One of the most underestimated chores of your MBA career will surely be the dreaded job hunt.  I remember our Director of Career Services telling us during induction week that we should expect to spend at least 8 hours a week searching for our future job.  At the time, this seemed like a ludicrous amount [...]

Day 5 (Thursday April 8th)
Another early day, we checked out of our hotels and headed back to Dubai, destination: Dubai Ports World and their operations in Jebel Ali Ports. The presentations we had from the CEO and the Operations  Manager were very informative where we learned about the companies strategy and their acquisition [...]

After weeks of planning and preparation during the thick of Hilary term, on April 3rd fifteen MBA students arrived in Dubai for the Middle East student trek with the aim of learning about the region and exploring business and career opportunities. For the next five days we would meet eleven companies and government bodies and [...]

As Chairman of the Finance Oxford Business Club (Finance-OBN) – a rather esoteric way of simply saying “President of the Oxford Finance Club” – I schedule one guest speaker each term (in addition to all the other programs we run: Treks, CFA Review, Oxbridge exchange, Finance Faculty dinner, Stock Trading competition, etc).

I cannot say this [...]

This past year has been so intense, demanding and packed, that it is only in recent weeks in the comfort of my room, when my Outlook calendars are not full, can I grapple with the thought on how productive life was. There is no ‘typical’ day for an MBA student. Yet, there are features of [...]