Said Business School

Said Business School (prounced: saeed), Oxford University, hosts a programme which funds social entrepreneurs who are motivated to bring substantial changes in the society with the entrepreneurial venture. I was amazed to find so many of them are focussed on India. The first one was from Shashank Verma a Indian software engineer who left his career to pursue MBA at Oxford, where he described his case study on the development of bio fuel in India. His idea was accepted, funded and is now called Clean Star Energy, which has plantations across Maharashtra and is a growing organization. The second one was from Dhruv Lakra, who left his career of investment banking to work with fishermen folks in southern India to help them organize their business, and eventually went ahead to become a skoll scholar at Oxford. He is now the founder and CEO of Mirakle Couriers Ltd, a courier company based out of Mumbai which employs deaf people. His idea is to bring them into mainstream job and to prove that deaf people are actually capable of running an organization. The employees of Mirakle couriers use sign language to perform their everyday tasks. Men does the delivery work, and women does the official and administrative work. Apart from these two there were several ideas like starting and managing a fund which invests in the supply chain management to the farming system in India. A training academy for principals and senior teachers at the rural government run primary schools, so that they can learn and employ the best practices in their school which educates the future of the nation. These are some of the brilliant ideas from the graduate students of Oxford, and this is what the country exactly needs from its young minds.