The Economist Intelligence Unit Business Professor of the Year Award

Posted on October 17, 2012

We are extraordinarily proud to announce that Professor Adrian Saville has been nominated for The Economist Intelligence Unit Business Professor of the Year Award.

CEEMAN – Leading through Adversity and Leading in a Changing Socio-economic Landscape

Posted on October 17, 2012

On the 24th and 25th of September, 2012, GIBS hosted 35 Deans and Directors from CEEMAN, the international management development association in Eastern Europe, for a two day seminar on the role of business schools in nations in transition.

UP GIBS Masterful History

Posted on October 17, 2012

The University of Pretoria's (UP) business school is 12 years old in 2012. Or is it 63? The Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), founded in 2000, has quickly earned a reputation as one of the world's top providers of executive education, and i

Women at work

Posted on October 17, 2012

...In partnership with the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), Anglo American Platinum incorporated 11 female employees into Nexus, a leadership programme which forms part of the Centre for Leadership and Dialogue, at GIBS. These women were ident

The business of making money in a developmental state

Posted on October 17, 2012

SA is in the wrong place in terms of the structure of the economy," Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), says. He made the remark on Thursday at the CNBC Africa "Great Economic Debate" h

FT rates GIBS MBA best in Africa

Posted on October 17, 2012

The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has been ranked in 60th place (having moved up 7 places) in the top 100 executive MBA programmes in the latest Financial Times (FT) Executive MBA Rankings 2012 released today.

GIBS MBA student heading for the “Roof of Africa”: Kilimanjaro

Posted on October 17, 2012

It is not every day that one gets to learn a life lesson on a climb to the 'Roof of Africa', but on 21 October 2012 it will become a reality for a Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA student, Bonolo Sekhukhune, when she takes part in the Rotte

Entrepreneurship: Unplugged

Posted on September 13, 2012

The nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest in psychology. While the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) doesn’t claim to have resolved this age-old conundrum, at least when it comes to the equally mysterious question of whether en