Graduate Business Forum

Graduate Business Forum
Formation 1983
Type Non-profit organization
Legal status Foundation
Headquarters Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Region served
Worldwide
Jim Deveau
Website Graduate Business Forum

The Graduate Business Forum (GBF) is a United States-based non-profit foundation best known for its annual global Graduate Business Conference, which brings together top business leaders, political leaders and selected student government presidents and vicepresidents from the top 55 MBA Business Schools in the world to exchange best practices on student government, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and community service and to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world from a responsible leadership perspective. The Forum also organizes a series of regional meetings throughout the year.

The Graduate Business Forum was founded in 1983 by Jim Deveau, a then MBA student and President of the student government at Columbia Business School.[1] Beyond conferences, the Forum produces articles on ethical and responsible leadership of the MBA community and engages its members in business school or community initiatives.

Organization

The Forum is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. It is impartial and not-for-profit and is not tied to any political, partisan or national interest. Its highest governance body is the Board of Directors consisting of business, academic and previous student government leaders. The Forum’s vision is “to be a catalyst organization for positive change in the world inspiring graduate leaders to adopt a global citizen mindset and internalize a holistic view of growth beyond profit also including people, planet and peace." The Forum's mission is “to organize activities, events and services that inspire vision, create understanding and facilitate change and thereby support development of responsible leadership and global citizenship within a global network of elected graduate student leaders.”

Membership

The GBF is a community where leadership is put into action, where best practices are shared and where globalism is embraced by all it members.

Individual GBF Membership is restricted to elected Student Leaders of the Student Government Bodies of the top 55 MBA Business Schools in the world. Student Leaders are invited upon election to participate in the global activities, events and network of the Graduate Business Forum.

Business schools that have participated in the GBF and GBC:

Graduate Business Conference

The Graduate Business Forum's best known activity is the annual global Graduate Business Conference, which brings together business and political leaders with selected student government leaders from the top 55 MBA Business Schools in the world to exchange best practices, discuss Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and debate the most pressing issues facing education and the economy from a responsible leadership perspective. The Forum also organizes a series of regional meetings throughout the year.

GBC2013 - Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

The 2013 Graduate Business Conference will be held at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

The Graduate Business Conference has been held since 1983:

YEAR, HOST UNIVERSITY, GBC THEME

Global Student Leadership Award

The Student Leadership Award was inaugurated in 1991 by the Board of Directors of the Graduate Business Forum (GBF) to recognize leadership, innovation and a commitment to the greater community at the graduate business level. In the past influential leaders, such as CEOs, Prime-Ministers, Presidents and Royals have bestowed this Award upon a student or team during a commemorative banquet at the annual Graduate Business Conference.

Dave Chonowski and Chris Petersen, 2009 awardees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, turned their winning idea into the MBA Veterans Network, a global community of military veteran students and alumni of the world's leading business schools. Their organization has generated significant interest from the business media and has since been featured in both BusinessWeek and the Wall Street Journal.

Member Schools may execute up to two nominations for their institution.

See also

References

  1. , "Ambitious Origins: How it all Began", Graduate Business Forum website

Reference books

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