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- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
times during Minto's childhood, she and her family had to relocate from their native Canada for extensive sojourns in Africa and Europe. As a result, she soon discovered how to adapt quickly to new surroundings. "At a new school, I would... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Kola Masha's innovative franchise model. It's a revolution that can't come soon enough for Nigeria. The country was once the breadbasket of West Africa until Royal Dutch Shell discovered vast oil reserves in 1958, and the agriculture... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
predicts. “In a world where I can sit in my living room in New Jersey and pull content from Africa or Asia or Europe, music won’t have to live in the Top 40 to find an audience anymore, which is still what dominates from an economic... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Force Academy. While completing his military service, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned master’s and doctoral degrees. “I worked really hard,” he says of his time at Oxford. “I was sitting next to brilliant people who were smarter than me.” It was on a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Following the Flow of Aid
and areas in Africa—some of which were already experiencing devastating drought and food insecurity—also rely on crops to flow from Russia and Ukraine. As the world's attention is understandably focused on Europe, people in Africa are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Students and Business Leaders Look to Africa's Future
"Africa in the New Millennium: Invest in the Future" was the theme of the 2000 HBS Africa Business Club conference, held on campus the first weekend in April. More than six hundred students and representatives from over two hundred... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
development." "I want to demonstrate that in Africa we're no different from anybody else in any fundamental way," Lawani elaborates. "We're just at a different point in our development. There's no reason that we can't apply to View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
wanted to make our time in Africa an adventure. We wanted to explore. We wanted to experience the idiosyncrasies of the local environment and culture. So we did.” —Rick Walleigh (MBA 1974) on his late career change, as recounted in his... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. Through a family line of... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
coveted Nobel for his work in ending the hostilities between the province of Aceh and the government of Indonesia, a struggle that had claimed 50,000 lives during a 30-year war. Before that, he was a key figure in negotiating Namibia’s independence from South View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
respect and humility. If you make mistakes, admit them and fix them at every level. Allan W.B. Gray (MBA ’65) Chairman, Orbis Investment Management, Ltd. Gray Read complete profile. Following HBS and eight years at Fidelity, Allan Gray returned to his native South... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
happiness and peace.' Then I realized that happiness and peace came from knowing that whatever problem is brought to me, I-or someone in the company-can solve it." Whether meeting with scientists in a research lab outside London or seeing Merck's work in View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
want to travel to all 54 countries in Africa? What was the sort of motivation for this undertaking? Tapon: I had never been to Africa before, and I had this grand ambition to visit all the countries in the world. There's 193 countries.... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Turning Millennials into Leaders
alongside a team and asking that one simple question: ‘What can I do to help?’ “My career path that got me to become a leadership coach is, I took a year and moved to Africa and volunteered in an AIDS orphanage. And I absolutely loved it.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
radical transformations, including a power shift from its headquarters in London to an international secretariat in Johannesburg; a new federated governance structure that increases the influence of units in Africa and Asia; and... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
millions of young adults in West Africa who are eager to embrace better opportunities through WAVE Academy (West Africa Vocational Education), an ambitious vocational program that finds entry-level jobs for... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
S.F.’s New Museum
video, and multimedia presentations, the museum tells the remarkable story of the African diaspora. “This is a thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Bradley said. “MoAD is designed to inform and educate people about humanity’s origins in View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
the pharmaceutical needs of emerging markets and has a strong presence in more than 40 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region. “We are a very purpose-driven team and believe in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Getting Reality on the Table One of the country's foremost experts on money laundering and illegal flight capital, Raymond W. Baker (MBA '60) set out for Africa one year after graduating from HBS, seeking "a taste of international... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Relations, shines a spotlight on alumni ventures, supports promising new ventures and awards a $25,000 cash prize to the winning team. Preview the finalists, wish the contestants luck, and cast your vote to the right to predict the winner. View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni