In this series of Scholar Blogs, our four Skoll Scholars for 2014-15 tell us what shaped their journey toward doing an MBA, and give their first impressions of how it feels to be starting their MBA course at Saïd Business School. Nikhil Nair Nikhil Nair comes to oxford with over 6 years of experience in […]

In this series of Scholar Blogs, our four Skoll Scholars for 2014-15 tell us what shaped their journey toward doing an MBA, and give their first impressions of how it feels to be starting their MBA course at Saïd Business School. Nora Petty has spent the past seven years committed to ending deaths caused by […]

Can a plastic bottle, a knife, some string and a few bags tackle Ebola? By: Cosimma Gretton Repurposing materials for other uses is not new concept. In India they even have a word for it. ‘Jugaad’ is Hindu for ‘frugal innovation’ – the art of repurposing existing materials for new solutions. In developing solutions for […]

Building A Business @SBS Lecture #1: Professor Constantin-C Coussios, “How to Start A Business” “The value of an idea lies in the using of it”-Thomas Edison On 14 October 2014, Professor Constantin-C. Coussios, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, kicked off The 2014 “Building a Business” Lecture Series to a packed […]

In this series of Scholar Blogs, our four Skoll Scholars for 2014-15 tell us what shaped their journey toward doing an MBA, and give their first impressions of how it feels to be starting their MBA course at Saïd Business School. José Miguel Alfaro Gomez The first Skoll Scholar to blog for us in this […]