Our 50th Reunion has come and gone.   It was a very special weekend and class members rejoiced at being around 50 years after getting their MBA's.   Looking at the class photo taken at the dinner the class has, like good wine, aged well.

There have been some wonderful letters of thanks  which are greatly appreciated.

Here is the link to the photos taken at the Reunion.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/71KFzsvP2T8Y4Ron9

 

 Please print those you need.   Please send Lindsay any suitable photos you have taken and we will add them to this online 50th Reunion  Album.

The videos of the  dinner as well as Bob's short video are available in the links below.  There is a short highlights video as well as a longer video which includes Nic Rabinowitz's  performance. 

 

Do yourself a favour. Pour yourself a nice drink and stream the long video to your flatscreen TV.  Nics performance is amazing  and  in some respects is even  better on film.  You are going to have a big laugh all over again.  Enjoy and remember our wonderful 50th Reunion.

50th Reunion Highlights Video (5m)

GSB MBA Class of ’69 – 50th Reunion (Full Video; 1h15m)

Message from Dr Bob Boland (2m)

This is the programme for the reunion:

Friday, 1st February	Dinner at BAIA Restaurant at the V&A Waterfront. Meet for drinks at 7pm. Dinner starts at 8pm. (Dress : Smart Casual)
Saturday, 2nd February	Morning : Lecture Programme at GSB commencing at 9am in Lecture Theatre 4 followed by a Buffet Lunch on the patio at Stonebreakers Restaurant at the GSB at 1pm (Dress : Casual)   PLEASE NOTE: As per the amended Immigration Act, all GUESTS will be required to provide proof of identification (photo identity document / passport) upon check in.     Evening: Dinner at the Planet Restaurant at the Mt Nelson Hotel. Meet for drinks in the foyer of the restaurant at 6.45pm. Dinner at 8pm followed by comedian Nik Rabinowitz (Dress : Jacket and Tie)
Sunday, 3rd February	Lunch at Catharinas Restaurant in the Steenberg Estate, Tokai. 12.30 for 1pm (Dress : Casual)

 

We look forward to seeing you! Many thanks for getting your payments in to assist with this weekend of events. Some class members have very kindly sponsored the wine on the tables at all the events. A cash bar will be provided for other beverage requests.

Below are views of BAIA, Planet Restaurant and Catharinas, together with their full addresses and co-ordinates.

 

This final reunion is not to be missed!

 

NB Please update your personal info on the website and add pictures  where needed. You can also see who is coming to the  50th  Reunion on the Website.

 

 

BAIA SEAFOOD RESTAURANT - V&A Waterfront

 

Portuguese-influenced seafood cuisine in elegant interior and covered terraces with harbour views.

Located in Victoria Wharf Shopping Centre

Phone: 021 421 0935

GPS /Coordinates - 33.9037° S, 18.4215° E

 

 

 

PLANET RESTAURANT - Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel

 

Address: 76 Orange St, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Phone: 021 483 1000

GPS /Coordinates - 33.9320° S, 18.4117° E

 

   

 

CATHARINA'S RESTAURANT - Steenberg Estate

 

A modern take on traditional South African dishes in conservatory restaurant at farm-turned-hotel.

Address: Steenberg Rd, Tokai, Cape Town, 7945

Phone: 021 713 7178

GPS /Coordinates - 34.0712° S, 18.4254° E

 

  

 

GSB LECTURES TIMETABLE

08h30 - 09h00	Registration – Tea/Coffee/Orange Juice and muffins to be served
09h00 - 09h30	Acting Director Prof. Kosheek Sewchurran   -  “Update on  the  GSB”
09h30 - 10h15	Prof Andy Andrews   - “The Challenges facing Business Schools in SA”.
10h15 - 11h00	Camaren Peter - “Values, Ethics and Organizations : What Happens When What We Do Differs From What We Say? “
11h00 - 11h15	Tea/coffee/biscuits
11h15 - 12h00	Ralph Hamman - “The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implications for South Africa and the GSB”
12h00 - 12h45	Chris Hosken - “Startup School - A case for leveraging technology to solve education challenges and create a culture of entrepreneurship in South Africa”
12h45 - 13h00	Stewart Cohen  - “ GSB Foundation Update “
13h00	LUNCH at Stonebreakers  on the Deck.. (Dish up food at the main Buffet inside the Restaurant and go to the Deck.)

 

(Each presentation will be about 30 minutes with 15 minutes for questions)

 

SPEAKERS

These are the speakers for the Reunion

 

Associate Professor Kosheek Sewchurran

TITLE: UPDATE ON GSB

Assoc Prof Kosheek Sewchurran is the acting director of the GSB since June 2018. 

As a scholar he is primarily interested in organizing practices and research that acknowledge the realities of a lived-experience.  This scholarship finds expression in the conversation he convenes related to Business Model Innovation, Strategy-as-practice and Leadership-as-practice.     This scholarship also finds expression in his role as the program director of the Executive MBA which he has curated since December 2013.  His responsibilities on the Executive MBA include designing the program conversations, interventions and pedagogical outcomes to nurture the development of executives who are able to, in their actions and their being, lead authentically in the societal context humanity experiences. 

Before he joined the GSB, he was Assoc Prof and HOD of the Department of Information Systems at University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Commerce.  Prior to entering academia, he spent a little over a decade on manufacturing projects, working as a Systems Engineer optimizing plant automation and designing and implementing enterprise information systems.
 

A/Prof Kosheek Sewchurran holds a doctorate in Project Organising (PhD) from UCT; a Master of Science in Systems Thinking (MSc) from UKZN; a Bachelor of Science Honours in Computer Science (CompSci) from UKZN; and a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering and Operations Research (BSc) from UNISA. 

 

PROFESSOR G.S. (ANDY) ANDREWS. BCom, MBA, PhD.

TITLE : “The Challenges facing Business Schools in SA”.   
 

Andy is a successful academic and entrepreneur who specialises in the fields of strategy, corporate finance and innovation. His current research focuses on the creation and destruction of corporate wealth. He has acted as the Academic Director on several high-level senior executive programmes at several international Business Schools which include MIT in Boston, IESE Business School in Barcelona and at several leading international Business Schools in China, Europe and India.

After completing his PhD while a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School, Boston USA, in 1979 was appointed a Professor in 1981 and served as Dean and Director of The Wits Business School from 1981 to 1989. In 1990 he started the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology which offered the Henley MBA degree in South Africa and served as Dean until 2000.

He served as President of the Harvard Business School Club of South Africa from 1984 until 2008. He has had extensive business experience as a consultant to major companies in South Africa and internationally in the fields of strategy development and implementation, innovation, leadership, coaching and development. Major international clients have included Johnson and Johnson, 3M, Allied Signal Visteon, 3i, Volkswagen, BMW, Serono, Nestle and Henkel. He has and does serve as a non-executive director on the Boards of Directors of several companies.

He has recently been appointed to the Board of Governors of Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

Until recently he served on the Board of the South African Rugby Legends which utilizes former Springboks in the development of young black rugby players and rugby in general.

However, his real claim to fame is that he is related to rugby Springboks Mark and Keith Andrews.

Contact details: andrewsa@iafrica.com,: +27(0)836025800 (Cell).

 

Associate Professor Camaren Peter (PhD)

TITLE : “Values, Ethics and Organizations : What Happens When What We Do

Differs From What We Say? “

Camaren Peter (PhD) is an Associate Professor with the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership at the UCT Graduate School of Business. He holds a cum laude BSc (Hons) degree in theoretical physics, an MSc in astrophysics and a PhD in Business Administration. His research and practice leverages complexity theory to prepare leaders and decision-makers to tackle the grand challenges of the 21st Century. These range from ethical, political, technological and socio-cultural transitions and their implications, to powerful global change phenomena such as urbanization, resource scarcity, ecosystems degradation and climate change. Camaren is particularly concerned with their implications for the developmental trajectories of the Global South.

He is an author and has published widely on a variety of subjects. He has also worked extensively, with various bodies of the United Nations. He currently sits on a civil society reporting forum of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) that assesses the socio-political conditions in communities across South Africa, and maintains a keen interest in global and local politics.

Camaren Peter (PhD)

Associate Professor, Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership, 

Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town

Director and Executive Head: Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC)

Author: "Lazarus in the Multiple: Awakening to the Era of Complexity" (Zero Books, UK) 

 

Professor Ralph Hamann

TITLE : “THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOUTH AFRICA AND THE GSB”

Ralph is Professor and Research Director at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, where he also directs the school’s PhD program. His research and teaching is on business sustainability, social innovation, and cross-sector collaboration. Rated an “internationally acclaimed” researcher by the National Research Foundation, he has published in diverse outlets including competitive management journals such as Journal of Business Venturing and Journal of Management Studies.

Among his other roles, he is an executive editor of Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development; South Africa lead at the Embedding Project (which received the inaugural International Impactful Collaboration Award from the Academy of Management), and co-founder of the Southern Africa Food Lab (for which he received UCT’s Distinguished Social Responsiveness Award). He has held diverse visiting positions, most recently as Pearson Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship and Engineering at Brown University.

 

CHRIS HOSKEN

Title:  Startup School - A case for leveraging technology to solve education challenges and create a culture of entrepreneurship in South Africa.

Chris is currently pursuing solutions to education challenges in South Africa. He believes that inclusive models of education, entrepreneurship and the ecosystems that house these are the key to unlocking Africa's potential. Chris has been fortunate enough to have held various roles at big and small companies, from start-ups to corporates and everything in between. He was a partner and the Chief of Development at GetSmarter-Africa's largest online education company. He co-founded the Startup School with Stewart Cohen, which aims to create an inclusive ecosystem of entrepreneurial learning, mentoring, funding, and impact.

Chris completed his BCom and Postgraduate Diploma in Management and Entrepreneurship at UCT and is currently completing his Masters in Inclusive Innovation at UCT’s GSB, he plans to pursue his Doctorate in 2019 with EMLyon Business School(France) focusing on the role of disruptive technologies in education under the supervision of Professor Walter Baets.

 

 

The purpose of this note is to update you on the Alumni Challenge Fund  which has now evolved into The GSB Foundation. The Foundation is fully operational and is being run by MD Peter Wingrove who is well supported by Linda Fasham. Full details of the Foundation are on its website at www.gsbfoundation.org.za

We are seeing a higher purpose for the Foundation and that is to rapidly increase the number of black MBAS who will be able to go into business but also into government and the parastatals  like Eskom , SAA and SABC ,  which are in desperate need of talented managers.   Currently there are very few black  MBAS in the country largely because of cost and lack of bursaries.   Hopefully the impact will over time be like the “Chicago Boys”  from Chile who  many years ago were sent to  US universities and business schools and a very large  percentage   became cabinet ministers building Chile into the best run economy in S.America.   This should be  a powerful vision for  GSB Alumni. 

The 2014 reunion of the GSB class of 69 has come and gone. For those who were not there you missed something special. We were blessed with perfect weather for the braai and lunches and the presence of our amazing Prof Boland added to the occasion. Fine food,  fine wines and excellent company were enjoyed by all and thanks were given to the sponsors. 

The lecture programme aroused great interest in the new direction of the school and the initial financial support   for the Alumni Challenge Fund  was very positively  received by  Prof Baets , the current director.  

We plan to keep this site operational as an ongoing communication channel for class members.. Please do add photos and comment to your section  especially if you have not yet done so.Its so easy to do. Just Google gsb69  and you will get to the login page. 

Please follow the following links to see photos and video footage of the reunion. There are great pictures and footage. Prof Bolands speech is a classic and he has not  changed  despite his 88 years. Thrilling that he was there.

• Video of Dinner - Highlights (5 min)
   
• Full Video of Dinner (40 minutes)   Includes Prof Boland''s speech 
   
• Video of Class Interviews (15 Mins)  includes, Albert, Carl, Keith, Alastair, Aubrey, Bob, Walter Baets, Francois Bonnici, Rick,, Hannes, Alex, Tiger, Ian 

 

Above: Class of 69 at Reunion lunch at La Colombe Feb 2014

For all 215 photos from the reunion, follow this link:
GSB69 Dropbox Gallery