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Professor Donna Marshall wins Bankinter Consumer Finance Award for Research in Business Ethics As recently reported by theĀ Irish Times, Bankinter is a leading Spanish banking group thatĀ announced plans to establish Avant MoneyĀ as its Irish banking branch. UCD College of Business Professor Donna Marshall’s co-authored paper, ā€œReporting Controversial Issues in Controversial Industries“, has won the Bankinter… Read more >

Rethinking Business School Education: A Call for Epistemic Humility Through Reflexivity

This commentary in the ā€˜ Business and Society’ journal highlighted the crucial role of education in fostering humility and challenging privilege. This is especially important in today’s polarised world, where disagreements often escalate into conflict. By adopting a teaching and learning culture of humility, we can nurture a more inclusive mind-set in our future leaders…. Read more >

Experts from Academia, Business and the Public Sector Meet at Esade to Examine the Impact of AI on Education

Experimenting, sharing and learning together were some of the main ideas for making the most of AI in the classroom suggested by professors from international universities, business executives and the director general of Industry at the Generalitat de Catalunya, Oriol Alcoba. Cultivating curiosity, flexibility and the desire to experiment is one of main ways of… Read more >

AUC Venture Lab Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary with Invigorating V-Lab Summit

To celebrate 10 years of impact, innovation and growth, AUC Venture Lab (V-Lab), Egypt’s first university-based startup accelerator, hosted at AUC School of Business, held their annual V-Lab Summit that involved insightful discussions featuring market leaders and experts, valuable networking opportunities and the latest updates from the Egyptian entrepreneurship ecosystem.This year’s summit was the largest… Read more >

AUC School of Business Emerge Victorious in Prestigious MENA Research Challenge Competition

Four students from The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business have triumphed as the winners of the highly competitive 2024 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Regional Societies Research Challenge in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, organized by the esteemed CFA Society Emirates.The team members: Hana Khaled, economics major, alongside Jana Khaled, Carol… Read more >

Brown stepping down as Gies Business Dean after historic 9-year run

Dr. Jeffrey R. Brown, Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor in Business and Dean of Gies College of Business, has announced that this academic year will be his final year as dean. He plans to step down in 2024 after his successor is found. Brown joined Gies Business in 2002 and has served as dean since… Read more >

2024 ABCC Top 5 Student Projects

This year’s Top 5 ABCC projects reflect a passion to improve communities’ economies, sustainability, and well-being through creative and viable business concepts. The following teams will move on to the final stage of the competition to present their business concepts LIVE to our international panel of judges on April 17th and 18th, competing for a… Read more >

The Carpenter and the Gardener: Nurturing Growth in Business Schools

If you are a parent and, like me, anxious to get better at it, you probably know about the carpenter and gardener metaphor popularized by Alison Gopnik, a professor at the University of California Berkeley. Being a carpenter, she says, is about molding a child into an adult who has a particular set of characteristics…. Read more >

A Whakatauki for the World

ā€œNāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwiā€ is a Māori proverb, or whakatauki. It translates into ā€œwith your food basket and my food basket the people will thriveā€ and carries my humble holiday message to the GBSN community.Ā  To be sure, I’m not an expert on Māori, People of the Land… Read more >

Human-machine Teaming and Imminent AI Revolution

The recent advances in artificial intelligence, with novel chatbots like ChatGPT, brings radical changes and opportunities to the way organizations and people work in teams. As hardware and machine learning algorithms continue to improve at impressive speed, AI-powered predictive analytics has also started to boost the way we work together. Generative AI, which transforms information to… Read more >