By the Numbers: The World’s Most Valuable MBA
There are many different ways to define “lucrative”—so when trying to find the world’s most valuable MBA degree, there are a few different metrics you can use to draw a conclusion. Lucky for us, the new Financial Times global MBA ranking manages to list the world’s top MBA programs in (almost) every way imaginable, including highest weighted salary, salary increase, and value for money. Sounds lucrative to me! Continue reading…
Cambridge Judge Announces New Barclays Partnership Course
Meet the Barclays Scale Up UK Programme.
It’s a 36-week long course by the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge in partnership with British multinational mega-bank Barclays.
The new course plans to help businesses address core growth problems, according to a recent press release. Professors Stelios Kavadias and Hanadi Jabado of the School’s Entrepreneurship Centre will lead the course—and they’ll get help from other industry experts, too. Both instructors carry impressive resumes: Kavadias is the Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies in Innovation & Growth, and Director of the school’s Entrepreneurship Centre. Jabado is Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre.
“Small businesses face many hurdles in successfully scaling up, so Cambridge Judge Business School is offering companies the opportunity to upgrade their managerial skillsets to get access to capital and scale their organization up,” Cambridge Judge Dean Christoph Loch said in the press release. “The new Barclays Scale Up UK Programme will provide a clear framework for addressing these issues, and the business school is delighted to provide its expertise.”
Company founders and senior executive teams at the bank will now have access to essential lessons in tapping into growth that’ll only benefit the business. Barclays clients that still have room to grow can take the course. That means any business, from startups to those making more than £20 million in annual sales. The course will take in no more than 20 leadership teams.
The course is made up of several different major components including marketing, operational excellence, recruitment, and funding. These, among others, are essential to building growth in new businesses.
“From talking to our clients, we recognize there is a knowledge gap when it comes to leadership skills, especially for ambitious businesses growing at speed, and we see this partnership with Cambridge Judge as an opportunity to help bridge this gap for our clients and to further cement our commitment to supporting the eco-system beyond traditional banking,” Richard Heggie, Head of High-Growth and Entrepreneurs at Barclays, said.
Imperial College Is the UK’s Most International University
For the second year in a row, Imperial College was ranked as the most international university in the UK. The 2017 ranking from Times Higher Education looked at the “international outlook” of every university on its list. This year, Imperial moved up five places to 5th overall, up from 10th last year. Continue reading…
Executive Education at Cambridge Judge Designs HSBC Leadership Programme in Dubai
HSBC Bank in the Middle East has completed its inaugural HSBC Leadership Programme for mid-level Emirati managers, which was developed in association with the Executive Education division of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Abdulfattah Sharaf, Chief Executive Officer at HSBC UAE, said that the programme was designed to foster the growth of United Arab Emirates nationals to lead organisations across the country in the future.
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Judge Report Claims European Alternative Finance Market Could Top €7b in 2015
The European online alternative finance market grew by 144% last year to nearly €3 billion and could top €7 billion in 2015, according to a report by the new Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge Judge Business School and professional services organisation EY.
The report, Moving Mainstream: The European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Report, includes input from 14 key national or regional industry associations, as well as 255 leading platforms in Europe, to capture an estimated 85 per cent 90 per cent of Europe’s online platform-based alternative finance market. While previous studies have charted alternative finance in the UK, this report is the first to cover other European countries in detail.
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