Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Pershing Square Awards $5.4 Million to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program
The Pershing Square Foundation has announced a supplemental gift of £3.7 million ($5.4 million) gift to the Oxford Pershing Square Graduate Scholars Program at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.
Established in 2013 with a gift of £4.5 million ($6.6 million) from the foundation, the program initially supported five one-year scholarships annually for promising social change leaders in the Oxford 1+1 MBA program, which enables students to pair an MBA earned in a year with one of Oxford's many other one-year master's degree programs. The latest gift will increase scholarship support for the full two years of the program. Pershing Square Scholars also receive mentorship and networking opportunities, including attendance at annual meetings and workshops with leading innovators and changemakers...