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The 2021 EFMD Case Writing Competition is OPEN!

Innovation and creativity

With the support of the Case Centre and our category sponsors, the case writing competition encourages innovative and impactful case writing and teaching. Take part in this yearly case writing competition, organized since 1988.

Join a learning community

You get a chance to be assessed by an international judging panel, who reviews more than 400 cases every year; have an impact on teaching management development and join a community of outstanding innovators.

Impact on management development

Through seventeen categories representing critical managerial areas, you can contribute to management development and some of its future challenges.

Evaluation criteria

Content: The ability to create a strong and interesting learning experience
Form: A good balance between a well-told story and sufficient data
The teaching notes: Accompanying each submission to enhance the learner’s experience
Innovation: Ideas should improve teaching and student engagement

CASE WRITING AWARDS BENEFIT

SHOWCASEBe published by the Case Centre and gain wide visibility across the EFMD network
AWARDGet a chance to be awarded with €2000, applicable to all the winning cases
INSPIREImpact students of management institutions across the globe and practitioners seeking innovations
SHAREEngage with incumbent organisations in discussing strategic business solutions

IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE 2021 EDITION

June 2021: Submission Open
31 October: Deadline for Case Submission
April 2022: Winners Announcement

Submit your case

Submissions Categories

1

African Business Cases

Cases on an African company or a multinational company operating on the African continent in any of the business disciplines, including strategy, entrepreneurship, marketing, OB&HR, supply chain, finance, etc. It must deal with critical challenges, issues, or decisions that students can analyze using theories, frameworks, and analytical methods and tools.

2

Bringing Technology to Market

This category welcomes cases featuring current and future challenges of industrial companies in global B2B markets and their strategies to remain competitive. Cases can focus on industrial companies

introducing digital-based solutions
going global
implementing innovative business models
sustaining a quality leadership position
fighting low-cost competition

3

Continuous Improvement: The Journey to Excellence

Continuous Improvement emphasizes the need to create a culture of progress among companies, permanent change in search of competitiveness, and excellence to improve the business over time. Cases should focus on specific projects leading toward greater efficiency, productivity and the creation of value for clients, which eventually become part of the company’s philosophy.

4

Corporate Social Responsibility

Cases addressing innovative ways companies manage the demands for socially and environmentally circular business practices. Circular context introduces complexity but permits to identify practices in relation to important challenges to promote responsible business. Cases can come from any disciplinary perspective (operations, strategy, finance, etc.).

5

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial processes are present in large organizations as well as in public and social sectors. Cases which address entrepreneurship within these broad sectors are invited.

6

Family Business

This category welcomes case studies featuring inter-disciplinary coverage of family business entrepreneurship related issues. Scholars and other research practitioners are invited to submit case studies addressing various themes: strategy development of a new start-up; family business serial entrepreneurship and many more.

6

Finance and Banking

Cases submitted for this category should have a clear link to business situations occurring in the sector of Finance and Banking.

7

Hidden Champions

“Hidden champions” are large medium-sized companies which hold a leading international market position but aren’t well known to the general public. Cases focus on the challenges of hidden champions to support them in even better mastering their jobs. Topics include international growth strategies, innovation, digital transformation, marketing and sales management, leadership, and corporate culture.

8

Inclusive Business Models

Cases embracing inclusive business models, i.e. commercially viable models that include the poor on the demand side as clients and customers, and on the supply side as employees, producers and business owners at various points in the value chain. These firm-level case studies will provide insights into the effects inclusive business models have on communities, environment and profitability.

9

Latin American Business Cases

Cases describing business development in Latin America, which can feature all types of disciplines of the Business Administration (Strategy, Foresight, Innovation, Marketing, Internationalization, Human Resources, etc.) and cover challenges related to internalization of the regional companies and many more.

10

MENA Business Cases

The MENA Business Cases category focuses on the MENA region, which is experiencing fast development, and whose prospects are promising. Contribute to business cases in the MENA region and stimulate the development of teaching materials related to the main issues characterizing the region.

11

Responsible Business

This mainly include cases that address corporate governance, financial reporting and auditing, integrated reporting, anti-corruption, business ethics, social marketing, gender equality, corporate sustainability, and responsible business education and practices.

This track is believed to add knowledge to different stakeholders about the area of responsible business highlighting its extreme importance.

12

Responsible Leadership

Responsible leaders demonstrate through example their commitment to leading with integrity and to values-driven decision making that considers interests of shareholders, employees, clients, the environment, and the community. Cases are welcome which address the challenges leaders face engaging diverse stakeholders in the creation of economic and social value.

13

Women in Business

Case studies featuring women protagonists in the business environment and focusing on the challenges and issues faced by women in business; how women either overcame these to find growth and success, or lessons drawn from having been inhibited by them. The cases can address a variety of topics and situations, such as women as leaders and entrepreneurs, gender equality, changing workplace dynamics and how to tap into visible or invisible opportunities.

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Toward Successful Transitions – Economic Recovery and Democratic Renewal

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is pleased to invite you to join us for the inaugural, public conference of the Free Enterprise & Democracy Network (FEDN). This virtual, two-day conference will serve as a compliment to the World Movement for Democracy and convene leaders and advocates under the theme of “Towards Successful Transitions – Economic Recovery and Democratic Renewal”.

Registration is required to obtain access details.

About the Event

As economic recovery ticks up in certain countries, democracies remain under pressure. The pandemic has exposed weaknesses and disparities that challenge the credibility of democracy, while authoritarian tendencies continue to encroach on freedom. Democracies can adapt, but their prospects will look very different depending on the economic model that dominates crisis and recovery.

In its inaugural conference, which is open to the public, the Free Enterprise & Democracy Network will delve into the prospects for markets and private business to support democratic transition and resist autocracy. Can free markets create inclusive opportunity? Will business take new leadership roles in society? And if it does, will it be trusted? FEDN members and guest speakers will explore priority policy choices to shape recovery and private sector solutions that will change the rules of the game.

To view the full conference schedule and speakers, visit the conference event page.

Access the Conference Event Page

Dates & Time

Monday, June 28 – Tuesday, June 29 2021

Beginning at:

8:00 AM Washington D.C.
1:00 PM London
2:00 PM Geneva
2:00 PM Cape Town
5:30 PM Mumbai
8:00 PM Singapore

Call for Poster Session Contributions at the 29th CEEMAN Annual Conference

CEEMAN invites faculty members and researchers to showcase their work at the traditional CEEMAN poster session related to the overall theme of the 29^th CEEMAN Annual Conference, “Management Education at the Crossroads“. The conference is taking place on 22-24 September 2021 in Trieste, Italy. The poster session will take place in the hybrid format, allowing participants to join online or in person.

The poster session is an opportunity to display innovations faculty members and researchers have implemented during the last years. Even when these innovations are still at an experimental phase, presenting them to the CEEMAN community will give the chance of finding support and receiving valuable feedback, and a publication in the Conference Proceedings.

Poster session co-chairs:

Claudio Rivera, RTU Riga Business School, Latvia
Zoltán Buzády, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Details about Posters and Submissions

The goals of the poster session are:
(a) to raise the visibility of new, emerging or proven, successful pedagogical innovations of faculty members at CEEMAN member and partner institutions
(b) to promote the exchange of new research findings and tools
(c) to foster networking among faculty members and researchers
(d) to create a new platform for publishing and disseminating research findings, teaching materials and solutions

CEEMAN encourages you to submit your proposal for a poster presentation in one or several of the following subtracks:

Your teaching case study,which you have developed yourself and already use in your teaching practice;
Your research work,which may be a fundamental or applied research project, or alternately your concrete, new research findings which have a clear reference to their application in management/business teaching;
Your teaching tool & technique, which you have developed or adopted successfully in your course/program;
Your other experience, which you would like to present and is relevant to the conference theme.

The potential contributors need to:

1. Submit your poster presentation abstract by 10 July 2021 to claudio.rivera@rbs.lv (with email subject “CEEMAN Poster Session”). Your submission should indicate the sub-track of your poster (teaching case study / research / teaching tool or technique / other experience), what is your poster presentation topic, what aspects you plan to present and how it relates to the conference theme. All submissions will be reviewed by a selection board for possible inclusion in the conference poster session.

2. Prepare an online poster and if attending in person, also bring one paper poster or any other brief visual presentation (sized A1) about their pedagogical/research work, which will remain posted throughout the conference.

3. Present their ideas and proposal in an open session to other participants of the 29^th CEEMAN Annual Conference in about 10 minutes on Wednesday, 22 September 2021.

4. Submit a high-quality photo of their poster work and a final write-up of their presentation for publication (two pages) by 18 October 2021 for publication in the Conference proceedings.

We recommend that each poster includes the following elements:

A clear statement informing everyone on ‘What is this poster about?’
An outline of the related topics or elements
A recommendation where and how the proposal object can be used in teaching/management education
Your name, affiliation and contact

Please note that many tips and tricks on preparing a poster presentation are on the internet.

Conditions of participation:

The cost of participation in the poster session only (without attending the conference) is EUR 150. All poster presenters are entitled to a 10% discount for attending the 29^th CEEMAN Annual Conference (covers attendance of all conference events, conference materials, coffee breaks, lunches and dinners, transportation between the venues as specified in the conference program). The fee does NOT cover travel, airport shuttle, accommodation, participation of accompanying persons, or sightseeing tour.

Important Dates/Deadlines

10 July, 2021 – Submission Deadline
22 September, 2021 – Conference Presentation Date (virtual or in-person)

Contact

For any questions or clarification, please contact poster session co-chair Claudio Rivera at claudio.rivera@rbs.lv (with email subject “CEEMAN Poster Session”).

For more information about the conference, logistics and conditions, please visit: http://www.ceeman.org/29thconference.

Online is Here to Stay: The 7 Benefits of Digital Transformation in Business Schools

Join CEEMAN for a free webinar with Nikos Mylonopoulos, EdTech Program Director and Associate Professor of Digital Business at ALBA Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece.

It is said that the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation. However, how did Business Schools transform in the past year and how should they move forward post-pandemic? It is time to take stock and reframe the agenda for the future, get your comments and questions ready!

CEEMAN has prepared a pop-up session with Nikos Mylonopoulos, EdTech Program Director, on digital disruption and the impact of the pandemic for Deans and their teams and everyone interested in the topic.

The digital transformation that will prepare Business Schools for the next wave of challenges can be outlined in 7 “battlefields” of priority for the agenda of every leader.

What are those 7 battlefields and when is the right time to act on these agenda items – to start the fight? Join the lecture and the debate!

Date & Time

Wednesday 26 June, 2021

8:00am Washington D.C.
1:00pm London
2:00pm Geneva
2:00pm Cape Town
5:30pm Mumbai
8:00pm Singapore

Registration

AFROEU

Overview

Jean Monnet Module on the European Union and the Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa – an Interdisciplinary Approach – Smart Specialisation-EUAfrica/AFROEU

AFROEU was established by Dr Anna Masłoń-Oracz to raise the knowledge and awareness on African topics among students and young professionals. The scope of the project covers the EU-Africa relations and the situation in the member states concerning the issues connected with EU External Economic Relations, as well as related policies at the EU and country levels. In the course of development of modern countries and regions; knowledge, skill, innovation and creativity were gradually gaining the position of the most distinctive and individual resources. This transformation has caused a change in the paradigm of thinking about the competitiveness of regions and forced it to move towards tight relations with knowledge and intellectual capital in enterprises.

The huge scale of demographic challenge, coupled with the impact of climatic changes on fragile populations, is a fundamental threat for European and African stability alike, even though rapid African economic growth bears at the same time the promise of fantastic opportunities. Indeed, 5 percent yearly growth will not be sufficient to fulfil this promise. The fertility rate will not be controlled unless decisive progress is made in educating more women. Both demographic and economic trends will need to be channelled and as soon as possible for African development to become sustainable.

The rise of a “smart”, connected Africa is allowing countries across the continent to leapfrog several stages of development in key areas such as banking and telecommunications and is reshaping business and society. Despite this, growth in several African countries has slowed in recent years after more than a decade of solid expansion. Rickety infrastructure, skills shortages, weak governance and a reliance on commodities continue to plague the continent, underscoring the need for economic diversification for sustained, inclusive growth in areas such as agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, education and banking. Agenda 2063 is the African Union’s blueprint for the future based on inclusive growth and sustainable development. It calls for an integrated Africa guided by Pan-African ideals: an Africa shaped by good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, justice and rule of law; a peaceful and secure Africa; an Africa with a strong cultural identity, common heritage, shared values and ethics; an Africa whose development is people-driven with a key role for women and the youth; a strong, united Africa that can be an influential global player. Smart Specialization underlines the importance of the preparation process which occurs at the regional/country level of the research and innovation strategies.

Leading Questions:

How can we address the governance, political and stability challenges facing Africa and the EU?
How can we develop policies to encourage female leadership and participation in politics, business and society?
How can we mobilise investment for structural transformation Africa?
What can we do to foster business in Africa including in areas such as health and agriculture?
Kenya—the silicon savannah
EU-Africa relations
EU – Economic Partnership Agreement – how to enhance its effectiveness
The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa
Compact with Africa: fostering private long-term investment in Africa

Agenda

9:00am CEST – Welcome Address
- Professor Piotr Wachowiak – Rector, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
- Phd Michal Matusewicz – Dean of Collegium Management and Finance
9:20am CEST – Opening Guest Speech
- His Excellency Ambassador Jacek Jankowski – Head of the EU Delegation to Zambia
9:40am CEST – Opening Discussion
- Moderated by PhD Anna Maslon-Oracz, Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Africa, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Vice-President of Polish European Community Studies Association
- Her Excellency, Madame Fatoumata Jallow-Tambaiang, Former Vice-President, Republic of Gambia
10:00am CEST – Panel I: Governance for growth and inclusive development versus the African Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Moderated by Fatoumata Diaraye Diallo, Programme Development Manager, Justina Mutale Foundation
- Katarzyna Kacperczyk – former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and former Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister of Poland
- Maurice Dezou – Founder and Chair of the Tees Valley BME Network
- Professor Radosław Miskiewicz – CEO Luma Holding, University of Szczecin
- Professor MP Kilion Munyama – Member of Polish Parliament
- Dr. George Njenga – Executive Dean Strathmore University
11:30am CEST – Panel II: Women – political representation and successful development in Africa
- Moderated by professor Aleksandra Szczerba – Zawada, professor of law at the Jacob of Paradies University in Gorzów Wielkopolski
- HE Phd Justina Mutale – the African Women of 2012, Justina Mutale Foundation
- Macdella Cooper – Political Leader at the Movement For One Liberia (MOL)
- Anna Maria Rozek – Political leader
- PhD Tomasz Gigol – SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Virtual Coffee Break
1:15pm CEST – Panel III: Smart specialization strategies and their applicability to sustainability
- Moderated by PhD Aleksandra Borowicz – Faculty of Economics, University of Gdańsk
- Phd Mafini Dosso – Project Leader “Smart Specialisation in Innovative & Informal African Economies” at European Commission’s JRC
- Professor Anna Visvizi – SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
- Ewa Osuch-Rak, PhD Candidate, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
- Professor Jose Mella – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Coordinator of AMENET
2:45pm CEST- Panel IV: A digital economy in Africa. -building innovation ecosystems
- Moderated by Phd Maria Pietrzak – SGH Warsaw School of Economics
- Ayo Eso – PhD Candidate Lead City University, Nigeria
- Ewa Geresz – Director Program and Global Partnerships, VENTURE CAFÉ WARSAW FOUNDATION, CIC
- Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu, PhD – Head of Research, The Singularity Group, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
- Kari Mruz – Chief Operating Officer, Nairobi Garage
- Phd Tomek Pilewicz – SGH Warsaw School of Economics
4:15pm CEST- Closing Remarks
- Dan LeClair, CEO GBSN and Anna Maslon-Oracz

Date & Time:

Friday, 25 June, 2021
9:00am CEST – 4:15pm CEST

FOSTERING Belonging™ in Business Schools

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs aren’t working for a surprising reason.

In collaboration with EPC Learning Labs, GBSN is pleased to offer a FOSTERing Belonging™ a customizable program to member institutions. This custom program is designed to help business school administrators be better leaders and educators.

Research, out of the Wharton School of Business (1), shows that despite the almost $8 billion invested in DEI programs each year, this training falls short of changing behaviors and has a negligible positive effect on organizations.

A newly published study offers a clue about what is missing: belonging.

Belonging is different from—and perhaps more important than—inclusion. When employees feel they don’t belong, they experience inauthenticity, sadness, and anger. Research suggests efforts to improve organizational DEI will inevitably fail if employees don’t come to the table, or leave from it, with a sense of belonging. Other research supports this conclusion, too, reporting that when organizations do foster a culture of belonging, every aspect of organization performance skyrockets (see graphic).

What’s more, those employees who harbored a genuine sense of belonging reaped even greater individual accomplishments: doubling the rate of raises and breaking through promotion ceilings far more easily. Belonging is not only the nucleus of true organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion; it is also a cornerstone of individual and organizational success and advancement for everyone.

Fostering belonging matters in the classroom as well as the conference room.

So, what’s the difference between Inclusion and Belonging?

The Society for Human Resources Management defines inclusion as “the achievement of a work environment in which all individuals are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and can contribute fully to the organization’s success.” Let’s face it: inclusion is an administrative policy enacted by organizational leaders, and it’s also only part of the answer to a complex organizational—and human—challenge.

Belonging is completely different.

The desire to belong stems from our innate human need for self-esteem and acceptance as part of a supportive group. Even with the most inclusive set of organizational policies in place, employees may not feel like they truly belong. As a result, performance flounders, employees suffer negative health consequences, and turnover soars, especially among underrepresented groups.

Workplace belonging originates in the way people are treated—day in and day out—especially in meetings, where employees typically spend more than half their time. But few leaders and colleagues understand how to generate consistent feelings of belonging during these meetings. All too often, people unwittingly trigger the exact opposite sentiment—alienation and loneliness—especially for those from underrepresented groups. When team cohesion fragments, organizational performance suffers. This is where EPC Learning Labs comes in.

Why does the failure of typical DEI programs matter to business schools?

1

business schools themselves need to be more diverse, equitable, and inclusive if they are to lead in this area.

2

business schools want to generate a bigger impact from the DEI programs they offer to students and organizations.

That is why GBSN is partnering with EPC Learning Labs to offer this transformative program for business schools worldwide.

How can you create feelings of belonging…across your institution?

FOSTERing Belonging™ is a unique program that helps participants, especially leaders, spark feelings of belonging for everyone. The content comprises two parts and is delivered in an unparalleled learning process (see below).

The first draws on brain science to introduce a framework describing three modes of thinking. This framework provides surprising insights about when and how individuals experience “threat” responses. These responses trigger sets of biases, decisions, and behaviors that lead to alienation and loneliness.

Building on these modes of thinking, the second part of the program introduces FOSTER, a set of five strategic principles that, if followed, can generate genuine feelings of belonging and inclusion in meetings. These principles gain traction with specific processes and facilitation techniques and methods designed to transform every meeting into a high-performance, culture-building opportunity. Mastery of this content ensures that all meeting participants feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued.

LEARN

2-Hour Virtual Training Sessions

PRACTICE

Fortnightly EPC sessions to develop microlearning communities

MASTER

Final meeting to assess mastery and celebrate meaningful change

Gather Colleagues and Bring a FOSTERing Belonging™ program to your Institution.

EPC Learning Labs’ program approach delivers a key ingredient missing in most DEI initiatives. It also transforms individual and team performance while helping to create the organizational culture that most leaders, managers, and employees are desperate to establish.

Learn more: www.epclearninglabs.org

Customized for your institution

This program is designed to be customized and delivered to one institution at a time.

It is not an open enrollment program.

Cohorts

For optimal results, program cohorts must be between 15 and 30 participants.

Virtual Format

All programs are delivered in a virtual format and specially structured and delivered to avoid “Zoom” fatigue.

Meet the Expert

Jackson Nickerson

Executive Vice President and Chief Social Scientist, EPC Learning Labs

Jackson Nickerson has a long and distinguished career teaching, researching, consulting, administering, and entrepreneuring (see Wikipedia here). Starting out as an assistant professor in 1996, he became the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy at Olin Business School, Washington University. Jackson was a co-creator of Critical Thinking@Olin, which won the inaugural MBA Innovator’s Award from the MBA Roundtable. With AACSB he created Leading in the Academic Enterprise, a series of leadership development seminars for administrators from assistant deans to provosts.

As the Associate Dean and Director of Brookings Executive Education from 2009 to 2017, he led many innovations including one of the first Executive Master of Science in Leadership degrees in the nation, doubled executive enrollment, and increased revenue by 75%. He was the first ever senior fellow at the Grameen Foundation. He is a Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at Insper in Sao Paulo and a frequent collaborator with Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Post Graduate School. His research spans organization and strategy topics best described as strategic leadership. A consultant for scores of companies and government agencies, he advises on strategy development, inclusion and diversity, and processes to ensure that leaders solve the right problem the first time. Jackson is the chief social scientist for EPC Learning Labs LLC.

Jackson holds a Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy, an M.B.A., and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, all from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Before entering academia, he was a control systems engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Interested in bringing the FOSTERing Belonging™ Program to Your Institution?

Connect with us to learn more about how you can help your institution master FOSTERing Belonging™.

Get in touch today

Chartered ABS Taskforce Launch: Business Schools and the Public Good

Event Details

CABS is proud to publish their Taskforce report on ‘Business Schools and the Public Good’. Join us for the launch event on 14 June.

The Taskforce was set up to consider how business schools understand and deliver ‘public good’, and sought to:

Map approaches to public good in UK business schools.
Suggest ways to develop and support the spread of promising practices.
Expand the public narrative on the purpose of business schools.

The Taskforce reviewed how business schools deliver public good through teaching, research, internal operations, and the ways in which they engage with the world around them. The final report of the Taskforce presents 20 case studies of promising practices from a diverse range of Chartered ABS member schools, and makes recommendations as to how business schools, together with students, policymakers and industry can can go further in delivering public good across society.

The launch event will discuss the contribution business schools make to public good, including the examples highlighted by the taskforce report, and hear perspectives from business schools and external stakeholders on what more business schools can do.

Registration is required for the event.

Speakers

Tom Levitt, Author and Co-Chair of Taskforce for business schools and the public good
Professor Martin Kitchener, Cardiff Business School and Co-Chair of Taskforce for business schools and the public good
Lisa McIlvenna, Deputy Managing Director, Business in the Community, Northern Ireland
Professor Hongwei He, School Director for Social Responsibility, Alliance Manchester Business School
An additional panellist will be announced in due course

Date & Time

Monday, June 14th, 2021

8:00am Washington D.C.
1:00pm United Kingdom
2:00pm Geneva
2:00pm Cape Town
5:30pm Mumbai
8:00pm Singapore

Cross-Border Collab: 21st Century Skills

DATE & TIME

Thursday, 1 July

LOCATION

Hosted on Zoom.

CONTACT

Emma Martens, emartens@gbsn.org

COVID-19 has created an opportunity for learning—about how we work, what we need and how we can work better. Every business school can act now to capture insights in the form of new curriculum content for the future we are building. Let’s translate current experiences into the lessons for sustainable development.

Now is the time to work on creating better working conditions, work place culture and better work experiences. Join this Collab as we explore questions like: how can we improve work, workplaces, leadership and cultural approaches? What will the leaders, culture and the workplace need to offer? How do we upskill, collaborate, and innovate across sectors with a need so urgent and vast? How are universities, businesses, and governments preparing for a new age of lifelong learning?

The conversation will be lead by Jeanne C. Meister, Founding Partner of Future Workplace, an HR Advisory and Research firm dedicated to educating HR leaders on what’s next in preparing for the future workforce and workplace.

When?

Thursday, 1 July, 2021

8:00am EDT AND 7:00pm EDT

To accommodate our growing membership, spanning across different time zones, we offer two Collab sessions every first Thursday of the month. The first session is at 8:00am EDT and the second is at 7:00pm EDT. Both sessions will cover the same topic, but feature different guests. Members are invited to join whichever session is more convenient.

Sign-Up for the July Collab

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. Two sessions are offered to accommodate multiple time zones. Collabs are an exclusive opportunity for member school ambassadors, deans and leading faculty members.

Learn More About Collabs

GBSN Annual Members Meeting: Leading with Impact

In place of GBSN’s monthly Cross-Border Collab, we invite you to join us for our Members Meeting. The GBSN Members Meeting is an annual closed convening of GBSN members from across the globe. Deans, directors, administrators and leading faculty convene once a year in December to reflect on the year’s accomplishments and to look ahead to the next.

Discussion will center around our network’s role in addressing social problems like, access to education, clean energy, good governance, ethical AI, etc. through our work. The Members Meeting is a place for members to discuss how pedagogy at their institutions is reinventing itself, how are we collectively experimenting with new ways to train and coach the leaders of tomorrow in a changing and complex environment. What does the future of higher education look like? Members will participate in small group discussions, networking activities, panel discussions, and more.

The GBSN Members Meeting is closed to the public. If you are a GBSN Member, please use the link below to register.

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Making Black Lives Matter in Business

Event Details

Although Dr. Martin Luther King is remembered for the March on Washington, few people remember that the full title of that iconic march was The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Dr. King was both a fervent supporter of racial harmony and a strong proponent of equal economic opportunity for Black Americans. Many years after the death of Dr. King and the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Black Americans still suffer from large economic disparities, employment discrimination, and a higher unemployment rate. The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement resulting in many corporations issuing statements and financial pledges in support of racial equity. Yet, a year later, so many of those pledges remain unfulfilled. Beyond corporate statements for solidarity, what is needed is true organizational change that will grant more equal opportunity to Black Americans and to Black people all over the world. A world in which all human beings have true equal access to economic mobility is how we will all live in peace.

Dr. Ajunwa will look back and assess how corporations have tried to respond to the injustice of racism in the US economy, and what they can and should do to bring us closer to achieving Dr. King’s dream of equal economic opportunity for all Black Americans.” This would follow the line in the synopsis, “A world in which all human beings have true equal access to economic mobility is how we will all live in peace.”

Speakers

Opening remarks:
Christina Bache, Chair, UN PRME Working Group on Business for Peace and Research Affiliate, Queen’s University

Moderator:
Robert McNulty, Founding Chair, UN PRME Working Group on Business for Peace and Just Business, LLC

Speaker:
Dr. Ajunwa is a tenured law professor at the UNC School of Law and an adjunct Associate Professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business where she is a Rethinc. lab Fellow.

Date and Time

Thursday, May 27th, 2021

10:00am Washington D.C.
3:00pm London
4:00pm Geneva
4:00pm Cape Town
7:30pm Mumbai
10:00pm Singapore

Registration

Registration is required for this event. Use the button below to access the registration page.