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GBSN & WCEA Launch Mobile MDI Program for African Healthcare Workers

Mobile MDI provides access to content from GBSN’s previous experience delivering a one-week, face-to-face residential version of the program. It is intended as the foundation for healthcare professionals to continue their development as managers. “These programs will have a strong local/regional orientation in Africa, fostering peer-to-peer sharing and networking, and will enable application through project-based… Read more >

What Can Higher Education do to Address Gender Inequality?

According to a 2018 World Bank report, “globally, the loss in human capital wealth due to gender inequality is estimated at $160 trillion.” Presented differently and more positively, “human capital wealth could increase 21.7 percent globally, and total wealth by 14.0 percent with gender equality in earnings.” Three years earlier, the McKinsey Global Institute estimated… Read more >

AUC School of Business Executive Education releases a report titled “Corporate Learning and Development Landscape in Egypt”

AUC School of Business Executive Education released the first report in a series of activities and discussions that explores Egypt’s learning and development (L&D) landscape. Using insights from 30 organizations from 12 key business sectors in the Egyptian market, the report paints a picture of the current dynamics of the L&D landscape in Egypt from… Read more >

Woxsen University Initiates Rural Entrepreneurship

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 15 (ANI/PRNewswire): Woxsen University, with a key focus on Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability, has initiated a new project termed as ‘Rural Entrepreneurship’ that aims to uplift the rural community surrounding Woxsen University. A team formed by Woxsen University students, faculty, and non-academic staff led by Dr Bhairab Chandra, School of Business,… Read more >

Woxsen University Aligns Its Activities with the UN’s SDGs

With a strong focus on ERS, Woxsen University has set in motion a SDG-wheel to direct its core activities and innovations with an aim of social impact. SDG No. 1: No Poverty •The school hosts a chapter called “Street Cause” a nationwide present entity that focused on the social uplifting of rural India. 100+ students… Read more >

WBS and BCG Present: “Backstage Pass: In Conversation With South African Leaders”

Our host for these conversations is Nozipho Tshabalala who has extensive experience engaging with some of South Africa’s most influential leaders and moderating panels across a number of sectors.   We are excited to be able to send you the first episode in the series: “Digital Innovations”. Our guests are Dare Okoudjou, CEO/Founder: MFS Africa Ltd, Nihmal Marrie, MD and partner: BCG, Gour… Read more >

The Grit & Growth Podcast: Masterclass on Driving Business Growth

Welcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on the effectiveness of small business interventions in emerging markets — with hard data to back it up. Thanks to researcher Stephen J. Anderson’s studies with African entrepreneurs, you’ll hear why having a coach, getting classroom training, and learning how to delegate can drive growth and impact your bottom… Read more >

Pacing Entrepreneurs to Success

Entrepreneurial support organizations called pacers are helping businesses in emerging markets achieve their goals by providing services for them in the long run. A blueprint for shifting to a pacer model shows how organizations can support entrepreneurs as they grow.Open access to this article made possible by Stanford Seed. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) create… Read more >

Woxsen University Welcomes 62 New Full-Time Professors in 2022

These new hires cover a very wide range of fields of knowledge from computer science, marketing, fashion design, finance to clinical psychology and consumer neuroscience. We believe in interdisciplinary education as the key to our foundations and, hence, our faculty pool ensures to coordinate in cohesion towards the university pillars which are Internationalisation Research ERS… Read more >

Woxsen University Develops a Larger Outlook Bringing India to the Worldďżź

Woxsen University announces the establishment of International Student Advisory Board (ISAB), consisting of students from Woxsen University and nominated students from Woxsen’s partner varsities such as Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia), Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (Brazil), HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Germany), Al Akhawayn University (Morocco). ISAB is set to discuss international best… Read more >