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 Roundtable Reports: Shaping the Future of Higher Education
Business school leaders convened at GBSN Beyond and engaged in rich dialogues around Building More Inclusive Societies, The Future of Experiential Learning and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems and Business Schools. Outcomes from these dialogues were developed into reports, and published during the GBSN Beyond Virtual Conference.
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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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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.
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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Dean of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine
UCI Samueli School of Engineering Irvine, CA
Dean of the School of Sciences and Engineering, American University in Cairo
The American University in Cairo Cairo, Egypt
Dean of the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut
American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon
Research Grant in Technological Innovation and Organizational Change at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
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Chairman’s Corner: A Year Full of Hope Ahead
“We should actively seek to spread the gift of education to more. This can be our important contribution to help achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. We have to recommit ourselves and our institutions to creating a better future – one that is more inclusive and sustainable.”
What is Impact?
Impact is the provable benefits of research in the real world. It’s not judged by traditional methods – such as citations – simply appraised by factors we can see and feel in wider society. Impact emerges differently across various disciplines, but ultimately it is about connecting academic research to the world around us.
It is also driven by other dynamics, including funder requirements, research assessments and, of course, societal shifts and changing environments. While these are clear points of focus, the real significance comes from making impact meaningful to you, your partners and your research. We believe that maximum benefit comes from planning impact – enabling you to create and navigate compelling pathways for your research.
Consider the definition of ‘impact’…
Leading High Performing Teams in Turbulent Times
Professor Manfred Kets de Vries and professor Graham Ward from INSEAD have a discussion on how the psychodynamic orientation to leadership can be helpful to guide people through the present crisis. Referring to Kets de Vries’ recent eBook, Journeys into Coronavirus Land: Lessons from the Pandemic, leadership in times of crisis is one of the subjects.