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The University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), on Wednesday, August 5, 2015, kicked off its 3rd consecutive 3-day Conference on Business and Development, themed, ‘Business in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, on the premises of its Main Campus.

Delivering his remarks, the Chairperson for the occasion and Pro Vice-Chancellor in charge of the University of Ghana’s (UG) Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID), Prof. John Gyapong, highlighted the relevance of the theme especially in light of the recent thrust for sustainable development goals.

The UGBS, on Friday, July 31, 2015, threw a soiree at the foyer of its Graduate Building for faculty who were promoted during the 2014/2015 academic year.
The honourees, numbering eleven, comprised Dr. James Baba Abugre and Prof. Bill B. Puplampu from the Department of Organisation and Human Resource Management; Dr. Ernest Yaw Tweneboah-Koduah and Prof. Robert Ebo Hinson, Department of Marketing & Entrepreneurship; and Dr. Charles Andoh and Dr. Simon Harvey, Department of Finance.

UGBS’s Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management (PAHSM), on Friday 10th July, 2015 met with a three-member delegation from the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. The delegation was led by Dr. Robert Akparibo, a lecturer in Public Health.

Dr. Anthony Afful-Dadzie, a lecturer with UGBS’s Department of Operations Management and Information Systems (OMIS), will be collaborating with Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow, Dr. Iddrisu Awudu, Assistant Professor of Management, Quinnipiac University, on a research project on developing supply chain and energy optimization models related to Ghana.

The project is sponsored by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP), which selected UGBS to host Dr. Awudu.