Leading through extremes: ultra marathon journey of 121 km across the Gobi Desert
Khin Saw (Cambridge Executive MBA 2024) shares her experience of the 121 km Gobi Desert Race, where leadership meant adapting to extremes and putting the team above oneself. Through sandstorms, freezing dawns, and a personal setback, she turned challenge into shared achievement.
To My Dear Cohort
In a heartfelt letter to her cohort, Jade Weiner, Executive MBA 2024, reflects on how her cohort journeyed from a room of strangers to a truly supportive community, carrying one another through personal, professional and academic challenges.
My Executive MBA story: why good judgment, real friendships and self-awareness will outlast the age of AI
Andrew Breus (Cambridge Executive MBA 2024) reflects on the Executive MBA programme and shares his key learnings and insights.
Powering Africa’s future
Abdul Goni (Executive MBA 2025) explains how Africa’s ability to compete in the AI era will be decided not in data centres, but by whether it can mobilise smart, large-scale infrastructure investment to turn its vast renewable potential into reliable, affordable electricity for people, businesses and digital infrastructure across the continent.
A country rushing to meet its future
Cambridge Executive MBA 2025 participants Robyn Baker, Caitlin Hafer, Stefan Pretterhofer and Eva Zhu reflect on their International Business Study Trip to Ho Chi Minh City. Against a backdrop of global uncertainty, they encountered a Vietnam racing to shape its future: developing local talent, elevating women in leadership, fostering vibrant entrepreneurship and redefining sustainability on its own terms.
The future of commercial supersonic travel
A Team Consulting Project with Boom Supersonic: Kaven Naidoo (Global Executive MBA 2025) and his classmates explore the future of commercial supersonic travel and the market potential of the Overture airliner.
Time for Africa: Where purpose meets progress
Success eventually becomes less about personal achievement and more about impact. For leaders shaped by experiences like the Executive MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School, this often means a call to give back. This post by alumna Dr Abiodun Olushola (Executive MBA 2023) tells the story of ‘Time for Africa’: a movement for financial inclusion, clean energy, agricultural reform and community-led transformation across the continent.
Why I chose to serve as Class Representative
Xiaoqi Ye (Global Executive MBA 2025) chose to serve as Class Representative to give back to Cambridge Judge and her cohort, seeing it as a rare opportunity to ‘lead among leaders’ and to help shape a culture of support, trust and collective growth throughout the Global Executive MBA journey.
Halfway across the Atlantic: Lessons from the World’s Toughest Row
As part of TeamSeasLife, Ollie Phillips (Executive MBA 2016) has taken on the challenge of rowing across the Atlantic. He is competing in the World’s Toughest Row, a gruelling 3,000‑mile race that starts in La Gomera and finishes in Antigua.
Executive MBA alum embarks on the World’s Toughest Row: A journey across the Atlantic
Ollie Phillips (Executive MBA 2016) has embarked on an extraordinary adventure – rowing across the Atlantic Ocean as part of the World’s Toughest Row.