Posted by: Anna Nilsson on June 30, 2020
After Oxford I changed my career trajectory completely, from Energy Trading in Germany, to Google in Dublin – a phenomenon referred to as ‘triple jumping’ in the MBA world. I had never been to Ireland before but was used to moving to where the job was so it came quite naturally to me. It was […]
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Posted by: Sanjana Govil on June 29, 2020
Three lessons from my MBA journey. Passion is good, but experience is better. When I applied to SBS in 2016, I was a VC lawyer for impact investors and social enterprises who wanted to do what my clients were doing. I had been bitten by the social impact bug a few years prior while clerking […]
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Posted by: Tsechu Dolma on June 16, 2020
My homecoming has been beleaguered with grief, anger, heartbreak, angst, exhaustion, and hope. Ten weeks ago, as in-person classes suspended, borders shut down, and toilet paper ran out, I scurried out of Oxford and sought my mother’s warm embrace in Queens, New York. Little did I know then that I was stepping into one of […]
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Posted by: Winnie Tuang on June 8, 2020
My post-MBA journey has seen me join Revolut in the capacity of Senior Manager of Strategy and Operations, as part of the Singapore office. Prior to commencing my MBA, I worked for several consulting firms specialising in financial services. I found the experience invaluable and enriching but decided to pursue an MBA to gain deeper […]
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Posted by: Sixuan Ren on June 1, 2020
The Road Taken: Surviving the storm nearly 4 years out I am not exaggerating when I say that my life would have never been as exciting as it has become had I never done my MBA at Saïd Business School. When I finished my course, I was at a real crossroads in life as I […]
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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: 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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