Brazil’s FundaÂao Dom Cabral (FDC) is what I call “a business school with a heart”. Ranked 8 th worldwide by the Financial Times for customized executive education, it trains about 40,000 executives from mid-size and large companies every year. All FDC’s activities are informed by a Covenant drawn up in 2006, which expresses the institution’s… Read more >
Thought Leadership
Chairman’s Corner: The Global Innovation Index and Reflections from China
I was invited to participate in the World Economic Forumâs (WEFâs) Annual Meeting of the New Champions which was held in early July in Dalian, China. Also, I was pleased to be part of a high profile launch of the Global Innovation Index in New Delhi on 24th July. I will use this blog to share some of my reflections from these two professional engagements.
Returning to China after a gap of some months is always interesting as the country seems to continue to change at a fast pace. I had taken part in several prior editions of the WEFâs Annual Summits in China and it is interesting to see how the WEF China Summit has now become focused exclusively on technology and innovation. This is not surprising per se as Chinaâs rise in the technology domain is now recognized by many.
Predatory Publishingâs Threat to Emerging Economies
Much attention has been given to how business schools in emerging economies can develop the quality and relevance of their teaching and research programmes, acknowledging the huge potential such development would unlock for those economies and the world. Some of this attention has, understandably, focused on researchers and the need for them to improve the scope and quality of their publications so that they ârankâ alongside those from developed economies.
Purpose, Potential, and People: Reflections on My First Six Months as CEO of the Global Business School Network
Six months ago I joined the Global Business School Network (GBSN) for what I call the three Pâsâthe purpose, the potential, and the people. So you might ask, have I found what was looking for? Is the purpose everything I thought it was? What is GBSNâs potential? Have I connected with new and interesting people? It seems like a good time to reflect on my experience and share thoughts about the journey.
Predatory Publishing’s Threat to Emerging Economies
Simon Linacre, Director of International Marketing & Development, Cabells Simon is Director of International Marketing & Development at Cabells having spent 15 years in publishing at Emerald, where he had direct experience in journal acquisitions, open access and business development. His background is in journalism and he has been published in academic journals on… Read more >
GBSN Members in South Africa
My recent trip to South Africa saw my personal and professional worlds collide in a way I had not intended. After much indecisiveness, I determined at the eleventh hour to make the forty-eight-hour roundtrip from Washington D.C. to Cape Town. I was headed home for the first time in over six months to first, hug… Read more >
Prioritizing Local Relevance in the Global Business School Network
What if we took a group of high performing managers from Canadian paper mills and placed them in the Hawassa Industrial Park in Ethiopia. Would they succeed? Regardless of whether you answered yes, no, or maybe, your responses to questions like this one can reveal a lot about the work weâre doing at the Global Business School Network (GBSN). Since we were created by the World Bank 17 years ago, our vision has been for the developing world to have the management talent it needs to generate prosperity. We want to achieve that vision by âimproving access to quality, locally relevant management and entrepreneurship education for the developing world.â As my experience grows with GBSN, so does my respect for the local relevance part of our mission. Here are three ways that we are prioritizing local relevance in our work.
The Beauty of Online Education
For a third year GBSN Member, The Open University Business School hosted two faculty fellows from Strathmore University and the Narxoz Business School. Dr. Ainura Kaldarova from Narxoz Business School in Kazakhstan recently visited the OU after successfully applying through the Global Business School Network (GBSN) faculty fellowship. This offers academics from institutions in developing countries the opportunity to learn about the OUâs approach to distance and online learning. Here Ainura recalls her month-long stay in Milton Keynes as an International Fellow.
Chairman’s Corner: Leading in a World of Innovation Acceleration
While the acceleration of innovation presents a formidable challenge for most business school leaders, it also presents an exceptional set of opportunities for the few who dare to innovate and change. The few who are inspired to re-imagine the future and take risks. The few who are disciplined to execute with determination and resilience. So how should business school leaders react to these accelerations in the pace of innovation?
Meeting Blockchain’s Potential: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach
Blockchain, a technology that has decentralized the financial markets has been running the worldâs first cryptocurrency for 10 years now, has made us rethink and redefine trust. It is also a technology still in development that needs testing and research in order to fulfill its potential.