We caught up with MBA Class of 2021/22 student Rosin Patel to hear about the exceptional stories and MBA insights that he has recorded and shared on his podcast series MBA Mic. Interviewing and hearing stories fortnightly from his cohort of 220 classmates, Rosin has captured career sector insights from founders and serial entrepreneurs to […]
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Africa Together Conference 2022
The Africa Together Conference was held in May of this year. The event was organised by the African Society of Cambridge University, in partnership with the Cambridge Africa Business Network (CABN) from Cambridge Judge Business School. This conference celebrates the continent’s outstanding achievements and is known for bringing together great minds and speakers who have […]
Motivating and mentoring Gen Z and Millennials across the globe – Divya Dewan
Forté Foundation scholar and current MBA student, Divya Dewan describes her upbringing as ‘being raised by a tribe of musicians’ and a ‘clan of female founders’. She started her global adventures, aged just 10, as part of a touring ‘Mozart Choir for Peace’, bringing together young singers from both Europe and India, to learn and […]
How the Cambridge MBA spirit contributed to me starting my own business
When I stepped off the National Express Bus on Parker’s Piece for my Cambridge MBA interview day in February 2017, I knew this was where I wanted to be. Why? I had no idea at the time but I just knew. Three years out it has led me to a point, I could have not […]
Making connections – my first term at Cambridge
What the Cambridge MBA offered me in the Michaelmas Term was not just the eight core MBA courses, but the Cambridge Venture Project, the careers training, and the 221 amazing classmates from the cohort. What impressed me the most was the opportunities to connect with the broader Cambridge ecosystem through the MBA programme. I had […]
My Cambridge MBA entrepreneurship journey
“A successful warrior is the average person with a laser-like focus” – Bruce Lee In early 2018, I launched a food related entrepreneurial project which failed miserably because of my inability to connect with the target market. This experience not only gave me a good 200 words to describe my most spectacular failure on the […]
Leaving a legacy in the impact space
Prior to starting my MBA at Cambridge, I attended a Forté Foundation workshop that encouraged us to find our personal purpose statement. I chose “value: to know mine and to show others theirs”. Little did I know that a short-year later, I would be in a new position that would be giving me the opportunity […]
My education start up – MIRAIing – an MBA career journey into entrepreneurship
About my entrepreneurial journey Honestly speaking, I did not think about becoming an entrepreneur seriously until my Cambridge Judge life started. Before joining the Cambridge MBA, I was working in the public sector, providing international cooperation in the Japan International Cooperation Agency. My career goal after my MBA was a career change to work in […]
“Doing Good” and “Doing Well” are not mutually exclusive – my Cambridge MBA MIINT experience
It was the early weeks of the Cambridge MBA and we (all 174 of us) were just acquainting ourselves with one another. Few of us had interacted over some Zoom sessions earlier that summer, but we had barely scratched the surface of the immense collaboration that was to follow. During the course of this entire […]
Taking parental leave as a startup CEO – Sponsoo Founder and MBA alumnus
I just returned from the first out of four months of (part-time) parental leave. While I was spending time with my wife and my newborn son, I had lots of opportunities to think about my situation – wondering why it was still relatively uncommon for startup founders to officially take some time off. Here are […]
McKinsey MBA winners 2021
A Cambridge MBA team consisting of Oliver Tromp, Dhananjay Dixit, Michael Rees and Vaibhav Nasery were declared winners of the 2021 edition of the McKinsey Venture Academy. This prestigious social venture competition saw over 70 teams across the UK compete with their socially focused ventures for the chance to receive up to £10,000 in seed […]
MIINT Competition – impact investing on my MBA
“The MIINT Competition was an amazing experience and one of the highlights of the Cambridge MBA. It enabled me to learn about impact investing in a very practical way and to benefit from top notch learning resources prepared by the organisers and industry practitioners. During the sourcing stage of the competition, I particularly enjoyed the incredible […]
From the Military to an MBA at Cambridge
Katherine Danielson served for seven years in the U.S. Army as a broadcast journalist and public affairs specialist. Her work was consistently published on military news stations as well as international media outlets such as CNN, BBC, Reuters, and Al Jazeera. She was deployed to Iraq to cover the final year of the U.S. military mission across […]
Serendipity or hacking your way around luck.
In mid April I had the opportunity, along with some of my MBA cohort, to speak with Cambridge Judge alumnus Hamza Mudassir about his career path and views on his post MBA decisions. Encouraging us to trust in our capabilities and the attractiveness of Cambridge MBA graduates when it comes to finding a job, he mentioned […]
A ‘Localing’ start up making an impact in 2021
At the end of last year Business Because featured MBA graduates in their feature ‘MBA Startups to look out for in 2021 – a coronavirus special’. We caught up with one of the founders, Deepak Ojha, to hear about the social venture ‘Localing’ that grew out of last year’s Covid crisis. Established in May 2020 with […]
MBA startups sharing a moment of HOPE
In the past 12 months, I became a mother, and this experience has changed my life in many beautiful ways. Whilst my husband and I were looking for a toy for our son in our local town, we realised that there was a lack of variety and options for baby goods. This led me to […]
A new venture – Skinlync
The Cambridge MBA is life-changing in many ways; for us, it led to the birth of our venture, Skinlync. Entrepreneurship post-MBA From ideation to reality, 2020 has been a truly remarkable year for our entrepreneurship journey. After a good deal of blood, sweat and tears, we finally launched Skinlync in November, a platform that simplifies self-management […]
Invaluable experiences – the MIINT team 2020
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” is the famous quote by Confucius, and now I have direct experience of this. Our team of five spent the first seven months of our Cambridge MBA working on an experiential impact investment competition run by MIINT – MBA Impact […]
Oxbridge Pre-MBA Singapore Trek
Every year, pre-MBA career treks are organised globally for incoming MBAs to visit organisations and learn more about the business and economic environment of the cities and countries they are based in. These treks allow incoming MBAs to network and engage with organisations that are involved in impactful and innovative work. The Oxbridge Pre-MBA Singapore […]
A new frontier
The idea to start a podcast about investing in frontier markets originated organically from having great conversations with thought-leaders in this space, and a prompt from my partner (I’m generally 2 steps behind). The Frontier Market Investing podcast is focused on learning from leading practitioners in emerging markets, consolidating best-practices and raising the profile of […]