Peaqs is the platform partner for the GBSN Africa Business Concept Competition (ABCC) and has since our last round in April 2021 been on a tremendous journey. We’ve highlighted the two most significant stories from Peaqs, who will also be the platform partner for ABCC in 2022 – enjoy the reading and join the […]
[…] third of the finalists for this 6th edition were on hand. The finalists from the 2020 edition, who could not travel to Canada last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, also attended. Another difference this year was that the competition received exceptional international media coverage. Several broadcasters, in particular from Vietnam and Mexico, reported the […]
[…] financial circumstances. The gift also allowed the College to invest in faculty who are conducting leading-edge research in both traditional and trending fields of business. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Brown fearlessly led a response during this unprecedented time. The investments he had made in the College’s online infrastructure meant Gies could shift online […]
[…] paid, if not by us by our children and grandchildren. The current pandemic is but the first installment of the fee! The Future Bites Back! The global COVID-19 pandemic (pandemics somehow escaped mention in Back to the Future!) has created unparalleled economic, political, and social disruptions, exacerbating preexisting divisions and inequalities, and for the […]
In response to South Africa’s ongoing power woes, Wits Business School (WBS) has introduced a new stream in its existing Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Management in the field of Energy Leadership which offers a specialisation in electricity. Further good news is that the school, through its partnership with the South African-German Energy Programme and […]
[…] introduce the following as the three winning teams from the 2021 HUMLOG Challenge Student Competition: In third place, Team USB/Los Andes from University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa and Universidad de los Andes, Colombia for their solution for drought-induced water scarcity in the Xakabantu Informal Settlement in the Western Cape. In second place, Team Real […]
[…] are much more powerful forces of good when they are connected across sectors. You’ll also see considerable international diversity amongst the speakers, with as many coming from Africa, Asia-Pacific, and South America, as from Europe and the United State. But please don’t be misled by all the diversity. Although they operate in different sectors […]
[…] Case Centre. A special congratulations to everyone on the list. Staying top of the tree The late Debapratim Purkayastha of ICFAI Business School (IBS), who sadly passed away from COVID-19 in May 2021, remains at no. 1 for a sixth successive year. Selling over 100,000 copies from an extensive back catalogue of cases since the list […]
[…] at Hanken School of Economics and learning for the first time about the school’s global leadership in humanitarian logistics and how important that has been during the covid pandemic. In a recent meeting with the leadership team at Leeds University Business School, I could feel the incredible power of inspiring and enabling an academic […]
[…] work together over the long term to build a stronger connection between business and business schools in developing the talent needed to build the inclusive and sustainable Africa that Africans want. Over the last year, we have focused on international diversity in our network, increasing the number of countries our members represent from 39 […]
