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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…

Nikhil and his peers in traditional Oxford exam attire.

Cicular Economy, MBAs, Skoll Scholars, Systems Change

Vanilla, blockchain and the circular economy – one year on the Oxford MBA

Skoll Scholar and circular economy entrepreneur, Nikhil Dugal, highlights the best part of his year at Oxford on the MBA programme. The Oxford MBA is quite a unique experience in the world of business education. The extent to which our…

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Research

Beyond microcredit: early evidence on microequity for the poor in Indonesia

DPhil (PhD) candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford, and Skoll Centre affiliated researcher, Muhammad Meki, and his colleagues describe their early research into launching a microequity programme in Indonesia for microentrepreneurs…

The Pret a Manger shop inside a 600 year old tudor-style building in Oxford

MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

A year in Oxford

From baby #2 to navigating the crowds of tourists, our Skoll Scholar, Kevin Duco Warner, shares his incredibly personal and candid story of his year on the Oxford MBA. Oxford. This place is special. The juxtaposition of a medieval…

Oxford MBA students on stage at the MBATs in 2018.

MBAs, Personal, Skoll Scholars

A chapter finished, a community found

From intention of reflection to community and opportunity, Skoll Scholar 2017-18, Aaron Bartnick, reflects on his year at Oxford. One of my first and most powerful memories in Oxford was walking around Radcliffe Square during the first few…

Events, Systems Change

Meet the Finalists – Map the System Global Final

In its third year, the Map the System competition’s Global Final is set to be the biggest yet; with 15 competing teams arriving here in Oxford from six continents. This competition is a chance for students and recent graduates, of participating…

Skoll Centre Blog

Musings. Stories. Thoughts. Dreams. Hopes. Fears. Ideas. Miscellaneous.

We're growing our team

How academics can help tackle wicked problems

On blackberries and change

Vanilla, blockchain and the circular economy – one year on the Oxford MBA

Beyond microcredit: early evidence on microequity for the poor in Indonesia

A year in Oxford

A chapter finished, a community found

Meet the Finalists – Map the System Global Final

Skoll Centre Blog

Musings. Stories. Thoughts. Dreams. Hopes. Fears. Ideas. Miscellaneous.

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