The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB), in partnership with Old Mutual, has put together a unique team of five young scholars who have been tasked with cracking the code of emerging markets. Using a multidisciplinary approach, and starting this year, the team will work to understand some of the social and economic development issues the developing world faces. The Old Mutual Research Fellowship in Emerging Markets has drawn researchers from the Netherlands, Germany, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Sierra Leone, with a diverse range of expertise within the housing, finance, sustainability, collaboration, and economics disciplines. Professor Walter Baets, director of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 15th 2013 |
By Dennis Kabatto – Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a veteran feminist activist and politician was appointed Wednesday by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the new executive director of UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka, a former South African deputy president from 2005 to 2008 succeeds Michelle Bachelet – the first executive director of UN Women since 2010 and Chilean president from 2006 to 2010- who resigned in March to run for a second term as president of Chile. The Secretary-General in a statement acknowledged Bachelet’s “commitment in spearheading the organization’s work on gender equality and... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, July 14th 2013 |
Allan Kalau might look like a typical University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB) student – young, ambitious and filled with vitality and good ideas about how to improve the world of business – but his journey in getting there has been radically different from most of his fellow students. Ten years ago he was a promising young medical student with a scholarship and bright future ahead of him: then the Second Congo War broke out, and set him on an entirely new course. “Everything that happened after war was declared felt like I was watching a movie,”... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, July 14th 2013 |
Described by Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi as a ‘tsunami’, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a growing threat to the health and welfare of South Africans. For this reason, Liberty Medical Scheme is actively promoting a healthy lifestyle and education strategies to ensure its members are informed of associated health risks and initiatives to promote healthy living. NCDs are diseases that are not contagious or transferable from one human to another. Random genetic abnormalities, genetics, lifestyle or environmental triggers can cause NCDs such as cancer, diabetes, asthma, hypertension and osteoporosis. Auto-immune diseases, mental disorders, malnutrition, and hormonal conditions also fall within this... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 8th 2013 |
It was a rare and surreal spectacle at the UCT Graduate School of Business recently where the launch of a book that challenges the ontology of contemporary business began with a play. Giraffe and Hyena discussed the need for business for the betterment of society – business driven by values. The dialogue between the two animals – acted out by Sean Gabriel Smith (Giraffe) and Nicole Hetz (Hyena) – is the first chapter of the new free-to-download book, Values Based Leadership in Business Model Innovation written by Professor Walter Baets, director of the business school, and his wife Erna Oldenboom.... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, July 7th 2013 |
