
The Council on Business & Society (CoBS) welcomes Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa, to the alliance. Now totalling 8 member schools, the addition of our new member gives the CoBS firm anchorage in Asia-Pacific, Europe, South America and now Africa.
The CoBS welcomes this prestigious triple crown accredited institution whose teaching and research – focusing on responsible leadership, diversity and inclusion, social enterprise and entrepreneurship – is perfectly aligned with the CoBS mission and purpose. In the lead up to becoming a member, the CoBS and Stellenbosch faculty worked on several initial projects including insights, research pods and chapters that will appear in the first book in the Routledge-CoBS Focus on Business series to be published in August. We look forward to highlighting Stellenbosch expertise alongside that of the other member schools in our full range of publications, CoBS faculty exchange and research initiative, learning and pedagogical content, the annual student CSR competition, and the ESSEC-CoBS knowledge partnership with the OECD-B4IG initiative.
Combined, the CoBS is:
- 8 schools
- 10 countries
- 4 continents
- 12 campuses
- 1,109 permanent faculty
- 32,650 students and participants
- 258,000 alumni.

- Asia-Pacific: Keio Business School, Japan; School of Management Fudan University; China; ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific, Singapore.
- Europe: ESSEC Business School, France; IE Business School, Spain; Trinity Business School, Ireland; Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.
- Africa: Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa; ESSEC Africa, Morocco.
- South America: FGV-EAESP, Brazil.
For more information on Stellenbosch Business School, their research and degree programmes, visit the institutional website: https://www.usb.ac.za/
For more information on the Council on Business & Society and its initiatives, visit our website at https://www.council-business-society.org/
Learn more about the Council on Business & Society
The Council on Business & Society (The CoBS), visionary in its conception and purpose, was created in 2011, and is dedicated to promoting responsible leadership and tackling issues at the crossroads of business and society including sustainability, diversity, ethical leadership and the place responsible business has to play in contributing to the common good.
Member schools are all “Triple Crown” accredited AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA and leaders in their respective countries.
- ESSEC Business School, France-Singapore-Morocco
- FGV-EAESP, Brazil
- School of Management Fudan University, China
- IE Business School, Spain
- Keio Business School, Japan
- Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
- Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.
