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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…

Water pump with Ashley Thomas and African community

MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

How can I improve safe water access in developing countries?

This was the question that drove me to apply for the 1+1 programme, studying Water Science, Policy and Management for my MSc and continuing to the MBA this year. While there are many facets to unpacking this question, I chose to focus on understanding…

MBAs

Interview with Dennis Muchira: Dalberg Global Development Advisors

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. Dennis is a recent Oxford Saïd 2015 – 16 alum who has been based at…

Education

Schools - The Next Domain for Technological Disruption?

Skoll Scholar 2016-17, Alex Shapland-Howes, is passionate about education. He spend several years teaching Maths and Politics in London schools before he led the major growth of UK education charity, Future First. In this blog, Alex explores…

Entrepreneurs, MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

Creating opportunities through the power of language

Macarena Hernandez de Obeso, is a current Skoll Scholar and is dedicated to economic opportunity and prosperity for deprived communities in Latin America. She shares the story of starting her new social enterprise that aims to bring together…

Section C, MBA class of 2017 with Siddharth Arora (more than 45 minutes after the end of class)

Education, MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

Inspiration and leadership in the classroom

Skoll Scholar and design enthusiast, Ahmed Abu Bakr, shares his experience of an average Oxford MBA classroom. But it wasn't the subject matter that he found captivating, it was the leadership of its professor that truly inspired him. In…

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