The World After Covid-19
GBSN Chairman Soumitra Dutta explores the World after COVID-19.
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Academic Leadership Council
The GBSN Academic Leadership Council is the premier level of membership. Member schools on the Academic Leadership Council are strong advocates of the GBSN mission and wish to provide support to the organization so that our efforts with top business schools from around the world who are committed to strengthen business education for the developing… Read more >
Staying Productive Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic – Good News from Universitas Gadjah Mada
The global COVID-19 pandemic has inevitably affected many aspects of our life, including the higher education sector. The good news is that we can learn how to be resilient, by being present and maintaining our productivity to support our students’ continuous learning. The Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitas Gadjah Mada is a locally rooted and globally respected business school that aims to develop leaders who have integrity and creativity to serve their community in response to current changes in business and global environments. In this newsletter, we briefly present our profile and what we have achieved recently during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also share information on some of our international programmes and invite students to come and discover their academic and leadership potential through a top quality and unique education in our school.
Africa Powering Digital Transformation
Digital transformation plays a central role in the sustainable development of Africa. Yet the continent does not yet have the tech talent to enable this transformation. How do we develop the skills to support the needed investment? How can business, academia, government, and civil society work together to create an environment that unlocks the full potential of Africa’s aspiring entrepreneurs? Can business schools and universities take the lead in connecting diverse talent needed to accelerate innovation? The fifth and final session in the Talent for Africa series aimed to answer these questions.
Wits University’s Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) and Mastercard Foundation Partner on Project Geared Towards Youth Employment Research in Africa
The Mastercard Foundation has provided support to the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at the Wits Business School to enable vital research on knowledge and opportunities emanating from the Foundation’s Young Africa Works Strategy. The Foundation’s Young Africa Works strategy, which aims to enable 30 million young Africans to secure dignified and… Read more >
UCD College of Business and Proudly Made in Africa presented the Africa Business Conference 2024: Digital Africa, Entrepreneurship and Tech
UCD College of Business and Proudly Made in Africa presented the Africa Business Conference 2024: Digital Africa, Entrepreneurship and Tech. The discussion focused on the entrepreneurial landscape and was an arena to hear from entrepreneurs and other business actors on how they are shaping (and being shaped by) the business landscape in Africa, and the… Read more >
ESCA Has Opened its Cutting Edge Campus at the Heart of Africa’s Financial Hub
The ESCA new Campus was launched in late June in Casablanca Finance City: The Africa’s leading financial hub. The inauguration was chaired by the Moroccan Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, the Minister Delegate in charge of Investment, Convergence, and Evaluation of Public Policies, and the President of CGEM -Moroccan Association of Entrepreneurs…. Read more >
Masters and PGDip in African Energy Leadership Information Session
Wits Business School offers the only postgraduate programs of their kind on the Africa continent that focus on leadership in the energy space. These programs have been developed by the African Energy Leadership Centre (AELC) at Wits Business School and are based on the very latest research in the field. The time is now to develop the next generation of leaders in energy – an industry that is critical to Africa‘s sustainable growth! Find out more at our upcoming Information Session.
Innovating in the Midst of COVID-19: Lessons from FEA – University of São Paulo
Most every business school around the world has adapted to the COVID-19 crisis by providing online instruction in new and enhanced ways. For FEA – University of São Paulo (FEA USP), a public institution, pedagogy is just one example of how the school is adapting to the new environment and connecting its knowledge to the… Read more >
Ellevate Leadership Training Program
Purpose Driven This Leadership Training program is being delivered to an initial cohort of 40 top tier Ellevate customers from 10 African countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Josephine Anan-Ankomah, Group Executive, Commercial Banking, Ecobank, said: “Ecobank launched Ellevate to serve and nurture the success of women-owned and… Read more >