Global Business School Network
Building Ca pacity to Change the World
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Global Business School Netw or k
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GBSN is a nonprofit organization on a mission to address the severe
shortage of management talent in the developing world.
Through an international network of leading business schools, GBSN
builds the capacity of management educators and institutions to provide
the training that local entrepreneurs, managers and service providers
need to improve living conditions and generate prosperity.
Poor Management Perpetuates Poverty
The most striking global development of
the last twenty years is the massive
shift of economic expansion away from
the US, Europe and Japan to the
developing world, including the “BRIC”
countries, but also much of the
developing world, and notably Africa.
Most of the world’s talent pool, however, still resides in the US, Europe and Japan.
All sectors of society suffer from shortages of management talent:
• Companies incur high training costs and engage in poaching, driving up manager compensation;
• Government and aid projects suffer costly waste and delays, especially when quality hands-on management “in the trenches” is inadequate;
• Small business growth is hampered by lack of basic business education.
The shortage of skilled local managers sets back projects and programs in sectors critical to raising living standards, such as health care, agri-business and education.
This is a major brake on improving people’s lives.
The Global Business School Network’s vision is for the developing
world to have the management talent it needs to generate prosperity.
The Power of Local Business Education
There are three ways to grow the
management talent for the developing
world. Only one is a truly sustainable
strategy.
1. Exporting expatriates to the developing world
Many multinational companies do this but the cost is high – the total compensation package of an expatriate in India can easily reach $ 500,000 annually – and politics put pressure on companies to replace expatriates with local managers.
2. Train students from the developing world in developed countries.
The problem with this path is that a substantial proportion of students choose not to return to their countries – adding to “brain drain”.
3. Foster the growth of local management schools.
This alone ensures that year after year locally trained managers of steadily increasing quality meet the demands of their growing economies.
That is what is known as “local institutional capacity-building.”
Capacity building is unpopular with aid agencies and most philanthropic institutions because it requires a long-haul effort whose benefits – more effective companies and other organizations, more jobs – are difficult to measure. It is, however, the only sustainable strategy.
The Global Business School Network’s mission is to build
management education capacity for the developing world. GBSN
harnesses the power of a global network of leading business schools
to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing, advancing
management education that delivers international best practice with
local relevance.
GBSN’s Unique Advantages
The Network Approach
GBSN’s network is a self-selected
group of 50 of the world’s leading
business schools who share a passion
for development.
No single business school has the human resources needed to undertake such complex programs;
GBSN assembles teams of top faculty from many leading schools who work together on collaborative, capacity-building projects.
The Non-profit Advantage
• As an NGO driven by an altruistic mission, GBSN keeps overhead and program costs low • GBSN provides a neutral space for experts from competing business schools to work together
in a collaborative way
• Contributions by US-based funders are deductible for taxable income
On the Ground Experience
• GBSN was incubated within the World Bank, which funded successful test of concept pilot programs, then spun off as an independent nonprofit organization
• GBSN’s network represents 26 countries across five continents
• GBSN has facilitated more than 20 capacity building projects in over a dozen countries in the developing world
What Does GBSN Do?
It encourages collaboration
in all
directions between faculty in both the
North and the South so that schools at
different stages of development can
learn from one another.
It brings together deans, faculty and administrators of GBSN member schools through the annual conference and connects them with business people, social entrepreneurs, government, nonprofit organizations foundations and others development partners.
It transfers knowledge and best practices by way of webinars and other media.
It designs and implements capacity-building programs.
• In Pakistan, GBSN helped an industrial group establish a high-quality business school from scratch; it achieved this in two years, thanks to an extraordinary advisory group drawn from schools as diverse as MIT-Sloan, INSEAD, Babson, and others
• In Nigeria, GBSN helped to develop a Certificate in Entrepreneurial Management, bringing together faculty of the Pan-African University, Wharton, Darden and others; that Certificate became a model for Goldman Sachs’s “10,000 Women” program.
• Together with Nairobi’s Chandaria School of Business, GBSN helped create local teaching cases relevant to Kenyan agri-business operators, bringing in mentors from IMD and other top schools.
• In Senegal, GBSN worked with a local business school, ISM, to mentor professors in case writing; the first teaching cases on African francophone companies were generated as a result; • Similarly, in Kenya, GBSN was instrumental in introducing the case method, resulting in more
than 200 local cases have been produced since program inception, thanks to collaboration between local universities and faculty from IESE, IMD, Columbia and other schools.
• Together with experts from Duke and Berkeley, GBSN monitored and evaluated a pioneering management training program for government primary health care providers of many Nigerian states
• In the Republic of Congo, GBSN helped the Government to get a regional Central African Business School off the drawing board.
GBSN’s Current Network
GBSN Members are leading business
schools from around the globe that
share a commitment to advancing
management
education
for
the
developing world.
Brazil
Fundação Dom Cabral
Chile
Universidad del Desarrollo Escuela de Economía y Negocios
China
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Colombia
Universidad de los Andes School of Management
Denmark
Copenhagen Business School
France
ESSEC School of Business INSEAD
India
Indian School of Business
Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad
Italy
SDA Bocconi School of Management
Kenya
Chandaria School of Business, United States International University
Strathmore Business School
Morocco
ESCA, Ecole de Management
Mexico
IPADE Business School
Nigeria
Lagos Business School, Pan-African University
Pakistan
Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (IBA) Suleman Dawood School of Business,
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Philippines
Asian Institute of Management
Portugal
Nova School of Business and Economics
Russia
St. Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management
Singapore
National University of Singapore
Slovenia
IEDC-Bled School of Management
South Africa
Gordon Institute of Business Science
UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadership University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business University of Stellenbosch Business School
Wits Business School
Spain
IESE ESADE
Sweden
Umeå School of Business and Economics
Switzerland
IMD
University of St. Gallen for Business Administration, Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Tunisia
Mediterranean School of Business (MSB)
Turkey
Koç University’s Graduate School of Business
United Kingdom
London Business School
United States
Babson College
Columbia Business School
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
George Washington University School of Business Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Kenan-Flagler Business School,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MIT Sloan School of Management
Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Thunderbird School of Global Management Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth UCLA Anderson School of Management University of Chicago Booth School of Business
University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business
Funding
Support
from
business
schools,
corporations, foundations, NGOs and
private donors GBSN allows GBSN to
deliver programs that create lasting
change in the developing world.
Network members
GBSN member schools pay annual contributions in support of GBSN’s mission
Foundations
GBSN receives grant funding for carrying out capacity building initiatives from foundations such as: • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Lundin Foundation
• Tony Elumelu Foundation
• Fondation Congolaise pour l’Education
Corporates
GBSN receives corporate support for both core activities as well as specific programmatic initiatives: Core support by members of the Corporate Leadership Council:
• Goldman Sachs Foundation • SIX Swiss Stock Exchange • Johnson & Johnson
Support of a particular program or activity:
• Johnson & Johnson for the development of Health Management case studies • Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women
Corporate direct support:
• Gravitas – a Washington asset management company focused on Africa and the Caribbean
Private Donors
GBSN Governance
Board of Directors
Advisory Board
Syed Babar Ali
Chairman
Packages Limited Pakistan
Dr. Manu Chandaria
Chairman
Mabati Rolling Mills Ltd. Kenya
James W. Dean
Dean
Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC Chapel Hill
USA
Sonia de Demandolx
Managing Director
Russell Reynolds Associates France
Alan Gelb, Secretary/Treasurer Senior Fellow
Center for Global Development South Africa
Dr. Peter Gomez
Chairman
SIX Swiss Exchange Group Switzerland
Mari Kuraishi, Chair Co-Founder & President GlobalGiving
Japan
Guy Pfeffermann
Founder and CEO
Global Business School Network France
Carol Realini
Entrepreneur
USA
Thomas C. Barry
President and CEO Zephyr Management, L.P.
Unmesh Brahme
President & Co-Founder Climate Civics Institute Managing Director & CEO SustainabilityCXO Partners Worldwide Harry G. Broadman Managing Director PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Baroness Chalker of Wallasey Founder
Africa Matters Limited
Lord Brian Griffiths
International Advisor
Goldman Sachs International
Javed Hamid
Senior Managing Director IESC
David Hampshire
Director Africa Practice
Nazeer Aziz Ladhani
Senior Advisor
Aga Khan Development Network Frank Lysy Consultant Mutuma Marangu Director Green Resources AS Joseph Massey Partner Sierra Asia Mora McLean
President & CEO Africa-America Institute
Nkosana Moyo
Co-founder
The Mandela Institute for Development Studies
Joseph O’Keefe
Freelance Writer & Editor
Keith Richards OBE
Managing Director Promasidor Nigeria Ltd.
Academic Advisory Board
Alfonso Bolio
Dean
IPADE Business School
David Capodilupo
Executive Director MIT Sloan School of Management
Jonathan Cook
Executive Director
Gordon Institute of Business Science H. Landis Gabel Emeritus Professor INSEAD Robert Kennedy Executive Director William Davidson Institute
Will Mitchell
Professor
Fuqua School of Business
Enase Okonedo
Dean
Lagos Business School
Kristiana Raube
Adjunct Professor Haas School of Business
Javier Santomá
Professor, Financial Management
