Africa Business Challenge Kick-Off Event DATE & TIME April 12, 2021 9:00 am–10:30 pm (EDT) LOCATION This event will be hosted on Zoom. CONTACT Emma Martens, emartens@gbsn.org 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. […]
In its 3rd year, the Africa Business Concept Challenge (ABCC) began with 87 teams from 58 universities in 17 African countries. The virtual business concept competition for African undergraduate and graduate students was sponsored by AACSB International, The Swift Institute, Thunderbird School of Global Management, and UConn School of Business, and supported by Peaqs, […]
[…] to support livelihoods in Africa through purchases from local traders and farmers to sustain lives in Africa. “Food security is our most urgent global challenge following the Covid-19 pandemic, economic downturns and supply chain disruptions. One way that we are addressing this is to procure locally produced foods to help ensure food security in […]
[…] Centre (AELC) has signed a three-year agreement with the African Energy Chamber (AEC) with the aim of advancing the growth and development of the energy sector in Africa, as well as championing access to power for all Africans in a bid to make energy poverty a thing of the past by 2030. The agreement […]
[…] access to quality, locally relevant management and entrepreneurship education. Since its beginning in 1985, the Ecobank Group has been committed to economic and social development across sub-Saharan Africa. Operating in all regions in sub-Saharan Africa , the Ecobank Academy is one of the largest corporate universities in Africa. Each year Ecobank Academy trains more […]
[…] financial technology (fintech) and healthcare (healthtech) are already very attractive and will only continue to grow. V-Lab alone graduated 48 fintech startups in the last five years. COVID-19 unravelled unprecedented shortfalls in healthcare “but it also showed that many of them can be solved through technology in easy ways. Right now, many simple ICT […]
[…] School Conference to explore the cultural and social dimensions of targeted innovation in healthcare markets Accompanying art exhibition will be opened by Julia Corey, a spokesperson from Long Covid Ireland, and conveys realities of living with Long Covid and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome The MISFIRES Conference Targeted Therapies and the exhibition Chronic Illness: A Creative Exploration Art, will explore how to […]
The Global School of Empirical Research Methods (GSERM) offered scholarships to nine scholars from GBSN institutions in developing countries. Join us in congratulating them! Imane Chabi, Africa Business School, Morocco Sivenin Synn, National University of Management (NUM), Cambodia Farah Choukri, ESCA Ecole de Management, Morocco Lakshay Mehla, SP Jain Institute of Management, India Takunda […]
[…] the world’s most pressing issues. Working in partnership with the summit, INSEAD focused on highlighting the issue of Gender Inequity within the workplace as a result of COVID-19. On Saturday May 21st, INSEAD hosted the “Gender and the Future of Work” forum, conceived in collaboration with the INSEAD Gender Initiative and Cartier Women’s Initiative, to unveil brand […]
[…] in glossy alumni magazines. Their absence quietly weakens our collective capacity to solve complex societal problems. My attention was drawn to this type of cost during the COVID-19 pandemic, when employees stayed home to work. My business friends, especially those working in the tech sector, worried less about productivity issues and more about erosion […]
