Posted by: Raluca Epureanu on March 8, 2022
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More than a year ago, I decided to take a leap of faith and undertake a massive career change while continuing to work on my own journey of self-development. My admission to […]
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Posted by: Vanessa Tan on March 8, 2022
This year, International Women’s Day (IWD) 2022 calls for action to #BreakTheBias in schools, workplaces and communities in a collective effort to create a world devoid of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. Women have come a long way since the observance of the first IWD in the early 1900s, where 15,000 women marched through New York […]
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Posted by: Bosco Lai on March 8, 2022
During my 10-hour flight home, I decided to jot down these thoughts and reflections after an intensive module week at Oxford. It was an intellectual and emotional rollercoaster ride – left me feeling a bit “There and Back Again”. We are Back The week started with a buzzing lecture hall – a scene that has […]
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Posted by: Grace Ning Guan on February 21, 2022
It has been almost two decades since I bid farewell to my family in Harbin, China for a long trip via Singapore to England in pursuit of my dream of being educated in a world-class university. The early morning breeze of a Manchurian summer in a quiet metropolitan airport in 2003 during the SARS pandemic, […]
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Posted by: Bosco Lai on January 13, 2022
We all know that Oxford, and the EMBA experience, will take us to places. For some, it might be landing onto their dream jobs, and for others, it might be pivoting into new sectors, cities or countries. For our group, it has taken us to Space. Soon after our EMBA journey commenced, a few of […]
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Posted by: Shaheryar Mian on January 6, 2022
This photo snapped in a flash of a second, took years in the making. The men and women captured in the stillness of this frame made moves from across the globe. A dizzying array of separate journeys collided at Balliol College of Oxford University, sometime in the early part of that year called 2020. I […]
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Posted by: Hira Hafeez on October 13, 2021
Almost two years ago, I entered Oxford Saïd Business School to learn business (at least that’s what I thought I was going to do), but leaving this place learning far more than business. I learnt the power of Tribe, the value the diverse perspectives bring to the table and leadership through resiliency in extraordinary times. […]
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Posted by: Vanessa Tan on January 20, 2021
What an extraordinary year 2020 has been. The global pandemic has affected all of us. Being in the nonprofit space, I am acutely aware that COVID has also disproportionately affected people who are resource-scarce in many parts of the world. For instance, during the Circuit Breaker period in Singapore, children from low-income families were affected […]
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Posted by: Thandi Luzuka on January 6, 2021
As we enter 2021, I feel the need to reflect on the year that has just passed. I find myself flipping through pictures of my babies and I am amazed by how much they have grown in a short space of time. In January 2020 I was 6 months pregnant with twins, my toddler could […]
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Posted by: James Smith on October 28, 2020
January 20, 2020, 5:00 am, I wake up in a simple but nice room in a Marriott, not substantially unlike any other of the many I’ve woken up in around the world, in Oxford city centre. I put on the kettle and take down two cups of instant coffee along with a bottle of water […]
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