Project Manager at Fortune 500 company to the first product manager at a Silicon Valley MarTech start up to a Product Governance Consultant and Product Manager at a leading TravelTech company, based in the UK. My career journey so far has been nothing but diverse. Every new turn came with new challenges and new learnings.
But this next one has been a long-standing dream. I am starting my MBA at Cambridge.
Week 1 of 52 – the one-year MBA
Learning: ++ skills added
Introduction to Business Statistics and Financial Reporting and Analysis – I can now read financial statements to understand the soul of a company! (Just starting out!)
Fun
Meeting 50 + people from different industries – meeting a smashing Ex-Goldman Sachs & Ex-Deloitte, women founder (Tian Tian) trying to empower women’s careers was the absolute highlight.
Punting on the River Cam
Improv workshop – acting to practise pitching and thinking on your feet
New foods – Sichuan style pork belly and Jack’s Gelato
Personal Initiatives
Doing the Duke Energy Case Competition – cause what the heck is a business case and how do you build one to set up a battery swapping franchisee for an e-bike start up in Africa (Zembo)?
Week 2!
Learning: ++ skills added
Business and Sustainable Development – We explored the “Fishbank Simulation” from MIT. It had me thinking about Game Theory and building sustainable solutions that maximise profitability. You can find the link to the full account in the article here.
Regression Models for predicting key business figures.
Fun
CamJam – Cambridge Open Jazz night at The Tram Depot.
Personal Initiatives
Finding the earliest fossilised human skull to reach an English collection – Candia Skull from 1627
Built the business model for battery swapping for a Ugandan E-Mobility start up Zembo as part of the Duke Energy in Emerging Markets Competition –
Thanks to the help of Samuel Leung, Eesha Mullick and Felipe Aldana, we were able to get to a 78% CAPEX and 28% OPEX reduction to make franchising their battery swapping network a viable option for the start up.
New challenges and new experiences in only two weeks of my one-year MBA. It is true what they say – ‘There is something in the air in Cambridge.”