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Mohsin Mustafa with young children from his clinic in a Pakistani classroom

Entrepreneurs, MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

A letter to my younger self

Mohsin Ali Mustafa is our 2018-19 Skoll Scholar on the Oxford MBA. Mohsin is also a Weidenfeld-Hoffman Scholar, co-founder and managing director of Clinic5 - an affordable health delivery service in Pakistan. I write this blog post as…

Entrepreneurs, MBAs, Skoll Scholars

My journey from Peru

One sunny day in 2016, I was 4,000 meters above sea level crammed into a minivan riding across the southern mountains of Peru on the way to make my first big quinoa purchase. A wooden truck was waiting for me on the chaotic streets of Juliaca.…

Entrepreneurs, MBAs, Skoll Scholars

From Rwanda to Oxford

I awoke to the sound of beating. My young female neighbor was screaming, and the dull thud of weight hitting a body was audible. I had been living in rural Rwanda for about a year, serving as an Education Volunteer with the US Peace Corps,…

Education, Entrepreneurs, MBAs, News, Systems Change

Skoll Centre launches Impact Lab programme

The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship this year launches the “Impact Lab”, a one year co-curricular programme designed to enable Oxford MBA students to take a leading role in tackling the complex and pressing social and environmental…

Events

What's coming up this year?

The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship is heading into a new era. Over the summer months, we’ve been busy planning our future. Our main aim, as always, will focus on cultivating the next generation of social entrepreneurs, and the leaders…

Oxford street with overlay of text "We're hiring"

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We're growing our team

We’re growing the team here at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford! If you would like to join our team and help us to advance transformative social entrepreneurship globally through…

Research

How academics can help tackle wicked problems

Our Early Career Research Fellow, Tanja Collavo, examines the reasons why there is a gap between research and practice. Knowledge is fundamental to solving the wicked problems of our societies. But academia is very rarely explicitly included…

MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

On blackberries and change

Skoll Scholar, Sandra Fisher-Martins, poetically portrays her life in Oxford since arriving here with her husband and son 1-year ago to join the MBA programme at Oxford's Saïd Business School. If I followed the fence of the train station…

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