Projects

The Center for Global Enterprise’s First Micro Course

The Center for Global Enterprise’s first online course, Africa Platform Management, Strategy & Innovation, is a 5-week program designed to provide management expertise in emerging platform business models opening up new opportunities across Africa and the global economy. Deadline to apply is April 10th, register for the course here http://bit.ly/21Kxtf0. Feel free to refer to… Read more >

UNCTAD Equips Business Managers to Help the World

Our partner UNCTAD’s Alexandra Santos and Mathabo le Roux explain how a UN initiative is encouraging business schools to prepare students for tackling poverty and other development challenges equipping managers to help the world. With Business Schools for Impact, UNCTAD hopes to spur schools into action and help equip them to do just that. Read… Read more >

Higher Education in sub-Saharan Africa: Why the Neglect?

Our CEO and founder, Guy Pfeffermann, recently contributed an opinion piece to the 2015 eLearning Africa Report. He focused on the challenges facing higher education in sub-Saharan Africa and explored possible solutions. Below you can find screenshots of Guy’s opinion piece, to read the entire eLearning Africa Report please click here. Guy Pfeffermann is the… Read more >

Honoring Thomas J. Bata’s Legacy

Thomas J. Bata would have turned 100 last year. He was a visionary who improved the lives of hundreds of millions by putting functional affordable shoes on their feet, half a century before people started talking about “basic needs” or “social enterprise”. Our friendship was one of the best things in my life. Last week,… Read more >

GBSN Program Spotlight: A Broader Definition of Business

The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) published a blog by Amanda Bullough & Marti J. van Liere, which highlights a recent GBSN Program with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). A Broader Definition of Business Business education should include lessons from market-based approaches to international development goals in developing countries In a global economy,… Read more >