News from around the globe around access to quality, locally relevant business education Business leaders vow to focus on Duterte’s ‘inclusive growth’ With the Philippines’s continuing economic growth during the last six years, the country’s business leaders believe it is time to focus on inclusive growth under the new administration. Click here to read more… Read more >
News from GBSN
In the News: Wednesday, June 27, 2016
News from around the globe around access to quality, locally relevant business education Wits’s free online courses will boost access to higher education, university says The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) announced on Thursday that it had developed free, online courses to be made available over the next three years, as part of efforts enhance… Read more >
In the News: Wednesday, June 22, 2016
News from around the globe around access to quality, locally relevant business education Plan to set up premier digital, innovation centres in State Describing innovation as the mantra for success, Chairman of Innovation Society of Andhra Pradesh J.A. Chowdary has said there are plans to set up an International Institute of Digital Technology in Tirupati… Read more >
In the News: Tuesday, June 21, 2016
News from around the globe around access to quality, locally relevant business education HEC Paris leads the pre-experience ranking for the sixth straight year The financial times published its 2016 Master in Finance rankings. GBSN member schools are at the top of the list! One in particular, HEC Paris has led the list in pre-experience… Read more >
Down Memory Lane with the Association of African Business Schools
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 >
The Best Way to End Senior Year
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 from Cornell Joins the Academic Advisory Board
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 3 New Schools
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 >
Alejandro Lago, IESE Business School Joins Academic Advisory Board
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 >
Wharton Center Unveils Best Countries, the Most Comprehensive Evaluation Report on Nations
The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the first “think tank” 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 >