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.

The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiative was launched March 5, 2008. Over the next five years it will partner with more than 50 universities and organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and United States to seek, create and develop programs to impact the quality and capacity of business education in developing regions around the world. For further information on the 10,000 Women program, please visit www.10000women.org

10,000 Women Academic partners include:

• American University of Afghanistan Afghanistan
• American University in Cairo Egypt
• Brown University USA
• Columbia Business School USA
• Fundação Dom Cabral Brazil
• Fundação Getulio Vargas Escola de Administração de Empresas de Sao Paulo (FGV-EAESP) Brazil
• Harvard Business School USA
• HEC Paris France
• IE Business School Spain
• IESE Business School Spain
• Indian School of Business India
  
• INSEAD France, Singapore
  
• London Business School UK
• Pan-African University Nigeria
• Saïd Business School, University of Oxford UK
• School of Finance and Banking Rwanda
• Stanford Graduate School of Business USA
  
• Thunderbird School of Global Management USA
  
• Tsinghua SEM China
• United States International University Kenya
• University of Asia and the Pacific Philippines
• University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business South Africa
  
• Judge Business School, University of Cambridge UK
  
• University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania
• William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan USA
  
• The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania USA
  
• Zhejiang University China