Blog How to Scale a Purpose-Driven Venture Friday 21 February Perhaps the hardest part of scaling any venture is picking the right time to put your foot on the accelerator.
Blog A new decade of impact investment: Three tactics to accelerate towards the SDGs Tuesday 14 January This January kicks off an inflection point to consider the realities we have created since 2010 and those we aim to create by 2030. As of 2020, we now have ten years remaining to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Blog How to Build a Purpose-Driven Venture Friday 10 January Mike shares his hard-learned tips and experiences on how get a purpose-driven venture started, built and scaled. This is the second article in the series, how to ‘build’.
Blog My journey from Sydney to Oxford Wednesday 8 January My journey to Oxford isn’t a typical one, but then again – as I soon found out, no one’s is!
Blog The windy road from Kenya to Oxford University Friday 20 December 2019 How does a young Kenyan doctor, who through her earlier years dreamt of being a neurosurgeon, end up at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford?
Blog My journey from Nepal to Oxford Wednesday 18 December 2019 There are 25.4 million refugees in the world; children make up half of them; 3.5 million school-age refugee children do not go to school, and only one percent of refugees enroll in higher education. I was born into these statistics.
Blog My journey from Bangladesh to Oxford Monday 16 December 2019 It was a hot summer afternoon in 2014. A group of middle-aged women were sitting under a tree, giving me and my colleague a very skeptical look as we were trying to explain how mobile payments could possibly make their lives easier.
Blog How to Start a Purpose-Driven Venture Friday 6 December 2019 When starting a new venture, there’s a lot of pressure to come up with that one novel idea that nobody has ever thought of before.
Announcement In honour of Juan Jose Ochoa Thursday 14 November 2019 We a deeply saddened by the passing of our Skoll Scholar, Juan Jose Ochoa.
Blog What is the Future of African FinTech? Monday 11 November 2019 In 2008, I completed an MBA as a Skoll Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. It was an amazing experience where I gained an expansive network and learned a lot about venture capital, technology and innovation.
Blog My journey from Costa Rica to Oxford Wednesday 23 October 2019 Joaquín Víquez, Skoll Scholar 2019-20, tells the story of how he began his social impact career in his native country, Costa Rica, and how he found himself in Oxford!
Scholar News Meet the class of 2019-20 Skoll Scholars Tuesday 20 August 2019 The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship is proud to welcome the 16th cohort of its Scholarship to the Oxford MBA at Saïd Business School.
Blog How to manage difficult conversations Tuesday 6 August 2019 Florentina-Daniela Gheorghe, Skoll Scholar 2018-19, has spent the last year in Oxford studying her MBA. To end the year, she reflects on her own personal learnings and passes them onto you to take forward on your own journey.
Blog How to manage business remotely Wednesday 31 July 2019 You run a growing social business and things are going well. But you soon realise that with a little extra business knowledge and global connections, your business could be so much more impactful.
Blog An MBA for Social Entrepreneurship Friday 26 July 2019 As an Oxford educated MBA student with the added privilege of graduating debt-free thanks to the Skoll Scholarship, how should I strive to use business as a force for good?
Blog One year at Oxford Monday 22 July 2019 This year was, frankly, much harder than I expected. I didn’t think that getting back into the swing of school would be such an adjustment.
Blog From Farms to Forests: Land Rights as an Impact Multiplier Thursday 18 April 2019 In a social enterprise space dominated by philanthropic or investment dollars that are often chasing the latest innovation, it is easy to overlook a time-tested conservation strategy that costs close to zero – supporting indigenous land rights.
Blog Aligning Inner Wellbeing with External Impact Thursday 11 April 2019 This session at the Skoll World Forum 2019 was a great reminder of how important self-care is for everyone, especially for change-makers.
Blog Shifting The Power Dynamics of Philanthropy Thursday 11 April 2019 Philanthropy in and of itself is neither the solution nor the problem in international development. Rather, it is how we currently understand, utilize and govern philanthropy that contributes to its successes and failures.
Scholar News Preserving biodiversity through entrepreneurship Thursday 28 March 2019 Skoll Scholar Alex Wankel awarded £75,000 of research funding for quinoa milk venture.
Scholar News A knead for empowerment Monday 4 March 2019 Oxford MBA and Skoll Scholar Julie Greene on the rise of The Women’s Bakery.
Blog My journey from an impact business in India to a world-class MBA Monday 10 December 2018 My first time flying, my first time out of Romania. There, while looking at the clouds, I understood that I could achieve anything I intend to achieve.
Blog A letter to my younger self Wednesday 5 December 2018 I write this blog post as a letter to my younger self. We don’t have a time machine (yet) but what we do have is an ability to communicate ideas through our written word and I see my life as part of a larger continuum.
Blog My journey from Peru Tuesday 20 November 2018 Everything had been carefully planned, but as I have learned many times during my 6 years working in the Andes it is best to assume that something may inevitably go wrong.
