Dear friends,
In
spite of the long journey to Cape Town, more member schools
participated in GBSN’s fourth annual conference (June 8-9) than ever
before, along with strong participation from the Association of African Business Schools (AABS) and South African Business Schools Association (SABSA) schools. The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business graciously hosted our second conference in Africa and we received
a large number of first-time participants from several African business
schools.
Discussions focused on faculty development, best practices in management education, the global crisis and the response of business schools, health management, entrepreneurship, agribusiness, and on best practice in forming and managing partnerships.
I wish to thank particularly Baroness Lynda Chalker of Wallasey, who presided over the welcoming lunch and joined GBSN’s Board of Advisers, the Honorable Timothy Thahane, Minister of Finance and Development Planning of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Max Price, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Colin Coleman, Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking Sub Saharan Africa of Goldman Sachs International, and Michael Spicer, CEO of Business Leadership South Africa, who helped to make the conference a huge success. We also had broad participation from business — IBM, Intel, Emerald Publishing Limited, Transformational Business Network — and international development agencies — the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Aga Khan Development Network.
We are already looking forward to 2010!
Best regards,
Guy Pfeffermann, CEO
