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About GBSN
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The Global Business School Network (GBSN) is an International Finance
Corporation (IFC) initiative designed to
strengthen the institutional capacity of business schools in developing
and transition countries. The Network brings together top global business
schools with business schools in developing countries. |
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The idea behind the GBSN is to use the resources and knowledge of top
international institutions to make high quality management training to be
available locally, through existing business schools. The IFC believes
that by providing local, regional and multinational organizations with a
stronger pool of trained managers, business schools in developing
countries will help foster a healthy private sector and a stronger
economy. |
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international business schools are to provide resources and faculty to
help strengthen local schools in areas such as curriculum development,
executive programmes and case teaching methods. Through the GBSN, faculty
from the European and US schools will spend time at the African
institutions, while academics from those schools may also visit the west
for mentoring programmes or training courses.
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http://www.ifc.org/gbsn |
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The aim of
the Case Development Project is to make management training programs more
relevant to the needs of local businesses, organizations and
entrepreneurs. This objective will be achieved through the development of
local case studies which will address actual problems faced by managers in
Kenya and the broader East African & African region. Consequently,
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quality and training of Business Education will be improved through the
use of Case Studies because learning via cases will expose students to
real life challenges where practical decisions need to be made. This will
give students the opportunity to test their new knowledge and to
experiment with their decision-making abilities in the risk-free learning
environment. |
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The
School of Business at USIU has been selected as one of the four leading
African business schools that will participate in the Global Business
School Network initiative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Other schools in Europe and the United States that are part of the network
include Harvard Business School, Wharton School, Columbia Business School,
London Business School and INSEAD among others. African business schools
participating in the GBSN include Lagos Business School, Ghana Institute
of Management and USIU. |
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As part of the USIU School
of Business' participation in the GBSN, USIU has received a grant from
IFC to develop locally relevant Business and Information Technology (IT)
cases based on leading Kenyan companies. The USIU School of Business is
currently developing 8 locally relevant business cases that will be used
for teaching in business schools in Africa and other parts of the world
with the support of the GBSN. Some of the companies that are
participating in developing the cases include Kenya Airways, Safaricom,
Bidco Oil Refineries, Firestone (E.A.) Limited, Kenya Tea Development
Authority, Mabati Rolling Mills, and Commercial Bank of Africa. |
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