Dean of GIBS Nicola Kleyn on turning crisis into opportunity

Nicola Kleyn sat down with Ruda to talk about shattering perceptions, the personal crisis that made her leave a high-power job in the corporate world, and the art and science of helping business get down to business. .

Adrian Saville: Kickstarting SA economy – easy as pie

It’s no secret that the South African economy is growing at rates well below its potential. What is perhaps less well understood is that there are some quick wins which could kick-start the economy

Prof Nick Binedell of GIBS: Concerns, but resilient SA will pull through

As far as business schools go, Pretoria University’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs) is one of South Africa’s finest, it is in fact one of the best in the world. It is often recognised for its calibre and is well known for giving the South African MBA an upstanding name. Professor Nick Binedell founded and … Read more

Nick Binedell steps down as Dean of Gibs

Professor Nick Binedell has been at the helm of the business school since it was founded in 2000. Having led the business school for more than a decade, Binedell regards this as an opportune time to step down from his current role as Dean. The University’s Vice Chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey said, “Professor … Read more

Breaking down BRICS Summit – has South Africa come out winning?

A recent piece on BizNews by Peter Fabricius puts forward the perspective that based on the most recent meeting of the leaders of the BRICS nations, that perhaps, South Africa is not on the equal footing that it may think it is with its national companions. Having a look at the outcomes of last week’s BRICS meeting … Read more

After decade as SA’s top business school, GIBS looks to Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt

Just four years after it was launched, GIBS took Africa’s top position in the London Financial Times’s annual review of the world’s best business schools. It has never lost that position and in the 2014 ranking moved up a position to 42nd worldwide, comfortably the best in the Africa/Middle East region. As I discovered during … Read more

Nedbank’s Small Business Index: SA’s true unemployment stats

Statistics are inevitably flawed for reasons that range from the way the information is gathered to the way they are interpreted. Taking aim at one of South Africa’s most worrying figures – the nation’s staggeringly high unemployment rate – is business consultant Kathy Berman, who attended a session on the quarterly Nedbank Small Business Index. As … Read more

A weak Rand won’t save SA’s industrial competitiveness, create jobs

An unfortunate part of the human condition is our inability to know what we do not know. We would also benefit from less guessing, more silent contemplation. Adrian Saville, founder of Cannon Asset Management and an associate professor at GIBS is a refreshing alternative to the general rule. A deep thinker with logical arguments, his … Read more

Flicker of hope for 2014 – deep value specialist, top business teacher Adrian Saville sees glass filling up

Adrian Saville has been in the news lately. The founder and Chief Investment Officer of Cannon Asset Managers, a visiting professor at GIBS, was ranked by students as one of the world’s best, getting 857 Facebook “Likes” (the most) in a competition run by The Economist. And last month Peregrine announced it has acquired a controlling … Read more