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How and Why “Learning by Doing” Matters – Reflections from the GBSN Cambodia Summit

Last week I was in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for GBSN’s second “Learning by Doing” Summit, this one held with the National University of Management. The day-long dialogue explored the power of experiential education in management education. Nearly 60 participants from a dozen countries – including Myanmar, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the US and India… Read more >

Austin’s Notes: GBSN Advisory Board Member Writes an Article on Millennials, Zero Distance and Grassroots Innovation

Austin Okere is founder of CWG Plc, the largest Systems Integration Company in Sub-Saharan Africa & Entrepreneur in Residence at CBS, New York. Austin also serves on the World Economic Forum Business Council on Innovation and Intrapreneurship and is also on the GBSN advisory board. Millennials, Zero Distance and Grassroots Innovation I recently attended the… Read more >

Student Blog: Irene Ngunjiri

My experience at St Gallen’s Summer School First and foremost I would like to thank GBSN for awarding me a Scholarship to the course. I was a wonderful and extremely fruitful course. I am currently working on my proposal. My area of interest is public management. I enrolled for 2 courses. The first course was… Read more >

University of St. Gallen Global School in Empirical Research Methods 2016

For the third year in a row, The University of St. Gallen offered 10 scholarship opportunities to Ph.D. students from GBSN member schools in developing countries, to attend its Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM.) The GSERM Global School in Empirical Research Methods is a new flagship programme on methodology at the University of… Read more >

Student Blog: Emmanuel Oduro-Afriyie

As part of the Global Business School Network’s (GBSN) collaboration with the Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM), I was privileged to take part in this year’s GSERM at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. I am a Ghanaian by nationality, and I am 26 years old. Currently, I am a doctoral student… Read more >

GBSN Advisory Board Member Writes on the Potential of Millennials and Their Impact on Grassroots Innovation

GBSN Advisor, Austin Okere recently wrote an article, Millennials, Zero Distance and Grassroots Innovation published on his blog austinokere.com. He touches on the impact the generation Millennials has on grassroots innovation and the importance of infusing them within organizations as Millennials hold fresh innovative ideas imperative to continued sustainability of a business. “As the sun… Read more >

eLearning Africa Takeaway

The three-day eLearning Africa networking event that took place in Cairo, Egypt this May was a success. With GBSN being proud partner at this event, we were glad to know that over 1,045 delegates attended the event. There was 204 conference speakers, who gave presentations exploring latest innovations, best-practice examples and issues regarding technology and… Read more >

GBSN Members in Top 25 Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship

10 GBSN members rank in the top 25 best MBA programs for entrepreneurship, which was released by the Financial Times. This is the The Financial Times second annual ranking of the best MBA programs for entrepreneurship. Here are the GBSN member schools that are included in the top 25: Stanford GSB Babson – Olin Virginia… Read more >