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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…

Apprentice with a Problem, Health

How to understand public healthcare challenges

The Skoll Centre’s Apprenticing with a Problem awards support individuals to engage in experiential learning and deep immersion around the challenges that they seek to tackle. Oxford MBA alumna, Melissa McCoy, is a 2016-17 awardee whose…

Entrepreneurs, Research

Are multiple definitions of social entrepreneurship holding us back?

By Skoll Centre Early Career Research Fellow, Tanja Collavo. Some social entrepreneurs and social enterprises are expressing the desire to avoid such a label. Additionally, knowledge among citizens of what social entrepreneurship is and…

Apprentice with a Problem, Personal

Cultural Trauma and Resilience in the Pacific

MBAs visiting the Impact Hub, run by Jon Stever, third from the left.

MBAs, Personal

Africa Trek 2017: Oxford MBAs visit Rwanda

By Gillian Benjamin, Oxford MBA (2016-17) A group of 2016-17 Oxford MBAs go on the annual Africa Trek. This year’s destination: Nairobi and Kigali Part 2: Rwanda Rwanda is a small land-locked country, with a population of 11.2…

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