Mission & values

Mission

CBS prepares its students for business careers anywhere in the world.
CBS is committed to:

1. Providing its undergraduate and postgraduate students with an outstanding business education, encompassing:
   (i) innovative teaching and student-centred learning
   (ii) an international outlook
   (iii) respect for diversity
   (iv) the acquisition of professional and cross-cultural skills.
   
2. Supporting its research students with highly-quality supervision and infrastructure.
   
3. Fostering high-quality, high-impact applied research.
   
4. Enhancing its reputation as a distinctive international business school, through the core activities of teaching and learning, and research.
   
5. Participating in productive and sustainable partnerships for educational services, research activity and consultancy for the benefit of all our stakeholders, including the business and wider community.
   
6. Fostering consultative, effective leadership and strategic management.
   
7. Stimulating a collegiate, supportive, high-performance culture.
   
8. Maintaining a sound financial system which ensures the cost-effective application of resources and long-term sustainability.
   
9. Striving for continuous improvement in our performance and in our culture.
   
10. Becoming -
    (i) for local and international students: the preferred business school in the region;
    (ii) for employers: the preferred source of highly-trained graduates in the region;
    (iii) for staff: the preferred employer.

Values

CBS adopts and affirms the University’s core Values – respect, integrity, fairness and care.
In addition, CBS prizes:

• scholarship
• achievement
• collegiality.
  

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