2018 Year in Review

Posted on 5 October 2020 by UCT GSB Press Office

2018 Year in Review

The UCT GSB had a tremendous 2018 — so successful, in fact, that it was impossible to include all our achievements into the inaugural edition of the UCT GSB’s annual Year in Review.

The UCT GSB had a tremendous 2018 — so successful, in fact, that it was impossible to include all our achievements into the inaugural edition of the UCT GSB’s annual Year in Review. The edition focused on the theme: Build, a nod to UCT GSB’s interactive building block creative campaign, with the same title, in partnership with Cape Town based designer and tessellation artist Faatimah Mohamed-Luke.

The edition features:

WEF Young Global Leaders Summit and MBA World Summit hosted by the UCT GSB
How the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Development Finance Centre have positioned the school as a thought leader in impact investing
The NYU Stern School of Business study tour at the UCT GSB-run Solution Space in Philippi
Case studies of customised programmes designed for Santam and Standard Bank
Interviews with new faculty members Grieve Chelwa, Christina Swart-Opperman and Associate Professor Mikael Samuelsson

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