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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Global Consulting Project (GCP): World Wide Fund for Nature
During Michaelmas Term, a group of us decided that we wanted to find a project that would allow us to achieve the maximum impact and engage in an effort that we believe is meaningful. As we all shared a collective interest in conservation, development work, and Africa as a continent, we reached out to numerous […]
The world of responsible investing…
Old buildings with picturesque views of the British countryside. An academic institution with hundreds of years of history. A lecture room filled with leading academics and practitioners. Another day in Cambridge? Actually, it was my first day in St. Andrews, Scotland. The end of the Easter term was an opportune time to take advantage of […]