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. […]
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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 […]
Sudo Hackathon: If you can’t code, what do you do?
“If you can’t code, what do you do?” I often get this question when I say I went to a hackathon. The simple answer is twofold: partner with developers to make sure you’re getting the right stuff done; and surround great code with a concise and compelling business story. There are other ways to go […]
From medical school to the Cambridge MBA
Journey to Cambridge I had just finished a call shift in the labour and delivery department and I was en route to the library. I stopped by the hospital cafeteria for a fresh cup of coffee and sat down ready to write. MBA applications coincided with my obstetrics and gynecology rotation, and essay writing and […]
Healthcare Student Interest Group trip to Congenica
On 3 November, the Healthcare Student Interest Group (SIG) conducted their first off-campus activity – visiting biotech company Congenica Ltd, which is a leading company in human genome analysis. The purpose of this visit was to understand the future of healthcare industry and to network with people in the industry. In a modern office building […]
CVP Stories: Amphibious Electric Vehicle with Jaguar Land Rover
Coming from the Middle East, I was drawn to CJBS by its promise of high-quality projects and hands-on experiences. The first of these during the Cambridge MBA is the Cambridge Venture Project (CVP). I was eager to use my Finance and Startup background to solve new problems for our client: Jaguar Land Rover. Fast forward […]
Winning the InsureTech & RegTech Venture Creation Weekend
On the weekend of 17-19 November, we (Monique Andrew, Nick Ellwood and Michael Bean) took part in the InsureTech & RegTech Venture Creation Weekend (VCW) at Cambridge Judge Business School. The VCW is an event for students, postdocs, professional and researchers working on emerging technologies and innovations in InsureTech and RegTech, who are interested in learning […]
China Careers Trek – incoming MBA class
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 […]
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 […]