Dan LeClair is the Chief Executive Officer at the Global Business School Network. Widely recognized as a thought leader in management education, Dan is the author of over 80 research reports, articles, and blogs, and has delivered more than 170 presentations in 30 countries. Connect with Dan on LinkedIn and Twitter @drleclair
Kevin Anselmo is the founder of Experiential Communications and a consultant for GBSN.
Mr. William Makatiani is the CEO of Serianu Limited and Chair of the Kenya Honeynet Project Chapter. He has over 15 years of experience as an ICT professional Ă focusing on cybersecurity, Forensic Investigations, Governance and Policy, Analytics, Risk and Compliance. He has led numerous engagements across the worldĂ including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mauritius,… Read more >
As part of GBSN’s commitment to providing a platform for digital information sharing and learning across our industry, we have been hosting a series of webinars focused on how schools are dealing with challenges relating to the coronavirus pandemic. GBSN, in partnership with EFMD and XOLAS, presented a webinar on April 1st, Stepping Up Your Online Game. The webinar featured a panel discussion with Benjamin StĂ©venin, CEO of RimaOne and Founding Parter of XOLAS, Mark Fenton O’Creevy, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, The Open University and Martin Boehm, Dean, IE Business School.
Indeed, the last month of coronavirus living has helped me to understand and appreciate GBSN as blended organization, one in which our essential work on the ground and face-to-face is complemented and supported by our work online. But it also helped to realize that we havenât talked enough about our digital work. So here is a short guide to GBSN online, with some notes about how each has been useful in the current crisis.
Soumitra Dutta is a Professor of Management at Cornell University and the Chair of the Board of Directors for GBSN. Previously he was the Founding Dean of the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell and Chair of AACSB Intl. Email: sd599@cornell.edu; Twitter: @soumitradutta; LinkedIn: soumitra-dutta; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soumitra_Dutta
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.
Twenty-twenty already has been a very active year for staff team supporting the Global Business School Network (GBSN). In Nigeria we co-hosted a workshop with Lagos Business School and the African Academy of Management (AFAM) on the role of business schools in Africaâs sustainable development. Then we went from the Yabacon Valley to Silicon Valley, where we contributed to the fifth annual African Diaspora Investment Symposium, and onward to Cairo for roundtables convened by the AUC School of Business to look ahead on occasion of its 10th Anniversary. We also participated in AACSB and EFMD annual deans conferences in music city and the fashion capital of the world, Nashville and Milan, respectively.
Nazeer Ladhani, a longtime member of GBSNâs Advisory Board, passed away on February 19 in Nairobi. My deepest condolences go to his family, and in particular to Aliya, his talented daughter who interned at GBSN â I believe it was in 2006 just as we were about to spin off from the World Bank Group.
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.
