GSERM 2024 Scholarship Recipients

The Global School of Empirical Research Methods (GSERM) offered scholarships to nine scholars from GBSN institutions in developing countries. Join us in congratulating them! About GSERM  GSERM is a high-caliber integrated program teaching methodology for PhD students and postdocs from leading universities all over the world. The GSERM offers an attractive course-based learning atmosphere on… Read more >

How can healthcare systems become more equitable?

The MISFIRES Conference Targeted Therapies and the exhibition Chronic Illness: A Creative Exploration Art, will explore how to make healthcare systems more equitable by improving stakeholder input into biomedical and public health issues.  “It is increasingly common for governments to commit, symbolically and economically, to dreams of targeted therapeutic innovation in healthcare,” said Professor Susi Geiger, UCD College of Business… Read more >

Wits Business School launches new MBA in the field of Healthcare Leadership

Wits Business School (WBS) has launched a new MBA in the field of Healthcare Leadership (MBA-HL) and will welcome its first cohort in March 2024. At a virtual information session, Prof Maurice Radebe, Head and Director of WBS, said: “We have entered a new post-pandemic era in healthcare where the global quest for fair and… Read more >

Powering the Energy Transition: A Tale of Two Hemispheres | Part I: Setting the Stage

On May 2nd, the GBSN for Energy Transition Impact Community held the first part of their virtual series, Powering the Energy Transition: A Tale of Two Hemispheres Part I: Setting the Stage. This virtual session was designed to convene perspectives through the lens of the global north and global south while exploring key elements of… Read more >

INSEAD focuses on Gender Inequity Issues at ChangeNOW 2022ďżź

For the fourth consecutive year, INSEAD was the major academic partner of the ChangeNOW Summit (19th May – 21st May). At the world’s largest event for the planet, with more than 33,000 participants in person from 117 countries and 742 million online views, INSEAD unveiled brand new academic research at the Grand Palais Ephemere. This year’s edition of ChangeNOW, founded by… Read more >

Wits Business School Signs Cross-Continental Agreement with University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business

The partnership will contribute to the body of knowledge in energy leadership in both developed and emerging market economies across the globe, as well as enhance the international experience of both students and faculty through instruction, collaborative research and exchange programmes. The AELC was formed in 2017 to address the issues of energy shortages in Africa as… Read more >

Business Schools and the Call to Community Action

On April 15, Chris Yenkey, a professor at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore Business School reached out to me and several others about disinfecting N95 masks. He and some colleagues had designed a working device that can be made for as little $250 using materials mostly sourced from a local building supply store…. Read more >

Johnson & Johnson’s Management Development Institute: Training the New Leaders in Town

As Program Officer at GBSN, one of the programs I manage is the Management Development Institute (MDI). MDI targets healthcare workers in Sub-Saharan Africa who have assumed management opportunities within their organizations and are looking to improve their management and leadership skills to better lead teams and manages scarce resources. Participants are required to attend… Read more >

GBSN Welcomes 3 New Schools

GBSN welcomes Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business (SKK GSB), ETH Zurich Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), and Nanyang Business School into a network of prestige member schools. As a member school, the newly accepted will join others in fulfilling a mission to build management education capacity for the developing world through global… Read more >