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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
and transformative, selectively comprehensive, locally
responsive and engaged, and globally competitive.
In a boost to research at the school, the first Old
Mutual Research Fellows in Emerging Economies were
recruited during 2012 with funding from Old Mutual.
The research fellowship is aimed at understanding
the complexity and uncertainty inherent in emerging
markets, while simultaneously developing young,
previously disadvantaged academics.
The establishment of two new research centres is also
furthering research output: the Bertha Centre for Social
Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Allan Gray Centre
for Values-Based Leadership.
Partly as a result of these activities, the GSB remains one
of the most recognised and celebrated business schools
in Africa. In 2012 it was endorsed by the international
community, receiving accreditation from both the
Association of MBAs and the European Foundation for
Management Development. The school’s full-time MBA
programme is also the only one in Africa to be ranked
in the
Financial Times
Top 100 MBAs ranking and its
Executive Education programmes were rated one of the
best in Africa.
Such recognition helps to ensure that the school is putting
UCT on the world map when it comes to business –
specifically to changing the way business is thought about
and practised in emerging markets.
Advancement of Business
CompetitivenessUnit
The Advancement of Business Competitiveness Unit
aims to be the primary source of knowledge and
support for the advancement of competitiveness of
organisations in South Africa and the rest of Africa
in both the private and public sectors. Research
focuses on undertaking surveys to map current
business practices in the various sectors of the South
African economy with the aim of benchmarking them
against best practices. Using case studies, the unit
also undertakes in-depth investigations of the business
practices peculiar to the value chains of the various
sectors. Both the surveys and the case studies will
generate insights into the potential weaknesses of the
value chains which hinder competitiveness in both the
private and public sectors.
Director: Associate Professor R Chivaka
E-mail: richard.chivaka@uct.gsb.ac.za
Web: http://www.gsb.uct.ac.za
Centre for Actuarial
Research
The Centre for Actuarial Research is the only unit
of its kind at an African university. It brings together
multidisciplinary teams to build capacity, improve
techniques and produce independent research in
demography, healthcare financing, social security and
HIV/AIDS modelling. The main focus of the centre is on
training and research in demography and modelling the
demographic impact of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
Director: Associate Professor T Moultrie
E-mail: tom.moultrie@uct.ac.za
Web: http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/care/
Research Unit In
Behavioural And
Neuroeconomics (RUBEN)
RUBEN is an inter-disciplinary group of researchers
who use economic experiments, often together with
functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging techniques, to
examine the role that social, cognitive and emotional
factors play in economic decision-making. In particular,
the methodological approach in which the members
of the team are experts allows the estimation of risk
Research Groupings
associated with this theme
SARChI Chairs
associated with this theme
Social Science Chair in
Economic Growth, Poverty and
Inequality
Profiled on page 91
Poverty and Inequality
Research
Profiled on page 91
As a business school it is prepared to
ask the uncomfortable questions and
make the difficult choices to stand
things on their heads.