The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) celebrated a record intake of PhD students in 2014, a clear indication that the school’s emphasis on research is paying off. In the past few years, research has gone from strength to strength, with 27 students registered for the PhD programme in 2014, including nine international students, and the highest research output to date being registered in 2013.
“An active research community is the foundation for our claim to be a leading business school with high aspirations,” says Professor Ralph Hamann, research director at the school. The GSB is consistently rated as the top business school in Africa and it is the only African school to have its full-time MBA ranked in the prestigious Financial Times top 100 MBA ranking.
GSB research focuses on three thematic clusters: social innovation and sustainability; values-based leadership; and emerging markets finance, investment and trade. PhD students are supported by a rigorous programme of five PhD and Research Colloquia throughout the year to provide strong theoretical and methodological foundations and to develop a collegial, supportive and well-informed research culture at the school. First-year PhD students are required to participate, while other students and faculty are encouraged to become involved as participants and facilitators.
The investment in student research also contributes to the GSB’s growing publication output. Faculty and students published a record 48 peer-reviewed scholarly publications in 2013, including 33 journal papers, 10 books or book chapters, and five accredited conference papers.
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