Cambridge Judge Business School

01/06/2026

Pride Month 2026 🌈

This June, Cambridge Judge is celebrating inclusion, belonging and diversity across our community.

From engaging activities to important conversations, we’re bringing students, staff, faculty and partners together to help build an inclusive Pride culture for all.

Join us, get involved, and celebrate with us 💬✨
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29/05/2026

Most people expect a Cambridge MFin interview to be a technical grilling 📋. Four current students found something different entirely.

The format was conversational, not combative. The focus was on your story, your reasoning, and why Cambridge now. The interviewers weren't trying to catch anyone out. They were trying to understand how each candidate thinks, what they've learned from their work, and how they'd contribute to the cohort 🎓.

"It felt like a professional yet open discussion rather than a high-pressure cross examination." - Jemima Keren Gyamfi, MFin

One thing all four students agreed on: strong candidates came ready to ask questions as well as answer them. The interview runs both ways 💬.

28/05/2026

Fewer than 12% of organisations have moved agentic AI beyond the pilot stage. Is yours one of them?

Cambridge Judge Business School is launching three new Executive Education programmes in July, built for senior leaders who need to act, not just experiment.

🔧 Agentic AI: Design, Build, Govern — 9-10 July
🏛️ AI Governance for Boards and CXOs — 15-17 July
📊 AI Strategy for Enterprises — 22-24 July

"The technology is moving in months, sometimes weeks, yet most boards are moving at the pace of their quarterly meetings." — Professor Matthew Grimes, Cambridge Judge Business School

📌 Learn more and book your spot: 🔗 https://loom.ly/anxuzeU

New programme offerings on aspects of artificial intelligence ranging from agentic design to enterprise strategy to governance signals a major acceleration in AI-related focus for the Executive Education division of Cambridge Judge Business School.

27/05/2026

A King's Award for Enterprise. A hologram mirror that coaches you in real time. And a founder who left investment banking because he refused to accept that good health was a luxury. 🏆

Varun Bhanot, a Cambridge Judge Business School alumnus, has just been recognised in the Innovation category for MAGIC AI, the personalised home fitness company he built from a simple but serious conviction.

"We built MAGIC AI to use intelligent technology not as a gimmick, but to help people genuinely know their own bodies and take control of their health." says Varun.

26/05/2026

What does football have to do with the global water crisis? 💧

More than most people think. And that gap in awareness is precisely the problem.

Kashif Siddiqi played for the Pakistan national team, Oxford United, and Real Kashmir FC. He also co-founded Football for Peace, a charity now part of the Cambridge Peaceshaping and Climate Incubator at Cambridge Judge Business School, and the organisation behind Rehydrate the Earth: a 10-year campaign to protect and restore water systems across four continents.

The case he makes is quietly urgent. England holds 85% of the world's chalk streams. Many are running dry, lost to pollution, over-extraction, and aquifers depleted faster than they can refill.

"Football touches 6 billion people and growing. Let's together use this power to return the water, and you return the peace." — Kashif Siddiqi, Football for Peace

25/05/2026

What does it take to truly understand a market you have never operated in?

For Cambridge Executive MBA 2025 students, the answer was not a case study. It was a week on the ground in Ho Chi Minh City.
🏭 Company visits: Intel Products Vietnam, SABECO, FPT Software.
💡 Innovation Forum: medtech, climate-tech, logistics tech, AI.
🔍 Field research alongside local MBA students in the informal economy.
🤝 Alumni receptions and dinners with Vietnam's investment community.

"Vietnam is a fascinating country: entrepreneurial, innovative and confidently open to the world." said Andy Levy, EMBA 2025

22/05/2026

Beautiful sunny weekend for graduation celebrations in Cambridge this weekend - congratulations to all Cambridge Judge students passing this important milestone!

22/05/2026

How do you go from playing rugby for England 🏉 to rowing across the Atlantic 🌊?

For Ollie Phillips (EMBA 2016), it starts with the stories you tell yourself before you even begin. He had never rowed before. He did it anyway.

What carried him through wasn't expertise. It was curiosity, courage, and a willingness to make mistakes. He describes the Atlantic row as the hardest thing he has ever done, not physically, but mentally. His way of coping: break the day into segments, fill them with small tasks, and keep moving.

When the big picture feels overwhelming, shrink the timeframe and focus on the next 30 minutes.

Ollie also reflects on mental health, resilience under pressure, and what the Cambridge Judge Executive MBA gave him when he stepped out of elite sport and started again in business.

"If you think you're king of the jungle, you're about to get eaten."

19/05/2026

Congratulations to Professor Michael Pollitt and Professor David Reiner as they step into their new roles as Co-Directors of the Energy Policy Research Group at !

Also wonderful to see Dr Ramit Debnath, Dr Ewa Marek and Dr Kamiar Mohaddes joining the leadership team as Assistant Directors - bringing fresh perspectives and expertise to some of the biggest energy challenges we face.

And a special thank you to Professor David Newbery, whose decades of leadership have shaped EPRG into the globally respected centre it is today. It’s great that he’ll continue to support the group as Emeritus Director.

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18/05/2026

What does it take to redesign a product generating approximately 250 million pieces of waste every single day? ♻️

Amaury van Trappen de Buggenoms (MPhil Management 2021) co-founded A&B Smart Materials to do exactly that: replacing the fossil-fuel-based absorbent core in nappies and menstrual pads with a fully biodegradable alternative. 🌱

"We have always wanted to use materials science to solve sustainability problems at scale. What changed was the application."

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