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A Reimagined Experience, For A Repositioned World.

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Global Business School Network reinvented its Annual Conference. Instead of a two-day face-to-face event, GBSN curated experiences involving three parallel tracks across seven weeks culminating in the virtual event, November 9-13, 2020.

These experiences during October were designed to engage Students, Faculty, and Administrators at institutions of higher learning and partner organizations. Each track had a core experience, accompanied by professional development workshops, networking sessions, and webinars. The culminating virtual conference brought these groups together through a program including keynotes, panel discussions, workshops, roundtable discussions, social activities, and more.

GBSN Beyond registered participants continue to have access to all conference materials including session recordings, agenda items, speaker and participant profiles, etc. Click here to go to the virtual event platform Pathable.

Nearly 150 Speakers From Around The World

Relative to the in-person event originally planned, GBSN Beyond set out to achieve two major objectives:

Move the Needle on Our Mission

Design a platform to accelerate development of new programs for improving management education for the developing world.

Be More Inclusive

Involve more schools and more people, especially those underrepresented at global Management events.

Together with all stakeholders, the network achieved these objectives. GBSN Beyond registrants totalled more than 2500 individuals, from over 110 institutions in 50 countries. Participants looked ahead, considering our futures Beyond the Classroom, Beyond Graduation, and Beyond the Administration of our schools by sharing ideas and opportunities for generating greater global impact, especially in the most rapidly growing and developing areas of the world.

Core Experiences

BEYOND
THE CLASSROOM
Faculty Track

In partnership with Capsim, the Faculty track offered a faculty simulation lab experience. Simulation creation via the CapsimInbox program, helped participants bring their research, data, and cases to life. Participants utilized regionally and culturally relevant content to develop scenarios focused on soft skills, cross-cultural management, and critical ESG issues etc.

BEYOND
GRADUATION
Student Track

GBSN, in partnership with Hanken School of Economics’ Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Research Institute (HUMLOG), presented students with a solutions focused team competition. Undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students from around the globe had the opportunity to solve problems in their regions and communities related to medical or food sourcing and delivery issues.

BEYOND
ADMINISTRATION
Leadership Track

The Leadership Track engaged business school leaders with rich dialogues considering several important areas of development for business schools and our network. These took the form of roundtable discussions from which three reports were developed, and published during the culminating GBSN Beyond Virtual Conference.

PLAY THE FACULTY MICROSIMULATIONS

LEARN

Explore award winning business curricula…

EXPLORE THE HUMLOG CHALLENGE SOLUTIONS

ENGAGE

Celebrating member schools going above and *Beyond*…

DOWNLOAD LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE REPORTS

CONNECT

It’s not too late to join the continuing conversation…

GBSN Beyond: HUMLOG Challenge – Student Competition

GBSN Beyond: Capsim Faculty Simulation Competition

The 2019 GBSN Annual Conference was a huge success. Over 170 leaders in business education, industry, development and government gathered in Lisbon, Portugal to participate in a 3-day conference on Measuring the Impact of Business Schools, co-hosted by the Nova School of Business and Economics.

The conference was sponsored by Monash Business School, Johnson &Johnson Foundation, Hanken School of Economics, Cabells Scholarly Analytics, MIT Sloan School of Management, CarringtonCrisp, ETS Global, Global Engagement Institute and Absolute Internship.

We had the pleasure of welcoming:

148 institutions from 46 countries from Mexico, Colombia, Thailand, Indonesia, Kenya, Ghana, Denmark, Finland, Kyrgyzstan, Egypt, Australia.
Colleagues from the private sector, including Johnson & Johnson and Ecobank
Peer organizations, including representatives from AACSB International and EFMD Global

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The role of business in society is changing rapidly, especially in emerging markets. While continuing to act as an engine of economic growth, an increasing number of companies, large and small, are adopting notions of shared value creation and taking a larger stakeholder view of the firm. There is agreement that businesses can address social as well as economic challenges effectively and efficiently in partnership with governments. This view is reflected in the explicit incorporation of business as a change agent in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Compact initiative. Student attitudes also reflect this shift. More students aim to make a positive impact in the world and are seeking careers that share these values. [1]

The above trends are relevant for schools in both developed and developing countries. Examples abound of business schools embracing this new and wider role actively, questioning traditional (probably more Western) views. They do that through consulting, applied research, experiential learning or by acting as catalysts of economic and social change. In this changing context, the question arises of how business schools can assess their relevance and impact in the economy and society at large, including a wider range of stakeholders (students, local communities, NGOs, policy makers, corporations, governments, entrepreneurs, etc.) This central question of impact assessment forms the focal point of discussion in the GBSN 2019 Annual Conference.

Some important questions that will be addressed include:

How are business schools changing their positioning and services against this new role of business and society?
Which impact measurement methodologies are being used by schools and businesses and what are their advantages and shortcomings?
How should the current ranking systems change to more adequately capture the broader role of business schools in the economy and society?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/success/business-students-impact-investing/index.html

SUB-THEMES

Shifts in Management Education to Reflect Economic and Societal Changes Ways to Measure How Business Schools Impact Society and the Economy Rankings and the Impact of Business Schools in the Economy and in Society

Venue

Nova School of Business and Economics
Campus de Carcavelos, Rua da Holanda
n.1, 2775-405 Carcavelos, Portugal

Who Should Attend?

Business School Deans, Directors, Faculty and Administratorsfrom developed, emerging and frontier markets
Professionals from industry, aid organizations, and civil societydedicated to addressing social and economic challenges effectively and efficiently
Government Officialswith an interest in wider stakeholder collaboration to address social and economic challenges

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