Nobel Business School launches executive education programme
Nobel International Business School (NIBS) in Accra, has launched an innovative executive education programme designed to prepare busy business leaders and executives for an accredited Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree programme.
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The programme is in affiliation with the Swiss Business School (SBS), Zurich, Switzerland. The programme commenced on May 28 with its first module at the NIBS Campus, 7 Oleander Street, East Legon, Accra.
Addressing the media in Accra, Professor Kwaku Atuahene-Gima, the President and Executive Dean of NIBS, said the NIBS doctoral programme was timely because of the political and economic opportunities in Africa.
He said Africa needed business leaders and executives with advanced cognitive leadership skills to discover the limitations of current management practices,develop deeper insights into what works and what does not work.
He said students expected to come into the programme with live business problems and opportunities they wished to resolve through the research in the DBA programme.
Professor Atuahene said executives would develop the 'practitioner-scholar' ability to navigate new business challenges by making evidence-based decisions.
He also said , "In the midst of increasing number of business schools in Africa, there is a severe shortage of doctoral business faculty which adversely affected the quality of business school graduates.
The NIBS programme develops the research, publishing and teaching capacity of senior executives who would like to teach in universities to bring their business experience to the classroom to help students to qualify for the real world.
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Professor Per V. Jenster, the Vice President of NIBS, said as business problems grew in complexity in Africa, new knowledge and practices must be generated by the new generation of business leaders.
He said many believed that German companies were well-managed and resilient because over 70 per cent of German business executives held professional doctorates.
“Our doctoral programme blends Swiss excellence with local knowledge, allowing executives to develop deeper insights into real business problems in pursuit of new and relevant evidence-based solutions.”
Professor John Meewella, a member of the NIBS international advisory board, explained that on average only 45 per cent of executives completed a professional doctoral programme.
However, he said: “At NIBS, we facilitate success in completing your doctorate without interrupting your work by offering ease of application and enrolment, a cohort model of admission, a modular delivery format of a few days for two months, a doctoral advisory board with 30+ world-renowned professors.”