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We have just had an insightful, fun, and simply incredible International Business Studies Trip (#IBST) with our amazing University of Cambridge Global Executive #MBA and #EMBA students in #Mexico City!!! 🥳

Check out this blog on what we were up to last week in #Mexico (including lots of photos!): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazing-international-business-studies-trip-mexico-city-mohaddes-z2yif

✅ Seven days of lectures, debates and discussions

✅ Three company visits (Grupo Bimbo, Cemex, and Novartis México)

✅ Two dinner speakers and panel session (with plenty of networking opportunities and food!)

✅ Our traditional Innovation Forum, bringing together organisations and businesses that operate in the Mexico innovation ecosystem, exploring the strengths, weaknesses, and key characteristics of the innovation ecosystem in Mexico City

✅ A field exercise to engage directly with entrepreneurs, consumers, workers, and business operators across various neighborhoods of Mexico City (and across a range of topics from entrepreneurship to sustainability)

✅ Meeting up with alumni across all programmes including

✅ And last but not least plenty of cultural activities

THANK YOU to the AM-A-ZING Executive MBA programmes at Cambridge team: Maria Prus, Cicely Atherton, and Dr Jennifer Waller Martin (and the rest of the Executive MBA team) and my brilliant colleagues Michael Kitson, Madeleine Rauch, and Lidia Mishchenko for creating such an unforgettable experience for our students. And a shoutout to the wonderful Austral Education Group team in particular Alejandra Oviedo, Laura Varela (thanks also for the delicious coffee and chocolates!), Sol Mazzoni, Cris Gerlach, and Yani Lopez! !

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DELIGHTED that we are ranked #𝟭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐀 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 and #𝟏𝟎 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐀 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 in today's Financial Times ranking of global Executive #MBA programmes!!! 🚀 🥳 🚀

And since you are still reading other ranking highlights for the EMBA at the University of Cambridge include:

#𝟭 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 for aims achieved with 76% of alumni reporting that the programme helped them fulfil their goals.

#𝟓 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 for career progress, reflecting alumni advancement in seniority and organisational responsibility.

Not to mention that we are given recognition for #diversity and #international outlook, including #gender parity on our Advisory Board!

Grateful to be working with all of our current #CJBS students and alumni and of course the AMAZING Executive MBA programmes at Cambridge team: Alistair Westwood, Cicely Atherton, Louisa Kennedy, Claire Wright, Jennifer Martin, Rachel Viele, Daniela Roberts, Maria Prus, Valentina Sredeva, Samantha Gall Gray, Jeeva Bostic-Bradley, Rachel Blythe, Rebecca Barnett Cross, Viktoras Poska, Daniel Simmons, Chiara Zhang, Khaled Soufani, Rachel Luff, and Rishi Sharma, as well as our great leader Gishan Dissanaike and colleagues across the Cambridge Judge Business School, from IT and AV to facilities and reception to finance and alumni and engagement (way to many people to mention here but you know who you are)!! ❤️ 🙏🏾

#EMBA | #GEMBA

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A fantastic seven days in #Mexico City on our University of Cambridge International Business Studies Trip (#IBST) with our brilliant 2026 Global Executive #MBA and 2025 #EMBA students. We are now boarding flight #GEMBA2026, operated by British Airways as BA242!

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It’s Day 7 of our University of Cambridge International Business Studies Trip (#IBST) in Mexico City, and today (the final day) is all about group presentations!

Over the last seven days, our brilliant Global Executive #MBA and EMBA students have as a team investigated the “institutional distance” between #Mexico (the “home country”) and a “host country”, which they were assigned to:

🎯 Kenya: Angela Wanjohi, Ijeoma Okpechi, PhD, Leonidas Pipinis, CFA, MRICS, Mark Dodd, and ORLANDO TORRES
🎯 Greece: Ernest Rankhododo, Nikolaos Peppas, Sanket Sarfare, Steven Chang, Danielle Tudehope, and George Burles
🎯 New Zealand: Ivan Payung, Jeffrey Wei Liu FRSA, Marc Horne, Margaret Akoth, and Marija Skobe-Pilley
🎯 France: Anne-Cécile Patrier, Dennis Cheng, Jinzhi Zhang(JZ), Matt Serota, and Yvonne Amponsah
🎯 Malaysia: Devon Grant, Hannah Lang, Muazzam Mohamad, Si Wei, and Swoyanshree Shree
🎯 Vietnam: Bernhard Dachs, Chinh Nguyen, Gihan Gunasekera, Hiro Yoshioka, and Sowbhagya Suresh
🎯 South Africa: Bobo Akpapunam, Charlie Zhou, Joseph Chu, and Sumenthree Moodley
🎯 Saudi Arabia: Adel Ezzat, Jason Rosychuk, Jess Anuna, Masoumeh Mashayekhi, and Ryan Holt
🎯 China: David Pang, Joe Ware, Mars Cai, Minhua Gu, and Shari Seymour
🎯 United Kingdom: Adebukola Imoyo, Carlos Arrebola Rodriguez, Nana Amponsah, and Scott Pryor
🎯 Nigeria: Grace Boboye, James Onifade, Olga Makarewicz, Phil Clements, and Temitope Olagbami

and made an informed recommendation for the internationalisation strategy of a firm of their choice.

The aim of this assignment, as designed by Michael Kitson, Madeleine Rauch, and Lidia Mishchenko, is to provide them with the opportunity to directly apply the concepts learned during the last week to an empirical setting and encourage them to critically reflect on the different manners in which firms can cross borders.I really really enjoyed listening to the 11 insightful presentations, thank you for a super interesting day!

Thank you Maria Prus, Cicely Atherton, Jennifer Waller Martin, and the entire Executive MBA programmes at Cambridge and Austral Education Group teams for making it an awesome trip!

#GEMBA #EMBAIBST

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It's day 6 of our International Business Studies Trip (#EMBAIBST) and it's time to vote for the traditional #GEMBA Kicks AS$ Awards!!

Presenting the #IBST Mexico City winners:

CEO - Chief Entertainment Officer: Mark Dodd, Margaret Akoth, and Ernest Rankhododo

COO – Chief Outfit Officer: Masoumeh Mashayekhi and Yvonne Amponsah

CRO – Chief Relationship Officer: Nikolaos Peppas and Dennis Cheng

CTO – Chief Transformation Officer: Hannah Lang and Ademide Adim Akpapunam

CIO – Chief Innovation Officer: Mars CAI and Marija Skobe-Pilley

CSO – Chief Strategy Officer: Scott Pryor and Phil Clements, CFA, CAIA, FDP

CPSO – Chief Public Service Office: Gihan Gunasekera and Cicely Atherton

CTDO – Chief Training and Development Officer: Lidia Mishchenko and Carlos Arrebola

CDO – Chief Dedication Officer: Bernhard Dachs and Ivan Payung

CAO – Chief Adventurous Officer: David Pang I ديفيد بانغ I 彭啟彥 and Sanket Sarfare

CXO – Chief X-Factor Officer: Dr. Adel Ezzat and Jess Anuna

CLO – Chief Linkedin Officer: Sowbhagya Suresh and yours truly (which I dedicate to the whole #GEMBA & EMBA team!)

CSPO - Chief Spirits and Pubs Officer: Joe Ware and George Burles

With big thanks to Masoumeh Mashayekhi, Dennis Cheng, and Mark Dodd for organising these awards! ❤️

Thank you Sunny Chen, FCMA, Xiaoqi Ye, Angus Wilson and James Banks, MBA for establishing the #GEMBA #CXO awards, the GEMBA 2026 cohort are proudly carrying on your legacy!

#GEMBAKicksA$S #EMBA #GEMBA

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Check out our new work on Technology, Transformation and Governance: Leadership in an Emerging Order, which was launched and discussed last week in London at the 2026 #Stratos EMEA Leadership Summit along with other key topics such as algorithmic systems and capital allocation, why the concept of growth has structurally changed in financial services, and the effect of sanctions and capital controls on global markets.

Our latest work is based on the conversations that took place at the Stratos India Forum in Mumbai, where 60 of the region’s most senior financial services leaders sat with policymakers, regulators and investors to examine what fragmentation and technological acceleration actually demand of an institution once the strategy papers are closed and the operating decisions begin.

We lay out these five immediately actionable imperatives for leaders in financial services in managing technology transformation and governance issues at this time of rapid economic, tech and political change, more specifically:

1. Leaders need to own the AI transformation by treating it as a business transformation and not an IT project, with explicit CEO and board sponsorship

2. Workflows during this transformation should be redesigned sequentially, prioritising a few end-to-end processes (lending, for example) rather than “massive change programmes”

3. Build adaptable and modular operating models now, rather than waiting until technology stabilises. This modular approach allows adaptation as tech evolves

4. Build for adaptability by prioritising organisational flexibility rather than focusing on any one technology stack, using a hub-and-spoke model for common platforms

5. Think globally from an India base by leveraging the country’s digital strengths for exportable global solutions

This is a second White Paper in a series produced through a partnership between Cambridge Judge and Bain & Company. As always an absolute pleasure to work with and learn from: Feryal Erhun, Jennifer Waller Martin, Jennifer Waller Martin & Tracey Horn.

Read the paper here: https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-bain-technology-transformation-and-governance.pdf

#CSEE

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Congrats to our Cambridge Judge students and alumni shortlisted for the 2026 Women of the Future Awards 🎉✨

🌟 Daniella Decker (EMBA 2025)
🌟 Naqsh Haque & Zahra Mansoor (MBA 2025), co-founders of Shalimar Room
🌟 Camille VanderMeer (MBA 2026)
🌟 Florence Huynh (EMBA 2025)

Their recognition across Arts & Culture, Sport and Science is a brilliant reflection of the talent, creativity and impact within our community.

Perfect timing ahead of tomorrow's Women Leading Change Conference, where @pinkylilani, founder of the Women of the Future Programme, will be speaking about supporting the next generation of leaders and Daniella Decker will be a panelist to discuss how #allyship can help ensure inclusive leadership in the age of AI.. ✨

Please join us in celebrating their success.

#WomenOfTheFuture #CambridgeJudge #FutureLeaders #MBA #EMBA

@hey_florence @camille_vandermeer @zahramansoors @naqsh.haque @womenoffuture

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Our last Leadership in Action speaker in #Mexico City is Valeria Moy Campos, Director General of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) A.C), who spoke to us on everything from Mexico’s economy and competitiveness to public policy and education. Thank you Valeria, we learnt a lot!

This dinner was part of our University of Cambridge Executive MBA programme (#GEMBA and #EMBA) International Business Studies Trip in Mexico.

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One of the highlights of our University of Cambridge International Business Studies Trip (#EMBAIBST) is the field exercise, an applied, interview-driven investigation of how business, consumption, entrepreneurship, and urban systems operate in Mexico City, one of Latin America’s largest and most dynamic metropolitan economies.

After six hours of field work in small teams, our brilliant #GEMBA and #EMBA students have come back and presenting their key findings, super insightful (and what a fun day)!

PS! Maria Prus, Jennifer Waller Martin, Cicely Atherton, and yours truly did also do a mini field exercise where we visited the market, talked to the business owners and tried delicious tacos at Tacos Los Alexis.

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Day 5 of our University of Cambridge International Business Studies Trip (#IBST) is all about Field Exercise in #Mexico! Our brilliant #GEMBA and EMBA students have just set off to work in small teams (matched with expert local guides) to engage directly with entrepreneurs, consumers, workers, and business operators across various neighborhoods of Mexico City (and across a range of topics from #entrepreneurship to #sustainability). This innovative exercise focuses on structured interviews, direct observations, comparative analysis, and cultural and institutional interpretations.

Let the fun begin!!

A big thank you for Michael Kitson, Madeleine Rauch, Lidia Mishchenko, Maria Prus, Cicely Atherton, Jennifer Waller Martin and the whole Executive MBA programme team for making this IBST another incredible experience for our students.

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Night at the Museum!! 😍

What a treat to have a private tour of the Mexica, Maya & Teotihuacán Galleries of the Museo Nacional de Antropología after closing time!

The National Museum of Anthropology is one of the most important cultural institutions in Latin America. Designed by architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, the building itself is a work of art, famous for its central courtyard covered by “El Paraguas”—a colossal suspended fountain that recreates the atmosphere of a pre-Hispanic plaza.

This visit was part of our University of Cambridge Executive MBA programme (#GEMBA and #EMBA) International Business Studies Trip in Mexico City.

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Thank you Novartis México for hosting us this afternoon, we certainly learnt a lot from our wonderful speakers:

🎯Sergio Galvez Oroz, People and Organization Head, Mexico

🎯Pierre Affaticati, Therapeutic Area Head, Oncology

🎯Jose Manuel Valledor Lozada, Excellence and Execution Head

🎯Garbine Nunez, Clinical Trials Head, Mexico

🎯Juan Antonio Rosario, Head of DDIT, US and Americas

🎯María Camila Vega A., HR Head, Mexico

covering everything from drug discovery, clinical trials, trade wars, and the rise in demand from the East, as well as why people is strategy.

As Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan said recently: “The story of Novartis México is one of growth – but above all, a story of people. I recently had the opportunity to spend time with the team, and what stayed with me most was seeing purpose, focus, and talent come together to make a difference for patients. I left encouraged by the ambition I saw, and by the mindset of always looking ahead. That’s what becomes possible when teams are anchored in purpose.”

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