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 >
Professor Piet Naude, director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School speaks on the business school role in society and making differences in the lives of small business entrepreneurs.
I have bored audiences for years now, repeating that scaling management or any other kind of higher education in low-income regions would only be achieved via mobile phones. That is because relatively few people in Africa, India and other parts of the developing world have computers, but virtually everyone has access to mobile phones. What… Read more >
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Global Business School Network (GBSN) and the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) Align Voices for Big Push to Change Business Education BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – As countries step up efforts to address increasingly complex social and environmental challenges, they will lean strongly on the business sector… Read more >
Because in most developing economies they are the predominant form of economic activity, from its beginnings GBSN has paid particular attention to what causes very small firms to grow. We worked for three years with Nigeria’s Enterprise Development Center, a remarkable institution, in creating a super-effective Certificate in Entrepreneurial Management. Later GBSN partnered with Goldman… Read more >
Encouraging student connections to the “real world” is at the heart of pedagogical creativity. I was fortunate this month to learn about two approaches, one at the Darden School of Business (University of Virginia), the other at Ume School of Business and Economics, both members of GBSN. Darden’s Professor Jeanne Liedtka ran a GBSN webinar… Read more >
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have been a highly debated topic of conversation from their inception in 2008. Many have argued on both sides about how effective they really are, as well as criticized the percentage of people that use them. However, in Harvard Business Review’s recent article Who’s Benefiting from MOOC’s, and Why, we… Read more >
In Walter Baets’ article, “What Young Africans want from Business Education Programmes,” he emphasizes the rising demand for “shorter, more modular business courses” that are more flexible and hands-on than the courses offered in the pursuance of the MBA. The Association of African Business Schools (AABS) recently revealed a growing interest by sub-Saharan youth in… Read more >
On September 9, 2015, GBSN hosted a webinar called, “Design Thinking Pedagogy and Practice,” featuring Jeanne M. Liedtka, a professor of business administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. The webinar discussed the process of Design Thinking using a case study, and the methods in which it can be… Read more >
The case method is alive and well: reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. When I became Director of The Case Centre six years ago I was unfamiliar with cases and how they are used in business education. I read some cases, researched the topic and became a little skeptical. It seemed hard to… Read more >
