I was at Lagos Business School last month for the Association of African Business School’s annual conference. This was a lovely opportunity for me to meet old friends again and to reflect on progress achieved during the past decade. In 2005 GBSN, then a part of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, convened a workshop… Read more >
Some students are not as lucky to have their first internship align directly with their field of study or career aspirations. I am happy to admit this was not the case for me. As communications and event planning intern, I had an opportunity to practice all that University of Maryland’s communication department instilled in me… Read more >
Rohit Verma, newly appointed Dean of External Relations for the newly formed College of Business at Cornell University joins the GBSN Academic Advisory Board. Welcome Dean Verma! Rohit Verma Dean of External Relations College of Business and Cornell University USA Rohit Verma is the executive director of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (http://ihf.cornell.edu/) and… Read more >
GBSN welcomes Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business (SKK GSB), ETH Zurich Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), and Nanyang Business School into a network of prestige member schools. As a member school, the newly accepted will join others in fulfilling a mission to build management education capacity for the developing world through global… Read more >
GBSN introduces Dr. Alejandro Lago, the newest member on the GBSN Academic Advisory Board. Dr. Lago will assist fellow board members in reviewing business school applications for GBSN membership. The Academic Advisory Board plays a critical role in GBSN’s mission, for the network prides itself on being a group of elite business schools around the… Read more >
The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the first āthink tankā on the future of management education. With research projects on subjects including creativity, the 21st century enterprise, and marketing and business strategy, the center is unveiling a new project in collaboration with U.S. News… Read more >
The World Bank Group is launching a Financing for Development MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on November 16. A function of this course is to facilitate increased awareness about new global goals, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted at a UN Summit in September of this year. These SDGs will require trillions of dollars over the next 15… Read more >
GBSN is proud to announce the acceptance of three new schools into our network. We welcome Leuphana University of LĀneburg, University of Management and Technology: Pakistan, and Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business to our expanding list of world-class member schools. GBSN works with our member schools to build management education capacity for the developing… Read more >
We all have sat through conferences replete with formal statements and endless powerpoint presentations, Appropriately, as it deals with Disruptive Education Models from the Developing World, ours will be a refreshing “Un-conference,” inspired by Lewis Carrroll’s “Through the Looking Glass.” You remember Alice, congratulating Humpty Dumpty for his splendid cravat. The White King and Queen… Read more >
This is a modified excerpt, please find the original articles here GBSN would like to congratulate Dr. Patrick Awuah on receiving the Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award for his work as a trailblazing educational leader in Ghana. The annual award, given to a UC Berkeley alumna with a devotion to international affairs, is regarded… Read more >
