One of the most unusual and surreal years in memory has finally come to an end. It feels slightly selfish to post an…
Written by Scottish historian Niall Ferguson, the book is subtitled “A Financial History of the World”. There is also a…
At the end of March 2021, my wife and I spent 5 nights at the Reethi Faru resort in the beautiful…
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…
Last week, it was revealed that WhatsApp had brought in revenues of around $10 million USD in the first half of 2014. This begs the question — why would Facebook spend $18B on a company that is on track to earn only $20 million dollars this year? At its current value of…
This blog crossed 2000 views in December and I’m quite pleased about it. It may not have quite matched the readership of other MBA blogs, but given that the MBA program at Oxford is quite small when compared to others, it’s to be expected.
Unlike the break after Michaelmas, this was not a true break as there were mandatory activities during the break. The first and last weeks were reserved for the entrepreneurship project (EP). The timetable did come in for a bit of criticism as the Hilary term was quite hectic and it would have been nice…
The Startup of You by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha is a book that was released back in 2012. It was quite popular right around the time I started my MBA (was on several MBA reading lists) but I had not gotten around to reading it until now. I read it mostly for the…
Its the end of week five and its hard to believe that I am midway through the Michaelmas term. Anyway I thought it would be a good time to share my impressions of the courses so far.
A few weeks ago, the following tweet popped up in my timeline.
