Are you ready to elevate your teaching practice and make a lasting impact in the classroom?
GBSN and the ITP invite business school faculty from the Global Business School Network to access a special rate for the 2026 Essentials of Teaching and Learning program. The Essentials of Teaching and Learning program is designed for business school faculty who are passionate about refining their teaching style, expanding their professional network, and delivering exceptional educational experiences.
Through this program, you will engage in four highly interactive, half-day online sessions. Each session is designed to be hands-on, allowing participants to experience cutting-edge teaching methods, network with international peers, and gain insights from top faculty at renowned business schools worldwide.
Program Structure
Interactively designed and delivered
Four half-day sessions via Zoom
With small-group breakouts and other engaging activities
Conducted in English
Time zone-friendly from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Central European Time
All in all, taken together and in addition to its content, ETL provides a demonstration of highly effective teaching that can serve as a role model for any kind of teaching and learning setting.
Sessions begin in April 2026. GBSN members receive a special rate of €400 (vs the regular rate of €600), plus additional discounts on multiple registrations. Contact programs@gbsn.org for instructions on accessing the member discount.
Looking to experience simulation learning? Marketplace Simulation invites business school faculty to join one of two upcoming Train the Trainer workshops:
New Delhi, India: March 16–19, 2026
Knoxville, TN, USA (headquarters): May 12–15, 2026
These are immersive, hands-on workshops where professors play our simulations firsthand and discover new ways to teach, coach, and connect with students. You won’t just hear about experiential learning—you’ll experience it for yourself.
It’s a joy for us to bring educators together from around the world, and these events are some of the most meaningful things we do.
Attendees at the New Delhi workshop will get to play our best-selling Conscious Capitalism simulation and attendees in Knoxville will play our very popular Venture Strategy simulation. Those who stay for the fourth day will also get to play our upcoming Chocolate Simulation.
Both events are free to attend. We provide meals, materials, and time to think deeply about what great teaching can look like.
In coordination with Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, GBSN invites business schools from Africa and around the world to contribute to the emerging Logistics for Africa initiative, a Pan-African Logistics Education Hub.
The initial phase focuses on bringing institutional and faculty expertise together to co-develop an asynchronous, online graduate program in logistics designed to address the logistics and supply chain challenges facing Africa. The program will be supported and delivered through the Edinburgh Business School online learning platform, a world-class platform drawing on decades of experience in inspiring and empowering students globally through a flexible and accessible delivery model.
Opportunities to contribute include:
Program Partner – Preference for African institutions with expertise in logistics, supply chain management or transport and ability to contextualize learning through local cases, examples, etc.
You will work with the program design & technology teams to develop one or more courses for inclusion in the graduate degree program.
Knowledge Partner – Institutions anywhere in the world who wish to contribute expertise, support course design, strengthen academic and professional networks, and make a difference.
Delivery Partner – Institutions in Africa interested in providing local support to participating students [a Delivery Partner could also be a Program Partner]
Together, we will:
Bring business schools across Africa together to support each other in resolving real world problems with sustained and measurable societal impact.
Build communities of highly skilled logistics and transport professionals to meet the needs of health logistics, agro-logistics and other vital sectors across Africa
About the Program The Summer Program: Mobility for Positive Impact is a three-week international experience designed for MBA and specialized master’s students from around the world. Participants learn through MBA-level courses, team-based innovation projects, and cultural immersion in one of Latin America’s most dynamic cities. The program emphasizes creativity, sustainability, and practical problem-solving.
Program Highlights
Start date: June 30, 2026
Location: Centrum PUCP, Lima, Peru
Format: On-site, full-time
Language of instruction: English
Work in multicultural teams on real business challenges
Cultural immersion experiences throughout the program
Courses (MBA-Level)
Innovability (2 credits / 5 ECTS)
Managerial Skills for Business (2 credits / 5 ECTS)
High-Impact Professional Presentations (1 credit / 2.5 ECTS)
Who Can Apply Participants must be enrolled in an MBA or specialized master’s program at their home institution.
About the Program The International Business Track (IBT) is a five-week, English-taught academic experience designed for international MBA and specialized master’s students seeking to deepen their global business expertise. Participants learn from highly experienced faculty and develop skills in leadership, innovation, sustainability, finance, marketing, and more. The program combines academic rigor with cultural immersion in one of Latin America’s most dynamic cities.
Gain international exposure with high-impact courses from the Centrum PUCP MBA program:
Personal Development
International Finance
Marketing Management for Business
Ethics, Social Responsibility and Corporative Government
Entrepreneurship of Innovative and Sustainable Business
The International Family Business Research Forum (IFBRF), now in its 8th edition, remains a key platform for advancing family business research and fostering meaningful dialogue and collaboration among scholars, practitioners, and emerging researchers, all within an inspiring context.
Building on the legacy of seven successful editions hosted at prestigious institutions—including the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany (2015), the University of Naples Federico II in Italy (2016), WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria (2017), the International University of Monaco (2019), Hasselt University in Belgium (2022), the American University of Sharjah in the UAE (2023)—and following the vibrant 7th edition in Paphos, Cyprus (2024), the Forum now arrives at ESCA Ecole de Management in Casablanca, Morocco.
Aim of the IFBRF 2025
The 8th edition of the IFBRF aims to:
– Examine the evolving dynamics of business families as institutions that both shape and are shaped by their enterprises.
– Investigate the contextual and cultural heterogeneities of family businesses, exploring how varying environments influence their strategies, governance, and sustainability.
– Foster the development of tailored theoretical frameworks that capture the features of family firms, moving beyond the adaptation of general management theories.
– Explore and promote methodological advancements that better capture the heterogeneity and complexity inherent in family businesses.
– Highlight the practical implications of research and identify actionable insights for family business owners, managers, and policymakers.
Key Dates
All submissions are due April 1st, 2025
Notification of acceptance/ rejection for all submissions May 15th, 2025
Are you ready to drive meaningful change through impact entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship? The INSEAD Hans Wahl Impact Entrepreneurship Programme equips leaders with the skills and network to innovate for social good.
Why join?
A transformative 5-day in-person programme, including a day at the Impact Entrepreneurship Forum at ChangeNOW Summit
Access to a global network of 900+ impact entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs from 80+ countries
Insights from renowned speakers like Subramanian Rangan, INSEAD Professor and Board Member of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and Marcos Troyjo, Former President of the New Development Bank
Led by:
Katell Le Goulven, Executive Director, INSEAD Hoffmann Institute
Jasjit Singh, Professor of Strategy, The Paul Dubrule Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development
Join a community of changemakers tackling challenges like #climatechange and #inequality with entrepreneurial solutions.
Time & Duration: 13th May 2024 to 31st May 2024 (Total Duration: 3 weeks), approximately 45 hours interactive session and individual learning activities. Summer course schedule.
Platform: 13th May 2024 to 31st May 2024 (The program will be conducted entirely online on Zoom Platform for seminar & breakout/ parallel session.) Technical requirements of the summer course program can be accessed through the following link.
Economics and Business International Camp and Courses (EBICCS) is an annual summer course program held by Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia. This program brings international lecturers, academics, professionals, and industry experts to share and discuss with students from various countries.
The program aims to serve as a tool to understand complexity theory and its application in economics and business, by emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach, as well as understanding key concepts such as emergence and self-organization in complex systems to explore the unpredictable nature and importance of emergence in understanding new phenomena in various domains. Diverse perspectives from lecturers, academics, and professionals will contribute to the program, fostering a comprehensive and extensive learning experience for students.
The “Rearchitecting the Financial System” online course, created by CFTE and Elevandi Education on the occasion of the Singapore Fintech Festival 2023, offers an insider view into the global transformations in the financial system.
Taught by the world-class speakers of Singapore Fintech Festival 2023, the course explores the key drivers behind the transformation of finance by addressing the topics such as digital infrastructure, payments, digital money and platforms for SMEs. Led by Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer of MAS and Chairman of Elevandi, the program combines expert industry insights, a breakdown of real-world case studies, structured knowledge, and curated panels of the Singapore Fintech Festival 2023.
The course is designed to upskill thousands of finance professionals, policymakers, and entrepreneurs on how finance is being transformed and aims to impact more than 5,000 participants by 2024.
Register for the course now for USD 40. Students, policymakers, and educators may enjoy a concessionary rate of USD 20. For a more detailed course description and additional information, visit the program’s dedicated page. Please feel free to use the unique coupon code RFS20Partners for a 20% discount. For the special GBSN member discount of 50% off, please email Julianna LaBelle at jlabelle@gbsn.org.
Stanford Seed is looking for high-potential CEOs and founders based in Africa and South Asia who are motivated for growth.
The Seed Transformation Program is an unconventional, in-person and online learning experience that goes beyond acquiring business skills. Stanford’s world-renowned faculty and dedicated team of experts work with leaders and their management teams throughout their 10-month journey to growth.
The Seed Transformation Program is an unconventional, in-person and online learning experience exclusively for founders/CEOs with annual revenue between $300K – $15M USD.
Stanford’s faculty and dedicated team of experts work with you and your management team, both virtually, and on location at your business, to help unlock growth opportunities. The Seed Transformation Program is designed specifically for business owners and up to five members of their senior management team. This program is led by world-renowned Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty and is supported by Stanford-trained advisors and experts.
