Does your CV show what you’ve got or what others haven’t?

I met up with a friend of mine last week who asked me to look at her son’s CV.  He has a first in Natural Sciences and a distinction in his MSc in Aerospace Engineering.  He’s got some practical engineering experience in the UK and in India.  He’s personable, engaging and unable to show these qualities because he’s not getting interviews.  I’ll call him David.

Investing in MBA’s Slice by Slice

Since I discovered crowd investing, there has been a stellar pitch on Crowdcube which particularly impressed me and seemed to get fully funded far faster than anything else, raising £430,000 in just 20 days.  It was a proposal for a chain of pizza-by-the-slice restaurants in London.  My own bite-sized investment left my back account a few weeks ago and the first branch opens soon.

Food companies are, so to speak, two a penny in crowd investing world so it wasn’t (only) my affection for food which attracted me.  Pizza Rossa is run by a group of MBA graduates from London Business School.  The team won the School’s annual business plan competition and was also a winner of the 2013 Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Founders Award.

Carpe Diem

Most lecturers over their careers meet literally thousands of students. It would be satisfying to think these lecturers could positively transform the lives of all these students. Equally, it would be good if each meeting could positively add to each student’s knowledge and personal development. However, in reality transformative educational experiences are not commonplace, but this makes them even more special when they occur.

Eating Soup with a Fork: Teaching Entrepreneurship to Business Students

More and more people are getting aware of the benefits of “inventing a job rather than finding a job”. Across the world, universities and colleges are rushing to introduce entrepreneurship classes. This phenomenon has rekindled the age-old debate, whether entrepreneurship can be taught in business schools or one is better off learning it ‘by doing’?