Global Business School Network

Research shows that better management practices indeed improves organizational performance. According to academics Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and others, manufacturing plants that adopted better, more structured management practices, for example, achieved stronger economic performances on a broad range of measures related to productivity, profitability, growth and innovation. The relationship is robust across sectors (public, private, and non-profit), industries, and regions. Better leadership and management is also correlated with more supportive human resources practices and environmental performance—suggesting that economic progress does not have to be at the expense of inclusion and environmental sustainability. Indeed, there is a multiplier effect as better managers invest in developing their colleagues and processes to enable and guide them. Management and entrepreneurship education is especially important to improving critical areas such as health care, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, and government, and boosting shared prosperity. The Global Business School Network is a nonprofit organization that partners with business schools, industry, foundations and aid agencies to improve access to quality, locally relevant management education for the developing world. Within the context of the emerging economies mission, GBSN builds activities, programs and projects that enable the creation of new knowledge, provide meaningful international experiences, and build relationships that can transform management education, as well as provide broad visibility to our member schools as a champion and change maker for economic and social development. Our international events and capacity building programs engage our network members to advise, train and mentor regional educators. And through publication, partnership and speaking opportunities we advocate for the importance of management education in economic and social development efforts.