With 2008 winding down, it is time to reflect.  Global capitalism is suffering significantly, the United States have turned a bright page in political history and EMBA V is about to complete year 1 of our programme.  For about 50 students who will gather for the final time in December 2008 for a week of [...]

Analyzing a case is a key component of MBA studies; we typically do this in the lecture room, but during Module 6 (Financial Management) we had the opportunity to breakdown a case in the outdoor theater.

I find it is more effective to take an opposing viewpoint if you do it from another part of the [...]

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 [...]

Imagine, late July, two weeks in Oxford.  We have learned a few things, at the end of these modules we are officially six weeks in. As I am here back in Boston, I am starting to think about context in people management, new methods in accounting and thinking about strategy methods in marketing. Thinking back to our [...]

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. [...]

And so here it is. Application submitted, interview complete, three modules later and I think it is safe to call us MBA students. But like my favorite cocktails, there are a few different flavors . . . Here at the Saïd Business School, there are two flavors to be exact, but the focus of my [...]

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 [...]