Posted by: Olga Pisarenko on February 11, 2019
In June 2013, at the beautiful graduation ceremony held at the Oxford University’s Church of St Mary the Virgin, I thought that it was the last time when I was a student and my last time at the school. I was wrong! Six years after, I am a student again and SBS has welcomed me […]
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Posted by: Damiano Pietroni on February 8, 2019
As an Oxford EMBA student there are numerous opportunities to learn more about entrepreneurship, get feedback on ideas, and either start or scale entrepreneurial ventures. First, all EMBA students take the Entrepreneurship Project (EP) module. The course combines theory with application by first providing an overview of entrepreneurship frameworks and literature, and then having students […]
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Posted by: Teresa Cascioli on February 7, 2019
As the new year commences our learning journey continues. With 4 modules under our belts, we are now in crunch mode! March looms ahead with 3 assignments to be completed including a presentation related to GOTO (Global Opportunities Threats Oxford). Factor in the pre-reading we must complete by the time our fifth module arrives (also […]
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Posted by: Joao Vitor Antonini on February 7, 2019
Being the first module of the year, and after embracing India’s complexity, Module 4 has an especial feeling. It is not a warm home feeling, maybe because flying from a 37°C São Paulo to a snowing Oxford could be anything but warm. It feels as you are back on an adventure, full of excitement, with […]
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Posted by: Sean Lloyd on February 6, 2019
We spent the last module learning about the interplay between business and government in India. This module, we returned to Oxford to underpin that with the fundamentals of economics – microeconomic theory. Fittingly for the subject known as “the dismal science”, Oxford was bitterly cold and grim! Building on what we learnt in India, economic […]
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Posted by: Steven McIntosh on February 4, 2019
Ambling clumsily along Oxford’s Broad Street whilst gawping up at some of the University’s most historic landmarks, I was bowled over by a tremendous sense of inspiration and wonder. Either that or it was an undergraduate on a bike. Hard to say. All I know is that when I came to I was in the […]
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Posted by: Mustafa Abbas on February 4, 2019
Immanuel Kant was concerned with morality and felt that humans should be treated as ends in themselves and not as means to an end. This also implies that your value doesn’t depend on your use. That’s all very well, but in the real world – more specifically in the corporate world – management theories are […]
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Posted by: Michael Zhuang on February 1, 2019
Yesterday I had my first Oxford case study. It was an epic fail and I want to share with you what I have learned from that. The case study was a mock group decision under time pressure. The decision was whether or not to withdraw from a car race due to cold weather. The group […]
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Posted by: Baoli Zhao on January 31, 2019
If you ask me what is the most interesting thing that have experienced during the 1st week of the EMBA, I will not hesitate to tell you that it is the people surround me. From the cohort, school staffs to professors, what a group of wonderful people! Our cohort is mixed with 69 intelligent individuals […]
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Posted by: Sebastian Petric on January 30, 2019
After the first week of the Executive MBA at the University of Oxford, I would like to briefly summarise my impressions and write a short note on a subject we touched upon in our course work: “Institutions”. Classes ranged from statistics to Global Rules of the Game by Prof. Akshay Mangla. In particular, the latter […]
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