Germany, T-shaped leadership, and product innovation. All in one evening
About 40 people attended the Cambridge MBA information session in Munich last week. We were very fortunate that Prof Christoph Loch, Director of the Business School, spared some time from his schedule...
View ArticleCambridge conversations and South Africa
There has been a slew of MBA programmes that have revamped their curriculum of late. Many have introduced global components to their programme to follow ethics classes that were added following...
View ArticleWhy the Cambridge MBA will not throw out essays in the application process
The Financial Times ran an article on Monday about the creative route to an MBA which described the many changes to the admissions process taken by several top schools this year. This year, many MBA...
View ArticleCambridge conversations and Indonesia
In an earlier post, I mentioned that we were starting a platform to give some of our students an opportunity to use any available resources during their one year in Cambridge to explore in depth an...
View ArticleBeliefs and the Herd. Or my thoughts about the Cambridge MBA after an evening...
I’ve spent the last four weeks in Asia, partly on holiday (or more accurately giving my parents a chance to dote on their 9-month old grand-daughter) and partly for work. I met several companies who...
View ArticleMy trip to the UAE or how I’d like to meet the Middle East entrepreneurs
I have just returned from a three day trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi where I met prospective MBA candidates and representatives from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). It was my first trip to the...
View ArticleBe He@lthy and mobile :- a guest post from Gini Arnold, Cambridge MBA 2009
I am delighted that Gini Arnold, a Cambridge MBA alum from 2009, has agreed to be our guest blogger. Gini has an undergraduate degree from Cambridge in biological anthropology as well as an MBA, a...
View ArticleMBAs and politics
In the next 24 hours, the world will learn who will be President of the United States for the next four years. In the next week, the world will learn the new leadership that will take over in China for...
View ArticleFalse precision in MBA rankings
I have finally submitted school data to the various MBA rankings surveys that we will participate in this year. Over the last three years, I have noticed how, with each passing iteration, the...
View ArticleWhat I have learnt from my 121s with Cambridge MBAs
One of the strongest traditions in Cambridge is the system of supervision where small groups (between one and three) of undergraduates meet weekly with a member of faculty or doctoral student of their...
View ArticleAt a loss as to how to convey our personality through twitter
I have been reflecting on the lessons that we have learnt from our use of social media. Over the last three years, we have intensified our use of social media to convey elements of the Cambridge MBA....
View ArticleWhy you should apply to the Cambridge MBA DESPITE us improving 10 places in...
The Financial Times published its annual MBA rankings today and the Cambridge MBA came in joint 16th, an improvement of 10 places over last year. We were also ranked 26th two years ago. Much of the...
View ArticleFrameworks and what students want
This will be a cryptic post arising from me connecting the dots from three unrelated interactions that I had this week. First, I was having a conversation with some colleagues who noted that students...
View ArticleFrameworks, or Full Steam Ahead vs Pause and reflect
In my last post, I talked about three instances that got me thinking. First, feedback from students about more lecture notes and for more snazzy powerpoint slides; second, Kevin Roberts talk about a...
View ArticleObama mentions Cambridge MBA’s initiative during his visit to Israel
This is a short blog post, much shorter than what I usually write. But I wanted to share a piece of news with you that I received just as I was about to go to sleep here in Hong Kong. One of our MBA...
View ArticleWhat I have learnt from our launch of the New Game
About 9 months ago, I wrote about a new initiative that we were launching, a platform that would give some of our students with interests in emerging countries to share how the one year that they spent...
View ArticleThe most interesting staff training I’ve experienced
I will be the first to admit that while business schools are very good at persuading students and corporate clients about the need to develop skills, their record in developing their own staff is more...
View ArticleEmployment stats for the MBA class who graduated in 2012
The latest employment data for the MBA class who graduated in 2012 (ie who enrolled in September 2011) is below. We will post a more detailed employment report on our website when that is ready. % of...
View ArticleA stork is born
Next week is the last week for the Cambridge MBA class of 2012. This is a time when students are busy completing final assignments, and crossing out their bucket list of things to do before they leave...
View ArticleThe Cambridge MBA interview day — why we do what we do
We have just completed the last interview day for the MBA class of 2013. In the last two years, more than 300 people have attended one of the six interview days that we host every year. It is a big...
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