Best Places to Study an MBA Abroad
Considering an MBA program?
Why not forgo the brutal New England winters and head to tropical Singapore or arid Madrid instead? Or are you one of those loonies who prefers frigid temperatures? Well, then perhaps Toronto might be the best fit for you!
Here’s an overview of the best international (English-speaking) MBA programs Earth has to offer:
Judge Business School MBAs Venture Forth with ‘Accelerate Cambridge’
Ideas for entrepreneurial ventures need a combination of elements in order to take form, and The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School’s Accelerate Cambridge program allows MBAs a forum in which these elements can synthesize.
Accelerate Cambridge provides students with three-month programs involving mentorship, coaching and training, as well as shared workspaces. Two recent MBA graduates from Judge recently shared their stories of how their ventures took off with the help of the program.
Judge Business School Alum on the Value of Experience in Entrepreneurship
The business of entrepreneurship isn’t just a millennial’s game, as evidenced by an alum of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.
Stephen Tordoff received his postgraduate diploma from Judge in 2011, and formed Energy Canvas (whose website is currently under construction) in 2013 at the age of 38. By this time, he had gained nearly 15 years of work in the renewable energy sector. Stephen is a strong believer in the value of experience.
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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Cambridge Judge Scholar Addresses Shareholder Activism
A paper co-authored at Cambridge Judge finds that institutional shareholders recall shares to oppose management in proxy votes.
The article, entitled “The role of institutional investors in voting: evidence from the securities lending market”, was named best paper this month in the Global Challenge for Innovation in Corporate Governance by investment management firm BlackRock and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) in the US.
The research was co-authored by Pedro Saffi, University Lecturer in Finance at Cambridge Judge, and it breaks new ground in showing how institutional investors influence the proxy voting process through share recall. The paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of Journal of Finance.
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Judge Business School Alumna Goes From Sweden to Cambridge to Turkey For Dream Business
A Cambridge Judge alumna travelled around the world to ultimately pursue a crowdfunding business. Louise Westerlind (Cambridge MBA, 2008) grew up in Sweden and is now co-founder of rewards-based crowdfunding platform Fongogo, based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Fongogo was launched in November 2013 and today it’s Turkey’s largest crowdfunding platform through funds raised and website traffic. Fongogo was founded by Louise, Ali Cebi and Ali Tirkes, and now has a team of six people.
Louise, who just came back from Startup Turkey – the country’s biggest start-up conference where Fongogo made it to the final – took time off to share some of her experiences, originally published on Judge’s news site.
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