To the new EMBA VII Cohort, firstly I’d like to offer my congratulations to each of you, not only for getting through the very stringent admissions, but also for making a truly life-changing decision to pursue the EMBA at Oxford! The 21 months which lie ahead of you will soon prove to be equally extraordinary [...]

Cliff
Who here today would have thought that we would live through our very own information revolution, let alone have the opportunity to listen to a keynote speech delivered by the person who ignited it?  What a great privilege it has been to hear the thoughts of the man who kick-started the worldwide web itself. On [...]

Firstly I’d like to say thank you to Owen, Pembroke College and SBS for this very warm welcome. It’s truly wonderful to be here this evening with EMBA VI, especially considering that next time we’ll be here in Oxford together, it will be farewell from EMBA V.
There’s an ancient Chinese saying, “when the student is [...]

Wimbledon, The Royal Henley Regatta, a heat wave, Shakespeare in the amphitheatre, long English summer days and watching the sun set over the cricket field at Worcester College… With the awareness that we will only travel to Oxford together as a class one more time, these paint what I will remember as a romantic English [...]

Mid-January, and I’m back in the London office after module 9. With module 10 nearly three months away, it’s as good a time as any to set the pace for 2009.
For many of us, the Christmas break was about disengaging from work and studies (i.e. putting off writing the Global Strategy assignment until our arrival [...]

As 2008 draws to a close and EMBA V passes the half-way milestone in our Oxford education, it’s very difficult indeed to resist the temptation of reflecting on the year just gone…
So I give in.
What was 2008 all about? What themes emerged? What threads were knit together to weave the fabric of 2008?
With ever so [...]

It will have been a full three months by the time we return to Oxford next week, and indeed, it seems a long time ago since Module 7. This past September saw the departure of the EMBA IVs, and we were treated to a glimpse of what we can look forward to this time next [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]