The University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School is marking the 300th anniversary of pioneering Scot Adam Smith with a year-long celebration of his life, work and influence. The tercentenary commemoration of The Father of Economics includes a host of events in Scotland and around the world, designed to inspire renewed discussion about Smith’s ideas. … Read more >
More female entrepreneurs take part in programs, and interest for social impact projects increases. Since 2012, start-ups in Esade entrepreneurial ecosystem have raised more than €3.5 billion of funding. The Esade Entrepreneurship Institute (EEI) founded 30 years ago is now an international benchmark in which research and support for entrepreneurship play an essential role. More than 2,000 entrepreneurs… Read more >
The funding is part of the Horizon Europe CSA project, Palomera (Policy Alignment of Open access Monographs in the European Research Area). In addition to European universities, various umbrella organisations for libraries, research funders and publishers are involved in the two-year project. “We will get an overall picture of the challenges and possibilities of publishing… Read more >
The fully online MBA from the University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business has earned the coveted distinction of 2022 MBA Program of the Year by Poets&Quants, the preeminent source for information on undergraduate and graduate business education. Gies’ MBA – known as the iMBA – is a full 72-credit-hour MBA offered completely online and at a… Read more >
This manifesto may be treated as a Declaration of Intent and lays down the points agreed to by the academicians of HigherEd institutions to collectively work towards some of the best practices to create a learner-centered education landscape. Further, the following may be adopted by the representatives of the given institutions in line with Vision… Read more >
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.
This week’s List looks at how business schools can use partnerships for maximum impact. When GBSN (Global Business School Network) asked me to be a judge for their Going Beyond Awards again this year, I gladly agreed. These awards, given in collaboration with EFMD, highlight programmes and initiatives that “strengthen society, demonstrate community impact and embody the… Read more >
A Memorandum of Understanding to increase the inclusion of labour rights issues in business education has been signed by the ILO, the Global Business School Network and the Geneva School of Economics and Management of the University of Geneva. Press release – 02 December 2022 GENEVA – A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), designed to strengthen … Read more >
At GBSN Beyond, our annual conference, I bumped into a young, energetic woman during the networking break. She was hustling to deliver something to the tech team. Clearly, she was working as part of the GBSN staff team. The only problem is that I did not know who she was. She looked familiar, but her… Read more >
By Geert-Jan (GJ) van der Zanden, Sasin School of Management, as appeared originally in AMCHAM Thailand T-AB Magazine October 2022. Even the most progressive companies in the world are on a continuous learning curve of how to become more sustainable, and run a profitable business while restoring, maintaining, or growing natural and social capital. Political,… Read more >
