Virtual Events

Driving Systems Change – Corporate Leadership for the SDGs

Event Details

The world is facing fundamental and interrelated systemic challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic as well as environmental and social crises and issues. Those issues cannot be solved by business as usual. Fortunately, there is a framework that can help navigate efforts to deal with them: the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Right now, the SDGs are the best agenda available to share ambitions and measure progress towards the achievement of a large number of common goals.

The private sector’s active involvement is vital in this ambition. But progress is too slow – not because of a lack of intentions, but because of the serious gap in developing advanced strategies in realising the SDGs. It’s difficult to integrate SDGs in core business. So, can corporate leaders step up to the challenge and drive systems change?

We think it is possible – and your contribution is important. Join our free, online conference in which we will exchange experiences, showcase tools and concepts, and learn from leading thinkers and experts. 

Speakers

Click here to see the full programme, including all speakers and an introduction to each session. 

Registration

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The email address and password you create at registration will also be needed to log in on the day of the conference. You will receive a confirmation email shortly after registration (please note that the email might be in your spam folder). Although you register for the entire event, you can then decide for yourself which day and / or session you want to attend! This means that you can attend just one day; registration for the full 3 days does not mean that you must attend all 3 days.

Although participation is free, we kindly ask you to attend the event once you have registered. Failure to show up is at the expense of someone else’s participation, as the number of tickets is limited. For questions you can send an email to ScienceWorks via assistant conference manager Karlijn van Marrewijk at k.vanmarrewijk@scienceworks.nl.

This conference is part of the project Managing the transition to sustainable business models: the role of leadership and measuring shared value creation (with project number 438-14-901 of the research programme Sustainable Business Models) which is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 

Think Tank: Transformational Entrepreneurship and the post Covid19 Global Economy

Event Details

The International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship (ICTE) believes that sharing and debating possible alternative transformational entrepreneurial ideas and solutions from a futuristic and multi-disciplinary basis, will offer opportunities that will lead to creating future sustainable socio-economic development and growth. As a result, ICTE is inviting you to participate in conversations about the formation and launching of the International Academy for Transformational Entrepreneurship (IATE). IATE will serve as the vehicle by which global leading entrepreneurship educators, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers will work together to engage in knowledge transfer, research, university entrepreneurship ecosystem development and policy formulation to promote socio-economic growth in a post-COVID world.

To foster these conversations, ICTE is leading an online Think Tank webinar on Monday 24 May 2021 at 7:30am EDT/ 12:30pm BST, with an international, diverse mix of attendees from educational institutions, policy makers and industry.

Speakers

The webinar will be led by leading international experts to help stimulate conversations on how a transformational entrepreneurial philosophy can assist a post-Covid19 socio-economic development and will include:

  • Professor John Latham CBE, Vice-Chancellor and CEO, Coventry University
  • Professor Gideon Maas, Executive Director of ICTE
  • Mr Andreas Aasted Gjede, Director Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE), Denmark.
  • Professor Xi Wang,Director of Fintech Centre, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China.
  • Associate Professor Daniel Agyapong, Head of Department, Marketing and Supply Chain Management, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

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Registration is required for this event. Use the button below to access registration.

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The Business Schools Will Have No Future if We Don’t Do This!

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Date

Tuesday, 4 July 10:00am – 11:00am

LOCATION

Zoom

CONTACT

emartens@gbsn.org

What would a business school look like if one started with a blank sheet of paper and did not benchmark other business schools?

What would the content be? Who would teach? What would it cost? In this session, we will look at how business schools got to be where they are because of the Ford and Carnegie reports over half a century ago, the advent in 1987 of the first of the major rankings, and the drivers of accreditation. Join one of GBSN’s new members, Coventry University Business School for this session, as Kai Peters, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Faculty of Business and Law), will make the case for a major overhaul of the structure and positioning of business schools for the future.

Speakers

  • Prof. Kai Peters

    Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Faculty of Business and Law)
    Coventry University Business School
    United Kingdom

Date

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

  • 11:00am Washington D.C.
  • 4:00 pm United Kingdom
  • 5:00pm Geneva
  • 5:00pm Cape Town
  • 8:30pm Mumbai
  • 11:00pm Singapore
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Cross-Border Collab: Pedagogical Innovations in Business Schools

DATE & TIME

Thursday, 3 June, 2021

LOCATION

Hosted on Zoom.

CONTACT

Emma Martens, emartens@gbsn.org

In order to efficiently groom future generations to the realities of tomorrow, we need to give significantly more weight to teaching methods. Pedagogy has been an outsider to the system for way too long. It has been put aside over the years, resulting in professors relying mostly on the top down lectures, during which students are more inclined to stay passive recipients of knowledge rather than active participants.

This Cross-Border Collab will explore innovations in pedagogy. GBSN’s CEO, Dan LeClair recently participated as a Judge for LearnSpace‘s call for business education innovations. Through its call for nominations, LearnSpace was looking for world-class pedagogical innovations in business schools globally. Its initiative aims to uncover innovative pedagogical approaches, understand how they are being implemented in business schools and publish a public and global report showcasing 10 of them.

By pedagogical innovation, LearnSpace means:

The usage of a tool or method that provides a change in the professor’s posture, who would be more focused on empowering students, making them more committed, engaged and responsible for their own learning. At the heart of pedagogical innovation lies the shift from teacher-centered learning to student-centered learning.

The report will be published on June 1st, which is just in time for this June 3rd Cross-Border Collab. We will explore the LearnSpace report, hearing directly from Svenia Busson, Founder of LearnSpace, Co-founder EdtechTours, European Edtech Alliance and Author ‘Exploring the Future of Education.’

In addition, GBSN members will break into small groups of 3-4. These small groups will provide a space for members to share teaching / pedagogical innovations implemented by their institution with each other. Members will share one and leave with 4+ innovations.

When?

Thursday, 3 June, 2021

8:00am EDT AND 7:00pm EDT

To accommodate our growing membership, spanning across different time zones, we offer two Collab sessions every first Thursday of the month. The first session is at 8:00am EDT and the second is at 7:00pm EDT. Both sessions will cover the same topic, but feature different guests. Members are invited to join whichever session is more convenient.

Sign-Up

Sign-Up for the June Collab

What are Cross-Border Collabs?

Cross-Border Collabs are exclusive gatherings for GBSN members, focused on engaging our community to tackle some of the greatest challenges of our time. Facilitated by topic experts, these session will provide a place for our members be active participants in our mission of improving management and entrepreneurship education for the developing world. Collabs are held monthly on every first Thursday of the month. Two sessions are offered to accommodate multiple time zones. Collabs are an exclusive opportunity for member school ambassadors, deans and leading faculty members.

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Africa Business Challenge Awards Ceremony: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Development Across Africa

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DATE & TIME

May 14, 2021
9:00 am–10:30 pm (EDT)

LOCATION

This event will be hosted on Zoom.

CONTACT

Maddie Handler, mhandler@gbsn.org

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GBSN, sponsored by AACSB International and Stanford Seed and supported by Peaqs and Emlyon, is pleased to present a virtual business concept competition for African undergraduate and graduate students. The competition challenged student teams to design a viable business concept that addresses a locally-relevant challenge or problem related to sustainable development and Agenda 2063. The focus of the competition was to promote and support responsible capitalism for emerging markets and to identify high potential young people for mentorship and investment. 

Over 80 student teams from 34 institutions in 15 countries across Africa have signed up to participate. Join us as we celebrate the power of entrepreneurship in sustainable development and celebrate the work of all the student teams as well as announce the winning project.

The competition was designed with the following values in mind:

  • A commitment to the importance of responsible entrepreneurship and its role in job creation
  • An international outlook
  • A commitment to ethical business practices
  • A strong interest in young people in emerging markets and the role that business can play in creating opportunities that enable them to develop
  • A believe that business is a public trust with the obligation to improve and serve society
  • A commitment to lifelong learning and continuing education

The awards ceremony virtual event will feature a line-up of notable speakers, an introduction to the international panel of investors and judges and announcement of the winning team. The awards ceremony event will be open to the public.

Host

  • Rob Vember

    Director, Programs & Partnerships
    Global Business School Network
    South Africa

Speakers

  • Dan LeClair

    Dan LeClair, Ph.D

    CEO
    Global Business School Network
    USA

  • Dr. Rickie A. Moore

    Professor of Entrepreneurship Director, MSc in Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    emlyon business school
    France

Registration

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Registration is open to all Africa Business Challenge participants and the general public.

Questions

For any questions or concerns, please email Maddie Handler at mhandler@gbsn.org.

Business Schools and the Democratization of Artificial Intelligence

DATE & TIME

May 18, 2021

10:00 am–11:00 am (EDT)

4:00pm – 5:00pm (CEST)

LOCATION

This event will be hosted on Zoom.

CONTACT

Maddie Handler, mhandler@gbsn.org

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Artificial intelligence (AI) holds a lot of promise. But although AI has all the potential of a new general-purpose technology, it also has the potential to create new problems, cause accidents, and to be misused. The latter has in recent years led to various global initiatives to establish common frameworks for the ethics, regulation and governance of AI. Business schools can make a valuable contribution to these, as this webinar, looking at AI from both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, argues. 

Under the term ‘democratization’ of AI, three challenges for the governance of AI stand out wherein business schools can, through their teaching, applied research and broader business-community engagement, contribute. The first is to help accelerate the diffusion of human-centered AI. The second is to contribute to the debate on the design of appropriate and strong incentives for adherence to ethical and fair AI development, and the third is to pursue green AI. If these three challenges can be addressed, it may help ensure that the benefits of AI be broadly shared.

This webinar, organised by Cork University Business School at University College Cork, Ireland in collaboration with the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA) will provide an introduction and overview of the current initiatives and thinking in this regard. 

Speakers

Date

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021

  • 10:00am Washington D.C.
  • 3:00pm London
  • 5:00pm Geneva
  • 7:30pm Mumbai
  • 10:00pm Singapore
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Internationalize Your Business Degree Program Through Virtual Exchange – Webinar

Virtual exchange – enabling students to get cross-cultural exposure without leaving their homes … an affordable way to “travel” across the globe!

To succeed in the global workplace means having a global mindset—the cultural awareness and cultural consciousness which a global economy demands —and educational exchanges are an effective method to nurture this mindset. The pandemic has revealed a significant limitation of traditional educational exchanges: geography. But even before the pandemic, traveling across borders to seek a cross-cultural experience was not possible for many students. Enter virtual exchanges, which connect students across countries via technology, allowing them to learn together and collaborate on projects in cross-cultural teams. Join our webinar and hear from two professors at the forefront of virtual exchange. We’ll explore the unique role a virtual exchange can play. You’ll find out about the benefits students experience as being part of a virtual exchange. Join us to find out more about this innovative format and determine if it’s right for your curriculum.

Two professors from the Business & Culture virtual exchange program organized by the William Davidson Institute will be speaking at this interactive event. If you are interested in learning about our successful experience connecting students across countries to learn how to do business together, please register to join us.

Date

Tuesday May 4, 2021

  • 10:00am Washington D.C.
  • 3:00pm London
  • 4:00pm Geneva
  • 7:30pm Mumbai
  • 10:00pm Singapore
Register Here
Learn More about the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Turning Science and Practice into Simulation-Based Experiential Learning

With the value of higher education under intense scrutiny, a commitment to experiential learning provides a substantial value proposition for academic institutions. Unfortunately, many schools struggle to effectively and efficiently integrate experiential learning into their programs and the virtual classroom has increased the scope of these challenges.

Join our webinar to discover how institutions and faculty leverage simulations as a vehicle to drive meaningful student development and engagement across the curriculum in both virtual and traditional learning contexts.

Who Should Attend:

Business program faculty and administrators who want to learn more about the benefits of simulation-based experiential learning and empower their institution to leverage both science-based evidence as well as practitioner expertise for deeply meaningful learning experiences across courses and programs.

Learning Objectives:

  • Articulate a strong case for the science-backed benefits behind simulation-based learning
  • Apply specific strategies to overcome the various implementation challenges associated with virtual and traditional learning contexts
  • Describe different “in-practice” models for effectively and efficiently integrating experiential learning
  • Leverage faculty expertise and experience to create immersive, day-in-the-life simulations

Important Dates:

  • Session #1 5 May, 2021 | 11:00 am EDT | 5:00 pm CEST
  • Session #2 5 May, 2021 | 8:00pm EDT | 8:00am SGT (next day)

Facilitators

Dr. Erich Dierdorff, Professor of Management in the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University, and Matt Shell, Market Development Manager at Capsim Management Simulations, will guide you through proven models and strategies to efficiently and effectively integrate experiential learning across your curriculum.

Contact Us

Questions? Contact william.adkins@aacsb.edu.

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Learn More Information Here

2021 Virtual PRME Global Forum

Accelerating the Collective Impact of Management Education in the Decade of Action

The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative of the United Nations Global Compact is convening the 2021 Global Forum for Responsible Management Education – 9th PRME Assembly.

Join fellow deans, scholars, educators, students and business leaders across the wider PRME community in helping to envision and shape the future of business and management education in support of the global effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Key Themes and Sessions

  • Collaboration and strategic alignment of PRME and UNGC for collective impact (Global and Local perspective)
  • Advancing management education in key priority areas including business and human rights, decent work, gender equality, climate change and sustainable finance amongst others
  • Advancing strategic partnerships for impact and amplification
  • Focus sessions for PRME Chapters, Working Groups, Deans, Champions, Students, Partners and more
  • Student-led sessions on the value of sustainability-focused education in building competencies for the future and announcement of student-engagement initiatives
  • Presentation of PRME Recognition Awards
  • Launch of the Positive Impact Rating (PIR) 2021 Edition

Important Dates

  • 15th June, 2021: PRME will be hosting sessions at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit.
  • 16th – 17th June, 2021: PRME Global Forum will begin at the conclusion of the Leaders Summit

Detailed schedule is available on the registration website.

Registration

General Admission is $199.00

Registration is complimentary for all employees of companies and non-business stakeholders participating in the UN Global Compact and as well as UN partners and affiliates and Government representatives. If you are unsure if your company is a UN Global Compact participant, please click here to search. PRME signatory tickets are complimentary as well. For questions about registration, please email leaderssummit@unglobalcompact.org.

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For more information, please email globalforum@unprme.org.

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