About Us
About Us
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Who We Are and What We Do
About Us // We are an international consulting agency and service provider dedicated to enhancing the overall quality of business education worldwide. We accomplish this goal by helping institutions of higher education (1) to develop systems and frameworks for achieving impressive educational outcomes and (2) to become more successful in accomplishing their strategic, operational, and programmatic goals in business and management education.
We partner with schools, colleges, departments, divisions, institutes, academies, and faculties of business around the world – or business education units (BEUs) – to address the most pressing challenges in the higher business education landscape. To this end, we offer a comprehensive portfolio of superior consulting services in various aspects of quality assurance and advancement. We help business education units to achieve organizational and performance excellence by integrating our distinctive value proposition – a unique combination of value creation, knowledge leadership, experienced talent, and collegial hands-on guidance and support – into all of our service offerings.
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Creating Value • Advancing Quality • Supporting Success
Creating Value • Advancing Quality • Supporting Success
Vision
Direction
Experience
Teamwork
Best Practice
Strategy
Quality
Value
In addition to working with various kinds of business education units, our consulting services are comprehensive and inclusive of all types of degree and diploma programs in business and management. Specifically, we offer services encompassing associate and other two-year undergraduate programs, bachelor’s and other baccalaureate programs, master’s and other post-graduate programs, and doctoral programs. Furthermore, our quality assurance solutions are tailored to meet your individual needs and to the specific types of programs that you offer.
The definition of our company name ‘Vanguard’ – a position at the frontlines of new developments or ideas – reflects our commitment to being at the forefront of thought and practice in business and management education and to delivering leading-edge quality assurance solutions that embody best practices and global standards of excellence.
What Guides Us
Our Vision, Mission, Commitment, and Values
What We Offer
Our Service Portfolio
Who We Are
Our Talented Team
With Whom We Partner
Our Affiliate Organizations
Our Vision, Mission, Commitment, and Values
In providing our consulting and advisory services, we are motivated by a desire to help business education units around the world prepare their students to become insightful leaders and responsible global citizens.
It is this desire that underpins our vision, mission, and strong sense of purpose, drives our commitment to student success and to the programmatic and organizational excellence of our client-partners, and anchors our fundamental core values that guide all that we do as an organization.
Our Vision
Our Mission
Our Commitment
Our Core Values
What Guides Us
Our Vision
Our Mission
Our Commitment
Our Core Values
Our Services > What We Do
Vanguard partners with business education units around the world to deliver customized, client-focused quality assurance services that are at the forefront of thought and practice in higher business education. Our portfolio includes both (1) quality advancement assistance and support and (2) software solutions for advancing institutional effectiveness // through our partnership with Kramah Software > see «Our Affiliations».
Our Quality Advancement Services
Quality Management Software
What We Offer
Our Quality Advancement Services
Quality Management Software
Who We Are > Our Talented Team
We are passionate about helping business education units around the world to achieve organizational excellence and programmatic success. This passion stems from the conviction that when business education units become more successful in achieving their desired educational outcomes, students are better prepared to become engaged, enlightened, and responsible leaders.
Our team of dedicated higher-education professionals possesses years of rich experience and deep expertise in business and management education and quality assessment, and is committed to collaborating with you to provide customized quality assurance solutions that meet your unique needs and challenges. Meet the team:
Dennis Gash
Founder and Principal
Founder and Principal
Archish Maharaja
Founder and Principal
Founder and Principal
V.J. Byra Reddy
Founder and Senior Advisor
Founder and Senior Advisor
Who We Are
With Whom We Partner > Our Affiliate Organizations
In pursuing our mission, Vanguard Business Education Services seeks opportunities to partner with higher education organizations from around the world that share our vision of advancing the quality of higher education internationally. Our current affiliations:
Kramah Software
Accreditation Agency Curaçao
ASEDU International
With Whom We Partner
Our Vision, Mission, Commitment, and Values
In providing our consulting and advisory services, we are motivated by a desire to help business education units around the world prepare their students to become insightful leaders and responsible global citizens.
It is this desire that underpins our vision, mission, and strong sense of purpose, drives our commitment to student success and to the programmatic and organizational excellence of our client-partners, and anchors our fundamental core values that guide all that we do as an organization.
Our Vision
Our Vision
Our Vision
To advance the overall quality of higher education internationally
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
To forge strong relationships with institutions of higher education worldwide for the purpose of assisting in the achievement of their organizational and programmatic goals in business and management education; to accomplish this, we deliver customized, client-focused services in student learning assurance, organizational assessment, internal quality assurance, program review and evaluation, strategic planning, and accreditation for business schools and programs
Our Commitment
Our Commitment
Our Commitment
YOUR SUCCESS IS OUR MISSION // This is our commitment to you as we work together to advance academic quality and to achieve your educational goals. We are committed to delivering quality assurance services that are of the highest caliber and that embody the highest standards of excellence. It is our mission to support your educational and operational efforts through our leading-edge, customized quality assurance solutions that incorporate international academic standards and outcomes-based measures of quality.
Leading-Edge
Development
Development
Customized
Solutions
Solutions
International
Standards
Standards
Outcomes-Based
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance
Our Core Values
Our Core Values
Our Core Values
Our core values represent the fundamental principles that form the cornerstone of our vision, mission, and commitments to our client-partners; provide the foundational bedrock for who we are and what we do as an organization; and drive all of our actions and decision making. We are guided by these core values »
Integrity
Excellence
Knowledge Leadership
Collegiality
Our Services > What We Do
Vanguard partners with business education units around the world to deliver customized, client-focused quality assurance services that are at the forefront of thought and practice in higher business education. Our portfolio includes both (1) quality advancement assistance and support and (2) software solutions for advancing institutional effectiveness // through our partnership with Kramah Software > see «Our Affiliations».
Quality Advancement Services
Quality Advancement Services
Quality Advancement Services
Vanguard offers a comprehensive portfolio of customized services for advancing quality in business and management education. Our services include both onsite and online assistance in the following areas // (1) student learning assurance, (2) organizational assessment, (3) internal quality assurance, (4) program review and evaluation, (5) strategic planning, and (6) accreditation support.
Quality Management Software
Quality Management Software
Quality Management Software
Through our strategic partner Kramah Software, we offer a suite of leading-edge software solutions for driving institutional success and achieving educational excellence. The Kramah x Vanguard Group offers customized software platforms in the following areas // (1) accreditation management (both programmatic and institutional accreditation), (2) outcomes-based education (OBE), (3) institutional rankings, and (4) data analytics.
Our Team > Committed to Your Success
We are passionate about helping business education units around the world to achieve organizational excellence and programmatic success. This passion stems from the conviction that when business education units become more successful, students are better prepared to become engaged, enlightened, and responsible leaders.
Our team of dedicated higher-education professionals possesses years of rich experience and deep expertise in business and management education and quality assessment, and is committed to collaborating with you to provide customized quality assurance solutions that meet your unique needs and challenges. Meet the team:
Dennis Gash, Founder and Principal
Dennis Gash, Founder and Principal
Prof. Dennis N. Gash
Founder and Principal
Dennis is the former President of the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE). He has also previously served as a business dean, department chair, and professor of economics. Dennis possesses over thirty years’ experience in higher business education, academic administration, quality assurance, and accreditation. He has mentored numerous business schools throughout the world.
Archish Maharaja, Founder and Principal
Archish Maharaja, Founder and Principal
Dr. Archish Maharaja
Founder and Principal
Archish is a professor of management and accounting at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. In addition, he serves as the university’s Director of Graduate Programs and its Director of Health Care Administration and Management program. Archish is highly experienced and accomplished in learning assessment, quality advancement, and accreditation, and is passionate about helping others to succeed.
V.J. Byra Reddy, Founder and Senior Advisor
V.J. Byra Reddy, Founder and Senior Advisor
Dr. V.J. Byra Reddy
Founder and Senior Advisor
Byra serves as Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs at Alliance University in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He has also held a variety of academic and administrative positions in several other higher education institutions across India. In addition to being a talented teacher and respected scholar, Byra is one of the pioneers in quality assurance for business and management education.
Our Affiliations > Partner Organizations
In pursuing our mission, Vanguard Business Education Services seeks opportunities to partner with higher education organizations from around the world that share our vision of advancing the quality of higher education internationally. Our current affiliations:
Kramah Software
Kramah Software
Kramah Software
Kramah Software is an educational technology company that empowers institutions of higher education toward academic excellence with cutting-edge, cloud-based, and AI-enabled accreditation management, ranking, and analytics software.
We at Vanguard Business Education Services are pleased that Kramah Software is partnering with us in advancing quality in higher education worldwide. In delivering our accreditation support services, Kramah is our exclusive provider of software solutions for accreditation management, ranking, and data analytics. In addition, as part of our cooperative alliance, Vanguard provides accreditation-related consulting/advisory services to Kramah’s client institutions.
We at Vanguard Business Education Services are pleased that Kramah Software is partnering with us in advancing quality in higher education worldwide. In delivering our accreditation support services, Kramah is our exclusive provider of software solutions for accreditation management, ranking, and data analytics. In addition, as part of our cooperative alliance, Vanguard provides accreditation-related consulting/advisory services to Kramah’s client institutions.
Accreditation Agency Curaçao (AAC)
Accreditation Agency Curaçao (AAC)
Accreditation Agency Curaçao (AAC)
The Accreditation Agency Curaçao is an institutional and programmatic accreditation agency that promotes quality assurance in national and international higher education. AAC is officially recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science, Culture, and Sports of Curaçao.
As part of our cooperative agreement with the AAC, we encourage appropriate universities, business schools, and other institutions of higher education worldwide to seek membership with and accreditation by the AAC. In addition, we provide consulting and advisory services relating to the accreditation process of AAC to those institutions that pursue AAC accreditation.
As part of our cooperative agreement with the AAC, we encourage appropriate universities, business schools, and other institutions of higher education worldwide to seek membership with and accreditation by the AAC. In addition, we provide consulting and advisory services relating to the accreditation process of AAC to those institutions that pursue AAC accreditation.
ASEDU International
ASEDU International
ASEDU International Higher Education Consultants
ASEDU provides administrative and academic services to institutions of higher education around the globe. The organization partners with Global Humanistic University (an international online university based in Curaçao) as its provider of student advisory services and its coordinator of academic partnerships worldwide.
In cooperation with ASEDU, we encourage professional, career, and training institutes and other similar higher education institutions worldwide to enter into academic partnerships with Global Humanistic University (GHU) for the delivery of bachelor’s- and master’s-level programs. In addition, we provide consulting and advisory services relating to the associated programmatic accreditation process of the Accreditation Agency Curaçao to those GHU partner institutions.
In cooperation with ASEDU, we encourage professional, career, and training institutes and other similar higher education institutions worldwide to enter into academic partnerships with Global Humanistic University (GHU) for the delivery of bachelor’s- and master’s-level programs. In addition, we provide consulting and advisory services relating to the associated programmatic accreditation process of the Accreditation Agency Curaçao to those GHU partner institutions.
Our Vision, Mission, Commitment, and Values
In providing our consulting and advisory services, we are motivated by a desire to help business education units around the world prepare their students to become insightful leaders and responsible global citizens.
It is this desire that underpins our vision, mission, and strong sense of purpose, drives our commitment to student success and to the programmatic and organizational excellence of our client-partners, and anchors our fundamental core values that guide all that we do as an organization.
It is this desire that underpins our vision, mission, and strong sense of purpose, drives our commitment to student success and to the programmatic and organizational excellence of our client-partners, and anchors our fundamental core values that guide all that we do as an organization.
Our Vision
To advance the overall quality of higher education internationally
Our Mission
To forge strong relationships with institutions of higher education worldwide for the purpose of assisting in the achievement of their organizational and programmatic goals in business and management education; to accomplish this, we deliver customized, client-focused services in student learning assurance, organizational assessment, internal quality assurance, program review and evaluation, strategic planning, and accreditation for business schools and programs
Our Commitment
YOUR SUCCESS IS OUR MISSION // This is our commitment to you as we work together to advance academic quality and to achieve your educational goals. We are committed to delivering quality assurance services that are of the highest caliber and that embody the highest standards of excellence. It is our mission to support your educational and operational efforts through our leading-edge, customized quality assurance solutions that incorporate international academic standards and outcomes-based measures of quality.
Our Core Values
Our core values represent the fundamental and unwavering principles that underpin our vision, mission, and commitments to our client-partners; form the foundation for who we are and what we do as an organization; and drive all of our actions and decision making. We are guided by these core values // (1) integrity, (2) excellence, (3) knowledge leadership, and (4) collegiality
Our Services > What We Do
Vanguard partners with business education units around the world to deliver customized, client-focused quality assurance services that are at the forefront of thought and practice in higher business education. Our portfolio includes both (1) quality advancement assistance and support and (2) software solutions for advancing institutional effectiveness // through our partnership with Kramah Software > see «Our Affiliations».
Quality Advancement Services
Vanguard offers a comprehensive portfolio of customized services for advancing quality in business and management education. Our services include both onsite and online assistance in the following areas // (1) student learning assurance, (2) organizational assessment, (3) internal quality assurance, (4) program review and evaluation, (5) strategic planning, and (6) accreditation support.
Quality Management Software
Through our strategic partner Kramah Software, we offer a suite of leading-edge software solutions for driving institutional success and achieving educational excellence. The Kramah x Vanguard Group offers customized software platforms in the following areas // (1) accreditation management (both programmatic and institutional accreditation), (2) outcomes-based education (OBE), (3) institutional rankings, and (4) data analytics.
Our Team > Committed to Your Success
Our team of dedicated higher-education professionals possesses years of rich experience and deep expertise in business and management education and quality assessment, and is committed to collaborating with you to provide customized quality assurance solutions that meet your unique needs and challenges. Meet the team:
Prof. Dennis N. Gash, Founder and Principal
Dennis is the former President of the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE). He has also previously served as a business dean, department chair, and professor of economics. Dennis possesses over thirty years’ experience in higher business education, academic administration, quality assurance, and accreditation. He has mentored and advised numerous business schools throughout the world.
Dr. Archish Maharaja, Founder and Principal
Archish is a professor of management and accounting at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. In addition, he serves as the university’s Director of Graduate Programs and its Director of Health Care Administration and Management program. Archish is highly experienced and accomplished in learning assessment, quality advancement, and accreditation, and is passionate about helping others to succeed.
Dr. V.J. Byra Reddy, Founder and Senior Advisor
Byra serves as Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs at Alliance University in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He has also held a variety of academic and administrative positions in several other higher education institutions across India. In addition to being a talented teacher and respected scholar, Byra is one of the pioneers in quality assurance for business and management education.
Our Affiliations > Partner Organizations
In pursuing our mission, Vanguard Business Education Services seeks opportunities to partner with higher education organizations from around the world that share our vision of advancing the quality of higher education internationally. Our current affiliations:
Kramah Software
Kramah Software is an educational technology company that empowers institutions of higher education toward academic excellence with cutting-edge, cloud-based, and AI-enabled accreditation management, ranking, and analytics software.
We at Vanguard Business Education Services are pleased that Kramah Software is partnering with us in advancing quality in higher education worldwide. In delivering our accreditation support services, Kramah is our exclusive provider of software solutions for accreditation management, ranking, and data analytics. In addition, as part of our cooperative alliance, Vanguard provides accreditation-related consulting/advisory services to Kramah’s client institutions.
We at Vanguard Business Education Services are pleased that Kramah Software is partnering with us in advancing quality in higher education worldwide. In delivering our accreditation support services, Kramah is our exclusive provider of software solutions for accreditation management, ranking, and data analytics. In addition, as part of our cooperative alliance, Vanguard provides accreditation-related consulting/advisory services to Kramah’s client institutions.
Accreditation Agency Curaçao
The Accreditation Agency Curaçao is an institutional and programmatic accreditation agency that promotes quality assurance in national and international higher education. AAC is officially recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science, Culture, and Sports of Curaçao.
As part of our cooperative agreement with the AAC, we provide consulting and advisory services relating to the AAC’s accreditation process to selected universities, business schools, and other institutions of higher education worldwide that pursue AAC accreditation.
As part of our cooperative agreement with the AAC, we provide consulting and advisory services relating to the AAC’s accreditation process to selected universities, business schools, and other institutions of higher education worldwide that pursue AAC accreditation.
ASEDU International Higher Education Consultants
ASEDU provides administrative and academic services to institutions of higher education around the globe. The organization partners with Global Humanistic University (an international online university based in Curaçao) as its provider of student advisory services and its coordinator of academic partnerships worldwide.
In cooperation with ASEDU, we provide consulting and advisory services relating to the programmatic accreditation process of the Accreditation Agency Curaçao to selected GHU partner institutions that deliver bachelor’s- and master’s-level programs.
In cooperation with ASEDU, we provide consulting and advisory services relating to the programmatic accreditation process of the Accreditation Agency Curaçao to selected GHU partner institutions that deliver bachelor’s- and master’s-level programs.
