Engage in collaborative leadership opportunities, help your school or organization make a positive impact in the developing world, strengthen your international network, and develop new skills. GBSN offers a wide range of opportunities for leaders in business schools and other organizations that focus on learning and development.
Leadership Roundtables
GBSN Beyond Administration invites business school leaders to engage in rich dialogues around one of several important areas of development for business schools listed below. These discussions will take the form of roundtable discussions from which reports will be developed, and published during the culminating GBSN Beyond Virtual Event. This series is designed to create value for participants by sharing ideas while working together towards recommendations and solutions.
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Cross-Border Collabs
With borders closing and social distancing being encouraged, GBSN is committed to providing platforms for digital information sharing and learning across our industry. Cross-Border Collabs are exclusive meetings for GBSN members, focused on engaging our community to tackle some of the greatest challenges of our time.
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The Business Proofing of Business Schools Webinar Series
Presented by XOLAS, GBSN, EFMD Global Network, and Other Partner Organizations
This webinar series will provide guidance on how to adjust most effectively to this new environment. Sector and topical experts will get at the core of key issues and suggest a way forward. As a participant, you can challenge your own thinking and contribute to the debate.
The World After COVID-19
At GBSN, we are keen to explore the contours of the world after COVID-19, the world that is emerging as a result of the extraordinary times we are experiencing today. To do so, we are reaching out to our community to better understand the many ways in which the world after COVID-19 will be different for our key stakeholders including governments, businesses, universities and students.
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MIT Sloan Visiting Fellows Program
The MIT Sloan School of Management offers special tuition rates to students and alumni of GBSN member schools to its Visiting Fellows Program. Visiting Fellows come to MIT Sloan with the freedom to pursue their academic and professional goals. Those goals may be to develop skills in global entrepreneurship, to broaden their understanding of strategic innovation, or to explore international finance and capital markets.
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Developing Talent for Africa Virtual Forum
Presented by GBSN and Ecobank Academy
In this unique, virtual forum, speakers focus on the future that Africa wants and the power of its people to achieve it. The conversations are built to review new opportunities for innovation and collaboration—especially across business and business schools—to overcome these challenges.
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World After COVID-19: Franz Heukamp, IESE Business School
Franz Heukamp is Dean of IESE Business School at the University of Navarra. In conversation with Soumitra Dutta and Dan LeClair of GBSN, he discusses important global trends that the pandemic is accelerating, as well as the increased responsibility of business and business institutions to society. The interview took place 12 weeks after COVID-19 was… Read more >
Redefining the Boundaries of Business Education
Boundaries are everywhere in business education. They inform business scholars about which journals they are supposed to publish in for tenure and promotion. Boundaries help us to neatly organize degree programs into categories, such as MBAs and specialized masters, based on objective criteria. Boundaries can be physical; it is not uncommon for university-based business schools to be physically separated from the main campus.But the environment has changed. Our traditional boundaries have become less helpful. They supported a focus on quality improvement, but are hindering efforts for impact leadership. Quality is about rules and rubrics. Impact is about creativity and collaboration.
Hybrid by Default: The Future of Education has Changed
The Covid crisis has forced colleges and universities to move to fully online instruction over the last months. Some may yet continue in a fully online mode for parts of the next academic year. However, looking ahead beyond the pandemic, it is very likely that education will not revert back to the “way it was before the pandemic”. Education will evolve to become hybrid in nature integrating the best what in-person instruction can offer and the unique aspects of what online education can provide. Some of these changes, such as flipped classrooms were already starting to appear before the Covid pandemic but these trends will accelerate now. While a small minority of faculty were doing flipped classes before, the vast majority of faculty will integrate such approaches and shift to a different mode of learning and class discussion.