by Admin | May 30, 2018 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Business Basics, Developing an Idea or Early Stage
Dean Peter Tufano introduced the Oxford Social Impact Careers Conference by telling an excited and diverse audience that we should measure the impact of our lives by the extent of our ambition, the scale of our influence, and whether the impact is positive or...
by Admin | May 29, 2018 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Business Basics, Creative & Cultural, Exploring Opportunities, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised
Something I’ve never forgotten was an interview with the incredibly prolific author Alexander McCall Smith. The interview rattled off a list of things McCall Smith had done in the recent past and asked him how he managed to do all that. His answer was simple: “I don’t...
by Admin | Apr 16, 2018 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Exploring Opportunities, Oxford, Programmes & Events
Recently, we were selected to represent the Zoology Department and take part in the Ideas to Impact program at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. This program was an enterprise skills initiative offered to postdoctoral researchers from the...
by Admin | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog & Case Studies, Business Basics, Consumer & Retail, Creative & Cultural, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Education & Knowledge, Finance, General, Health & Wellbeing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology
Consumer & Retail TED Talks: Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating With beautiful insight, Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorientating as failure and offers a simple – though hard – way to carry on, regardless of...
by Admin | Feb 5, 2018 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, People & Organisations
What if you could change the world with your pants? That was the question posed by Sarah Jordan, Founder of social enterprise, Y.O.U Underwear, to the audience at Pitch at the Pub in Oxford on Wednesday 17th January. “Pitch @ the Pub is an awareness raising...
by Admin | Jan 19, 2018 | Blog & Case Studies, Business Basics, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Oxford, People & Organisations
Keen to follow the best advice, when I first started my business I wandered down to a few networking groups. But I found them rather phony and stiff – it seemed to be all about entrepreneurs trying to sell to each other, with business cards being handed out before...