Peter Tufano

I was with this role at the business school at Oxford, which is where you and I crossed paths in those early days.

And I've had a range of different roles there from entrepreneur in residence to I was for a while a special advisor to the dean, Peter Tufano, when we were doing a lot of work around climate.

But I worked on the idea of to propose a new course for the MBA students, because at the time it felt like there were a whole bunch of new business models and new language and new frames that were emerging.

And I thought it was so important for business students, having been one myself like 20 years ago, Um, to be able to be tuning into what's happening in real time, not just like the case studies of things that have happened five or 10 years ago, but like, how are you, how do you say surfing on the cusp of the wave? Right.

Uh, it's been home to Ferran Adria, perhaps the world's most creative chef, as he launched the Global Ideas Challenge competition.

It had hosted Eric Ries, founder of the Lean Startup movement, Peter Thiel, technology entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal, and it has drawn more than 1,000 students from across the university to just these two events.

It's the location where a range of cross-school team-based classes now meet and do their project work, and it's a resource to business owners and entrepreneurs in the community.

In the same vein as the welcoming hi on the outside of the building, more than anything, it represents a wonderful spirit of why not and how about.

And I think the world desperately needs innovation today.

On behalf of the entire faculty advisory group and my fellow deans, and knowing that Drew likely has her own list, there are still a few individuals I'd like to introduce and recognize here today.

Uh, the first is Peter Tufano, who was formerly a colleague at Harvard Business School and is now the Dean of the Saïd Business School at Oxford.

If there is one person whose vision and determination have made the I-Lab possible, it's Peter.

One was quantitative and one was qualitative.

The quantitative research, if you Google Peter Tufano and Belen Villalonga and Boya Wang and Journal of Corporate Finance, you can find the article that they wrote about which was an assessment of 3,000 listed companies with different ownership types.

Family owned, private equity owned, institutionally owned, government owned.

And they looked at their ESG performance using all of the major ESG data providers.