The Oxford MBA is a one-year top ranked MBA course comprising an intensive series of stimulating lectures, energetic seminars and small group work, which can take students anywhere in the world.
An MBA has never been more necessary. Our world is unprecedentedly complex, connected, and fragile. Our trust in institutions and each other is under intense pressure. Our energy, food and water security, our aging populations, the explosion in stored data – these all require managers and leaders of unusual ability, sophistication and integrity.
An MBA should combine both core competence and deep specialisation. At Oxford, the MBA combines these things in a single year of intensive, immersive, and challenging experiences. In little more than a decade, the Oxford MBA has become recognised as one of the best one-year programmes in the world. In the 2012 Financial Times’ Global MBA ranking Saïd Business School was ranked 2nd in the UK and 20th in the world.
We offer a challenging and thought-provoking course delivered by a dedicated faculty of international scholars and practitioners in state-of-the-art facilities at the Saïd Business School. Our MBA class is a diverse mix of extraordinary individuals from dozens of countries and every possible background.
A year in Oxford will change your life and expand your ambitions.
The course initially focuses upon building a broad foundation of theoretical knowledge about business through core modules in subjects ranging from accountancy to strategy, and from managerial economics to organisational analysis. Once these core building blocks are in-place, students can take advantage of the Oxford MBA’s extremely flexible course structure by tailoring elective choices to suit target career paths.
There is also a strong practical emphasis embedded within the course through project work. Students undertake an entrepreneurship project at the start of the second term and can choose to work upon a strategic consulting project in the summer. Many electives also have a strong practitioner focus through being co-taught by faculty and industry experts.
Oxford MBA information sessions – Beijing
Date: 4 November 2012
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Venue: 王府半岛酒店 王府井金鱼胡同8号
RSVP: http://oxfordmbabeijing-chasedream.eventbrite.com/
Agenda:
- 13.45pm: Registration
- 2.00pm: Oxford MBA and Executive MBA presentation
- 3.00pm: Q&A session with alumni
- 3.30pm: Drinks reception
Speaker:
Stephan Chambers
MBA programme director.Stephan Chambers is Director of the MBA degree at the Saїd Business School in the University of Oxford, where he teaches entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance, and works with the University of Oxford's technology transfer company, Isis Innovation.
He is Chairman of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and non-executive Chairman of IWA Publishing. He sits on the advisory boards of Princeton University Press and Dawn Capital, an early stage venture fund
MBA Student Profile:
Buddy Ye
MBA 2002, Nationality: ChineseBefore taking his MBA at Oxford, Buddy Ye ran two start-ups, MeetChina and Ecantata, the latter of which he sold. But the pace of start-up life was frenetic and Ye felt that he needed to take time out, to get some perspective on his career and life.
“It is very challenging running start-ups, every day you are dealing with very different issues, fighting for survival,” he says. “Doing the MBA at Saïd was a perfect time for me to sit down and think things through, look at the accomplishments and mistakes I had made, and consider how I could improve in different areas.”
The Oxford MBA, says Ye, was the best programme to gain a better understanding about running a company from a more horizontal level, across the business, rather than having just a niche focus. “My goal was always to be in the entrepreneurial world. So I needed to understand every aspect of the business, and the MBA helped me to do that.”
Ye had spotted an opportunity in China’s nascent Web 2.0 social networking space. Everything was in place, he says, all the market lacked was someone to jump in and offer the internet users some easy to use, functional tools.
So in March 2005, Ye and business partner Edward Haynes founded WangYou.com. “The main purpose is to make this the premier online space that allows the Chinese youth to express themselves through a range of different digital content, including music, videos, personal blogs and photos,” said Ye.
In a comparatively short space of time, WangYou secured its first angel investment of $500,000, followed by another two rounds of formal financing from Silicon Valley and Japan, and hit a series of impressive targets chalking up ten million registered users within just a couple of years.
As CEO and founder Ye set out a clear strategic direction for the business and took it from strength to strength in an internationally competitive market. “We have some advantages over competition from the main players, because we are a local company staffed by local Chinese people,” he said. “This business is very culturally sensitive. You need to be able to understand the local culture very deeply; it is not just about language, for example. Also, we have a very good understanding of the local cost structure, and how to allocate capital.”
In 2010 Ye was looking for new challenges and sold the majority of WangYou to a major Japanese entertainment and media company in the animation sector. Ye started an investment and management advisory firm – Shune River Capital – leveraging his cross-border experience and knowledge of strategic planning and investment to advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, private placement, restructuring, spin-offs and recapitalisation. Focusing on sino-foreign transactions and drawing on his experience in the technology, media, manufacturing and retail sectors, Ye has helped a top-3 Chinese state-owned TV/film media company to set up a cross-border co-production film deal; advised a top-5 Chinese publishing company on its first overseas investment; and enabled a top-10 Chinese food and beverage company to make its first overseas investment in Australia.
“The Oxford MBA gave me more than deep business knowledge and an excellent international network, it increased my self-confidence and enabled me to discover my own potential.”
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