UGBS Inducts 228 students into EMBA Programme

THE University of Ghana Business School has inducted 228 students, comprising 141 males and 87 females, into its Executive Masters in Business Administration (EMBA) programme.
The students will specialise in areas such as Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Project Management, Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurial Management.
The four-to-six-month programme seeks to cater for the higher educational needs of practitioners in the areas of governance and administrative management, as well as the management of public enterprises and non-governmental agencies.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof C.N.B. Tagoe, urged the students to think strategically and use the knowledge they would acquire to effectively manage the innovations needed to develop existing and new businesses in Ghana.
“As managers, directors and leaders, you have to focus on leaving footprints. You must leave legacies, remembering that leadership comes by beginning something that does not end with you,” he advised.
He said the university’s goal for the EMBA was to expand the frontiers of management education, using cutting-edge research to enrich the management of knowledge and practices in the country.
Prof Tagoe said that was important, since today’s world was a knowledge-driven one and so the essence of the programme was to enable them to blend theory with practice to enlighten their day-to-day activities with conceptual argument.
The Chairman of the Governing Council of the EMBA, Dr Bill Puplampu, said the programme, since its inception in 2000, had graduated about 540 students, while 98 were to graduate soon.
He said the programme was specially designed to meet Ghana’s human resource capital needs now and into the future, and by so doing provide global leaders through the programme.
Dr Puplampu expressed belief that the faculty would ensure that teaching and delivery was sound and relevant and comparable to what obtained in other world-class institutions.
“We also believe that we have to challenge you, our students, to interrogate social and corporate issues with a passion to find solutions,” he said.
The Managing Director of Kasapa Telecom, Mr Bob Palitz, urged the students not to put so much emphasis on the certificates they would be awarded after the programme but on the quality of their output in their various organisations after the programme.
What was more important, he noted, was their ability to put what they learnt into practice, adding that the value of their output was more significant than the certificates they would earn after completion of the programme.
The Dean of the School of Research and Graduate Studies, Prof Yaa Ntiamoah Baidoo, urged the students to abide by the rules and regulations of the programme.
He said humility was very important and observed the need for them to be very humble and patient, communicating effectively to ensure that they made steady progress from the beginning till the end.
In an address read on behalf of the students, their representative, Lord Mensa Darko, said they expected that the university would make good use of their research works and not just leave them to lie on the shelves to gather dust.
That, he said, was because they believed that the academic exercise they were undertaking would be relevant to the industrial development of Ghana.