The Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) affiliated with the University of Pretoria, is a business school situated in Illovo, Johannesburg, South Africa. The institution has received accreditation from the Council on Higher Education (CHE) in South Africa and the Association of MBAs (AMBA) internationally.[1]
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Centres:
- Centre for African Management and Markets
- Centre for Business Ethics
- Entrepreneurship Development Academy (EDA)
- Centre for Leadership and Dialogue
- Personal and Applied Learning
Initiatives
- Responsible Finance Initiative
- GIBS Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)
- GIBS Media Leadership Think Tank
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GIBS offers programs including the Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration (PDBA), and Doctor of Business Administration (DBA/PHD).[2] In 2012, the GIBS DBA became the first South African doctoral program in business to receive international accreditation from AMBA.[3] GIBS also offers various executive programs: short courses, executive-level program like the Global Executive Development and General Management Program, and company-specific programs. Extended programs are longer certificate programs and include the Social Entrepreneurship Programs, Leading Women Programs, and Nexus Leadership Programs.
GIBS was established in January 2000 following a contribution by Sir Donald Gordon, the founder of Liberty Life and Liberty International, and a major investment by the University of Pretoria following discussions that started in 1998.[4][5] The business school follows on the university's Graduate School of Management's long tradition of MBA tuition. Founded in 1949,[6] the GSM MBA was the first MBA program to be launched outside of North America.[7] The GSM, as of January 2008, was formally replaced by the Gordon Institute of Business Science.[8]
GIBS is situated in a greenfield campus on Illovo Boulevard, a mixed-use commercial node between the suburbs of Rosebank and Sandton in Johannesburg,[9] with a satellite inner city campus on Pritchard Street.[10] Accommodation is provided on the Illovo campus by the on-campus Illovo Hotel. The Illovo campus is served by the Rosebank Gautrain station, with a nearby Gautrain bus stop and the inner city campus by the Johannesburg Park Station.
- Sir Donald Gordon
Sir Donald Gordon (24 June 1930 – 21 November 2019) was a South African businessman and philanthropist. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg[11] before doing his articles to be a Chartered Accountant at the firm Kessel Feinstein (now Grant Thornton).[11] He founded the Liberty Life Association of Africa in 1957,[12] out of which he formed Transatlantic Insurance Holdings plc, now Liberty International (a property portfolio of £6.2 billion (2009)) and Liberty Holdings Limited (total assets of R449 billion (2011)).[12] He was a co-founder of the British company Abbey Life. In June 2005, he was awarded a British knighthood in recognition of his services to the arts and business.[12]
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Financial Times World Ranking | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
Executive MBA[13] | - | - | - | - | 67 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 87 | 74 | 87 | 67 | 82 | - | |
Executive Education Customised[14] | 49 | 51 | 31 | 38 | - | 42 | - | 53 | 53 | 45 | 41 | 51 | 45 | 60 | - | |
Executive Education Open[13] | 38 | 38 | 49 | 50 | 49 | 47 | - | 42 | 48 | 46 | 52 | 45 | 38 | 32 | - | |
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In 2021, the school had 35 permanent faculty members, 29 adjunct faculty members, 11 international faculty members, 8 extraordinary professors, and 1 honorary professor (80% of faculty members hold a doctorate[13]). Past and present faculty members include Gill Marcus (ninth Governor of the South African Reserve Bank) and Nick Binedell.
Company-specific programs clients include Standard Bank, Anglo American PLC, ABSA, SABMiller, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the South African National Treasury. The company-specific programs have been delivered in 22 countries and include certificates in senior management development, wealth management, middle management development as well as its foundation management development.[15]