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ICT For Circularity (ICTfC) Competition

The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business in collaboration with Afretec Network Universities would like to present a groundbreaking competition entitled ‘ICT for Circularity (ICTfC)’. The competition invites students from Afretec network universities all over Africa to use advanced technology (ICT) to help businesses and public institutions use resources wisely. This means reducing waste, extending product lifetimes, and promoting ethical and sustainable practices for the benefit of both society and the environment.

The competition themes will require the students to work with the latest technologies like Big Data, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) to create practical solutions in their chosen area.

The Partners

UC Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The American University in Cairo’s School of Business kickstarted the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program (EIP) in 2010, a pioneering initiative in the MENA region. EIP played a vital role in spotlighting entrepreneurship’s impact on economic development, contributing significantly to Egypt’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. By fostering ideation and innovation, EIP supported startups across various stages, linking them with accelerators, incubators, and investors. In 2015, aligning with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, EIP evolved into the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI). This transformation expanded its focus to include critical themes such as gender, climate, and sustainability. Over time, entrepreneurship and innovation became central concepts for achieving key objectives like financial sustainability, employment, and gender equality. CEI’s evolution demonstrates that fostering entrepreneurship and innovation as a mindset can contribute to community development. Today, CEI stands as a respected brand in the ecosystem, serving as a go-to reference for stakeholders engaging with youth, women, startups, MSMEs, and underserved communities.

African Engineering and Technology Network (Afretec)

The African Engineering and Technology Network (Afretec) is a pan-African collaboration of technology-focused universities from across the African continent. The creation of Afretec is a defining moment for the digital transformation of Africa. The network will build a strong knowledge creation and educational infrastructure on the continent. It will also provide a platform for its members to engage in deep collaboration that drives inclusive digital growth in Africa. The purpose of Afretec is to create a platform for technology-focused universities in Africa to drive inclusive digital growth by collaborating on teaching and learning, knowledge creation, and entrepreneurship activities within the area of engineering and technology.

Key Focus Tracks:

The Environment Track

  • Regenerative agriculture and sustainable food production
  • Access to reliable, green, and affordable energy sources
  • Ensuring clean water and proper sanitation
  • Utilizing water energy
  • Food nexus applications and technologies

Social Track

  • Enhancing supply chain management with added value
  • Implementing sustainable waste management practices
  • Considering population and resource dynamics
  • Evaluating the impact of developmental projects on communities
  • Exploring other social impact avenues

Economic Track

  • Designing eco-friendly products through eco-design
  • Exploring shared economy models
  • Exploring other economic innovations

General Track

This track includes any other ideas that are related to the main competition theme, but does not fit perfectly in any of the first 3 tracks.

Objective & Rationale

The goal is to positively impact the planetary boundaries (PBs), considering factors like climate change, biodiversity, and more. The nine planetary boundaries are:

  1. Climate Change: Measures carbon dioxide concentration impacting global temperatures.
  2. Biodiversity Loss: Focuses on species extinction, vital for ecosystem health.
  3. Biogeochemical Flows: Tracks nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, critical for ecosystems.
  4. Ocean Acidification: 5-Absorption of excess carbon dioxide makes oceans more acidic, affecting marine life.
  5. Land-System Change: Concerns land conversion for human use, impacting habitats and biodiversity.
  6. Freshwater Use: Addresses consumption impacting rivers, lakes, and aquifers, affecting ecosystems and communities.
  7. Atmospheric Aerosol Loading: Involves microscopic particles affecting climate and organisms.
  8. Stratospheric Ozone Depletion: Protects the ozone layer, crucial for filtering harmful UV radiation.
  9. Novel Entities: Involves chemicals, new materials, and organisms with potential irreversible effects on Earth’s systems, including pollutants like plastics and genetically modified organisms.

Therefore, the students are encouraged to create prototypes and proof of concept for products, services, and systems that address critical issues in pollution, ecosystem degradation, social injustice, and climate change impacts.

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Business Schools and the Positive Impact Rating (PIR)

General Information

More than 20 GBSN members have registered to participate in the 2024 edition of the Positive Impact Rating (PIR), which is based on student input about the societal impact of their business schools. In this session, we explore the experience of four schools on four continents. Why did they choose to participate in the PIR? What were the risks and challenges? What did they learn? In what ways did it help them? How has GBSN membership supported their goals of cultivating positive impact?

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Session Recording

Date & Time

Tuesday, 13 February at 8:00am EDT/1:00 CET

Speakers

  • Dr. Jill Bogie

    Director: GIBS Sustainability Initiatives Africa
    Gordon Institute of Business Science
    South Africa
  • Dan LeClair

    Dan LeClair, Ph.D

    CEO
    Global Business School Network
    USA

  • Snehal Shah

    Associate Dean, Academics & Research
    S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
    India

  • Sandro Sánchez

    Chief Positive Impact Officer
    Centrum PUCP Business School
    Peru

  • Susana Santos

    Sustainability Manager
    Nova School of Business and Economics
    Portugal

More speaker information to follow.

Registration

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About the Positive Impact Rating (PIR)

The Positive Impact Rating (PIR) evaluates business schools based on their societal impact and commitment to continuous improvement. Unlike traditional rankings, PIR emphasizes purpose-driven education, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Positive Impact Rating 2024 is LIVE NOW!

What is the Positive Impact Rating?

The Positive Impact Rating (PIR) evaluates business schools based on their societal impact and commitment to continuous improvement. Unlike traditional rankings, PIR emphasizes purpose-driven education, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. By joining, schools gain a competitive edge, showcasing their commitment to sustainability and societal impact, and attracting purpose-driven students and partners.

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Why Join the Positive Impact:

Showcase Your School

PIR is the only global rating that highlights business schools committed to societal impact and providing a 21st-century education that prepares students for global challenges. More Information

Strengthen Your Accreditation

Many schools utilize PIR’s data to enhance their accreditation reports for organizations like AACSB, EQUIS, and UN PRME. More Information

Support Your Change Process

The rating incorporates student feedback on your school’s societal impact, offering valuable insights for your internal change initiatives. More Information

Compare and Improve

PIR’s Dashboard features downloadable reports and visualized data, allowing you to compare your school’s performance with others and identify areas for improvement. More Information

Partners & Endorsers

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IPADE Business School: Shaping Future Leaders in Mexico – GBSN member schools graduates’ opportunity:  Join our Faculty!

Qualifications

  • Strong academic background
  • Interested in studying a PhD program
  • Teaching vocation and interest in research
  • Preferably able to speak Spanish or willing to learn it
  • Strong written and oral communication skills

Education

  • Master’s degree
  • Studies related to the academic departments

Responsibilities

  • Teaching and academic research and management duties
  • Academic research
  • Management activities
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2024 Health Tech Global Case Writing Competition

Description

The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) cordially invites you to enter their competition and submit your academic business case study about a novel product or service technology appropriate for a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) setting that contributes toward improving, maintaining or monitoring the health of a given population.

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development and adoption of health technology in LMICs, including telehealth, remote monitoring, health data management, more efficient vaccine distribution, and digital literacy, among other innovations. According to a 2023 report from the World Bank, investment in digital solutions that improve access, value and affordability and value are critical for managing and delivering high-quality healthcare. According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the emergence of  technologies in artificial intelligence, sensor networks, mobile communications, and bioengineering could be transformative to human health, especially in LMICs.

WDI Publishing is proud to offer a competition aimed at increasing the number of academic business cases available about this very important topic.

Why enter? Winning cases receive cash prizes and will be professionally published and distributed via WDI Publishing.

Please see our Submission Requirements for more information.

Competition Objectives

  • Encourage and reward the development of new business case studies that focus on novel health-related technology innovation appropriate for low- and middle-income country settings.
  • Publish higher education case studies that will help develop the necessary student critical thinking skills regarding the unique health-related technology needs of LMICs.
  • Accelerate global knowledge of novel health-related technology innovations being implemented by businesses in LMICs.

Requirements

  • Individual students or student teams (graduate or undergraduate) and other professionals may enter, but must enter in collaboration with a faculty member or instructor from an accredited university/college, in the U.S. or internationally.
  • Individual faculty/instructors or teams from an accredited university/college (in the U.S. or internationally) may also enter.

Key Dates

  • Jan 17, 2024 (10am-11am EST): “Competition Overview & Case Writing Tips”REGISTER NOW
  • Jan 31, 2024: Intent-to-Enter forms due.
  • March 15, 2024: Final submission documents due.
  • July 2024: Public announcement of winners.

How to Enter

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International Summer University WU – High potential scholarship for students from emerging countries

WU offers scholarships for the summer program ISUWU. Undergraduate and graduate students can apply for these scholarship during the application process, if they meet the respective criteria.

The ISUWU scholarship is intended to support the participation of students from selected countries. For the ISUWU 2024, WU provides a maximum of ten scholarship positions.

Amount of the ISUWU Scholarship

The ISU WU program fee will be waived for students selected for an ISU WU scholarship. In addition, selected students will receive a travel and accommodation grant of EUR 1000 upon their arrival in Vienna.

Application requirements

High potential scholarship for students from emerging countries

You are eligible for this scholarship if you are actively enrolled in business administration or related fields at a university in emerging countries (i.e. countries with low or lower-middle income). For a full list of countries, see here. An excellent academic performance (GPA) and active student engagement are prerequisites for the scholarship.

Scholarship for students from Ukraine

You are eligible for this scholarship if you are actively enrolled in business administration or related fields at a Ukrainian university. An excellent academic performance (GPA) and active student engagement are prerequisites for the scholarship.

Please note that due to potential exit restrictions in Ukraine, it might not be possible for male students to leave the country and therefore attend the ISUWU.

Application process and documents

You can apply for the ISUWU scholarship during the regular ISUWU application period in our online application system.

To apply for a scholarship, please upload the following documents:

  • Application letter: please explain why you are particularly deserving of an ISUWU scholarship, how the scholarship can contribute to your academic success and why it is important for your studies (1 page max.)
  • Confirmation of enrollment in business administration or related fields

Please note that you can only be selected for an ISUWU scholarship if you also fulfil the general admission criteria for the ISU WU. For general ISUWU application information, see the section Application & Admission.

Please note:

  • The ISUWU scholarship is non-recurring, i.e. students may only participate in the ISUWU once at this special rate.
  • In order to receive the ISU WU scholarship, students will have to declare that they do not have sufficient financial means and will not receive financial support from other sources to cover the costs of stay during the International Summer University WU. 

Dates & Deadlines

Application period: February 15 – March 31, 2024

Nomination deadline: March 15, 2024

July session: July 1 – July 19, 2024

August session: July 22 – August 9, 2024

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Applications OPEN – DHL GoTrade GBSN Fellowship Program 2024

Deutsche Post DHL Group and GBSN partner to break down barriers to global trade.

In furtherance of our mission to improve management and entrepreneurial education, GBSN has partnered with one of its corporate members DPDHL to develop the GoTrade GBSN Fellowship Program. This Fellowship Program is designed to partner selected postgraduate business students with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the developing world with the aim of fostering greater cross-border trade. This directly addresses our collective mission at GBSN –– to improve access to quality, locally relevant management and entrepreneurial education for the developing world. GoTrade is education and access.

APPLICATIONS FOR 2024 ARE NOW OPEN.

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Decolonising Curricula: Implications for Racial and Climate Justice

In celebrating Black History Month in Ireland in October 2023, University College Dublin (UCD) College of Business, in association with UCD Center for Business in Society (CeBaS), UCD Earth Institute, and IPSERA, invites students, faculty, policymakers and those interested in racial and climate justice, to join this conversation on decolonizing curricula.

Date: Thursday, October 19th
Time: 1:30PM IST | 2:30PM CEST | 3:30PM EAT

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The session will feature input from Dr Sadhvi Dar (Queen Mary University London) and one of the authors of ‘The Business School is Racist: Act Up!’ This will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Penelope Muzanenhamo and involving some of our current Smurfit students (Vignesh Asokh, MSc Supply Chain Mgmt), Angel Brummet (MSc Int’ Business) and Annylah Clarke (MSc Food Business), and CoB EDI VP Colm McLaughlin.

At the center of the conversation will be a number of important questions that include, but are not limited to:

  • What is meant by decolonizing curricula?
  • Is decolonizing curricula a Black and Brown people’s ‘thing’?
  • Who benefits from decolonized curricula?
  • Why are business school textbooks and other teaching resources mostly produced by White male scholars?
  • How is Western patriarchy intertwined with the current state of knowledge at the center of our collective debates on decolonizing curricula?
  • What does decolonizing curricula imply for racial equality, and climate justice?
  • Beyond racial and climate justice, what would decolonized curricula offer in terms of tackling structural inequalities based on gender, sexuality and ableism among other demographic labels?
  • What would decolonized curricula look like?

Please join us to understand issues of decolonizing curricula, tackle questions of racial and climate justice, and to hear from a panel of experts.

Call for Abstracts | 9th Business and Human Rights Young Researchers Summit | Geneva, Switzerland, August 29-30 2024

The Institute for Business Ethics at University of St. Gallen, the Geneva Center for  Business and Human Rights at Geneva University’s Geneva School of Economics and  Management, the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University’s  Stern School of Business, and the Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) are pleased to announce the 9thBusiness and Human Rights Young Researchers Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, taking place on August 29-30, 2024. 

The Summit will bring together approximately 10-15 excellent PhD students and  early post-doc researchers (cut-off is one year after graduation) who engage in  research in the business and human rights field. The objective is for participants to  present their research project in an interdisciplinary, collaborative workshop setting.  Scholars from all disciplines are invited to apply including ethics, law, business, and  global affairs. Submissions from non-law disciplines are particularly welcome. The  focus is on paper development. Therefore, papers should outline research-in progress, be single-authored, and must be not be under consideration for publication 

at the time of presentation. We encourage submissions from all parts of the world  and we strive for gender balance in our selection. 

Lodging and meals will be provided for the duration of the Summit. Travel stipends  will be offered for participants traveling from outside of Europe. For further information on the BHR Young Researchers Summit and on how to join the BHR Young Researchers Network visit – 

• https://iwe.unisg.ch/en/initiativen/bhr-young-researchers-summit 

• https://gcbhr.org/focus/business-education/young-researchers-summit

• https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/young-researchers-summit 

To apply, please submit an abstract of no more than 600 words to youngresearcherssummit@gmail.com. Please include your name, affiliation, contact  information, and curriculum vitae. For questions, please contact Pascale Chavaz at youngresearcherssummit@gmail.com.  

Important Dates

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 15, 2024.

Candidates whose  submissions are selected for participation in the Summit will be notified no later than  February 19, 2024.

Full papers will be due on July 15, 2024 and will be distributed to  all participants for review before the workshop. Each participant is expected to  formally comment on one other paper. 

Call for International PhD Graduates to Join Woxsen University as Faculty

Woxsen University is dedicated to fostering academic excellence, research innovation, and global collaboration. We take pride in our diverse and dynamic academic environment that encompasses seven distinct schools: Business, Design, Architecture, Humanities, Computer Science, Life Sciences, and Law.

As part of our commitment to promoting cutting-edge research and nurturing future leaders, we are excited to announce a call for PhD candidates/graduates to join our team as full-time professors.

We believe that our partner universities play a pivotal role in identifying exceptional talents who can benefit from the world-class facilities and research opportunities that Woxsen University offers. Therefore, we kindly request your assistance in disseminating this information within your academic community and encouraging qualified candidates to apply.

Application Deadline: 10th November 2023
Documents required: CV/resume with contact details

Conditions: PhD awarded OR Thesis submitted OR Defense awaited within the next 6-10 months

For more information, please contact: abhishikta.pramanik@woxsen.edu.in

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