Posted by: Buhle Ndlovu on May 27, 2020
I used to always call myself the accidental banker, and later the accidental investor because I honestly never thought at 30, I would be completing almost a decade working in these industries. I was, from high school, more the ‘save the world, economic development’ type (is that a type?!?!). I first got into banking by […]
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Posted by: Marla Woodward on May 24, 2020
Before the MBA, I was in the consumer goods industry with functional experience across physical product management, digital product management, and consumer research. I’d spent much of my career working for global companies headquartered in the US, and I wanted to use my MBA to break out of my industry, possibly geography, and move into […]
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Posted by: Dr. Diana Wangari on May 22, 2020
It started when I was in the queue at immigration. This was at Brussels Airport. The elegant lady looked at me, almost apologetically, then whispered to her partner. He turned and looked, decidedly less friendly, pulled her towards him and they moved forward. They didn’t have to tell me what they were thinking. I was […]
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Posted by: Stephanie Mambo on May 21, 2020
A letter to future Oxford MBA candidates Hi All, I hope you are all keeping well and safe. To introduce myself, I am an Oxford MBA Alumni, class of 2016-17 and now a Senior Consultant at Dalberg Advisors based in Nairobi Kenya. My journey to where I am now started during an MBA experience weekend […]
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Posted by: Constance Kratsa on May 18, 2020
I was born and raised in Athens, studied Law with Economics (BA, LLM) at University of London, QMUL & UCL and went on working in Marketing in Consumer Goods & Cosmetics. After living in five countries across three continents for studies or work and a decade of career in managerial roles at blue-chip multinational corporations […]
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Posted by: Saskia Rotshuizen on April 26, 2020
A few weeks back, I wrote a blog post about the start of my GOTO (Global Opportunities and Threats Oxford) experience. I ended that post stating I was keen on improving my systems thinking skills for approaching wicked problems. Today, we are living a wicked problem in real time. It took me a long time […]
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Posted by: Prerna Choudhury on April 23, 2020
I’ve been thinking about my friends, classmates, and members of my professional network for whom COVID-19 has made employment precarious, with many having to deal with indefinite hiring freezes, rescinded job offers, temporary furloughs or job loss. Yet, and particularly with the onset of the virus, my inbox has been inundated with consultancies in the […]
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Posted by: Kenny Wang on April 22, 2020
It is without a doubt an incredibly challenging, unprecendented and unimaginable period that humanity is facing today. With all the hardship and difficulty that we are all facing, I wanted to take a moment to practice some gratitude and share with you all various things I am most grateful for. Breathing in the fresh and […]
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Posted by: Niranjan Suresh on April 21, 2020
It’s a week before my third term at Oxford starts. I’m still struggling to come up with clear thoughts on writing this blog post, summarizing my time over the last three months. Hilary term, the second term at Oxford, is named after the feast day of St Hilary falling on 14th January. Like many other […]
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Posted by: Joaquín Víquez on April 9, 2020
Like any great adventure, time does truly fly. It seems like yesterday my family and I were packing our “life” in a few bags to move to Oxford. It has now been almost 8 months since our big move; Michaelmas and Hilary term have come to an end, which means we are more than halfway […]
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