Even though many of our graduates will have progressed in their careers since completing a case study, they are still of interest to students who wish to gain an understanding of the world of work.

Business development, technology transfer, project management, change management, management consulting

Emails, client visits and strategy discussions for furthering the project delivery.

The people, the travel and work and the impact it brings.

Hitachi is big conglomerate and at times can be very forward thinking but at times can be very traditional. Finding the balance and pushing things along can sometimes be like pushing treacle up hill.

Undergraduate degree and first Masters in Physics and second Masters in East Asian Business gives me the right mix of technical and business knowledge to work in technology transfer, cross-border business development and management consulting. My work with Hitachi focuses on developing start-from-zero projects in social innovation bringing together a large number of Hitachi businesses and the scale of projects and their social impact is very large - one of the key things that originally attracted me to it.

Undergraduate degree and first Masters in Physics and Second Masters in East Asian Business. Business development, negotiations, marketing, PR, project management, advertising, BPR, etc.

None.

Itochu Corporation - International BD - 6 months

Intralink Limited - Cross-border BD, Tech Transfer - 3.5 years

Hitachi Consulting - Management Consulting - 1.5 years

Owning my own business.

Identify skills that set you apart and look for industries and international regions that place a lot of value on those skills.