35 days ago by Brendan Baker

MBA programs are chock full of group work. I suppose this is to simulate the real world. That’s not surprising. What is surprising is the number of people that can’t seem to work in a group. Oxford being 95% international, I fittingly have a Ukranian/American, Peruvian and South African in my curren ...

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52 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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60 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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150 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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163 days ago by ApexWriters

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242 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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