Posted by: Jacob Wedderburn-Day on June 13, 2017
Featuring a letter from an old couple that will make you melt The Letter. Skip to the bottom to see it in context. The other day, we received a large delivery. We were trying to figure out what to do with it as the delivery man wheeled the shrink-wrapped block of boxes into the office. We decided […]
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Posted by: Roopa Unnikrishnan on May 16, 2017
“Let well enough alone”, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – sure these are pretty good bits of advice, but only if you live and work in stable times. I can’t remember such a time – the past decades have been all about technological and market disruptions and just delivering on one’s job description […]
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Posted by: Ben Preston on May 16, 2017
Humanities & leadership Every business school has classes on leadership. Usually these classes use case studies demonstrating times business and government leaders solved difficult issues and talk about incentives, personality types, and communication. Oxford Saïd, though, has the distinction of being part of a 1,000-year old University. In addition to typical leadership classes, Oxford Saïd […]
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Posted by: Vyjayanthi Veeraraghavan on May 16, 2017
“Once upon a time” we studied the impacts of demographic changes and the introduction of big data as part of our MBA programme. The petabytes of data available to us were plentiful and the our work at identifying trends and correlations based on evidence was a reasonable success, so much so that I fell in […]
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Posted by: Jacob Wedderburn-Day on April 21, 2017
When people find out you run a startup, one of the first things they ask is, “Have you raised any money and how did you do it?”. We always like to joke that we raised our seed round with a single cold email. But actually, it’s a true story, and as I told more people, […]
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Posted by: Demetrio Santander on April 21, 2017
In 2015, I left a corporate finance position at the biggest real estate investment company in Ecuador to pursue the dream of making the Guayusa leaf famous in the entire world. When I applied to the MSc in Law and Finance back in 2013, I already knew that I wanted to start a social impact […]
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Posted by: Neil Yeoh on April 21, 2017
“There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future” – Al Gore on climate change. This statement is true in my life. At the age of […]
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Posted by: Kylie Wright-Ford on April 21, 2017
A common human desire is to live a better life. It is why we strive hard, work, educate, travel and raise our children to dream. I am no different, although in some ways, the admission that I want to live a better life makes me bristle. It feels like a ‘western world’ and spoiled kind […]
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Posted by: Olga Pisarenko on April 21, 2017
(The importance of personal advancement) “It’s not what we get in life, it’s who we become.” – Jim Rohn Once we graduate from university or school, we feel that learning is behind us and we are now on a mission of putting into life everything we’ve learnt. As we grow, we change. Learning changes our worldview […]
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Posted by: Alozie Benson on April 21, 2017
In 1998, having worked for 7 years with Budget Rent A Car as their Europe, Africa and Middle East Financial Accountant, I decided to contract out my services to other organisations. The experience took me to companies like the British Airport Authority, the University of Westminster, Santander Bank, the UK Ministry of Defence and the […]
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