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 [...]

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 [...]