News from GBSN

Stanford Seed Welcomes New Cohort of Entrepreneurs

More than 160 business leaders, along with their management teams, will join Stanford Seed’s newest Transformation Program Class. The entrepreneurs hail from 27 countries throughout Africa and South Asia, including first time participation from 10 nations including Sudan, Malawi, Bangladesh, and Nepal. More than 60 women-led SMEs are joining the program, representing 30% of the… Read more >

Inclusivity and GBSN

For Otago Business School, it was essential to fully integrate the First Peoples of New Zealand in its new Bachelor of Entrepreneurship (BEntr) program. To deliver on such a promise and others like it, the school has two senior leadership positions, Associate Dean Māori and Associate Dean Pacific, charged with incorporating perspectives in the design… Read more >

New Member Spotlight: Bentley University

GBSN promotes the expertise and interests of our members by providing a platform to communicate news and open opportunities to global audiences and share how they are innovating in management education to the benefit of their colleagues around the world. The New Member Spotlight series serves as a way for new member schools to introduce themselves to the network.

GIBS MBA ranks in the top 30 globally – QS Executive MBA Ranking 2021

The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has been moved up to 52nd place in the world by the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Executive MBA Ranking 2021. Out of 176 EMBA accredited programmes from around the world, the GIBS MBA ranked in the top 29.5% globally.

Innovative and mission-oriented financing of renewable energy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review and conceptual framework

Notwithstanding the high levels of renewable energy resources across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), modern energy use based on these abundant natural resources remains negligible. Furthermore, the current electrification rates and reliability of available power supply in the region have consistently remained significantly lower than the global average over the last three decades. This article, published in Wires Energy and Environment, was written by Prof Ogundiran Soumonni and Prof Kalu Ojah from Wits Business School