In his blog, Jean-franois Fiorina, GBSN ambassador and director of Grenoble Ecole de Management, emphasized the importance of higher education in emerging countries because these countries are now “actors in the worldwide educational ecosystem.” Fiorina discussed reasons why business educators should enter this geo-sector and the challenges that they may face in doing so. Click… Read more >
GBSN is proud to announce the acceptance of three new schools into our network. We welcome Leuphana University of Lneburg, University of Management and Technology: Pakistan, and Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business to our expanding list of world-class member schools. GBSN works with our member schools to build management education capacity for the developing… Read more >
Patrick Awuah, a friend of GBSN, was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his extraordinary originality and dedication to Ashesi University, a four-year institution that he founded in 2002. Ashesi University, which is grounded in a liberal arts curriculum, seeks to educate a new generation of ethical and entrepreneurial leaders in Africa. It is the… Read more >
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have been a highly debated topic of conversation from their inception in 2008. Many have argued on both sides about how effective they really are, as well as criticized the percentage of people that use them. However, in Harvard Business Review’s recent article Who’s Benefiting from MOOC’s, and Why, we… Read more >
In Walter Baets’ article, “What Young Africans want from Business Education Programmes,” he emphasizes the rising demand for “shorter, more modular business courses” that are more flexible and hands-on than the courses offered in the pursuance of the MBA. The Association of African Business Schools (AABS) recently revealed a growing interest by sub-Saharan youth in… Read more >
A wonderful opportunity for African faculty members to get access to high-quality teaching cases at no cost to them or their schools has opened earlier this month. Through an agreement with the Wits Business School Case Centre (WBS), the Association of African Business Schools (AABS) will pay for 500 copies of WBS case studies to… Read more >
Twenty-four years ago, Lagos Business School (LBS) was a small institution in the Lagos metropolis offering management courses relevant to the Nigerian environment. Today, it is ranked by the Financial Times of London among globally renowned business schools in open enrolment and custom executive education. This record-breaking achievement has been possible, thanks to the School’s… Read more >
The opportunity provided by the Global Business School Network, in the form of the scholarship for the Global School in Empirical Research as the St. Gallen University, was an amazing opportunity for learning and networking. To start with, the choice of course selection in itself was a lot exciting as there were a number of… Read more >
This is a modified excerpt; please find the original article here In an article posted on Dialogue Review, authors Dr. Mark Farrell and Dr. John Davis addressed the two main triggers of disruption in education: technological change and cost pressures. These disruptions are forcing universities (especially those deemed ‘non-elite’) across the world to evolve if… Read more >
I am currently a PhD Student of Strategic Management in Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University. I have a Bachelors degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering as well as an MBA before commencing the doctoral journey. I had prior work experience in Banking as a Relationship Manager in the Multilateral, Conglomerates and Private Banking Group of Zenith Bank,… Read more >
