Mba

Post MBA: Seven Month Update

It has been a fairly long time since I have posted here, but I definitely did not want to sign off without giving readers a quick update on my personal situation. I had a couple of job leads from Silicon MilkRoundabout that I converted into interviews where I performed quite…

Post MBA: Two Month Update

Many of my classmates and I have been receiving queries from MBA aspirants who are interested in applying to SBS. The questions are usually focussed on the career opportunities after graduating from Oxford. This is understandable as many of them plan to take on massive amounts of…

Post MBA: Week Six Mini Update

It’s now been exactly six weeks since the graduation ceremony that was held at the Sheldonian and I think it’s a good time to give a mini update on where things stand.

Housing

Summer Term: Weeks Seven to Ten

Job Hunting:
Got my first interview of the year and it was such a relief to finally kickoff the job hunt. I’m interested in Product Manager roles and was interviewed by a small company in Cambridge. I cleared the technical phone interview and was invited for an onsite…

Summer Term: Weeks Three to Six (scp, job hunting)

It’s been a while since I have posted and I have a lot of ground to make up (The 2014–2015 class kicked off their pre-course this week!). I hope to catch up and wrap up within the next two weeks, so stay tuned.

Is an MBA required to become a ‘good’ product manager?

Is the MBA required?

I deliberately included the qualifier ‘good’, in the title as the MBA is obviously not required to get into product management. Note that I am looking at this issue from the…

Summer Term: Weeks One and Two (summer electives)

As mentioned earlier, I decided to stay back in Oxford to work on a strategic consulting project (SCP). However my team and I decided to take a week off before starting the project so that we could recover from the end of the Trinity term…

Trinity Term: Week Ten

As a continuation to my last post, I thought it might be useful to share my opinion on the electives that I took in the Hilary term. MBA’s take three core classes and two core electives in the Hilary term.

Trinity Term: Week Nine

With the final classes of the Trinity term finishing this week, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the electives that I took this term. Please note that these are my personal opinions and may not reflect those of the class. Remember, I am looking at these electives from the…

Trinity Term: Week Eight

Week 8 was officially the last week of classes, however we still have a couple left to make up for the time lost due to the MBAT’s. Things are getting a bit hectic as the assignments typically start to come due around this time, but there was still time for one last formal dinner at…