Sumit Joshi is a Skoll Scholar on the Oxford MBA for 2015-16. He is the founder of APAART Education, an organisation that aims to bridge the gap between academia and industry. “There I was, wearing ill-fitting shoes, loose pajamas, a plain T-shirt, and a tired smile. That morning I had woken up to scales tilting […]

Skoll Scholar and MBA student Songqiao Yao is a researcher, activist and entrepreneur working on global environmental sustainability issues such as food, water, and climate change. It seems only yesterday when I walked into an ocean of over 300 new MBAs, all in formal dark suits, eager to meet each other. Six weeks in, everyone is […]

Pip Wheaton is a Skoll Scholar on the Oxford MBA for 2015-16, and is also the founder of enke:Make Your Mark, a youth development organisation that inspires and supports young South Africans who are taking action on the most urgent social issues. A couple of weeks ago, I left the bubble of Oxford to spend the weekend […]

Skoll Scholar and MBA student Ritesh Singhania gives us his first thoughts and impressions from the top of his year here in Oxford. “Remember Red, hope is a good thing may be the best of things and no good thing ever dies” -Shawshank Redemption At Oxford, every time I decide to step out of my […]

Maria Springer is a Skoll Scholar and Oxford MBA student for 2015-16. Here, she tells us about her inspirations, and why her business aims will be drafted on a grand scale. I started cultivating my entrepreneurial tendencies when I was seven: selling homemade fudge, used toys, my old clothes, and persimmons from the tree in our backyard. […]