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Shared Communities to Solve Wicked Problems

The goalpost for development has moved to three unique and wicked problems - climate change, better healthcare and education. Education specifically, of the kind that enables creative thinking and helps shape every child to be a responsible…

Personal, Research

Reflections from my term at Stanford

Tanja Collavo is a Skoll Centre Early Career Research Fellow, DPhil student at Oxford specialising in networking organisations operating in the social entrepreneurship sector. In the fall of 2017, Tanja spent an academic term at Stanford University…

Entrepreneurs, MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

My Journey from Saint Louis

Kevin Duco Warner is a 2017-18 Skoll Scholar on the Oxford MBA. Focused on the social impact of food, he has worked to develop market-driven solutions to climate change through the advancement of the local food movement. Kevin shares the story…

Entrepreneurs, MBAs, Skoll Scholars

My Journey from New Delhi to Oxford

Nikhil Dugal is a 2017-18 Skoll Scholar on the Oxford MBA. He’s a social entrepreneur working in the field of environmental sustainability, specifically towards establishing a circular economy. Here, Nikhil shares his story and inspiration…

Opening Plenary Speaker, Andy Middleton, Project Slipstream

Events

Emerge 2017

This weekend, we welcomed 400+ attendees across two days at the Saïd Business School for our 9th annual Emerge Conference. People from across the globe came together for what was a jam-packed event, dedicated to showcasing innovation across…

Entrepreneurs, MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

From Lisbon to Oxford

Sandra Fisher-Martins is a 2017-18 Skoll Scholar on the Oxford MBA. She is also a plain-language activist and entrepreneur. Sandra shares the candid truth about leaving her 10 year old organisation to pursue an Oxford MBA. "Can you read this…

MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

My Journey from Politics to the Oxford MBA

Aaron Bartnick is a 2017-18 Skoll Scholar on the Oxford MBA. Prior the MBA he led several ventures in US politics, and most recently helped develop the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s first university-based start-up incubator. What are we…

Chad with M-KOPA solar light and solar TV systems.

MBAs, Personal

Interview with Chad Larson: Co-founder and Finance Director, M-KOPA

“If we do this right we will be the leapfrog story for rural energy.” Whilst on her MBA trek to Nairobi and Kigali this year, Gillian Benjamin had the opportunity to meet up with Oxford alumni working in social impact organisations. I…

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