Posted by: Rajeev Garg on January 21, 2022
Michaelmas term was an exhilarating journey in Finance for me and I was pleasantly surprised by the rigour and the depth of the conversations that happened in Finance at Oxford. We kicked off the term with Accountancy which was handled by Professors Annette Mikes and Richard Barker. I was particularly impressed with sessions on managerial […]
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Posted by: Sophie Frankham-Smith on January 19, 2022
And just like that Michaelmas term has come to an end – 13 weeks: 2 weeks of MBA Launch, 7 classes, 2 assessment weeks, 354 new classmates, 72 nationalities, 11 college visits, and so many amazing experiences to kick-off this year. I wanted to share a couple of personal highlights from this first-term: Inspiring Leadership […]
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Posted by: Tom Perfrement on January 2, 2021
Tell us about yourself: Chemical engineer turned management consultant turned social entrepreneur. Passionate about tennis, investing (listed equities), coffee, traveling, and empowering the not-for-profit ecosystem with data analytics capabilities. Sector/Industry you worked in pre-MBA: Management Consulting (L.E.K. Consulting) Sector/Industry you are hoping to work in post-MBA: Social Impact / Funds Management / Consulting Country of […]
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Posted by: Sergio M. Navarro on April 17, 2019
At the Oxford MBA, we have been exploring what it means to run a company from the perspective of a future CEO focused on sustainability with a mission to effect good globally. Having the opportunity to hone our strategy and leadership skills with world class faculty at Oxford has been a tremendous experience this past spring, learning […]
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Posted by: Eileen Chen on March 12, 2019
Eileen Chen is a 2018-19 MBA student at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and a Canadian marketer with four years of experience in the consumer packaged goods industry. Her marketing experience included managing an e-commerce website and developing data-driven recommendations through consumer insights for Keurig Canada. Her current career aspirations are to use marketing’s power to […]
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Posted by: Eileen Chen on January 15, 2019
I sat doe-eyed in the Nelson Mandela Theatre during our first week with 315 new best friends, all eager and excited for the year of adventure to come. I did not expect to hear a 4-word quote that would change my career perspective forever. In the middle of the week, 2016 alum Gillian Benjamin used […]
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Posted by: Marla Woodward on July 9, 2018
You can’t go more than a few days without hearing about cryptocurrencies and blockchain. These disruptive technologies have the potential to completely change how we think about currency and information validation in the future, and they are certainly top tech buzz words in 2018. If you’re anything like me, though, you might still be wondering […]
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Posted by: Adwoa Ameley on November 20, 2017
FAILURE RESILIENCE Successful people don’t fail right? Wrong. Failure is that hard thing that gets to you, deflates your ego and sometimes makes you question your reason for existing. Let me press it further – People in Oxford don’t fail, right. Wrong. People in Oxford are not used to failing, but failure is inevitable sometimes. […]
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Posted by: Arvind Jayakumar on March 15, 2017
I decided to come to Oxford Saïd because I was sold the vision of doing an MBA in a School embedded inside a great University. And, respecting one of the great traditions of Oxford, namely the Socratic Method, I will try to investigate whether this preliminary vision agreed with the physical reality. At a systemic […]
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Posted by: Sagar Doshi on September 12, 2016
As before, here’s a short interview with another well-loved faculty member at Saïd Business School: Sally Maitlis, a Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Leadership. Professor Maitlis is well known for her work on sensemaking in organisations as well as crisis and trauma management in the workplace. She focuses especially on qualitative research in cultural and […]
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