Overview

As Dean, Peter made systems change a core part of the curriculum, collaborating with colleagues from across the University. He championed and was part of the teaching team for Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford (GOTO), which is a part of the core curriculum for MBA and EMBA students. In this course, students learn how to analyze and map systems, identify intervention points to lead to systemic change, and work on self-designed projects to effect this change. While the tools underlying GOTO are similar from year to year (systems maps, systems dynamics, user-centred design, influence strategies), the substantive topic addressed changes from year to year, and has included demography and ageing; big data and data privacy; water; energy; pandemic recovery; and climate change. The expertise for these topics is drawn from colleagues across Oxford, including a close partnership with the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment. At Oxford he also taught in the inaugural online course on FinTech. At HBS, Peter created and taught courses on Corporate Financial Engineering, Household Finance (joint with HLS) and he lead the team that created Finance 2. In 2021-22, he is on sabbatical and is not teaching.