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Business and Innovation. “The idea is that private colleges or universities can create their own institution in someone else’s institution through a partnership,” he explained. One important aspect of partnership and relationship building is trust and this is the subject of our cover feature on page 12. In it, University of Law Business School senior lecturer Richard Galletly explains why leaders need to become more aware of the way the concept of trust differs across cultures. “Trust is essential for cross-cultural strategic collaborations, relationships and partnerships, but this does not mean that we should ‘trust all’ without considering the cultural angle,” he writes. Elsewhere, we introduce two new regular features to the pages of Business Impact that are designed to highlight the growing strength and diversity of the BGA network. Business Briefing (page eight) showcases a selection of news and research from individual business school members in six different countries in this first iteration. Spotlight on Schools (page 34), meanwhile, looks at the history and programme portfolio of recent additions to the network – in this case, the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra – and finds out what joining BGA has meant to them. We hope you’ll find the magazine both enjoyable and informative. Tim Banerjee Dhoul, Editor, Business Impact
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Connecting the dots
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The strength of a network rests largely on the quality of interaction between its members. So, it’s with great pleasure that I was able to witness first-hand the rapport established by those in attendance at BGA’s recent capacity-building workshop in Berlin. The theme for the workshop centred on network building, with ideas and experiences shared across the topics of international partnerships and collaborations. “Many of the beautiful universities I visit have an international office – at the end of the hall, with one person struggling,” vice- president of Collège de Paris Guillaume Finck said at the event. Finck was underlining
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“Trust is essential for cross-cultural strategic collaborations”
how the formation of effective international partnerships needs to be backed up by resources and a key place in an institution’s overall strategy. A number of ideas and examples for widening an institution’s reach through international partnerships were put forward at the workshop. These included the ‘campus within a campus’ model outlined by Sagi Hartov, CEO for Germany at Global University Systems and co-founder and executive president of Berlin School of
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