The Skoll
Scholarship is a competitive scholarship for incoming MBA students who pursue
entrepreneurial solutions for urgent social and environmental challenges.
The Scholarship
provides funding and exclusive opportunities to meet with world-renowned
entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and investors.
The Skollarship
provides tutition for social entrepreneurs who have set up or have been working
in social enterprises, and who wish to improve their knowledge of
market-oriented practices so they can be more effective in their subsequent
social change pursuits.
The Scholarship
is given in recognition that the MBA may represent a significant financial
burden, particularly for those who have chosen to work in social ventures
rather than the commercial or public sectors.
To be considered,
you need to meet the following criteria:
1. Candidates
must have started or worked in a social venture for 12 months or longer.
2. Candidates
must demonstrate evidence of personal qualities strongly resonating with social
entrepreneurship leadership, and illustrate how these have influenced their
career path thus far. These qualities include:
- Single-mindedness and persistence in pursuit of a social benefit goal, including a willingness to face failure and start again
- A bias towards action rather than reflection
- A tendency to explore the environment for opportunities and resources
- A willingness to take personal, and sometimes financial, risks
- A habit of developing a network and subtly or unsubtly exploiting its members.
3. Candidates
must demonstrate how a business education can contribute to the wider
development of the community they work with in the social entrepreneurship
movement. They will need to illustrate why a business degree at this stage of
their career trajectory can help them amplify their impact.
4. Candidates
must demonstrate some evidence of their need for the scholarship. This may be
exhibited, for example, in previous work experiences or personal backgrounds
which make self-funding the MBA a significant financial burden.
Scholarship application
deadline for the next round is 11 January 2013.
Further scholarship
details and application procedures can be found at http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/skoll/scholars/Pages/scholarship.aspx
