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A distinctly African business school with a global reach

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University in Africa

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Years of academic excellence

23 000+

Alumni from 68 Countries

138+

Nationalities represented

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Research Excellence

Case Writing: Claire Barnardo
Research designed for impact

Rigorous research and innovative teaching that informs the business world.

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Award-winning
cases

Excellent teaching case studies focused on African and emerging market challenges.

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Champion of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).

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Dr Catherine Duggan

UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DIRECTOR

"The UCT GSB is uniquely placed to lead some of the most important critical conversations about the future of business that are going on in Africa and around the world. 

Our faculty have tremendous expertise on issues such as social innovation, diversity and inequality, environmental sustainability, the role of business and society, and values-based leadership—very much including leadership under conditions of crisis and uncertainty."

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Ideas Exchange

 
UCT GSB partners
Emerging Market Business

UCT GSB partners with 6 other institutions in energy to launch the African School of Regulation (ASR) initiative.

The initiative to create the African School of Regulation (ASR) has been launched via a scientific knowledge partnership agreement among the European University Institute (EUI), the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), the Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (PAUWES), the Enel Foundation, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), and the Energy Nexus Network (TENN).

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Posted on 25 February 2022 by UCT GSB Press Office
Azvir R
Management Fundamentals

More purpose, more flexibility, more empathy – what’s really driving ‘The Great Resignation’?

The record number of people leaving their jobs in 2021, mainly in the US, has given rise to the term ‘The Great Resignation’ or ‘The Big Quit’. We asked the UCT GSB's Azvir Rampursad and Rayner Canning for their insights into this trend.

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Posted on 10 February 2022 by Azvir Rampursad
ADDRESSING THE LACK OF JEDI IN THE WORKPLACE
Leadership & Ethics

Addressing the lack of JEDI in the workplace

The South African workplace remains a very complex space. To bring about a change in workplace culture and organisational orientations, we may need to consider new approaches. Recent research from the UCT GSB has highlighted several practices that organisations can implement to help address the lack of justice, equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

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Posted on 10 February 2022 by Kurt April
Here’s why black Millennial women are leaving 2
Leadership & Ethics

Here’s why black millennial women are leaving your organisation

New research digs into the deep frustration causing many African millennial women to call it a day at the office.

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Posted on 8 February 2022 by Kurt April
Three essential provocations for leaders
Learning & Development

Three essential provocations for leaders in business and government today

Executive MBA transforms executives and equips them to focus on solving the complex problems of our times by putting them into a better relationship with their lived experience.

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Posted on 3 February 2022 by UCT GSB Press Office
Sean Gossel - Never mind a wealth tax 2
Emerging Market Business

Never mind a wealth tax, South Africa needs a corruption tax on companies that collude in State Capture

Without private sector collusion, South Africa’s numerous corruption scandals would have been near impossible. A corruption tax on private sector companies complicit in corrupt activities should be introduced.

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Posted on 31 January 2022 by Sean Gossel
EMPLOYEES CAN STILL LEARN FROM ONE ANOTHER IN A HY
Learning & Development

Top tips to ensure employees can still learn from one another in a hybrid world

Two-thirds of professionals fear that a hybrid workplace will damage their ability to learn from colleagues – global survey

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Posted on 24 January 2022 by UCT GSB Press Office
Hamida Parker Poor quality food control
Management Fundamentals

Poor quality control leaves a bad taste in consumers’ mouths

The recent spate of food quality failures going back to the country’s deadly listeriosis outbreak in 2018 reveals the damaging health consequences and reputational damage that can flow from a single ‘bad batch’.

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Posted on 17 January 2022 by Hamieda Parker

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

GSB Solutions Space E-Track Programme Cohort 5 Demo Day

 01 April 2022
 15:30 (GMT+2)

Demo Day: Celebrating Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Features fifteen ventures based across the African continent with teams from countries including Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.

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THE BOARDVISORY BOARDROOM SIMULATION

 07 April 2022
 17:30 (GMT+2)

Join us for a live boardroom decision-making process and thereafter receive in-depth feedback to assist with your growth and development as board directors.

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