ANNUAL

REPORT
2014-2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

A Message From Our Directors

History and Vision

Our Clients

Consultants

Our Initiatives

Alumni

A MESSAGE FROM OUR DIRECTORS

To Our Stakeholders
The past year has been tremendously exciting for The Oxford Strategy Group. We have solved
interesting challenges and presented our tailored solutions to diverse clients, including large
corporates across industries, consultancies, start-ups and social enterprises. Most importantly, we
had a great time and learned a lot in the process.

We are still a very young organisation, but I believe we have plenty of reasons to be optimistic about
OSGs potential to deliver on our mission: to be a platform for visionary students to gain
meaningful, real-world experience in a diverse and supportive environment.

Internal Development- First of all, the number of applicants for consultant positions has grown
tremendously, which allows us to carefully handpick the most committed and creative team
players. This is, as you all know, the backbone of the organisation.

Challenging real-world projects- Secondly, the dedicated work of previous generations of OSGers
is starting to pay off: as our portfolio of successful projects grows with time, it has become easier to
find projects this year, which has given us more freedom to choose only projects that yield the
most value for our consultants.

Creating a learning ecosystem- Thirdly, we have made an effort to ensure that, as we mature, OSG
remains as a learning ecosystem where the teams meet up not only to discuss projects, but also
learn consulting skills in a structured way. Specifically, we have started the OSG Academy in
cooperation with the Careers Service and OSG alumni to allow our people to learn essential
skills from more experienced consultants. Further, as our alumni group grows, there is a lot of
potential value to be harnessed in terms of lasting friendships, as well as input on the direction of
the organisation. However, much work still needs to be done in both areas in the coming year.

Forging external collaborations- Lastly, we will be launching exciting initiatives with external
organisations. In the upcoming Michaelmas Term we will be hosting a case competition together
with Boston Consulting Group, which will hopefully be the start of a partnership that could pay off
in a number of different ways. Further, we have just started to make revenues from corporate client
projects. Starting this fall, we plan to donate the money to fund charitable causes through a shark
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A MESSAGE FROM OUR DIRECTORS

tank pitch competition, where our consultants will work together with the selected social
enterprise to come up with creative suggestions.

Although all of the above points give reason for optimism, this is not the time to lay back and be
contented with what has been achieved over the past few years. It is not easy to maintain the
entrepreneurial spirit of a newly started society as routines emerge, but I believe that OSG is at its
best precisely when it acts as a platform for ambitious ideas and initiatives rather than as a mere
structure for real world business experience. I look forward to contributing to shaping the future of
OSG over the coming terms, and I am absolutely confident that the Managing Director of the coming
term, Rebecca Zhang, will push OSG to greater heights.

I believe that OSG is at

its best precisely when it

acts as a platform for

ambitious ideas and

initiatives rather than as

a mere structure for real

world business

experience."

Rune Kvist
Managing Director Trinity Term 2015

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HISTORY AND VISION

Our history and what we believe in

The Oxford Strategy Group was founded in

2012 by four Oxford undergraduate and
post-graduate students, Thomas Seo, Sophia

Moradian, Henry Gillow, and Mahnoor

Naeem. Having previously worked on a

they wanted to pursue further consulting

projects across a range of industries. After
realizing that the University of Oxford did
not have a student-run management
consultancy, the team decided to fill this gap

by establishing a student consultancy that

harnesses the talent of Oxford students to

add value to global and regional firms.

We are individuals who share a

common goal of making a difference.

For us, consulting is the business of value
creation and we take our work very

seriously. We recruit talented students

across a wide array of academic backgrounds

and levels of study. We believe that this

unique blend of knowledge and experience
provides the most value for our clients.

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Drive. Development. Results.

At the h eart of it, its our love for business that
drives our development of talent. We are
always in pursuit of results of the h ighest

consulting project for a global medical

devices firm in Oxford, the team decided that

Our Key Principles:

excellence for our clients.

OUR CLIENTS
OSG has maintained an excellent portfolio of
clients over the past year. During the last
year we have worked with 9 different clients

on 11 different case projects across a myriad

of industries (from consumer goods & retail,

to healthcare, education, entertainment &

industrial goods) and functions (from market

research and entry, to growth strategy to

supply chain management) across 6 different

geographic locations.
We do not settle for anything except the
utmost excellence when it comes to our

work for our long-term client, Unilever, our

work.

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Unilever Jernimo Martins

Our team worked extensively for two whole
terms for Unilever Jeronimo Martins,
conducting market trend, competitor and sales
analysis to come up with a price board

work. As a testament to the quality of our

team was flown to Portugal to present their

Highlighted Case:

proposal.

OUR CLIENTS
Creating value locally and globally

9 Key Clients

11 High Impact

Projects

6 Different
Geographical L ocations

Range of retail, education, transportation

supply chain/market assessment cases in
the UK and Germany
Pricing proposal and
client presentation in
Portugal

Market Trend and

Competitor Analysis
for Non-Profit in
Kenya and Uganda

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Market entry strategy

and Financial
Modeling in Mauritius

CONSULTANTS
Creating value for our consultants

Our applicants have come from a diverse
profile of backgrounds (across the Americas,

>50 Consultants

Europe and Asia), levels of study, as well as

work and leadership experiences.
We aim to cultivate our consultants abilities
in a conducive and friendly environment
with driven people. Fostering an open,
communal culture is essential for feedback

5:1 Applicants to

which allows our consultants to develop. We

Consultants

provide our consultants an opportunity to

immerse themselves in a professional
environment while forming friendships with
likeminded people.

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OUR INITIATIVES

Over the past year we created the OSG
Academy Team and the Internal Team

3 OSG Academy Workshops

dedicated to organising social activities and

providing workshops, such as case training
sessions together with Deloitte, KPMG, and
Oxfords Careers Service. We aim to increase
our offering of training practicing
leadership skills, case interviews, and case
competitions

according

to

our

consultants interests. In addition, facilitating

social events allows OSGs consultants to
learn from each other and build valuable
relationships throughout our network of
consultants and alumni.

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UK finalist for KPMG

international case
competition

ALUMNI
Diversity of aspirations
In the past year, more than 50 consultants
have undergone through the OSG experience,
be it working on a client project, helping with

internal development to undergoing OSGs

training programmes. Many of our alumnus

consultants have now gone on to work for

leading companies across consulting, finance
and industry. Some of the key consultant
career destinations include:

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ALUMNI

I really enjoyed collaborating with my team and
being able to speak directly with the client. The
organization was able to provide a real hands-on
experience in consulting. OSG has a great
community culture, and even after leaving Oxford I
have been able to remain in touch with multiple
OSG members. "
Kinsey Hart: OSG Consultant (MT13)
Deloitte Consulting Consultant Class of 2014

OSG is a great place to gain hands-on experience
in consulting as well as building a network of like
minded people. During my time at OSG, I really
enjoyed the opportunity to work with C-Level
clients, to meet with extremely diverse and
intelligent fellow consultants, and to attend many
OSG sponsored career events.
Ziliang Yang: OSG Project Leader (TT15, HT 15)
Hitachi Consulting Summer Analyst 2015

OSG has been a great experience that has given
me an insight into consulting and the world of
business in general. Through my two projects and
my leadership roles within OSG, I honed my skills in
qualitative and quantitative analysis, teamwork
and leadership, while also enjoying myself and
making lots of friends along the way! I feel that my
experience in OSG was really helpful in preparing
me for my internship in Fundamental Active
Equities at BlackRock, where I analysed industries
and companies in a very similar way.
Nanthini: OSG Project Leader (MT14); Director
of Client Strategy (HH-TT15)
BlackRock Summer Analyst 2015

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"OSG was a terrific experience for learning how to
solve complex problems by focusing a team's
talents on critical, time-sensitive issues. Creating a
presentation for clients makes OSG consultants
think in a structured, creative manner necessary
for most high level business decisions."
Elan Bernstein: OSG Consultant (HT14)
Rothschild Investment Banking Summer Analyst
2014

ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Drive. Development. Results.

The Oxford Strategy Group
2014-2015

For more information, please visit http://www.oxfordstrategygroup.com/

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