15 days ago by Brendan Baker

Oxford is a pleasant place. beautiful buildings, nice weather (at least this year), style with substance. It’s easy to enjoy it. Too much even. Distraction comes easily. These MBAs are interesting people. Forty-eight countries are represented in my class, and about 95 per cent of the class is intern ...

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23 days ago by Brendan Baker

It has been nearly 18 months since I first decided to head to Oxford to do an MBA. Since then, I’ve graduated from one Harry Potterish institution, and worked hard to get to another for different reasons. I’ve tried to fund it by asking 30,000 people (and eventually given the money to two fantastic ...

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113 days ago by Brendan Baker

Hey Everyone, My name’s Brendan, and I’m a recovering engineer… ..eerrr, let’s start that again, shall we? Well my name is Brendan, and I have been an engineer. Studied as an engineer at UBC. Worked as an engineer in Canada. But it wasn’t long before I felt other areas pulling my attention away. I’m ...

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126 days ago by ApexWriters

Oxford-Said Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Application deadline 09 October 2009 15 January 2010 02 April 2010 Interview decision by 30 October 2009 05 February 2010 30 April 2010 Final decision by 11 December 2009 12 March 2010 28 May 2010 Oxford Said’s website Related posts:Duke-Fuqua releases 2009-10 dea ...

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205 days ago by glen

Figure out what you’re good at and be who you are. In strategy courses, we talk a lot about sustainable competitive advantage-what it is that makes your company better than others at doing what it is that you do-in some cases, you may have companies that compete in markets but don’t directly compete ...

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210 days ago by glen

You don’t get to make the rules; deal with it. This one you hopefully learned in undergrad, but it bears some repeating. You take a top international business programme which requires several years’ experience to get in and you’re quite likely to have a lot of talented people who are used to having ...

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218 days ago by glen

You don’t get to know the rules; deal with it. For most of my academic life, I had some idea of what the grading policy would be for my work-I always lost all the penmanship points, but got most of the rest of them. You could, of course, use this to game the system-you’d get to know your lecturers, ...

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