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Management Fundamentals

Three lessons for employers from the CEMS The Future-Forward Workforce report

The CEMS Master in International Management programme is a launchpad to an international career. But these careers are evolving as new generations of graduates with new attitudes and ideas are entering the workforce. We take a look at the findings of a recent CEMS workplace research report, and what it means to future leaders and their employers.

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Posted on 30 August 2024 by UCT GSB Press Office
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Annual Reviews

UCT GSB’s EMBA Programme ranks #1 in Africa in QS rankings

The UCT Graduate School of Business is proud to announce that its EMBA programme has achieved the top spot in Africa and the Middle East in the 2024 QS Executive MBA Rankings. This prestigious ranking confirms the GSB’s commitment to providing not just excellence in business education but truly transformative leadership development.

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Posted on 22 July 2024 by UCT GSB Press Office
Innovation
Leadership & Ethics

UCT GSB's Executive MBA programme finalist in prestigious Evidence-Based Leadership Development Award

The UCT GSB’s EMBA programme was one of five finalists for the prestigious Evidence-Based Leadership Development Programme Award by the Academy of Management’s Management Education and Development Division – a testament to the UCT GSB's commitment to excellence in leadership education.

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Posted on 11 July 2024 by UCT GSB Press Office
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Learning & Development

UCT GSB grows Impact Investing education in Africa

Growing impact investing capacity in Africa could unlock the continent’s potential. In 2024, the UCT Graduate School of Business is taking its Impact Investing in Africa course to Kenya for the first time – and working to create uniquely African impact investing solutions to uplift the continent

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Posted on 10 June 2024 by UCT GSB Press Office
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Learning & Development

UCT GSB ranks as top SA business school for Customised Executive Education

The UCT Graduate School of Business has a long-standing, respected, and sophisticated Executive Education offering, which saw it ranked in the Top 100 globally for the 15th consecutive year in the 2024 Financial Times Executive Education Rankings.

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Posted on 7 June 2024 by UCT GSB Press Office
EMBA FT Rankings
Annual Reviews

UCT GSB's Executive MBA Ranked Top 4 Globally for Diversity

The latest Financial Times Executive MBA rankings have been released and the UCT Graduate School of Business’s EMBA Programme has once again made the Top 100 – the only African business school to appear on the list. Moreover, it is in the top five globally for women’s representation.

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Posted on 4 December 2023 by UCT GSB Press Office
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Political Economy

Three scenarios for South Africa’s energy crisis: the good, the bad and the likely

South African businesses can be forgiven for feeling like they’re in a movie where the actors are on strike, the script has been lost, and the director has left the set. What are the good, the bad and the likely scenarios for our country’s dire energy situation? We asked the Power Futures Lab (PFL) at UCT’s Graduate School of Business to offer an expert view on where we might be heading.

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Posted on 23 November 2023 by Wikus Kruger
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Annual Reviews

What the UCT GSB Better World Ranking reveals about the changing role of the MBA

The UCT Graduate School of Business is firmly guided by its values, which recently resulted in a Top 40 position in the prestigious Corporate Knights Better World MBA ranking – making it a world leader in principled and impactful education

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Posted on 10 November 2023 by UCT GSB Press Office
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Learning & Development

Top 10 Women In Graduate Management Education

UCT GSB Director, Dr Catherine Duggan, was named one of the Top 10 most influential women in graduate management education by BlueSky Thinking – a think tank committed to the expertise and research of business school and university faculty from across the world, as well as influential management thinkers and business practitioners.

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Posted on 12 April 2023 by UCT GSB Press Office
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Learning & Development

Professor Nicholas Biekpe inducted into prestigious UCT College of Fellows

Induction into the UCT College of Fellows is one of the highest accolades an academic staff member can receive. The fellowship is a reward to academic staff members for their years of commitment and dedication to their work.

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Posted on 25 October 2022 by UCT GSB Press Office
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Learning & Development

Jagger Library Reading Room: Looking back and looking forward — a personal view

Mary Lister, Librarian at the UCT GSB reflects on the devastating fire that gutted parts of the UCT Library on Upper Campus towards the end of April and explains how people can get involved if they want to help.

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Posted on 11 May 2021 by UCT GSB Press Office
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Learning & Development

From the Director: hope, leadership and gratitude at the GSB

Members of our GSB community–many of who are graduates of our programmes–played a special role in providing leadership and help to guide the University through one of its most difficult moments.

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Posted on 11 May 2021 by UCT GSB Press Office