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Oxford MBA

6 Laws of Assignments

June 21, 2010

The 24 hours of assignment reckoning continues. Two term papers have just been handed in to the Exam Schools. Four papers are due to be uploaded within 5 hours, and another formal paper is to hended in within exactly 24 hours. In the midst of this, I’ll be attempting to enjoy a boat cruise (4 [...]

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Join us for Twitter, Blogging and Presentation SKills Workshops in Oxford

June 16, 2010

After polling the staff and students and receiving an overwhelmingly positive response, the MBA Leadership Group and I are running the following workshops next week at Saïd Business School in Oxford. They’ll to be interactive. And fun I hope. I’m looking forward to it. If you’re in Oxford, join us.
1) Understanding Twitter (June 22, [...]

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Videos Wanted on Inspiration, Storytelling, Power and Networks!

May 21, 2010

Hi folks,
In pulling together content for Intrapreneurship Week here at SBS, I’m after compelling and concise videos/talks that speak to any of the areas below:
- Understanding our personal motivations, passions and inspirations
- Communicating this through vision, storytelling and other mechanisms
- Understanding power, and applying it through hard and soft means
- Creating networks and building coalitions
I’ll [...]

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Signaling Identity: Better a Surfer than an MBA?

May 4, 2010

I love jackets. I don’t actually have that many possessions, but I do have a disproportionate collection of technical jackets. So when I saw a friend’s dark blue softshell, I decided it was time for an SBS version and set up a class purchase. The spec was ‘OXFORD’ across the back. What came back was [...]

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Take a Jump: Starting a Venture in the Bay

April 9, 2010

A few months ago we were putting in work on a concept for a potentially game-changing business in Oxford. I decided that it was time to do it for real, and booked a flight out to the Bay Area. I didn’t know if anyone would come with me, who I could meet with, where we [...]

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Shot of the Day: Maxed Out

March 24, 2010

EP Team member and all around rock star Phil hits a wall last week. Not posed.
oxford, sbs
       

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Anatomy of Subfusc

March 23, 2010

Another term, another set of final exams. One of the oddities of Oxford is that, like students for hundreds of years before us, we must wear subfusc during all exams. Like 244 little penguins. I felt it would be good to share exactly what that means. Andrew generously volunteered to model it after today’s exam.

The [...]

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On Great MBA Classmates

March 21, 2010

Two of my EP team members had to miss our pitch yesterday, because they were part of a team of 6 from SBS in North Carolina, competing in UNC’s Sustainable Venture Capital Investment Competition, the only European representation against some of the US’s top schools. And….
They Won!
Congrats to Emily and Brandon, as well as their [...]

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On Delivering

March 19, 2010

Part of the long silence has been due to immersion in work here, not the least of which has been building a case for a start-up. Throughout, we’ve built a great team, learning from and adding to each other, and drawn others towards us with energy and potential. Today we had a VC pitch for [...]

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Triggers of Somewhere Else

March 18, 2010

A few minutes ago I walked out of a crowded operations management review session, into the courtyard at SBS. It was raining lightly, with wind weaving through the trees and a rain fresh scent after days of sun. It was beautiful and calm. Immediately I was back on Vancouver Island, hiking in light rain, face [...]

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