Posted by: Emily Gill on May 12, 2022
Female founders in the UK receive dramatically less funding than their male counterparts. In 2021, despite unprecedented levels of capital raised within private markets, only 1% of venture capital funds went to all-female founded teams in comparison to 90% to all-male founded teams (CEE Report, 2021). This is a missed opportunity. Up to £250 billion […]
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Posted by: Sophie Frankham-Smith on May 10, 2022
What does character mean to you? How does character contribute to good leadership? What does it mean to lead with purpose? How can we align our personal values with the needs of our organisations, communities, and countries? These are the types of questions I get to think about and discuss with peers weekly through the […]
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Posted by: Stephen Robinson on May 9, 2022
In the book I’m reading, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, there’s a scene where the characters face a crossroads. Four people are on a motorcycle trip across the United States approaching the Great Plains, an expansive flatland east of the Rocky Mountains. The Great Plains make for rough riding, and one character […]
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Posted by: Taanya Khare on May 3, 2022
212 days or 7 months in, 5 more to go. Phew, that flew by way faster than I had imagined! This reminds me of something Steve Jobs quoted, “One cannot connect the dots looking forward, but only when you look backward”, I can now see why. I have begun to trust in the process of […]
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Posted by: Sanoma Jean on April 30, 2022
Everyone told me that this year would fly by. I would blink, and it would be over. As we enter Trinity Term, while it is only technically 50% over, I consider it to be 75% as this will be the last term that I spend in Oxford, sitting in Saïd Business School, debating and discussing […]
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Posted by: Oxford MBA on April 13, 2022
In April 2022, our team of five Oxford MBA students – with diverse backgrounds in medicine, pharma, public health and finance – came in Top 3 in a prestigious international healthcare case competition hosted by Alira Health & SDA Bocconi School of Management. The case involved conducting biosimilar candidate screening, undertaking financial and health economic […]
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Posted by: Youmna Sirgi on March 17, 2022
By Bartek Ogonowski and Youmna Sirgi, Oxford MBA 2021-22 On February 25th, over 500 attendees made up of students, alumni and externals, as well as 27 global speakers, came together at the Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum (#OSEF22). The annual event was momentous as for the first time it was in a truly hybrid format, apt […]
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Posted by: Oxford MBA on March 11, 2022
Oxford MBA student Co-Presidents Mishern Chetty and Mary Zhukovskaya, as part of the Student Council, are using their combined experience in business and leadership, to raise the voices of fellow students to create a more diverse curriculum, in partnership with faculty. Mishern, from South Africa, has played various entrepreneurial roles in a range of industries, […]
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Posted by: Noi Omaboe on March 10, 2022
When deciding to pursue an MBA, the extent of a school’s focus on the African continent was not a metric on my priority list. While I had hoped to get involved in many African societies and clubs, the sad truth was that I did not expect Africa to represent a large portion of the cohort […]
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Posted by: Ruqayya Diwan on March 4, 2022
When I got into Oxford for my MBA, I was fraught with indecision as to whether I should accept- was it possible to effectively balance the role of a full-time student with that of a mother? Now, almost a year later, I’m excited to say I have no regrets- the experience has been challenging, exhilarating […]
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