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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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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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Shot of the Day: 34th Floor

April 29, 2010

Yiannis and Jon chat in the beautiful 34th floor offices of Novak Druce + Quigg, a law firm in San Francisco (and elsewhere). We appreciated their link to Oxford and kindness in hosting us for a few days while working in the Bay Area. Great people, as well as a great view.
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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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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.

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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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Studytime Self-Nudges

December 12, 2009

It’s crunch time for me and my classmates. Time to master finance, economics, marketing, strategy, decision science (aka statistics) and financial reporting in a week before exams start to hit one after the other. It makes for days of full, focused study, one after the other.
I know through this that I need to make progress [...]

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Dealing with Group Work

November 25, 2009

MBA programs are chock full of group work. I suppose this is to simulate the real world. That’s not surprising. What is surprising is the number of people that can’t seem to work in a group.
Oxford being 95 per cent international, I fittingly have a Ukranian/American, Peruvian and South African in my current group, which [...]

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Shot of the Day: Oxford Examination Regulations

November 21, 2009

I received this book awhile ago: University of Oxford Examination Regulations 2009. Rivetting reading. But the gut reaction was this: what a waste of paper. Not because the information isn’t important, but because they are automatically given to each student and relevant faculty, examiner and various official. Must be over 15,000 books, each at 2″ [...]

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