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Phillip Andrews

Phillip (MPA, New Hampshire ’06; JD, Suffolk Law ’09) is a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development responsible for employer relations in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as the Energy, Cleantech,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Social Enterprise; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Auto/Transportation/Logistics

07 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree

Tell us a little about your background and what your interest in climate related issues are. Energy has always been at the forefront of my world, from growing up in southern West Virginia, where my dad worked for a coal company and my... View Details

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Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025) - MBA

can get to the people who need them. My projects at CHAI focus on helping governments in Central and West Africa with the finance work that enables this solution delivery. So far, I’ve enjoyed the... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

responsibilities of Christians who are serious about following Jesus. Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A Country Divided By James Glenn (MBA 1965) Independently published In the years following the end of World War II,... View Details

07 May 2018
News

What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

Africa or more, they tend to just know one area. So somebody who went in Kenya or Nairobi, they may not know too much about West Africa. So there's a lot of unseen pockets of View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)

with that.” Home: West Sussex, England. “As close to Africa as I can get in an English environment. It’s an overgrown farmhouse with horses and rabbits and dogs and many children.” On safari: “I was in one... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

20 Feb 2019
News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

prosperity,” says Elumelu. “That is at the heart of Africapitalism.” The retired chief executive officer, now chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) and the founder of Heirs Holdings, Elumelu has put the tenet of this... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

here for almost ten years, running a family enterprise that dates back to the 1960s. Along with a few automobile-related businesses in the French West Indies, we are the distributor for Toyota, Suzuki, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

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Day in IFC: Chuchu Ajukwu (MBA 2017); United Kingdom - MBA

agnificent views of Chelsea and west London from the penthouse unit of the development. W e couldn’t end a day properly in London without getting afternoon tea! You Might Want to Read Day in IFC: Marta Milkowska (HKS), United Kingdom Day... View Details

17 Jul 2020
News

Support System

the 1970s. She wanted to give families in these villages the same educational opportunities she had enjoyed in America. Offering fair prices, as well as educational and retirement benefits, to her shea-nut pickers in West View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Simone Leigh Sentinel (Mami Wata) 2020-21 | About

the way African cultural symbols traverse the African diaspora, shifting and metamorphosing as they intersect with local traditions. Leigh describes the sculpture as “my interpretation of a West African water spirit, a deity who has... View Details

2009
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Third World Multinationals: A Look Back

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Oceania; West Indies

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24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is already leading not just to destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and livelihoods –... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Innovation: Frozen Assets

a PR stumble during its too-sheer yoga pant debacle. “I think there is a lot of market share to be had around what she’s doing,” says former Starbucks colleague Wendy Collie, the president and CEO of the West Coast–based grocer New... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

postdoctoral fellow. Her research focuses on how people can work fruitfully across social divides. Prior to her academic career, Ramarajan worked in international development in West Africa focusing on... View Details

20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

programs than the entire budget of the WHO and has played a major role in aiding recovery in the Ebola-hit economies of West Africa. The Commission's report hints at but never quite concedes that the World Bank should take a more... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

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Tools | New Venture Competition

tomato processing company. Executive Summary (pdf) Presentation (pdf) Business Plan (pdf) WAVE Hospitality Academy 2013 Runner-Up Empowering youth in West Africa to access employment opportunities through... View Details

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

shortened to thirty-five hours. What has happened? Take France, for example. French productivity is up; some would claim it is now higher than the U.S., just as is productivity in The Netherlands, Belgium, and the former View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Consumers Value Global Brands

conduct business. In fact, consumers vote with their checkbooks if they feel that transnational companies aren't acting as stewards of public health, worker rights, and the environment. As infamous cases have filled the airwaves—Nestlé's infant-formula sales in View Details

Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor

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