[5] In 1988 a committee chaired by Sir Claus Moser (warden of Wadham College) recommended that the University set up a new School of Management Studies.

[6] The opening on 5 November 2001 was accompanied by a demonstration by students concerned about the controversial nature of Wafic Saïd's donation.

The former Templeton site at Egrove Park then became the Saïd Business School Executive Education Centre.

In 2012 the Thatcher Business Education Centre, financed by a donation from Saïd, was opened on the Park End Street site.

[5] Saïd donated a further £15 million in 2019 to finance the conversion of the old Osney power station into a Global Leadership Centre.

[9] In 2020 Saïd Business School lost an employment tribunal case brought by its former director of custom executive education.

[12] Saïd Business School offers one undergraduate programme: Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Management.

In the 2018–2019 class of 315 students, 61% were male and 39% were female with 62 nationalities represented and averaged 5 years of work experience.

Module topics (in 2022) are: The School starts a part-time (hybrid) two-year MSc in Global Healthcare Leadership in September 2022/23 academic year.

This programme is being managed under both Said Business School and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Services.

[28] For administrative purposes, Saïd Business School is part of the University of Oxford's Social Sciences Division.