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DATE & TIME

Thursday, 5 May, 2022

8:00am EDT

LOCATION

Hosted on Zoom.

CONTACT

Emma Martens, emartens@gbsn.org

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Aligning Business with the Long-Term Health of Society

Our May Member Collab will feature Judy Samuelson, Founder and Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program. GBSN members are invited to join this Collab’s discussion around corporate purpose and long-term value creation. Discussions will explore Samuelson’s work in business education at Aspen and previously with the Ford Foundation.

We will discuss Judy’s book, Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World, where she describes the profound shifts in attitudes and mindsets that are redefining our notions of what constitutes business success.

Book Overview

Dynamic forces are conspiring to clarify the new rules of real value creation—and to put the old rules to rest. Internet-powered transparency, more powerful worker voice, the decline in importance of capital, and the complexity of global supply chains in the face of planetary limits all define the new landscape. As executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, Judy Samuelson has a unique vantage point from which to engage business decision makers and identify the forces that are moving the needle in both boardrooms and business classrooms.

Samuelson lays out how hard-to-measure intangibles like reputation, trust, and loyalty are imposing new ways to assess risk and opportunity in investment and asset management. She argues that “maximizing shareholder value” has never been the sole objective of effective businesses while observing that shareholder theory and the practices that keep it in place continue to lose power in both business and the public square. In our globalized era, she demonstrates how expectations of corporations are set far beyond the company gates—and why employees are both the best allies of the business and the new accountability mechanism, more so than consumers or investors.

Samuelson’s new rules offer a powerful guide to how businesses are changing today—and what is needed to succeed in tomorrow’s economic and social landscape.

Special Guest

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  Judy Samuelson

  Vice President, Founder & Executive Director, Business and Society Program
  The Aspen Institute
  USA
  

When?

Thursday, 5 May, 2022

• 8:00am Washington D.C.
• 2:00pm Paris
• 1:00pm Lagos
• 5:30pm Mumbai
• 8:00pm Singapore

Register

Cross-Border Collabs are not open to the public and are only open to GBSN Members. 

What are Cross-Border Collabs?

Cross-Border Collabs are exclusive gatherings for GBSN members, focused on engaging our community to tackle some of the greatest challenges of our time. Facilitated by topic experts, these session will provide a place for our members be active participants in our mission of improving management and entrepreneurship education for the developing world. Collabs are held monthly on every first Thursday of the month. Collabs are an exclusive opportunity for member school ambassadors, deans and leading faculty members. For more information on upcoming and previous Collabs, visit gbsn.org/collabs

DATE & TIME

Thursday, 7 April, 2022

8:00am EDT

LOCATION

Hosted on Zoom.

CONTACT

Emma Martens, emartens@gbsn.org

GBSN Members are Invited to April’s Cross Border Collab

Join us Thursday, April 7th for GBSN’s April Cross-Border Collab. This month’s unique conversation will be an opportunity to learn about  new opportunities for your students, faculty, and administrators to engage with the network. GBSN’s CEO Dan LeClair will be announcing the start of several new programs with our corporate partners and will be available to take any questions you may have about membership.  

The strength of the network comes from diversity and size, but also the connectivity achieved between members. This Collab will also include some time for participants to connect with old and meet new member colleagues.

When?

Thursday, 7 April, 2022

• 8:00am Washington D.C.
• 2:00pm Paris
• 1:00pm Lagos
• 5:30pm Mumbai
• 8:00pm Singapore

Register

Cross-Border Collabs are not open to the public and are only open to GBSN Members. 

What are Cross-Border Collabs?

Cross-Border Collabs are exclusive gatherings for GBSN members, focused on engaging our community to tackle some of the greatest challenges of our time. Facilitated by topic experts, these session will provide a place for our members be active participants in our mission of improving management and entrepreneurship education for the developing world. Collabs are held monthly on every first Thursday of the month. Collabs are an exclusive opportunity for member school ambassadors, deans and leading faculty members.

DATE & TIME

Thursday, 3 February, 2022

8:00am EDT

LOCATION

Hosted on Zoom.

CONTACT

Emma Martens, emartens@gbsn.org

Prioritizing People, Planet, and Purpose in Business Education: A Conversation with Andrew Jack of the Financial Times 

There is little doubt that media rankings have an enormous influence on business education. They assess school performance and serve as a benchmark for students, employers, and school leaders. And they offer an entry point for reporting on trends and innovations in business education. Join the February Member Collab for an intimate conversation with FT Education Editor, Andrew Jack, about ESG in business education globally, especially as a catalyst for international development. We’ll talk about the role of FT rankings and its inaugural Responsible Business Education Awards, which is designed to “showcase strong examples of work by business schools seeking to focus on people and planet alongside profit.” 
Collabs are exclusive to GBSN member institutions. For this edition, members representatives are encouraged to invite their colleagues responsible for rankings and directors of MBA programs and other programs that are ranked internationally. Academic leaders and faculty from member schools can secure a spot by registering below.

Speaker

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  Andrew Jack

  Global Education Editor
  Financial Times Editorial
  United Kingdom
  

When?

Thursday, 3 February, 2022

• 8:00am Washington D.C.
• 2:00pm Paris
• 2:00pm Lagos
• 6:30pm Mumbai
• 9:00pm Singapore

Register

Cross-Border Collabs are not open to the public and are only open to GBSN Members. 

What are Cross-Border Collabs?

Cross-Border Collabs are exclusive gatherings for GBSN members, focused on engaging our community to tackle some of the greatest challenges of our time. Facilitated by topic experts, these session will provide a place for our members be active participants in our mission of improving management and entrepreneurship education for the developing world. Collabs are held monthly on every first Thursday of the month. Collabs are an exclusive opportunity for member school ambassadors, deans and leading faculty members.

DATE & TIME

Thursday, 13 January, 2022

8:00am EDT

LOCATION

Hosted on Zoom.

CONTACT

Emma Martens, emartens@gbsn.org

Runaway climate change and rampant inequality are ravaging the world and costing a fortune. Who will help lead us to a better future? Business.

These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts like pandemics, resource pressures, and shrinking biodiversity—threaten our very existence. Other megatrends, such as the clean economy explosion and the unprecedented focus on diversity and inclusion, offer exciting new opportunities to heal the world, and prosper by doing so. Government cannot do this alone. Business must step up.

In this seminal book, former Unilever boss Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston explode fifty years of corporate dogma. They reveal for the first time key lessons from Unilever and pioneering companies around the world on how you can profit by fixing the world’s problems, not creating them. To thrive today and tomorrow, they argue, companies must become “net positive” – giving more to the world than they take. A Net Positive company:

• Improves the lives of everyone it touches, from customers and suppliers to employees and communities, greatly increasing long-term shareholder returns in the process; 
• Takes ownership of all of the social and environmental impacts its business model creates. This in turn provides opportunities for innovation, savings and building a more human, connected and purpose-driven culture; 
• Partners with competitors, civil society and governments to drive transformative change that no one group can deliver alone.

This is no utopian fantasy – courageous leaders are already making it real and the stakes could not be higher. With bold vision and compelling stories, Net Positive sets out the principles and practices that will deliver the scale of change and transformation the world desperately needs.

Paul Polman works to accelerate action by business to achieve the UN Global Goals, which he helped develop. He was the CEO of Unilever from 2009 to 2019 and has been described by the Financial Times as “a stand out CEO of the past decade”. 

Andrew Winston is one of the world’s leading thinkers on sustainable business. He is author of the books Green to Gold and The Big Pivot, as well as hundreds of articles in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and other top publications.

As we move into this new year, we are excited to see what opportunities 2022 holds for the entire GBSN community.  While the world is ravaged by runaway climate change and rampant inequality, we know that business schools are in the perfect position to lead us to a better future.  This year, our monthly Collabs will continue to be a space where schools can come together to discuss and share their successes, difficulties, and potential collaborations.  Join us for the first Member Collab in the new year as we discuss the net positive movement with Paul Polman.

Speaker

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  Paul Polman

  Former Chief Executive Officer
  Unilever; Influencer, business leader, campaigner
  United Kingdom
  

When?

Thursday, 13 January, 2022

• 8:00am Washington D.C.
• 2:00pm Paris
• 2:00pm Lagos
• 6:30pm Mumbai
• 9:00pm Singapore

*Please note – this Cross-Border Collab will take place on the 2nd Thursday of January to accommodate institutions returning from December/January breaks.*

Register

Cross-Border Collabs are not open to the public and are only open to GBSN Members. 

What are Cross-Border Collabs?

Cross-Border Collabs are exclusive gatherings for GBSN members, focused on engaging our community to tackle some of the greatest challenges of our time. Facilitated by topic experts, these session will provide a place for our members be active participants in our mission of improving management and entrepreneurship education for the developing world. Collabs are held monthly on every first Thursday of the month. Collabs are an exclusive opportunity for member school ambassadors, deans and leading faculty members.