What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
I want our company to leave a legacy of learning to find the balance between what's good and what's good for you.
I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.
Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there.
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.