How does one employ corporate governance to improve internal management? How does one allocate (or re-allocate) finance to improve earnings? As per Edward’s earlier blog, it depends…This is one of many things we learned from Financial Reporting. When reading balance sheets, income statements and deriving cash flows, it all depends…
Who would have thought that Financial Reporting [...]

Back to work in the London office after modules 5 and 6. The pace has stepped up a notch - for the amount of time spent in lectures, pre- and follow up readings and case studies, as well as in the forthcoming series of assessment deadlines and exams.
Since starting the Executive MBA, time management has [...]

Module 4 - yes, four weeks in.  So take about 50 executives, place them in a lecture theatre for nine hours a day for a week, cover marketing, strategy and organizational behaviour, amoung other things, and I can tell you a couple of things will happen.  First, the class has become very adept at analyzing case studies.  Second, [...]

Sadly, I haven’t any photos from this past week in Oxford, which is a pity because this time, I had a lovely sole-occupancy flat with a roof terrace on the river next to Oxford Castle. Unbelievable, but true. Claire and I had identical adjacent flats, sharing the expansive roof terrace, and were as such compelled [...]

I always had a desire and a dream since my childhood days to study at Oxford, Cambridge or Harvard. In addition I had always been interested in acquiring a management qualification ever since I graduated in Computer Engineering discipline. Combining the two was not very easy considering the strict admission process and the fees involved. [...]

With the London and Boston Marathons just gone, it’s easy to draw parallels between earning the Oxford Executive MBA degree and running the 26.2 mile/42.2 km course. I would know, having finished the London Marathon in 2006 as a bit of a one-hit-wonder (I’m not a runner by any stretch of the imagination).
The anticipation before [...]