Posts filed under “Cambridge MBA”
Another reason why I blog
From the always-fantastic Seth Godin: Personal Branding in the age of Google A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper. Three interesting resumes came to the top. She googled each person’s name. The first search turned up a MySpace page. There was a picture of the applicant, drinking beer from a funnel. Under hobbies, the [...]
Things I wish I had known…
Alexandra posted an interesting list a while back on “Surviving Michaelmas Term” on the Cambridge MBA. I wanted to pick and choose what I thought were some great insights and pointers for future students. (I also grabbed a few from other people in the comments, too.) It’s really a list for surviving a one-year MBA! [...]
OpenCoffee Cambridge & thoughts and ideas on the startup scene
First of all, thank you to everyone that came out to the first OpenCoffee Cambridge today! I wasn’t sure what to expect, and thought the worst case would mean about 3-4 people would just chat in the coffee shop. I didn’t try to make an accurate count, but I would guess about 30 people or [...]
That’s it… I’m officially sick of Apple, the iPod and the iPhone
I’m guessing there’s one company for every era of business school students. One company who is almost always used as an example, whose recent activities/products/services/innovations are used in every class and discussed thoroughly. This has probably been Amazon.com at some point, RJR Nabisco before that, HP before that, and so on. This era’s company is [...]
Entrepreneurship at Cambridge University
At the end of last year, YouNoodle.com published a list of the Top University Startup Communities. Cambridge University came in 3rd, right after Stanford (Silicon Valley) and MIT (Boston). Oxford University came in 6th. Here is how YouNoodle came up with the ranking: YouNoodle has designed an algorithm to calculate each university’s significance as a [...]
Cambridge MBA and Cambridge Colleges – A decision aid
I wanted to write a quick guide to Cambridge Colleges, aimed at people accepted into the Cambridge MBA. The MBA program works a little differently than any other Cambridge degree, in that you’re first accepted into the MBA, and then you’re accepted into a college. (Traditionally you’re apply to your program through a college, and [...]
Cambridge MBA curriculum – Harvard’s moving closer to it
It’s only after experiencing the Cambridge MBA, talking to my professors and doing a little research recently that I really learned exactly how unique the Cambridge MBA curriculum actually is compared to other top schools. It comes down to two simple differentiators: our small-group “soft skills” classes and the projects incorporated into the curriculum. As [...]
Cambridge MBA and admissions
I’m currently an MBA student at the University of Cambridge, which has a smallish but rapidly growing business school. There are a huge number of things that impress me about the school, but I wanted to mention just a couple about the admissions process and office: The MBA Admissions office is blogging! So far it’s [...]