Cambridge Photo of the Day



A Close-up in The Eagle

The Eagle is one of the oldest and best-loved pubs in Cambridge. While it is known for many things, perhaps most geekily (and rather astonishingly) it was the place where Crick and Watson announced their discovery of DNA.

Which is fairly "mayjah," as Posh Spice would say.

And that is probably the first time Posh Spice and Crick and Watson have ever been discussed in the same blog post.

Happy Friday, and good luck to everyone attempting to conquer the Business Modelling take-home exam this weekend...

Jen

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Leadership dinner with Dr. Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan

Got an admission to make first....this is my first time blogging....ever! And I can’t think of a better motive for my foray into bloggersphere than to write for the JBS WIL initiative!

My mission is to write about the leadership dinner with Dr. Nishimura that took place earlier this week. The location was the beautiful Saltmarsh Room that is tucked away up several flights of stairs in King’s College. It was my first time in the inner sanctum of King’s College, and all I could say was, “Toto, we aren’t in Hughes Hall anymore!” When you’re surrounded by works of art that is in all likelihood older than my home country Canada, the gravity of being a part of an 800 year old institution really hits home. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly not downplaying the value of those heated towel racks in Hughes Hall!

Back to the dinner. It was a fairly intimate affair with a total of 9 students attending so we had the opportunity to ask one to one questions to Dr. Nishimura in an unrushed manner. The discussion topics ranged from an extension of the presentation Dr. Nishimura made earlier in the night on the interconnections between the outwardly divergent topics of globalization, ageing, and asset prices to .....the Washington Bridge in New York! Dr. Nishimura spoke candidly on all the topics and I for one garnered a lot of insight from him. One thing that struck me was also one of the last things he said which was the idea that the only relevant capital today is Human Capital. I thought that this was quite appropriate given that we are all trying to raise the value of our own Human Capital during our MBA!

Xiao

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Non-Profits Need MBAs Too

I know I'm not the first non-profit person to embark upon an MBA. Nor will I be the last. And that is a great thing!

Here is a refreshing feature article about MBAs and non-profits from the Forté Foundation website. What I like about this article is that it covers not just what MBAs can do for non-profits (bringing our fabulous organizational and leadership skills, not to mention incredible business modelling techniques and statistical prowess, obviously!) but what non-profits can do for MBAs.

It’s clear what benefits non-profits derive from pulling business talent in the door, but what do MBAs have to gain? Almost always, bridging to a nonprofit means that they will forsake larger corporate salaries and defined career pathways. But the trade-off, say those who’ve done it, is worth it.

Why? And how, you ask? Read on!

Non-profit ladies out there, please leave some comments about your MBA experience. We'd love to hear from you.

Enjoy,

Jen


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The best thing about prospective MBA student interview days...



Free treats! Woohoo!
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Prospective MBA Students and MBA Perspective

Today is the first interview day for prospective MBA students here at Judge Business School. The smartly-dressed candidates sat in on our Organisational Behaviour class this morning, and are now heading to lunch with a few of my classmates.

Meanwhile, our class is buzzing - which, more negatively, could read as "stressing" - with the sudden bombardment of end-of-term assignments: a Business Modelling take-home exam, looming CVP presentations, a group Organisational Behaviour presentation, and Management Practice paper all due in the next three weeks, with more fun to come in January.

Seeing the MBA candidates here today, taking our program for a spin, has made me think about my choice to be here. Am I glad I chose this program? Has it been what I expected it to be? What do I wish I had known as a prospective student?

It's a lot to ponder. More than my overstuffed brain will really accommodate at the moment. But, briefly - and then I hope to hear from many of my fabulous classmates in the comments section! - I will say yes, I'm glad I'm here.

And also: this program has been way, way, way, WAY more intense than I anticipated. But I don't blame myself for that. After being out of school for over 5 years, it's tough to really imagine being back in a classroom. And it's nearly impossible to imagine being in a classroom from 9:00-5:30 every single day. I expected the program to be challenging though, and I expected to feel out of my element. Both of those expectations have been thoroughly surpassed. Which is a good thing. Although it's difficult to feel constantly overwhelmed, I know I am getting more out of this experience than I would be getting in a less rigorous program. Perhaps I'm a glutton for punishment, but at least I feel like I'm getting my money's worth!

And what do I wish I had known?

I wish I had known that an 800-year-old University has its quirks that can be quite irritating - especially to a Type A MBA student. Being patient and proactive are pretty darn key around here.

I wish I had known I didn't need to purchase all the textbooks.

I wish I had known I'd be carting my laptop around all day. A backpack is topping my Christmas list this year.

I wish I had known to relax and enjoy the first two weeks a little more, before we had to really buckle down.

But most importantly, I wish I had known how awesome the people would be. I would have been a lot more excited and a lot less nervous at the outset had I known I was going to be a part of such a cool, collaborative community. My classmates are a stellar lot, and getting to spend my days with them has been life-changing for me.

Overall, I have to say that diving into this program has been an exciting journey. Feeling out of my element, out of my league, out of my comfort zone has been a rollercoaster for sure. But seeing the prospective students here today made me feel proud - proud of my school, proud of my class, and proud of myself. Now if only I can keep buzzing - not stressing - through the exam period...

And now I hope to hear from all of you! Judge classmates, are you glad you're here? Have your expectations been met? What do you wish you had known?

Cheers, Jen
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Hooray for Increased Women MBAs!

Great news for Women MBAs!

According to this article in Business Week, the efforts being made by schools to "lure" (is it me or is that not the best word choice?) women MBAs are paying off, with increased numbers of female applicants leading to increased enrollment.

BW posts some stats of the top US programs here, and the numbers are very promising!

Topping the list are the following MBA programs:

NYU Stern: 41%

Duke Fuqua and Cornell Johnson: 39%

Harvard and Northwestern Kellogg: 38%

I am hoping that Judge will start doing recruitment programs exclusively for women. I attended one such program for another school during my application process. Not only was the program insightful, but it also made me feel like a valued applicant - which, considering how out of my comfort zone I was (and, in some ways, still am) in pursuing an MBA, was a great boost.

We may still have a long way to go here in Cambridge, but it's encouraging to see other programs breaking the 40% mark!

(And, ahem, notice I am making no mention of the fact that BW was not kind to us in their rankings. We may or may not have been edged out by The Other Place, whom we have throttled in other rankings. I'm just saying.)

Cheers, Jen
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Inspirational (women) speakers!

Hello all!



Sian again.....this time braving the blog with a more personal entry after being really inspired last night.....



I wasn't quite sure what to expect at the 'Graduate Women's Network' event which a few of us MBA women headed over to yesterday.... The GWN holds events once a term but no one I know had been before and I have to admit that sometimes I do wonder if women only events simply set us apart as a 'minority group', separate in some way to everyone else, and therefore make our lives as professional women harder rather than easier. However last night's focus was on women working in traditionally male dominated industries which I thought was an opportunity not to be passed up.



The guest speakers were Anne Ridgeon, the Chairman of the Ridgeons Group, the Cambridgeshire region's largest independent builders' merchants and Dr. Sue Jackson, a Governing Body Fellow at Lucy Cavendish... It would take too long to relate the huge range of subjects they covered but both talked to us in a very personal way about their lives and how they had got to where they are today and were really fascinating to me so I just thought I'd share with you some very brief highlights...



Sue Jackson was from a background I can't even begin to understand which seemed to primarily involve a lot of welding which was impressive in itself! What I found more amazing about her though was that she hadn't in any way found it an issue to specialise in such a traditionally male field (apart from being asked at her first job interview what would happen if she met a man who wanted to move to another city and having to reassure the interviewer that she currently had no one in her sights) and the sheer range of different professional (if often welding related) experiences she had had throughout her life, very much balancing a desire to work as continuously and in as fulfilling a way as possible with travelling alongside her husband for his career and raising children. To name just a few of her many activities she has moved from working in the welding industry to writing for a metallurgy publication to being a research fellow at Lucy Cavendish to working with the Cambridge Environmental Initiative. I also found it fascinating, as an MBA psyching herself up for assessment centres and gruelling interviews over the next few months, that in her whole career she only seemed to have actually had about 3 interviews, the rest of her career moves being through invitations or suggestions from contacts to move into a new area.....as someone whose major career opportunity to date was as a result of meeting someone in a lift this gave me a lot of hope!



Anne Ridgeon was equally amazing though in a very different way. What most interested me was that she was accepting of and seemingly had come to terms with the idea that it may not be possible to be an outstanding career professional, a mother and be the best ever baker of cakes all at once. As I, and I think many other MBA women, have grown up thinking that we should be aspiring, and able, to do it all this was a little demoralizing but reassuring at the same time..... Her focus instead was very much on knowing yourself and your skills very well and being realistic about what you can achieve but at the same time striving for excellence and to do something that you really love doing. She also spoke to her feeling that you should have a clear idea always where you want to end up professionally (definitely put into context by the fact she has been preparing for her whole life to be the 4th generation of the Ridgeon family to chair the Board).



There's so much more that I could say but sadly Corporate Finance beckons and so to close just to say....it really was incredibly inspiring to hear from two such different women, both hugely successful and real role models but who had had completely different lives, and made me feel really excited about the careers we all have ahead of us. It did also make me think though (not for the first time in the last couple of months) what a missed opportunity it is that we so often only hear from female leaders speaking at these events for women when actually they are interesting as people and professionals and not just as women...
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meet priscilla













"Nil Veretur Veritas" - The Truth Fears Nothing.  

So with that heading, here goes...

Two years ago, if my friend had told me that I would be at Cambridge earning my MBA and writing on a blog sharing my personal experiences, I would probably shake my head in disbelief.  Not because I thought it was impossible, but the idea of going to do my MBA at Cambridge had not yet entered my head.  But when it did it, it never left.

I am Can-'asian', as in born in Canada with strong family values.  I've worked for the last 5 years in a mixture of roles starting in strategic consulting where I wrote white papers for corporate clients and NGO's to an innovator, product developer and marketer launching products in an incumbent telecommunications company.  

Throughout the years, professionally and personally I never quite felt that I fit 'the mold.'  The reality is, many of us don't fall into categories, yet our assumption is that we are alone in our differences.  With a blend of values best described as 'east meets west', I consider myself a musician, painter, technology enthusiast and business professional. Even at work, I was thrown into different environments from the product development department with predominately men to the marketing department with mainly women. Taking under 5 minutes to walk from one side of the office to the other, the type of interaction, gender and culture varied, dramatically.

The thread of diversity has led me to an international MBA at Judge Business School, a class which represents 49 nationalities worldwide.  In the last few months we, the class of 2008, have had the pleasure of meeting a Prince, High Commissioner of India, Oscar-award winning director and CEO's from some of the most reputable companies.  Diversity of thought is certainly not in short supply.  

I often remind myself of the old chinese proverb I read when I was a child, 'Be not afraid of moving slowly, be only afraid of standing still.'  

So for our sake, have no fear....now is always the time to step forward.

Priscilla 


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Schmoozing Through the MBA

Ah, schmoozing.

The time-honored tradition of MBA students worldwide. Obviously we are not the only good schmoozers around, but schmoozing is truly an integral part of our program, and something to be prepared for if you decide to embark upon an MBA (and the fabulous careers for which we're all destined - we are, right? - thereafter).

Schmoozing is actually in the dictionary as the following: to chat in a friendly and persuasive manner especially so as to gain favor, business, or connections. No pressure, though.

And that's the thing. I love schmoozing. Heck, I was a fundraiser before starting my MBA - and fundraising is all about the schmooze. You have to be able to connect with people in an effective way so they'll fork over their cash. I pride myself on my ability to have a conversation with anyone, and I appreciate that schmoozing is an important skill in which I feel confident (as opposed to, say, modelling the randomization of the effect of hypothetical instability in Nigeria on local and global gas prices... for example).

But there are times when the schmoozing is forced. Perhaps you're tired; perhaps you really have no interest in putting your best MBA student self forward to a stranger. I always feel a bit guilty when I know I should be "working the room" at a reception for a guest speaker or corporate presentation. I'd much rather be talking to friends, and I very often do.

My schmoozing instincts haven't led me astray yet, and I am hoping to nurture my schmoozing skills here while maintaining authenticity. After all, we are meeting some amazing people! Just this week alone, I have schmoozed with the Chairman of Skype, the Director of JBS, the Executive Director of the JBS MBA, three staff members from the marketing department, two wives of classmates, a PhD student in Geography, my CVP client, and many of my fabulous fellow MBAers.

Phew! I'm exhausted just contemplating my week! On to Friday then...

Cheers, Jen
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Leadership dinner with Michael van Swaaij, Chairman of Skype

Hi everyone,

This site is looking fantastic! Thanks to Jen, Alex and others for making this possible. After some healthy procrastination, I am finally putting pen to paper (well metaphorically anyway).

Monday night for me was one of the highlights of the MBA so far. The talk and dinner with Michael van Swaaij, Chairman of Skype, was one of the first things I put in my diary when starting the MBA, so needless to say I have been waiting anxiously for this day to arrive.

The talk was very casual (no death by PowerPoint), yet inspiring and interesting. Michael looks incredibly young to be the Chairman of Skype, and an MBA graduate (from an unmentionable University) some 15 years ago! He is also remarkably down to earth and approachable.

After the talk, 15 of us went with Michael and Arnoud de Meyer, Director of Judge Business, to Queens College for dinner. Once inside the college, we introduced ourselves to Michael over champagne in the Munro Room. This was followed by an intimate and delicious dinner in the Old Senior Combination room with its beamed ceiling, old portraits and fire place. What struck me as interesting is that 6 of the 15 MBA students at dinner were women, which is of course a much higher proportion than our MBA class representation (40% vs. 25%). Read into this what you will!

We had a lovely evening, filled with good food and wine, and very interesting conversation. Michael was very open and honest and shared with us details of his family, his career to date, as well as his goals and aspirations. I have no regrets choosing this leadership dinner among the others on offer, it was well worth the wait!

Walking over the Queens College Mathematical Bridge on Monday night, it finally hit me that I am in studying in one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world. I feel very privileged to be studying at Judge Business School, experiencing the fantastic history and opportunities available at the University of Cambridge, and being exposed to such inspirational business leaders. I just wish time would slow down!

Julia


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MBA Community Blog Launch!

Hello and welcome!

Today marks our official launch to our Judge Business School MBA community. If this is your first visit, we hope you will take a moment to look around. Here are some things you can do:

Subscribe and stay up to date!
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Comment and strengthen our online community!
To comment on a post, click "Comments" beneath the post. Leave your comment and click "publish." We hope the comments section will help extend our discussions beyond the classroom and look forward to your participation.

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And most importantly: Give us your feedback!
Email us at jbswomen08{at}gmail.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Alex and Jen


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Hsin: Pushing the Outsourcing Options

I've been MIA for a while because Erik has been getting my Women SIG emails. =P

Fabiana shares with us this article:


The concept of 'outsourcing' in the article struck me most.

Modern life is demanding for everyone. We are expected and want to deliver and achieve morethan before, yet time still stands at 24 hours a day. Hence, we turn to outsourcing to help us to cope with the situation.

This is not a new concept because over the past few hundreds, outsourcing has become possible on a mass scale due to industrialisation, and Division of Labour (specialisation) seemingly ensures higher quality. E.g. we do notmake our own clothes anymore. More and more parts of our lives can be and have been outsourced (un)consciously and (in)voluntarily. E.g. outsourcing cleaning of the house (part-time cleaning helper, live-in helpers - extremely popular in Singapore), outsourcing minding/educating of the child(childcare, schools, parents etc), outsourcing of meals (restaurants,takeaways etc) etc.

I would like to expand on that theme, and push this concept a little further. I would like to seek your opinion on outsourcing childbearing, i.e. surrogacy.
  1. What do you think of surrogacy?
  2. Do you think commercial surrogacy ought to be an option limited to infertile couples only?
  3. Do you think commercial surrogacy is an act of exploitation of other women?

Hsin aka Blinkymummy


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Cambridge Photo of the Day



The Corpus Clock (or "Chronophage" if you want to get technical)

This amazing clock was unveiled in September to honor our arrival to the MBA program.

Ok, not really. But it was unveiled in September by none other than Stephen Hawking just a few days before our program started. This clock is an amazingly intricate piece of machinery and is definitely worth a good, long stare during a visit to Cambridge.

For more information on the Corpus Chronophage and its time-eating grasshopper (including a video to see the creepy-yet-fascinating little red-eyed dude in action), click here.

Happy Friday!

Jen

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Sandra Dawson is the woman

While we don't have many female professors or guest speakers in our MBA program here at JBS - something which we are trying to change this year! - we do have one incredibly fabulous and outstanding kickass rockstar of a role model, Professor Sandra Dawson. Oh wait. I just searched for her on the JBS website and saw that she's Dame Sandra Dawson. Which is even cooler!

You can check out her detailed (read: awe-inspiring) info here.

Dame Dawson (I will still call her Professor in class but I just can't help myself!) basically founded Judge Business School, which was no small feat considering she was up against an almost-800-year-old university, most of whose constituents had zero interest in a business school. But Dame Dawson inspired them and Judge was born. Judge would not be here - and we would not be here, having this incredible year - without her. Which is a pretty amazing perspective to be able to have when you are sitting in her classroom discussing leadership!

Anyway, just wanted to point y'all in the direction of this new interview with Dame Sandra Dawson in the McKinsey Quarterly. Take a moment to check it out!

Jen

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Dressing for Success

Interesting article on the NY Times. Follow the link to read about what kind of suit will get you the job ;>)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/13INTERVIEW.html?pagewanted=1
Alex
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Inspirational woman entrepreneurs

Hi, this is Sian and this is my first ever time blogging but am very excited that it's as part of the amazing group that is the JBS women of 2008/9!

I found these quotes from successful female entrepreneurs on the website: www.startups.co.uk and thought you might all find them inspiring!

Claire Yarwood-White, Yarwood White:
When I was younger, ‘entrepreneur’ was a scary word! In my twenties, I thought business was a secret that no-one had let me in on, and running a business was best left to the big boys. As I worked my way through various companies and bosses as an employee, I realised that much of the secret was common sense, making good decisions at the right time and that confidence playing a huge part in success. As my own confidence grew, I began to think, ‘I could do that’.

Gemma Stone,Rock and Ruby:
I am probably part of the smallest statistic of entrepreneurs - under 30, female, mother of two, without a degree. But I work hard, enjoy what I do and am motivated to be a loving and giving mother and a successful businesswoman. If there are barriers in my path then I say ‘bring it on!’.

Claire Nicholson, co-founder of integrated marketing agency more2 ltd:
Within a few months of starting up the agency I discovered I was expecting my first child. My husband was studying full time so money was extremely tight and life was very stressful. At the beginning to succeed you have to work every spare hour and with a small team you have to be prepared to do everything. Even now the agency is five years old I do wrestle with how little I see my two daughters. My top tip is work on the train, I save work to do on my journey home so that when I step in the door I can be a mum, once they are in bed I can open up my laptop and get back to work.

Sarah Tremellen, Bravissimo:
“I never saw a ceiling for it, I just thought it would be fun, setting up from scratch and making something from nothing,”

Anita Roddick:
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is.

Rachel Elnaugh:
Key is understanding what type of entrepreneur you are, and then doing business in a way that is true to yourself, and above all, one that brings you personal happiness and fulfilment.

Katie Allcott, Founder, FRANK Water:
“Varying problems exist for tall people, short people, thin people, fat people, men, women, young people, old people - if you look for them... But the important thing is to not focus on obstacles but on goals.”
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The CVP - Managing "my" Practices

So our CVP's are up and running. My group is doing market research for an animation company and I have the lovely initial task of testing all competitor products! Yes, when you see me making little cartoons of pink bunnies...I AM WORKING!!!!!
The funny thing about this project is that I did expect the assignment - which is completely new to me - to be a great challenge. I have worked in teams for the past eight years and was fairly confident that group dynamics would be easy to manage. Boy was I wrong! And I should clarify that I do not mean this is a negative way!!! Let me explain.
In the professional world, at least in my experience, teams are assembled with very clear goals and efficiencies in mind. You are included in a project only when you are essential to it and you have a clear sense of task and goal, while ALWAYS trying to meet some unreasonable deadline. I am so used to being guide by this sense of urgency that I never realized most personnel management happens before the project starts and that there is often a natural selection process within teams to realign tasks if someone is out of place or unable to cope. In a firm, you have a greater chance of being grouped with people who have the same working ethic and job philosophy as yourself and the specialization of each colleague tends to define each person’s place quite clearly.
Contrarily, the CVP team was grouped randomly (various professional backgrounds and habits), our project was chosen randomly (varying personal interests and goals) and we have decided with the client what the scope and objectives are. Additionally, we have as "homework" for Management Practice to analyze our team dynamics – really??? Who has time for this?
Now I supposed that I am lucky to be in a team where every member is quite keen to pursue this " analysis", although I have to admit it is super hard to sit back once and while and examine yourself and your interaction with the group. I thought I was going to be the fluffy one in the team, making peace and holding hands. It turns out, I’m a goal pusher!!! I’m a “let’s get things done, solve the problem and get ourselves out of here so we can have a drink” gal! Over two decades of self-examination, year-after-year of office reviews and multiple Cosmo magazine self-tests, and I have to get an MBA to find out about the real me! What a shock!
I suppose everything is relative. When you work with burly construction types all your life it should be easy to win the “fluffy” label just by saying “please” once in awhile. When you suddenly get paired with colleagues who actually work best without defined schedules and like lots of discussion…yeah, I do get frustrated (just a little) sometimes. But I suppose you really don’t know yourself until you immerse in a completely opposite environment than you are used too. The unknown is the path to self-discovery after all.
What a learning journey! It’s been over a month of working with this group…and I am finally getting the hang of managing my “practices”…I think!
Alex

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Meet Jen


Hi there!

My name is Jen, and I am the token American not-for-profit ex-archaeologist cancer-advocating blogger gal in the Cambridge MBA program this year. In other words, I am a bit of an oddball candidate - though less so in this program than I would be in others! In fact, I have been thrilled with the diversity of my class. There are 150 of us from 49 different countries and countless professional backgrounds. We are all here for different reasons and we all have different expectations from this program. Will our expectations be met? We (and you!) shall see...

This blog is an initiative of our Women in Leadership special interest group (or "SIG" as we call them). I had initially started an MBA blog of my own, Miz MBA, but soon realized that a) I have way too much work to keep up a regular blog by myself, and b) it will be a lot more interesting and fun to have a group blog!

Since I will be a regular contributor here, I will give you a bit more information about me. I was born outside of Chicago but grew up mainly on the east coast (NJ, PA, NY). My undergraduate major was Archaeology and I spent a couple years in the field (Pompeii, Italy and Oaxaca, Mexico) before deciding I preferred a desk job - or at least not a solitary, sunburned, dirt-encrusted one. Thus began the five years I spent working in various capacities in various not-for-profit organizations in New York City, most recently as a fundraiser. I have clocked thousands of volunteer hours advocating for colon cancer awareness in NYC - and realizing I wanted to work in cancer advocacy but had no way to get there from where I was brought me to Cambridge.

I will write more later on my choice to attend a non-American program, but for now will just say that it is one of the best - if serendipitous - decisions I have ever made.

I hope you enjoy reading this blog and I look forward to seeing what my other JBS ladies have to say!

Cheers,

Jen
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Meet Alex

Hi everyone!
My name is Alex and I am (excitedly) a first time blogger!
I am originally from Macau (SE Asia) but have been living in the US since my undergrad years. Most recently, I had been working as an architect in Boston so I am actually one of the class members attending the MBA with a career change outlook.
My free time activities…well seeing that the little free time I have is spent eating, I started an informal dinning community within the class. As a member of the highly “nutritionally” ranked Jesus College, I hope to have a chance to invite 100% of my colleagues to partake in a tradition-filled experience that is a Jesus Formal Hall ;)
Hope you find our site informative and fun!

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Blog inaugurated

The group is being introduced to our new home online! The blogging is officially open 6:00pm November 10th, 2008!!! Cheers to Jen for organising our beautiful website!!!




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Welcome to Our Blog!

Whether you are a prospective MBA student or a fellow MBA student; whether you are putting your MBA to good use out in the real world; and especially if you are one of our Judge Business School classmates - welcome to our new JBS Women in Leadership blog!

This blog is an online initiative of the women of the 2008-2009 MBA class at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. There are 36 of us (yes, just 36 - but we hope to change that!), and hopefully you will be hearing from most - if not all - of us here throughout the year.


Can you find all 36 of us in our class portrait?

We have started a blog to record our MBA experience, celebrate our community, and have some fun. But we have also started this blog for you, the reader. We hope that wherever you are coming from, you will get something out of being here. And we welcome your feedback! Please leave comments or email us at jbswomen08{at}gmail.com.

And with that, off we go!
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Easter Term Events...

9 June, 6:00-7:00PM
Marie Taylor, Personality Coach and Founder, Living Right Now

About Us

We are the women of the 2008-2009 MBA class at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. We have descended upon Cambridge from all corners of the globe for one crazy year. Join us as we navigate a twelve-month MBA program with a 4:1 male to female ratio at an 800-year-old university. We are in for quite an adventure!

Questions? Comments? Email us at jbswomen08{at}gmail.com!

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