Wishing everyone in the diverse GBSN community the very best for the holidays, and always. Thank you for everything you do to make the world a better place.
Faculty
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 >
5 Tips on How to Thrive in a Virtual Classroom
What does it take to thrive in a virtual classroom? At the William Davidson Institute, we’ve had plenty of opportunity to explore this question in the past couple of years, as our Global Virtual Learning Center has been busily running online management programs. Even pre-Covid, we were running many virtual programs — the pandemic put that into high gear. Here are some things that will help students in online programs, based on our experiences.
Announcing the GBSN Beyond 2021 Competition Winning Teams
In true fashion of “Going Beyond” for the 2021 virtual conference, GBSN was honored to continue our partnered track competitions from last year – the HUMLOG Challenge Student Competition in partnership with the HUMLOG Institute at Hanken School of Economics and the Microsimulation Development Lab faculty competition in partnership with CapsimInbox, while also introducing our leader’s track competition, the Going Beyond… Read more >
Connecting Across Sectors for Greater Impact: Welcome to GBSN Beyond
What does a former President of Malawi have in common with the VP for Talent and Development at Amazon Web Services, former Chief Operational Risk Officer of the World Bank, Head of Human and Child Rights at the Ingka (formerly Ikea) Group, and the VP for Social Impact at Visa CAMEA? They all are keynote… Read more >