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GBSN and Korn Ferry have partnered to deliver a series of conversations with business leaders who are catalyzing innovation. The task of universities and business schools is after all “to prepare graduates for jobs that do not yet exist.” These jobs of the future are being created right now by leading businesses worldwide. These conversations are designed for a global audience of business students and alumni, as well as the staff and faculty who are helping them navigate careers in a rapidly changing world. 
This conversation about Urban Air Mobility features GBSN CEO Dan LeClair with Esina Alic CEO of Res Novae Group, and Grace Chew from preeminent organizational consultancy, Korn Ferry who discussed the development, current landscape, and how companies are innovating in the Urban Air Mobility Sector. We also considered the hard and soft skillsets business schools need to equip their student with to help them be competitive in the urban air mobility sector.

The task of universities and business schools is after all “to prepare graduates for jobs that do not yet exist.” These jobs of the future are being created right now by leading businesses worldwide.
With this in mind, GBSN and Korn Ferry have partnered to deliver a series of conversations with business leaders who are catalyzing innovation. These include chief strategy and innovation officers and other c-suite executives working where industries and ecosystems are intersecting in spectacular ways to generate the jobs of the future.
These conversations will be designed for a global audience of business students and alumni, as well as the staff and faculty who are helping them navigate careers in a rapidly changing world.
The following conversation moderated by GBSN CEO Dan LeClair with guests Grace Chew and Lisa Harrison is all about The Workforce of the Future.

In this episode we share insights into Collaborations for healthcare leadership during the covid-19 pandemic. As part of the Race2Imagine series sponsored by GBSN member Universidad de los Andes School of Management in Colombia, we partnered with fellow network members Miami Herbert Business School in Florida, to facilitate the exchange of impact stories from different perspectives: those of students, faculty and leaders from different institutions, governments, and civil society professionals to share their experience within their local community that addressed challenges related to healthcare, especially in the context of pandemic responses.
We hear from two former US Secretaries of Health and Human Services as Donna Shalala interviews Alex Azar about his leadership role in Operation Warp Speed, the public–private partnership initiated by the United States government to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.

Human beings are like raw diamonds: potential but the inherent beauty and value only emerge with a perfect cut. How well is formal education, as we know it today, doing in cutting human diamonds? Do we sparkle to our full potential? 
In this episode, GBSN CEO Dan LeCLair is in conversation With Dr. Wilfried Vanhonacker about his latest book, “Rough Diamonds”. Based on over 40 years in education around the world, Wilfried shares in the book and in this discussion some of his observations, questions, and reflections on formal education as we know it and have come to accept it. And In doing so, in Rough Diamonds provides a critical look at what formal education has morphed into. It paints according to Wilfried… a worrisome picture.

What would a business school look like if one started with a blank sheet of paper and did not benchmark other business schools?
What would the content be? Who would teach? What would it cost?
In this session, we will look at how business schools got to be where they are because of the Ford and Carnegie reports over half a century ago, the advent in 1987 of the first of the major rankings, and the drivers of accreditation. Join one of GBSN’s new members, Coventry University Business School for this session, as Kai Peters, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Faculty of Business and Law), will makes the case for a major overhaul of the structure and positioning of business schools for the future.

Every March since 1992, the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan deploys student teams all over the world for its Multidisciplinary Action Projects (MAP) course. 2020 was different. How did the school modify MAP for the lockdowns? What did they learn? What comes next?
Join GBSN’s CEO, Dan LeClair and Mike Barger, Executive Director, Office of Strategy and Academic Innovation, for a discussion around project-based learning, summer internships, and how to plan for the upcoming academic term.