedicated professionals for our Cambridge MBA GCP. My team consisted of Danielle Devenuti (codename ‘The PM’), Dandi Li (codename ‘X-Factor’), Moji Olawoyin (codename ‘Super Researcher’), and myself (codename ‘Consultant’). THE CLIENT American Airlines aspires to be […]
Sourcing a GCP project: WHILL – Next Generation Personal Mobility
On 14 April 2017, we finished our GCP project by making the final presentation in Japan to our client, WHILL, a late-stage start-up founded in 2012, dedicated to reinventing the personal mobility industry with an intelligent personal electric vehicle that aims to eliminate the negative perception associated with wheelchairs. Whereas the GCP is just a […]
Working for BRAC – GCP blog
BRAC is the world’s largest NGO and you have probably never heard of it. Founded in 1972 in Bangladesh to assist the population following the civil war with Pakistan and subsequent independence, BRAC employs over 120,000 people – more than most Fortune 500 multinationals – and through one of its eight umbrella programs ranging from […]
Crafty Business: Eastern Market Brewing Company GCP Report
Fairness and Accessibility. These are probably not the first words that come to mind when you think of craft beer and yet they were two words that kept coming up during our interviews with founders and master brewers from some of the top craft breweries in the world. The craft beer industry in the US […]
Is it Still You? GCP team Graphcore
Excerpts from a discussion with Graphcore’s Chief Technology Officer, Simon Knowles My Global Consulting Project (GCP) team, made up of myself, Apoorv Pandit, Jenn Atchley, Lana Bazzy and Nicolas Croix, have recently arrived at the headquarters of our client, Graphcore, in Silicon Valley. Graphcore are experts in machine learning and artificial intelligence. One of our […]
What are the students in the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) up to this year?
The WLI is a School-wide programme which involves faculty, staff and students. It aims to serve as a platform to enable women’s empowerment and leadership in the business world globally. WLI Student Interest Group (SIG) Chairs Harshitha Balini and Aurelia Kassatly tell us about how MBA students have been taking an active role. Debate In […]
CJBS Israel trek 2017
Over the winter break, 40 Cambridge MBA students travelled to Israel for a week to gain a better understanding of the country and its thriving technology sector. I had no idea what to expect, as this was my first business school trek. What we experienced was a trip of unparalleled breadth and depth, allowing us the […]
Cambridge Venture Project – Founders4Schools
In the last two months or so, my Cambridge Venture Project (CVP) group, consisting of Lana Bazzy, Lucy Lan, Sunga Lungu, Akshat Mathur and I, were fortunate enough to work with Founders4Schools, where we worked directly with them to resolve key research questions they are currently facing in their business. Founders4Schools is a social enterprise based in […]
Cambridge MBAs hit Amsterdam for Private Equity Competition
The MBA experience is different from traditional university studies in many crucial aspects: the opportunity to tailor your pathway as you like; a diverse community and extensive exposure to challenging management assignments which require excellent multi-tasking abilities. In fact, opportunities for development are not bound to the school or even the University of Cambridge. One of the […]
New Battery Technology – Cambridge Venture Project
November. It is around 8pm and we are cycling in a typical cold and wet Cambridge evening. Our destination is the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge. Our objective is to meet our CVP clients. We are working on commercialisation of a breakthrough battery technology. Sounds cool, right? Because it is cool. For […]
Cambridge Rowing – a very Cambridge venture
When I was researching MBA programs this time last year, one of the most appealing aspects about the program at Judge was exposure to hands-on consulting projects. The first one we tackle is the Cambridge Venture Project (CVP). My team and I are mid-way through ours and so far, so good! We are a very […]
Orientation Week
After leaving my job at the end of August and traveling to Iceland and Edinburgh, I arrived in Cambridge on a sunny Friday one week before MBA Orientation began. With four suitcases in tow, I picked up my accommodation keys from my College’s friendly porters. Every MBA is a part of one of Cambridge’s 31 […]
Dubai Careers Trek – Lana’s View
Walking into the lobby of the Dubai trek meeting point at 8am felt like the very first day of school. The excitement was palpable and echoes of “which college are you in?”, “when do you get to Cambridge?”, and “how many suitcases do you have” (the last one was mine) could be felt across the […]
New York Careers Trek – Colin’s View
On the evening of 8 September, while New York city life bustled and fussed throughout the condensed metropolis of Manhattan, matriculating MBA students trickled into the ‘Cambridge in America’ office on the 17th floor of the Hippodrome building standing on the Avenue of the Americas. The NYC Careers Trek was effectively a pitstop on our way […]
New York Careers Trek – Hitomi’s View
Just a week before we start our exciting year, 18 of us gathered in the Big Apple for the Cambridge MBA New York trek. I had three objectives before joining this trek: the first was to learn about the job market in the US; the second was to network with alumni in New York; and the […]
New York Careers Trek – Bethany’s View
I arrived at the New York Trek overwhelmed. The event took place on Thursday and Friday – my flight to the UK was leaving Sunday. With my bags far from packed, I left for NYC unsure whether this was the best use of my last days in the US. However, as I make my way […]
New York Careers Trek – Roshni’s View
Alicia Keys says it best when she describes New York City in the song Empire State of Mind as a “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of / There’s nothing you can’t do /…These streets will make you feel brand new”. For many of the participants of the first careers trek held in New York, […]
Dubai Careers Trek – David’s View
Tuesday 8am: arriving at the office on my last day of work after seven years, I had a lot on my mind. Goodbyes, packing up my apartment and the fun of dealing with Dubai’s utility companies meant I had given little thought to the following day’s careers trek. However, by mid-afternoon on Wednesday I was […]