Faculty

Africa Business Concept Challenge Kick-Off Event

DATE: Thursday, March 24

TIME: 9:00am EDT / 1:00pm GMT / 2:00pm WAT / 4:00pm EAT

LOCATION: Zoom

KICK-OFF RECORDING

Welcome to the 2nd Africa Business Concept Challenge, sponsored by AACSB and Thunderbird Africa Center of Excellence, and supported by Peaqs, Association of African Business Schools, Stanford Seed and em lyon business school.

Watch the kick-off recording here

We look forward to welcoming the 2022 Cohort of student teams from institutions across Africa. This event officially kicks off the 2nd edition of the Africa Business Concept Challenge. The Kick-Off will convene 50+ student teams from across the African continent, Investors and Investor Experts, and the impressive panel of Judges. GBSN’s CEO, Dan LeClair, will lead a discussion around the importance of entrepreneurship in inclusive and sustainable development.

The event is open to the entire global community. GBSN invites you to join us as we officially launch the games!

Hosts

Sponsors and Partners

  • Tim Mescon

    Executive Vice President and Chief Officer of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Headquarters
    AACSB International
    Netherlands

  • Darius Teter

    Executive Director
    Stanford SEED
    USA

  • Dr. Rickie A. Moore

    Professor of Entrepreneurship Director, MSc in Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    emlyon business school
    France

Panelists

‘Getting to ā€œUsā€: Nudges & Bridges for Peace at Work and Beyond

Date

Feb 9, 2022 09:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Professor Timothy L. Fort holds the Eveleigh Professorship in Business Ethics and is Professor of Business Law & Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Description

Music, sports, movies and other cultural artifacts offer bridges for people who might otherwise disagree with each other on social and political issues. I argue that it is essential that we recover the capability of sharing bonds with those who politically differ from us even when these divides are historical and sharpened by the challenge of increasing diversity, social media (as well as network media) siloing of viewpoints and gerrymandered political districts. There is little reason to believe that these divisions will be any less antipodal in one year or five years unless there is either (a) a common enemy that unites us or (b) a model of navigating cultural divides that can cultivate common ground.Ā 

The same cultural artifacts have a psychophysiological impact on our cognitive orientations so that we view situations differently if our cognitive mindset is, for example, in an us vs them orientation as opposed to one that is joyful. I provide a model of mood orientation and cognitive decision-making that teaches how to create oneā€™s own nudges. More specifically, some of these nudges open the way to build bridges with others with whom we may otherwise be in conflict. That is true not only as we work together toward providing a product or service, but also through ā€œcultural artifactsā€ such as music, sports, film and humor and even, yes, through our pets and our spiritual traditions, which can broaden the contexts of our relationships.Ā 

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Call For Investors for Africa Business Concept Challenge

ClICK HERE FOR INVESTOR INTEREST FORM

We are proud to announce the second annual Africa Business Concept Challenge (ABCC) in partnership with Peaqs. This virtual business concept competition for African undergraduate and graduate students will challenge teams to design a viable business concept that addresses a locally-relevant challenge or problem related to Agenda 2063, and inclusive and sustainable development.

As part of this experience, teams will compete on the Peaqs platform in a virtual stock market on the Peaqs platform.  We are recruiting investors to participate in this crucial portion of the competition.  You will be asked to invest on one or both competition games to determine which team has the best developed idea in each phase.  The following are the times for investing:

  • Phase 1: March 25th
  • Phase 2: March 30th through April 4th
  • Phases 3, 4, & 5: April 10th through 17th


This interactive part of the competition is fun and engaging and we welcome any professionals, researchers, teaching assistants, and more to participate as investors. Ā If you are interested, you can complete a form of expression found below and share with your network.

The more Investors and Investor Experts in the market game, the more realistic an experience the teams can have.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email Maddie Handler atĀ mhandler@gbsn.org. Ā We look forward to welcoming new investors this year and are very excited to see the ideas that are developed by students!

The Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series-University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

The Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series (DSS) brings together policymakers, industry leaders, academia, and students to present and discuss emerging trends in international business throughout the year.

The DSS is supported by the Title VI CIBE grant provided by the U.S. Department of Education to foster international understanding and promote the ability for U.S. businesses to compete globally.

Upcoming Event

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

5-6 p.m. EST

Attend virtually or in person.

Register to Attend

Join the Center for Global Business and CGB Academic Director Kislaya Prasad for a discussion with Erik Peterson, managing director of Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council, on Promise and Peril, the Kearney report that outlines the five significant trends that will dramatically shape the global outlook and operating environment from 2021 through 2026. Trends include the race for quantum supremacy, rise in water dislocations, ungovernability, mainstream central bank digital currencies, and the new age of genetic manipulation.

Participants will have the option to attend this event in person or virtually. Please register and choose your preference. Participants who opt to attend the event in person will go to Room 2333, Van Munching Hall. Virtual participants will log in using the Zoom information they receive upon registration.

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Energy Access on the African Continent

Event Overview

In Africa, the number of people gaining access to electricity rose from 9 million a year between 2000 and 2013 to 20 million people between 2014 and 2019, outpacing population growth. Despite that fact, in Sub-Saharan Africa, just 46.7% of the population had access to electricity in 2019.

How do we make sure that energy is more widely accessible in Africa in a world becoming more conscious about climate change? How should we balance Africaā€™s rising energy needs and the worldā€™s increasing need for clean energy generation?

Join Stanford Seed for a thought provoking discussion with our panel of experts on the topic of Energy Access in Africa.

Speakers

Date & Time

Saturday, January 29, 2022

  • 9:00am PST
  • 5:00pm GMT
  • 7:00pm CAT
  • 8:00pm EAT
Register Here

Questions? Please email tintinyw@stanford.edu.

Apply Now for the Second Edition of “This is How I Moved my #BusinessFoward” Campaign

Business Forward, the knowledge portal of AUC School of Business, is starting off 2022 running a very exciting digital campaign that calls for the participation of the business community. In recent years, and even more accelerated by COVID-19, there is a movement emphasizing that the purpose and role of business in society is to create values, sustainable development, diversity, and stakeholder interests.

However, in Egypt and this part of the world, literature about responsible business or corporate responsibility and documentation of its practice is very limited. It is often mistakenly associated with charity, philanthropy and public relations.

In this edition of “This is how I moved my #BusinessForward”, in partnership with The Coca Cola Company and the Commercial International Bank (CIB), the objective is to build the narrative and awareness about corporate responsibility, highlighting positive examples that demonstrate responsible business conduct embedded in the vision and day-to-day operations of the business, rather than a one-off act. Join now to showcase how your institution, business or company helped promote corporate responsibility over the past year.

The call for participation is open until February 15, 2022. The campaign ends with the audience voting on the most inspiring stories and an awards ceremony in March 2022.

Learn more about the campaign and how to participate in this video.

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Woxsen University’s National Symposium: Reimagining Global Education in Business Schools

It gives us immense pleasure to invite you to an International Symposium ā€œReimagining Global Education in Business Schoolsā€ being organized by Woxsen University in association with ETS, the leading provider of educational testing and assessments for GRE and TOEFL examinations. This event shall be broadcasted live on the 24th of January, 2022 (Monday) on Zoom from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Indian Standard Time (IST).

Brief Background

Creating global citizens and leaders from todayā€™s youth calls for innovative curricula that support new ways of teaching and learning. These curricula must also provide students with effective opportunities to develop the dispositions, knowledge, and capabilities to understand the world in which they live, to make sense of the ways globalization shapes their lives, and to be good stewards of the worldā€™s resources.

These are momentous and exciting times for business education! The current operating landscape faced by many business schools globally is one defined by an increasingly dynamic range of opportunity, uncertainty and risk. One of the challenges for higher education in the current era is the strategic need to adapt to an external environment that is changing much more rapidly and unpredictably than that of the higher education sector itself.

Given the dynamically changing world around us, it is imperative for business schools to evaluate traditional models and processes that intentionally or inadvertently support operating in academic isolation. Shifts in market demand for how business education is delivered is driving business education to innovate and to ā€œunpackā€ traditional full-time degree programs. This suggests that, in addition to traditional degree offerings, business schools increasingly may provide shorter, flexible, modularized, and just-in-time educational experiences that support professionals throughout all stages of their careers.

To help understand the changing landscape, we have invited the ETS members for sharing their insights.

It’s time to herald a new standard in business education!

Register Here

After registering, you will receive an auto-confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

28th CEEMAN & Emerald Case Writing Competition- Open for Submissions

Overview

Read all about the 2021 winners and highly commended cases HERE!

The aim of the CEEMAN & Emerald Case Writing Competition is to encourage and promote the development of high-quality teaching case material relevant for the realities of dynamic and emerging economies, and at the same time to promote the development of case-writing capabilities in those countries. Since its launch in the 1990s, the Case Writing Competition has amassed over 650 cases from 80 countries, and it is with pleasure that we observe what an impact they have had on management education that strives to be relevant to its environments and stakeholders.

In the spirit of a fully inclusive competition, global submissions are encouraged. As the co-organizers, Emerald Group Publishing will support global exposure of the submitted high-quality cases through a direct link with Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies  (EMCS), a growing collection of around 700 case studies with teaching notes. All case submissions will be considered for international publication in EMCS.

The total CEEMAN/Emerald award prize pool is worth over ā‚¬10,000, including ā‚¬4,000 prize money. Prizes are awarded to the overall winner and two runners-up.

We are pleased to offer feedback to authors of cases submitted to this competition early. If you submit your case before 28 February 2022, you will receive some feedback from the judges of the competition, and be able to revise and resubmit your case before 17 April for final judging. Please note the early feedback will be brief, general comments on the focus of your case/teaching notes that will help you improve for the competition and is not full double blind peer review. You will receive in depth feedback once your case is submitted for peer review in EMCS.

Webinar on writing teaching cases: Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 4:00-5:00 PM CET – Watch the recording!

Second webinar on case writing: March 2022

Early case submission deadline: 28 February 2022

Case submission deadline: 17 April 2022 

Announcement of winners: June 2022

Award ceremony:Ā winners will be announced during theĀ CEEMAN Annual Meeting at the CEEMAN Annual Conference, takingĀ place on 21-23 September 2022 in Bled, Slovenia.

Prizes

The value of the total prize pool is over ā‚¬10,000, which will be distributed as follows:

The overall winner will be awarded:

The first runner-up will be awarded:

The second runner-up will be awarded:

Depending on the quality and number of submissions, additional awards may be bestowed in different categories. If a winning case has more than one author, the prize will be split among the co-authors (the prize may be subject to local taxes). Full evaluations from the competitionā€™s judging panel will be made available to authors upon request.

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Gamification of Learning: Designing an Engaging Classroom Experience

Event Details

Ever felt your learners should be more engaged?

Gamification is an approach that builds on the psychology of human engagement and capitalizes on the exciting, motivating and engaging strategies and design ideas from games.

Applied in the educational context, it transforms attitudes towards learning. It creates an immersive, entertaining experience. Such a hands-on approach helps students to connect with their learning and improves concentration, determination to succeed or overall knowledge retention.

This online workshop led by Rob Alvarez is an entry-intermediate level training for learning professionals who have none or limited experience with Gamification.

The training focuses on five steps every educator can take to gamify the student learning experience. These five steps have derived from interactions with over 100 experts through Rob Alvarezā€™s Professor Game Podcast as well as two decades of experience with interactive learning materials at IE Business School in Madrid.

The online training consists of an introductory session, four live classes and a live feedback ā€“ six meetings in total. In between the live sessions, participants work asynchronously (individually, as well as in peer groups) on an individual project based on their specific challenges.

Throughout the training participants will:

  • explore gamification as a way to create a learner experience
  • get hands-on experience with using gamification to design a course/lesson, address a workplace challenge
  • deliver a prototype of a gamified course/lesson/workplace process
  • receive individual as well as peer feedback to apply the newly gained insights in practice 

TARGET GROUP

This online workshop is designed for learning professionals as well as programme directors and designers, who have none to limited experience with gamification and who are interested in incorporating new methods to increase studentā€™s engagement and performance levels.

COURSE TIMELINE

  • March 10; 14:00-15:00 CET: Introductory session
  • March 15; 14:00-16:00 CET: Live session 1
  • March 18; 12:00 CET: Assignment 1
  • March 21; Peer feedback 1
  • March 22; 14:00-16:00 CET: Live session 2
  • March 29; 14:00-16:00 CEST: Live session 3
  • April 1; 12:00 CEST: Assignment 2
  • April 4; Peer feedback 2
  • April 5; 14:00-16:00 CEST Live session 4
  • April 14; 14:00-16:00 CEST Feedback and closing 

DIGITAL BADGES

After completing all assignments, course participants will receive a digital badge.

Criteria for receiving a badge:

  • 80% attendance of live sessions
  • Submitting two individual assignments (Friday March 18 & Friday April 1)
  • Submitting two filled-in peer feedback forms (Monday March 21 & Monday April 4)

The submission platform for all assignments including peer feedback is Slack.

ZOOM

This workshop will be run using Zoom. To ensure the best Zoom experience, we recommend that you install the latest version of Zoom Client for Meetings. If you are not familiar with Zoom, you can test the tool via this weblink.

Registration

Register Here

Program

Access Full Program Schedule Here

Practical Information

Programme Fees

EFMD Member fee: 490 ā‚¬  

Non-member fee: 590 ā‚¬ 

2022 EFMD Global Fairs Powered by Highered

Event Details

Connect your students and alumni with companies and organisations from around the globe, in a sophisticated job fair simulation environment that enables real-time interaction between recruiters and candidates.

We are pleased to continue the EFMD Global Fairs powered by Highered in 2022, allowing companies and organisations to attract and engage top talent from participating member schools while strengthening their employer branding.

The 2022 offer will consist of

  • two three-day global fairs (April 5-7 and October 18-20), the largest virtual fairs for talent ever organised, including hybrid elements, allowing companies greater visibility and employer branding, while providing talent with the opportunity to prepare their visits with an employer-focused approach properly, 
  • complemented by a free private event, to be organized by your school on the same platform.

If your school career event agenda is already set up and you know you will organize more than one private event, you can book extra private events at a discounted fee.

Registration

Register Your School Here

Practical Information

This service is exclusive to EFMD members. Non-members may contact Liliane Gaspari for more information.

Early Bird Fees until January 31st, 2022: 590 ā‚¬ for EFMD members (including unlimited talent and alumni participation to the 2 Global Fairs and one complementary private event)

Normal Fees from February 1st, 2022: 790 ā‚¬ for EFMD members (including unlimited talent and alumni participation to the 2 Global Fairs and one complementary private event)

Preferred Early Bird Fee for an extra private event (booked upon registration) until January 31st, 2022: 590 ā‚¬

Preferred Fee for an extra private event (booked upon registration) after February 1st, 2022: 790 ā‚¬

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