In 2008, members of the Academic Advisory Group of the Global Business School Network (GBSN) met at USIU Business School in Nairobi, Kenya for its third annual meeting which was held on Wednesday 9th July 2008 and Thursday 10th July 2008. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together representatives of the network along with other interested and relevant parties to continue exploring best practices in business education, discuss new ways of forming beneficial partnerships, and foster stronger ties among partner schools.

Representatives from business schools, private sector, NGOs, development partners and government ministries were invited to participate in many of the meeting's activities including roundtable discussions, break out sessions, member presentations, and various social events. This rich network of individuals and organizations actively worked to concretely define GBSN’s goals and strategy to more effectively meet the needs of African business schools and encouraged unified international support across the public and private sectors. Several topics of interest for discussion at the meeting were: best practices in management education; creating a general framework for the establishment of new business schools; designing a clear involvement mechanism for partnerships; standardizing a set of diagnostic tools for business school assessment; and capturing the accomplishments of African business schools as demonstrations of successful practices.