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INSEAD focuses on Gender Inequity Issues at ChangeNOW 2022ļæ¼

For the fourth consecutive year, INSEAD was the major academic partner of the ChangeNOW Summit (19th May ā€“ 21st May). At the worldā€™s largest event for the planet, with more than 33,000 participants in person from 117 countries and 742 million online views, INSEAD unveiled brand new academic research at the Grand Palais Ephemere. This yearā€™s edition of ChangeNOW, founded by… Read more >

INSEADā€™s EcoVadis Gold Medal: Recognition for Walking the Talk on Sustainabilityļæ¼

INSEAD is continuing to walk the talk with sustainability as we celebrate a recently awarded EcoVadis Gold Medal. Transforming business education, to ensure sustainability is at the core, is a long journey. Following INSEADā€™s long standing commitment to develop responsible business leaders, the school is actively engaged in promoting sustainability initiatives. These initiatives are reflected… Read more >

Are Business Schools Working Together?ļæ¼

ā€œThe scientists are coming together to think about moonshots. But we, in business schools, are still working separately.ā€ said Peter Tufano when Soumitra Dutta and I interviewed him for our book, ā€œThe World After Covidā€, April 2020, during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Do you agree with him? Of course, business schools do… Read more >

GBSN-CFTE: Center for Excellence in FinTech

“CFTE and GBSN co-develop the worldā€™s first Center for Excellence in Fintech, connecting academia to practice to accelerate the development of Fintech education” As Fintech is becoming more prominent in financial services, training programs from government and universities must continuously evolve. It’s in that context that GBSN and CFTE announce their collaboration to promote Fintech… Read more >

NUM Ranked in WURIā€™s Top 50 Universities of Real Impact

Cambodiaā€™s National University of Management (NUM) on Friday announced that the Committee of Hanseatic League of Universities, which organizes the annual Worldā€™s Universities with Real Impact (WURI), ranked NUM in the top 50 of the ā€œWURI 2022: Global Top 100 Innovative Universitiesā€. It said that NUM was in the top 50 for 5 innovative projects… Read more >

ABCC Top 6 Teams Announced

We are proud to announce the Africa Business Concept Challenge Top 6 Teams! The Top 6 Teams presented business concepts that stood out from competitive and diverse submissions. Breaking out from an initial 78 teams with over 290 students from 17 countries and 46 schools, we are proud to share the Final Pitch Presentations from… Read more >

Time to go Back to the Basics of African Nutrition to Solve the Continentā€™s Food Insecurity Problemļæ¼

Lumumba was speaking at a webinar commemorating Africa Day on Thursday, 26 May hosted by the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at Wits Business School, in partnership with the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), the Southern Africa Youth Forum, (SAYoF), the Philanthropy Circuit, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Harvard… Read more >