Cambridge Executive MBA Team Takes Up Cycling
Bringing the Tour de France to India – a nation with scarcely any culture of sports cycling – has proved an ambitious task for its organisers. But despite the challenges, the Tour de India ran its first races in Mumbai, Srinagar and Delhi in 2012. The following year, with Jaipur replacing Srinagar in the three-city tour, the event gained official recognition from UCI, the world governing body for competitive cycling.
A group from the Executive MBA programme at Cambridge Judge Business School are planning the next stage of the Tour de India’s development, in fulfillment of their Team Consulting Project. “We’re looking at scaling up the Tour in both time and capacity over a period of five years. When we came on board, we could see there was a great vision and plenty of passion, but we perhaps weren’t seeing much longer-term planning. So how could we add value?” asks lead member Rav Seeruthun.
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Cambridge Judge Announced 15-Member China Advisory Council
Cambridge Judge Business School announced a new 15-member China Advisory Council in advance of December’s Sanya Forum, a gathering of about 1,000 influential political, business and academic leaders in Sanya, Hainan, China.
The 15-member China Advisory Council (CAC), which was launched at an event hosted by Cambridge Judge at the Sanya Forum on December 14th, is being established to advise the School on its future engagement in China – a very important area to Cambridge Judge in terms of students, faculty, executive education and academic focus. The new panel includes top executives of leading Chinese firms such as banks and media enterprises, as well as academic, spiritual and business leaders from China and the UK.
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Cambridge MBAs Expand Their Horizons in Developing Regions
Students from many countries study for an MBA abroad in order to diversify their careers after working for a number of years in their home countries. Two students from China chose a different path, however, by working in more challenging markets – Kenya and Iran – before pursuing MBA studies at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Ru Hao, who previously studied in Beijing and the Belgian city of Leuven, worked in agricultural development in Kenya. Zhao Liu, previously a student in Beijing and Wuhan, worked at Chinese-state-owned energy company SINOPEC in Iran. Read this Q&A with them to learn why they chose their respective paths.
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Voice Reading App from Judge’s “Accelerate Cambridge” Program to Be Pitched at St. James’s Palace
VocalIQ, a smart platform that controls devices through a person’s natural conversation flow, was chosen to participate in the Pitch@Palace event for entrepreneurs at St. James’s Palace in London on 5 November. VocalIQ has been incubated and accelerated at Accelerate Cambridge at Cambridge Judge Business School.
VocalIQ was one of three Accelerate Cambridge start-ups to participate on October 20th at a Pitch@Palace “Bootcamp” held at Microsoft Ventures offices in London. The Bootcamp served as a warmup to the final Palace event in November, at which start-ups pitch to investors and other business people in order to secure funding and strategy suggestions.
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Judge Business School Signs Memorandum with Chinese Private Equity Firm
The University of Cambridge and China Science & Merchants Capital Management have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote academic links and collaboration between the two institutions over the next three years.
The collaboration was launched at the Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Conference (GIEE) in Shaoshan, China, on 27 September. At the University of Cambridge, the collaboration will be overseen by Hanadi Jabado, Director of Accelerate Cambridge at Cambridge Judge Business School; and Dr. Jo Mills, Deputy Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) at Cambridge Judge.
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Judge Launches Centre for Social Innovation
“The social innovator needs to understand the basic business model, finance and those other business skills, but the social innovator also has to turn mission into reality,” says Neil Stott, Executive Director of the new Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School.
The website for the Centre went live on 23 September, outlining the Centre’s mission and featuring various resources related to social innovation including research, events and Stott’s first blog post for the Centre; the post focuses on how the public sector is playing (in contrast to its sometimes stodgy image) an increasingly important role in social innovation, especially in the technology space.
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