The Saïd Business School at Oxford, home of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, moved up a couple of slots in the FT’s 2010 Global MBA rankings.  Its ranking at number 16 worldwide is a good showing for the still young business school.  The report includes a series of predictions for 2010 for business education.  [...]

Dhruv Larka, a 2007/2008 Skoll Scholar at the Saïd Business School who was named an Echoing Green Fellows finalist earlier this month, has now been confirmed as  a 2009 Echoing Green Fellow, joining 16 other social entrepreneurs from around the world also named as new Fellows. You can watch a short video about the new [...]

The Saïd Business School at Oxford, which houses the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, is teaming up with the London Business School and the Cranfield School of Management to “promote a culture of philanthropy and public service among the business leaders of the future.”  Sponsored by the Pears Foundation, the new Pears Business Schools Partnership [...]

Dhruv Lakra, a 2007/2008 Skoll Scholar at the Skoll Centre at the Said Business School at Oxford, has been named an Echoing Green Fellows finalist for his organization, Mirakle Couriers.  Mirakle Couriers provides employment opportunities for low-income deaf adults in India.  Mirakle Couriers offers delivery and tracking services to clients in Mumbai, with all delivery [...]

The Skoll World Forum kicks off in Oxford on March 25.  The Foundation co-producers this each year with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School at  Oxford.  It’s shaping up to be a great event.  The agenda has now gone live. You can see that here.  The theme this year is [...]

In her final of four posts on the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership blog, Pamela Hartigan outlines her reasons for taking on her new job as the director of the Skoll Centre at the Said Business School at Oxford University.   She makes a pretty compelling argument on why social entrepreneurship and social enterprise [...]

In case you missed the news, Pamela Hartigan was named this week as the new director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School at Oxford.  Jeff Skoll funded the creation of the Skoll Centre through the Foundation in 2003, and we partner with the Skoll Centre to produce the annual [...]

For the first time, a Skoll Scholar has been awarded the Said Prize by the Oxford Said Business School as the top MBA student.  Christie George received the award “both for outstanding academic achievement and a wider contribution to the social, sporting and intellectual life of the Said Business School.”  Each year, the Skoll Centre [...]