From Nov 15-17, deans and directors of the world’s top management schools will discuss what increased connectivity between different countries means for businesses and organisations across sectors
NOVEMBER 12, 2015: IIM Bangalore is hosting the Deans and Directors of top 28 global management schools that are part of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) from November 15-17, 2015. In addition to discussions of ongoing global network programmes and strategy, the meeting will provide an opportunity for the official induction of Berkeley-Haas as a full member.
Delighted to host the prestigious global meet of deans and directors, Dr Sushil Vachani, Director, IIM Bangalore, said: “We are excited to host the Deans meeting of the prestigious Global Network for Advanced Management in India. Our affiliation with the GNAM is central to our strategy to provide IIM Bangalore’s students with a rich global perspective and enable our faculty to collaborate on research and teaching programs with peers at leading management schools across the globe.”
Over the last year, IIM Bangalore has deepened its engagement with important international networks, including the GNAM. IIMB Dean of Programs Sourav Mukherji recently taught a course from Bengaluru that was beamed to students around the world in a truly global classroom as part of the GNAM. “This was a unique experience – teaching students from multiple countries across different time zones. There was a young mother from Guatemala who was looking after her child while attending the class, while another student from China was logging into my class through his mobile phone, while sitting in a high speed train,” said Dr. Mukherji.
IIMB students are part of the Global Network Weeks which give them the opportunity to pursue intensive study at another network school, in a focused mini course that leverages the perspectives, programmes and faculty expertise of that school. Alongside their counterparts from elsewhere in the network, IIMB students attend classes, tour local businesses and meet with experts focused on current business problems.
The Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) is a network of top management schools from all over the world, convened by Yale University. The aim of the group is to understand what the present-day increased connectivity between different countries of the world means for businesses and organisations across sectors and to develop global leaders for coming decades. It connects each member school with diverse regions, countries, cultural backgrounds, political systems and economies in different phases of development, extending the reach of each member school. The network facilitates interaction, but leaves the development of an agenda to the participating schools. For a complete list of the member institutes, please see http://advancedmanagement.net/whos
The University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has recently become the 28th member of GNAM. Berkeley-Haas is the second top US-based business school to join the global network, and brings unique depth in innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology as well as a close connection with Silicon Valley. Since its launch in 2012, the global network has added seven member schools. As the newest member school, Berkeley-Haas will gain full access to GNAM’s innovative pedagogical initiatives that connect students and faculty with peers across a range of global economies, including both developed nations and developing economies, such as Indonesia, Turkey and Chile.
GNAM Courses: The global network courses are for-credit courses offered virtually by a member school and open to students from throughout the network. The network’s programmes and initiatives enable students, faculty, alumni, and other stakeholders to move seamlessly from a global perspective to a local understanding. Global network courses are online classes (video conferencing, etc.) connecting students throughout the network for lectures, discussions and project work in virtual teams.
The courses can be thought of as Small Network Online Courses, or SNOCs. In contrast to the Massive Online Open Courses or MOOCs offered by many institutions, in which participants have varying degrees of interest and capabilities, SNOCs enrol a select group of top-tier Master of Business Administration (MBA) students engaged in a common effort to build management skills.
Through these elective small network online courses, students benefit from the network’s range of faculty expertise and the perspectives of their peers from member schools around the world. As part of the courses, groups of students from multiple member schools collaborate virtually on substantial team projects, developing teamwork skills and cross-cultural perspectives.
Topics of such courses have included mobile banking, competition law, natural resource management, new product development, and social entrepreneurship. Faculty from multiple schools collaborate to create curricular innovations and teaching material.
GNAM Cases: In order to develop teaching materials that reflect the challenges that students will face in the globalised world, member schools collaborate to create online “raw” case studies investigating global business problems. Unlike traditional cases, “raw” cases use a variety of online sources including extensive background data, news articles and video interviews to provide a fuller picture of a complex business situation. By collaborating, member schools are able to create cases with cross-national perspectives, benefiting from the participation of researchers at multiple schools. The global network cases examine business problems that are fundamentally multinational and require global thinking.
Global Network Weeks: Global Network Weeks give MBA students and faculty the opportunity to pursue intensive study at another network school, in a focused mini course that leverages the perspectives, programmes and faculty expertise of that school. Alongside their counterparts from elsewhere in the network, students attend classes, tour local businesses and meet with experts focused on current business problems.
GNAM Meetings: The network has had a number of meetings of deans to discuss various strategies and challenges, including the launch meeting in April 2012, the Deans Meeting hosted by Koç University GSB in November 2012, the Deans Meeting hosted by Renmin University of China School of Business in April 2013, the Deans Meeting hosted by IE Business School in November 2013, the Deans Meeting at Yale SOM in January 2014, the Deans Meeting hosted by EGADE Business School in April 2014, the Deans Meeting hosted by UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School in November 2014 and the Deans Meeting hosted by Hitotsubashi ICS Tokyo in April 2015.
From Nov 15-17, deans and directors of the world’s top management schools will discuss what increased connectivity between different countries means for businesses and organisations across sectors
NOVEMBER 12, 2015: IIM Bangalore is hosting the Deans and Directors of top 28 global management schools that are part of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) from November 15-17, 2015. In addition to discussions of ongoing global network programmes and strategy, the meeting will provide an opportunity for the official induction of Berkeley-Haas as a full member.
Delighted to host the prestigious global meet of deans and directors, Dr Sushil Vachani, Director, IIM Bangalore, said: “We are excited to host the Deans meeting of the prestigious Global Network for Advanced Management in India. Our affiliation with the GNAM is central to our strategy to provide IIM Bangalore’s students with a rich global perspective and enable our faculty to collaborate on research and teaching programs with peers at leading management schools across the globe.”
Over the last year, IIM Bangalore has deepened its engagement with important international networks, including the GNAM. IIMB Dean of Programs Sourav Mukherji recently taught a course from Bengaluru that was beamed to students around the world in a truly global classroom as part of the GNAM. “This was a unique experience – teaching students from multiple countries across different time zones. There was a young mother from Guatemala who was looking after her child while attending the class, while another student from China was logging into my class through his mobile phone, while sitting in a high speed train,” said Dr. Mukherji.
IIMB students are part of the Global Network Weeks which give them the opportunity to pursue intensive study at another network school, in a focused mini course that leverages the perspectives, programmes and faculty expertise of that school. Alongside their counterparts from elsewhere in the network, IIMB students attend classes, tour local businesses and meet with experts focused on current business problems.
The Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) is a network of top management schools from all over the world, convened by Yale University. The aim of the group is to understand what the present-day increased connectivity between different countries of the world means for businesses and organisations across sectors and to develop global leaders for coming decades. It connects each member school with diverse regions, countries, cultural backgrounds, political systems and economies in different phases of development, extending the reach of each member school. The network facilitates interaction, but leaves the development of an agenda to the participating schools. For a complete list of the member institutes, please see http://advancedmanagement.net/whos
The University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has recently become the 28th member of GNAM. Berkeley-Haas is the second top US-based business school to join the global network, and brings unique depth in innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology as well as a close connection with Silicon Valley. Since its launch in 2012, the global network has added seven member schools. As the newest member school, Berkeley-Haas will gain full access to GNAM’s innovative pedagogical initiatives that connect students and faculty with peers across a range of global economies, including both developed nations and developing economies, such as Indonesia, Turkey and Chile.
GNAM Courses: The global network courses are for-credit courses offered virtually by a member school and open to students from throughout the network. The network’s programmes and initiatives enable students, faculty, alumni, and other stakeholders to move seamlessly from a global perspective to a local understanding. Global network courses are online classes (video conferencing, etc.) connecting students throughout the network for lectures, discussions and project work in virtual teams.
The courses can be thought of as Small Network Online Courses, or SNOCs. In contrast to the Massive Online Open Courses or MOOCs offered by many institutions, in which participants have varying degrees of interest and capabilities, SNOCs enrol a select group of top-tier Master of Business Administration (MBA) students engaged in a common effort to build management skills.
Through these elective small network online courses, students benefit from the network’s range of faculty expertise and the perspectives of their peers from member schools around the world. As part of the courses, groups of students from multiple member schools collaborate virtually on substantial team projects, developing teamwork skills and cross-cultural perspectives.
Topics of such courses have included mobile banking, competition law, natural resource management, new product development, and social entrepreneurship. Faculty from multiple schools collaborate to create curricular innovations and teaching material.
GNAM Cases: In order to develop teaching materials that reflect the challenges that students will face in the globalised world, member schools collaborate to create online “raw” case studies investigating global business problems. Unlike traditional cases, “raw” cases use a variety of online sources including extensive background data, news articles and video interviews to provide a fuller picture of a complex business situation. By collaborating, member schools are able to create cases with cross-national perspectives, benefiting from the participation of researchers at multiple schools. The global network cases examine business problems that are fundamentally multinational and require global thinking.
Global Network Weeks: Global Network Weeks give MBA students and faculty the opportunity to pursue intensive study at another network school, in a focused mini course that leverages the perspectives, programmes and faculty expertise of that school. Alongside their counterparts from elsewhere in the network, students attend classes, tour local businesses and meet with experts focused on current business problems.
GNAM Meetings: The network has had a number of meetings of deans to discuss various strategies and challenges, including the launch meeting in April 2012, the Deans Meeting hosted by Koç University GSB in November 2012, the Deans Meeting hosted by Renmin University of China School of Business in April 2013, the Deans Meeting hosted by IE Business School in November 2013, the Deans Meeting at Yale SOM in January 2014, the Deans Meeting hosted by EGADE Business School in April 2014, the Deans Meeting hosted by UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School in November 2014 and the Deans Meeting hosted by Hitotsubashi ICS Tokyo in April 2015.