August 31st, 2009

Meltwater… What we did!

Posted by Meltwater SCP
Under: Strategic Consulting Project 2009


Research, interviews, more research, more interviews….!
Considering the fact that none of us had prior experience in designing business incubators, we had to find a way to understand more about various business incubator and seed-funding models. So we interviewed experts- the ‘who is who’ of incubator/seed-funding/venture capital industry in San Francisco, Boston, Melbourne, Oxford, and [...]

August 28th, 2009

Blastbeat SCP finished

Posted by Blastbeat SCP
Under: Strategic Consulting Project 2009

Blastbeat SCP finishes
Even though I wanted to give a more frequent update about our progress on the Blastbeat project, I found myself struggling with time because of the intensity of the project. Anyway, for all of you asking…

“What did you do and what is your take away?”

…here is a summary of the things we faced, [...]

August 24th, 2009

Week 3-5; “Hello , we are calling from the University of Oxford…”

Posted by Bank of London
Under: Strategic Consulting Project 2009

Well, we probably had it coming. We knew from the start that to do our field research for this project, we would have to speak to a lot of people, many of whom would be reluctant to give their time to students, or refuse to give information for a project sponsored by a competitor, while [...]

August 23rd, 2009

Oxford MBAs’ Geneva trek

Posted by Vinay
Under: MBA 2008/2009 Bloggers, Student Treks 2009

This past Spring saw a group of us MBA students embark on a business trek to Geneva. This beautiful city with Lake Geneva at its heart is widely acknowledged as the worldwide centre for international cooperation and diplomacy. Geneva, for most of us is synonymous with the United Nations, but it has so much more [...]

August 15th, 2009

Strategy Consulting Project at Meltwater Group, San Francisco

Posted by Meltwater SCP
Under: Strategic Consulting Project 2009

The Team:
Giving the SCP teams a name can be a funny business. We certainly did not want a name that sounded like it just came out of Marvel Comics. Yes, names such as ‘oX-Men’ and ‘The Fantastic Four MBAs’ would have sounded cool, but we decided to keep it simple. Team YARN! Sounds funny, right? [...]