LATEST NEWS FROM THE BUSINESS SCHOOL
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Teaching through COVID-19: A Faculty Perspective
The education sector has been profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While many of us understand what this period has been from a student’s perspective, we have not heard much about experiences from educators. In this article, Dr Zukiswa Mthimunye, Head of...
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Introducing the ALUSB Master of Management programme
In its mission to build leaders for the African century, African Leadership University School of Business (ALUSB) is launching a new, exciting degree especially for young professionals and recent graduates as they enter the job market. The programme, entitled Master...
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How an MBA can benefit Law Professionals
Driven by a passion for helping people and knack for debating, Taona Wayne Nyamakura ‘21 pursued a budding career in law in Zimbabwe. He currently works at The Chambers - Advocates of Zimbabwe as an Advocate of the High Court and Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. We caught...
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How to successfully start a new job remotely
How are you doing? I hope you are safe and healthy as you read this post. Months into the COVID-19 travel restrictions and work-from-home realities that have become the new normal this 2020, we and our organisations have started to adapt and move forward. It hasn’t...
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The ALUSB MBA Online Intensive Week: Highlights And Takeaways
Every 4 months, the ALUSB MBA students travel to Kigali for a week-long "intensive" where they get to connect with their peers and learn directly from African business leaders. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent travel restrictions, we were unable to...
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Successful Online Learning: 10 tips from ALUSB MBA students
The ALUSB MBA is a blended, part-time programme. This means that the MBA is part in person (in Kigali, Rwanda) and part online, where students engage in interactive, online learning while remaining at work in their home countries. This part-time MBA learning structure...
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10 inspiring pieces of advice from powerful women in business
Sometimes, we come across a piece of advice that sticks with us and propels us forward. As part of our 'Woman Of the Week' campaign, ALUSB asked some of the women in our community to offer some advice to their peers in the ecosystem in the hopes of inspiring and...
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Khalila Mbowe ’21: “It’s time for exemplary leadership in all sectors.”
Khalila Mbowe‘21, Founder and CEO of Unleash Africa Social Ventures, is a multi-talented, serial social entrepreneur that has her hand in many industries including technology, gender, art and development, communications, and youth innovation. How did she end up in the...
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A Father’s Day note to our MBAs
As the world celebrated Father's Day this past Sunday, Chidi Afulezi, ALUSB’s Head Faculty for Product, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, took this opportunity to flip the script and bring attention to an important issue in our communities: gender-based violence. We're...
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