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GIBS wins excellence award for United Nations PRME Sustainability Reporting

The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has been recognized for excellence in reporting for its Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) 2019-2020 report. The GIBS SIP report was recognized for its approach to assessing progress in relation to the PRME principles and the sharing of challenges… Read more >

Innovative and mission-oriented financing of renewable energy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review and conceptual framework

Notwithstanding the high levels of renewable energy resources across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), modern energy use based on these abundant natural resources remains negligible. Furthermore, the current electrification rates and reliability of available power supply in the region have consistently remained significantly lower than the global average over the last three decades. This article, published in Wires Energy and Environment, was written by Prof Ogundiran Soumonni and Prof Kalu Ojah from Wits Business School

Universal Business School: India´s First Green Business School to Inculcate ´Green Thinking´ in Students

This business school school in Mumbai is deploying a green curriculum to realize their sustainable and green ambitions to inculcate ´green thinking´ in students. They have come up with pioneering courses like Green Finance, Green Marketing, and Green Operations and Logistics. Green is sweeping across the business landscape as more and more consumers opt for environment friendliness in goods and services. Consequently, many business schools are prioritizing ´green´ in their programming, philosophy, and facilities.

Strengthening Disaster Resilience: The 2021 HUMLOG Challenge

Major hazards constantly threaten our communities, and climate change and population growth will only accelerate and exacerbate the threats. Yet, as these examples (and the Covid-19 pandemic) show, it is not easy to respond effectively and recover quickly from disasters. It is important to learn from our experiences, identify potential problems in advance, and develop and deploy workable solutions.

New Member Spotlight: Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand

GBSN promotes the expertise and interests of our members by providing a platform to communicate news and open opportunities to global audiences and share how they are innovating in management education to the benefit of their colleagues around the world. The New Member Spotlight series serves as a way for new member schools to introduce themselves to the network.

Stanford Seed Launches Grit & Growth Podcast

Announcing the launch of Grit & Growth, a brand new podcast by Stanford Seed, hosted by executive director, Darius Teter. Hear stories of trial and triumph from intrepid entrepreneurs from Africa and South Asia, and gain insights from Stanford University faculty and global business experts on how to transform today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favorite podcast platform. New episodes are released every two weeks. Please consider writing a review!