In a conversation with Dr. Peter Tufano, we discuss how lessons from World War II can aid governments, businesses, education to win the war against COVID-19 and win the peace in the post-COVID world.
[…] range of pressing talent challenges that will be had throughout the series and provide a bird’s eye view of how these relate to Agenda 2063, and the Africa that Africans want. Join us as we address issues such as Pan-African integration in a de-globalizing world, harnessing a youthful African workforce in an aging global […]
Operating in all sub-Saharan Africa regions, Ecobank Academy is one of the largest corporate universities in Africa. Each year Ecobank Academy trains more than 14,000 in 40 countries (36 in Africa and 4 out of Africa). While it has state of the art campuses across the continent, Ecobank Academy has been an early adopter […]
Dr. Enase Okonedo is the Dean of Lagos Business School (LBS), Nigeria. In conversation with Soumitra Dutta and Dan LeClair of GBSN, Enase Okonedo discusses the changing equation of businesses and governments with respect to society across the globe, and particularly in Africa.
About this time three years ago, the two of us were interviewing deans and business leaders, trying to make sense of the future. Covid-19 was breaking our normal, magnifying long-standing injustices, and pulling the future forward. We wanted to see the world beyond what was happening at the time. What we discovered, however, was […]
[…] the School of Business Business Forum in 2022, the school hosted the first Annual General Meeting of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UNPRME) Chapter Africa at the AUC New Cairo campus on January 11. The hybrid meeting provided a forum to discuss the strategic direction of the chapter and was followed […]
[…] adaptation. That means preparing to meet what is to come rather than trying to avert it. Although it only contributes less than 4% toward global carbon emissions, Africa is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world and is the continent worst impacted by climate change. A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]
[…] Fourth Industrial Revolution fields. SAtion, formed by Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) and enabled by management consultancy IQbusiness, grew out of another social enterprise called ‘COBRA’ ( Covid-19 Business Rescue Assistance) which, through its 90 partners offering shared value services, had a massive impact on safeguarding the livelihood of small businesses through Covid, and […]
The GBSN Africa Business Concept Challenge returned for its third year with 307 students in 87 teams from 58 schools in 17 countries across Africa earlier this year in March and April. For 6 weeks, students have been incessantly innovating in the aim of identifying a locally-relevant community need or challenge and developing a […]
The GBSN Africa Business Concept Challenge returned for its sophomore year with 293 students in 78 teams from 46 schools in 17 countries across Africa earlier this year in March. For 10 weeks, students have been incessantly innovating in the aim of identifying a locally-relevant community need or challenge and developing a solution, related […]
