[校友答疑] Judge Business School Q&A

Hi all,

 I am current MBA student of Judge Business School, Cambridge University. If anyone has interest in Judge, or has any questions, please feel free to ask. I will try my best to help you all.

RANKINGS

Recently two new rankings of the Cambridge MBA have been published. The Economist Intelligence Unit
            has announced its 2006 global full-time MBA ranking. The Cambridge MBA is ranked 1st in the UK, 3rd in Europe and 11th in the world.

The Economist Intelligence Unit comments on the excellent performance of Judge
                Business
                School as follows: ‘Having begun in 1990, the University of Cambridge's MBA programme might be considered something of an upstart. But it seems only a matter of time before it is routinely mentioned alongside the world's best.’

BusinessWeek
            has also announced its 2006 MBA Rankings. The Cambridge MBA has been ranked 2nd in the UK and 6th in Europe.

These MBA rankings follow on the heels of a global ranking of universities published by the Times Higher Educational Supplement,
            which placed the University of Cambridge 2nd in the world. The university rankings are based on a survey of 3,703 academics worldwide. They were also asked to nominate up to 30 institutions they regarded as the best at research.

TALKS AND EVENTS

Dr Matthias Holweg, University of Cambridge Senior Lecturer in Operations Management was invited to give a keynote on “The Value Chain and Innovation” at the “International Conference on Large and Small Business Cooperation” in Seoul, October 18. The event was hosted by the Federation of Korean Industries and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.

On Monday 23rd October Pierre Noël, an energy policy specialist at Judge Business School participated in a conference organised by the Atlantic Council of the United States on EU-US cooperation in energy security.

On Friday 27th October he gave a talk at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, on the oil market, energy security, and US foreign policy. The presentation was entitled: "Setting America Free -- From Dubious Energy Security Thinking".

http://www.newamerica.net/

Dr Allègre Hadida, University of Cambridge Lecturer in Strategy will be attending the annual Strategic Management Society Conference in Vienna, Austria from October 29 to November 2. She will be chairing a session "Allocating ownership and control rights to organizational stakeholders” and presenting a paper at the conference.

Dr Shai Vyakarnam,
                    Director for the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) will present the CfEL paper; ‘Becoming a Global Entrepreneur: It Takes Networks, Passion and Experience’ on 29th ISBE Conference, 31 Oct - 2 Nov 2006 in Cardiff-Caerdydd, UK.
                

http://www.isbe.org.uk/

Seminar on Lacan and Organization Studies will be held at Judge
                    Business
                    School on 6th of November.

http://cmsorg.wikispaces.com/Lacan+and+Organization+Studies

Dr Johan Runde, Reader in Economics at Judge
                Business
                School will speak at “Judge US” seminar on 7^th of November. The title of his talk is “Evaluating Causal Explanations in Samples of One”.

http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/research/seminar/judgeus.html

Dr William J. Nuttall,
            University Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy at Judge
                Business
                School will participate at the Energy Security Initiative Event initiated by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) at the Moller Centre, Churchill
                    College on 14^th of November.

http://www.cambridge-mit.org/cgi-bin/default.pl?SID=5&SSID=52&SSSID=293&CALEVID=269

MEDIA COVERAGE

The Association of Business Schools’
                website published an article "Judge Business School and India School of Business Agree to Foster Technology Entrepreneurship". The programme will enable selected students from the Indian
                School of Business to visit Cambridge and enrol as full-time MBA students for one academic semester, whilst the selected students from Judge
                Business
                School will enrol at Hyderabad for a similar appropriate period.

Thanks for the information. Do you have any idea about the lowest GMAT score in this year in your class?

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Cambridge那邊還好嗎? 想必也是每天水深火熱的讀書+作報告+career fair人生吧  加油!

Thx a lot for the information!

I have the same concern about the GMAT score.
Besides, does Judge has any favor on candidates' working years or backgrounds?  Specifically, do they prefer more matured candidates than young but creative ones?

Looking forward to your kind reply. Thx again!

Joyce, thx for your help !!!!

I will also apply for Judge Business School.

My name's Tony, from Hong Kong.

I just finished GMAT two days ago !!!

UK schools, I will apply Cambridge, Oxford and LBS.

We can discuss together how to work them out !!!

6.5 yr working experience, from Hong Kong !!!

Working as Engineering Consultant ... now thinking of the competitive edge...

planning to submit the application by mid-Dec !!

GMAT - 720... graduated from UK... TOEFL not required...

sorry, I have no idea about the lowest GMAT score. I will ask the MBA office later. BTW, I do think GMAT is a little bit important, especially to whom comes from China (almost the most competitive location) or has no other strong shining point.

If you wanna win, do your best what you can control. Just my two cents!

Regarding the working experience, I have to say our class is diverse enough, coming from 37 countries and all kinds of industries and functions. Our average working period is 7 years, and average age is above 30. I think the main reason is that Judge is one year MBA. However, we do have several classmates, only 21~24 years old, but very smart and creative. So just go ahead.