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MIT Sloan School of Management’s Healthcare Lab Focuses on Transforming the Industry

NEWS PROVIDED BY MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Sloan School of Management’s Healthcare Lab focuses on transforming the industry Enrollment in action learning course increased by 45% CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 16, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The healthcare industry is going through a massive transformation as its emphasis shifts from transactional care for sick patients to… Read more >

Member Spotlight: UVA Darden Launches New MOOC on Financial Accounting Fundamentals

GBSN member school, The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has recently launched a new MOOC, “Financial Accounting Fundamentals,” a five-week beginner level course taught by Luann Lynch, Almand R. Coleman Professor of Business Administration. Beginning on March 27, 2017, the course will be available to a global audience via the Coursera platform. The… Read more >

Amédée Prouvost Appointed to the GBSN Board of Directors

AmĂ©dĂ©e Prouvost, the Director of Operational Risk at The World Bank Group, has been appointed to the GBSN Board of Directors. Since joining the World Bank, he has served as Senior Adviser to the Group CFO, Director for Risk Management & CFO of MIGA (the political risk insurance arm of the Group), Finance Manager for… Read more >

GBSN Welcomes New Schools from Ghana and Kyrgyzstan

The Global Business School Network welcomes two new member schools: The Ghana Institute of Management and Public and Administration (GIMPA) in Ghana and the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Kyrgyzstan taking the network to 73 schools in 36 countries. These two schools become the first GBSN members from Ghana and Kyrgyzstan. GBSN looks… Read more >

This Year’s Annual Conference: The Intersections of Business Education and Economic Development

This year’s annual conference (gbsn.org/2017dc) will go back to the raison d’tre of GBSN: the intersections between business education and development. Everyone knows what “business education” is, but “development” is one of those fuzzy Alice-in-Wonderland words that mean very different things to different people. Sociologists, psychologists, engineers, economists, political scientists and others each think of… Read more >

MIT Offers Lag-User Method Course Developed by Nova SBE Researchers

The Lag-User Method, developed by researchers Sara Jahanmir and Professor Luis Filipe Lages from the Nova School of Business and Economics, will be the core of the MIT course, LAG-USER METHOD: USING LATE ADOPTERS AS A SOURCE OF INNOVATIVE IDEAS. The course will be offered in the MIT-SUTD program, collaboration between MIT and Singapore University… Read more >