This year’s annual conference (gbsn.org/2017dc) will go back to the raison d’tre of GBSN: the intersections between business education and development. Everyone knows what “business education” is, but “development” is one of those fuzzy Alice-in-Wonderland words that mean very different things to different people. Sociologists, psychologists, engineers, economists, political scientists and others each think of… Read more >
The Lag-User Method, developed by researchers Sara Jahanmir and Professor Luis Filipe Lages from the Nova School of Business and Economics, will be the core of the MIT course, LAG-USER METHOD: USING LATE ADOPTERS AS A SOURCE OF INNOVATIVE IDEAS. The course will be offered in the MIT-SUTD program, collaboration between MIT and Singapore University… Read more >
The Future MBA is about rethinking and reinventing business schools to ensure that they train the kinds of sustainability leaders, managers, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs that our businesses and the planet need. We need a new generation of graduates who are not only aware of, but can play a key role in moving the sustainability agenda… Read more >
Abuja, Nigeria Spoke at BAZE University Bangalore, India Visit to Indian Institute of Management and Infosys. Attended the Confederation of Indian Industry Conference Berlin, Germany Attended Online Education Berlin conference and hosted GBSN Experiential eLearning Summit: Shaping Global Leaders Through Practice &Partnership Brazzaville, Republic of Congo Discussion with Government officials about creating a new… Read more >
This blog was written by Ahmad Hosseini, Dean of American University of Nigeria School of Business and Economics. He reflects on his experience participating in the AUN Entrepreneurship Boot Camp. In this five days of event I had extraordinary opportunity to meet and work with about 200 young high school students from seven different high… Read more >
The Global Business School Network welcomes Kardan University’s admittance as its newest member school. Kardan University is the first member school from Afghanistan, taking our network to 74 members in 37 countries. GBSN continues to the expand its global network and looks forward to engaging Kardan University in various network activities with the aim to… Read more >
GBSN is pleased to welcome Mouhamed Moustapha Dieye, Academic Director of the ISM Group Dakar, to the GBSN Academic Advisory Board.Mouhamed Moustapha DIEYE Academic Director ISM Group Dakar Senegal Mouhamed Moustapha DIEYE holds a Ph.D. in Socio-Anthropology, a Ph.D. in Sociology and a Master of Philosophy from the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar. He… Read more >
The Academy of Management recently established a new ListServe focusing on Emerging Markets. The target audiences are researchers, academics, students, policy makers, and business practitioners of emerging markets. The list is managed by Ilan Alon (University of Agder) and Bersant Hobdari (Copenhagen Business School). The purpose of the list is to generate discussion and scholarly… Read more >
GBSN Member, The Open University Business School is hosting four faculty fellowships from Lagos Business School. The fellows are Ogechi Adeola, Yetunde Anibaba, Nubi Achebo and Obinna Muogboh. The four of them are staying with at the university for 6 weeks during November and December of 2016. This is the fourth and final guest blog… Read more >
By: Nina Ferguson I am so grateful to have spent the past semester interning for GBSN. Over the past couple of months a lot has changed for me. This internship has been meaningful as I am about to enter the ‘real world’. This daunting idea is slowly diminishing after having such an incredible time with… Read more >
