Revisiting Jeffrey Pfeffer’s “Leadership BS” a decade later, Dan LeClair discusses the common gaps in how we conceptualize leadership and the importance of considering not only individual leaders, but the systems they work in.
Faculty
Romania as a Living Case Study
Dan LeClair takes us inside the planning of GBSN Beyond 2026. The event uses Romania’s still-unfolding story as a case study for the evolving role of management education, from the country’s post-communist success to its navigation of regional and global complexities like AI, energy transition, demographic change, and geopolitical uncertainty.
Students champion new Women in Finance Conference
The inaugural panel for the Smurfit Finance Group (SFG), the Women in Finance Conference, attracted a standing room-only audience with faculty, staff and students from different courses and background in attendance. Head of Women in Finance, Twisha Soni, coordinated and moderated the event, with the support of the Smurfit Finance Group including Conor Maguire, CEO… Read more >
Woxsen University Breaking Barriers in Energy: Exploring New Horizons
Woxsen University’s School of Sciences and School of Business are proud to announce the Energy Symposium 2023, scheduled to take place in May 2023. The symposium will feature an array of speakers from diverse fields, including academia, government, and industry. The symposium aims to bring together leading minds and innovators to discuss and share insights… Read more >
Winners of the Three 2022 GBSN Beyond Competitions
GBSN was very excited to host a series of competitions for the third year in a row! These competitions challenge and recognize participants from the three stakeholder levels of GBSN’s core network: Administrators, Faculty, and Students. Be sure to check out of all the submissions in the Whova app and to congratulate fellow participants and… Read more >
Woxsen University Welcomes 62 New Full-Time Professors in 2022
These new hires cover a very wide range of fields of knowledge from computer science, marketing, fashion design, finance to clinical psychology and consumer neuroscience. We believe in interdisciplinary education as the key to our foundations and, hence, our faculty pool ensures to coordinate in cohesion towards the university pillars which are Internationalisation Research ERS… Read more >
Improving Access to Business Education is Not Enough
In his latest blog, Dan LeClair explains why achieving GBSN’s vision means going well beyond improving access to business and management education.
Introducing Business and Human Rights at HEC Paris
Thirty-four students have just completed a dedicated course on Business and Human Rights at HEC Paris. Prior to entering an ever more complex labour market, they had the opportunity to take a deep dive into some of the most pressing human and labour rights challenges and discuss how to reconcile business imperatives and respect of… Read more >
Call for Investors for the Africa Business Concept Challenge
We are proud to announce the second annual Africa Business Concept Challenge (ABCC) in partnership with Peaqs. This virtual business concept competition for African undergraduate and graduate students will challenge teams to design a viable business concept that addresses a locally-relevant challenge or problem related to Agenda 2063, and inclusive and sustainable development. As part of this experience, teams… Read more >
University of Oxford Appoints GBSN Chair Soumitra Dutta as Dean of Saïd Business School
The University of Oxford Saïd Business School announced the appointment of Professor Soumitra Dutta as its new incoming Dean today. He will take up his new post as Dean of Oxford Saïd on June 1st. Professor Dutta was appointed as Chair of the GBSN Board of Directors on April 10, 2018. Dutta will continue to… Read more >