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The Role of the Board Chair During a Crisis A company’s long-term survival during a crisis depends on complementary roles, strategic alignment, and chemistry between the chair and CEO. Achim Schmitt, Gilbert Probst, and Michael Tushman https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-role-of-the-board-chair-during-a-crisis/

Our Academic Fellow, Sebastian Buckup has just published an article in Foreign Policy on How to reverse the world's trust disorder

Tuesday, 11 February 2020 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. Library Events Room (B.135) Palais des Nations, B Building

The overall aim of this project was to strengthen UNHCR’s understanding of how to better engage and partner with the private sector beyond fundraising, for a range of potential benefits for refugees and other persons of concern (PoC). You can read the ​​​report here​​​. The key evaluation questions focused on documenting the types of private sector engagements (PSEs) in which UNHCR has been involved between 2016 and 2019; the perspectives of UNHCR and private sector partners on the desired objectives, challenges and risks from said engagements; and lessons learned from similar agencies.​

GSEM's International Organisations MBA is about to hit 10,000 online learners Sign up here: https://fr.coursera.org/learn/international-organizations-management Or find out about our in-house programme:https://www.unige.ch/gsem/cours/iomba/

The Evidence-based Thinking in Practice series is designed for professionals engaged in strategic planning, research management or production, and science-policy interface functions within the international community and private organizations in the Geneva region.

The paper "Helping or Harming? Intermediary Structures to Facilitate Cross-Sector Collaboration" by L. Stadtler and O.Karakulak has been judged to be among the best accepted papers (top 10%) in the 2019 Academy of Management Meeting program. They are entitled to be published in the Best Paper Proceedings.

New article by Prof Gilbert Probst available now

Geneva Public-Private Partnership Centre proudly sponsors the 2018 Annual Review of Social Partnerships (ARSP). This 13th edition of the ARSP includes a contribution from Dr Moira Faul: 'SDG17: The Partnership Goal?' (p.20)

Dr Moira Faul and Dr Jordan Tchilingirian will give a speech on "Theorising multistakeholder partnerships as a space between fields: integrative and dissociative dynamics at The University of Manchester, Global Development Institute.