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In collaboration with Sub-Saharan African business schools, development partners and international experts, GBSN will coordinate a 3-day design workshop that will work towards the development of two new training programs in the field of health management and agribusiness. This workshop will focus on the management issues common to both health and agribusiness and how to effectively leverage the multi-disciplinary, practical approach of business schools to better serve these two sectors. As a result of bringing these actors together, GBSN will facilitate the creation of two new consortia of schools, which will have the collective resources to seek external partners, raise necessary funding, and develop a shared curriculum of international quality to be adapted for each school’s agribusiness and health markets. Once the workshop lays the foundation, the new consortia will develop learning platforms for each sector and subsequently oversee the implementation of the newly developed management programs on an initial pilot basis. During this time the schools will have an opportunity to test the markets and revise the newly established programs accordingly while also extending the programs to include additional local and international partners.

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Since November 2007, GBSN has been working closely with Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation to develop and implement the 10,000 Women Initiative. GBSN has supported the identification of academic partners globally to participate in 10,000 Women. In addition, GBSN advises the Goldman Sachs Foundation on international best practice in enhancing and supporting business education in developing countries and establishing short-term entrepreneurship education programs.

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Thanks to support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GBSN undertook a Health Leadership and Management Training Survey in three countries (Nigeria, Kenya, and Senegal) in order to provide a solid foundation for designing one or more interventions, drawing on the specific contributions of business schools, which will significantly strengthen health care management in these countries.

Johnson & Johnson approved a grant for an annual fellowship which will enable African management faculty to spend two months at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and one week at UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

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GBSN is working with the Karachi Education Initiative, a consortium of Pakistani business leaders, to advise on the establishment of a new premier business school in Karachi, Pakistan.

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GBSN has been contracted by the Government of Tanzania to work on the Tanzania Private Sector Competitiveness Project, a World Bank funded initiative. GBSN offers supervision and guidance to the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation and the Business School Linkage Program, which seeks to significantly enhance the capacity of business and management education institutions in Tanzania to ensure a permanently increased supply of quality managers in Tanzania.

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Food for Thought

“One of the major drivers, in recent years, has been students’ growing interest in engaging in developmental activities in emerging markets. The best and brightest will pick a business school that offers such opportunities – and this is equally true for top-of-the-line company recruitment. Hence the degree of business school engagement in Africa and other developing regions has become an increasingly important competitive offering.”

- Guy Pfeffermann, "Into Africa", Global Focus, Summer 2008