Apologies for being so very overdue for an update here on the SBS blog site. Various excuses come to mind, but none very convincing so I’ll crack on. Since the Trinity Term and my summer MBA commitments are done with, I can look back on quite a lot here and hopefully put the [...]

Weeks 9 and 10 were a bit of a blur of exams and assignments and showing my New Zealand relatives around the beautiful city of Oxford.  There really are some stunning, ancient, colleges and scenery here.
Things got shifted around a little bit to make room for the Skoll Forum at the end of 10th week [...]

Everyone has been working hard over the past few weeks and I had my last lectures of the term today, but that doesn’t mean the workload changes.  Of course there are exams starting in a week – so some revision ought to be on the agenda, and I ought to make sure I know where [...]

One cause of the feeling that the MBA year is rushing past is that it is simply a short course – another that there is a lot to get done each week.   Talking to people from other courses at the University I know that it is standard to take a large amount of work and [...]

“In a slamdown between Mario the Italian plumber and Sonic the Hedgehog, who would win?  Sonic easily.”  Blockbuster games, a ‘killer app’, were just part of Sega’s strategic positioning in the battle with Nintendo over video game consoles in the 1990s.  It makes sense but the quote shows that there is more to the Technology [...]