The next morning, we flew a couple hours south to the beautiful coastal city of Cape Town. The image of Table Rock framed in the airplane window as we descended is one I’ll never forget.
We were greeted on arrival by our friend Julia Jansch, who lives in Cape Town and graciously served as our tour [...]

After an overnight flight from Lagos, we arrived in Johannesburg. The city is laid out in gentle rolling hills and valleys, though interspersed throughout are much smaller, higher hills, the color of sand and grass.
“What are those hills?” I asked our driver as we traveled into the city from the airport. I wondered if they [...]

After almost a month of globetrotting during the break between Hilary and Trinity term, I arrived back in Oxford hardly knowing where I was. This was not because of jet lag or transcontinental disorientation, but because…it was sunny. That’s right. And it was warm, too. For the first time, I broke out my spring jacket [...]

One of the most interesting experiences I’ve had thus far at Saïd Business School has been the Entrepreneurial Project. Effectively serving as a sixth course in Hilary term, the project takes you out of the classroom and allows you to apply pretty much everything you’ve learned in the MBA program so far—and then some. You [...]

Sometimes I feel like we’re not studying business administration as much as living it. Five classes, an entrepreneurial project, and extracurriculars/some semblance of a social life squeezed in between, provide an ongoing lesson in how to plan projects, delegate work and prioritize.
 Hilary term is very different from Michaelmas in this regard. During the first term, [...]