After weeks of planning and preparation during the thick of Hilary term, on April 3rd fifteen MBA students arrived in Dubai for the Middle East student trek with the aim of learning about the region and exploring business and career opportunities. For the next five days we would meet eleven companies and government bodies and [...]

After spending the first three days of the week in Manhattan, we shuttled off to Penn Station, bags in tow, and fresh from our afternoon meeting with Pfizer, to catch ourAmtrak train to Boston. I suggest next year’s Trekkers to Our Careers Director really earned his keep during this 4 1/2 hour train ride as he indulged [...]

It’s our last weekend before the final presentation. I’m happy to have all our work neatly fitted onto brightly colored PowerPoint slides. However I’m saddened to think that after Tuesday 5.00 PM, perhaps none of the ideas that my SCP team and I have grown to care about will be carried through and treated the way we’d envisioned. [...]

It is now the 3rd week of our strategic consulting project at The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) and we seem to be making good progress. Our offices in Charterhouse Street, London are very comfortable and right at the heart of the organisation.
Our project – reviewing the value proposition of one line of products – is [...]