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  • 02 Mar 2011
  • News

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

  • 25 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill & Maria Farkas; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 17 Oct 2014
  • News

Laying the groundwork for a career in Africa

Nneka Ezeigwe (MBA 2015) is looking to make an impact in her native Nigeria through entrepreneurial ventures and work in the public sector. (Published October 2014) View Details
  • May 2020
  • Article

Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
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  • December 18, 2023
  • Article

Lessons from Building a Payment Business in Africa

By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Information Infrastructure; Credit Cards; Financial Services Industry
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  • January 2007
  • Teaching Note

Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa (TN)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Arthur I Segel
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Housing; Construction Industry
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  • June 2012 (Revised August 2014)
  • Supplement

Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)

By: Eric Werker and Ian McKown Cornell
Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Updates the 2006 case to 2012. The subsequent six years only reinforce the message of the original case. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had... View Details
Keywords: Global Business; Developing Countries; Business Government Relations; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; South Africa
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  • 18 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

How can schools around the world educate their students better? What does the future hold? Most researchers who study these questions in the field of education peer through the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • Blog Post

HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa

intended to support students who want to make an impact specifically in Africa. About Karibu HBS alum, Karibu Nyaggah, graduated from Harvard Business School in the class of 2010. Born View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education

By: Tahir Andrabi, Natalie Bau, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Naureen Karachiwalla
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at the village-level, allowing... View Details
Keywords: Product Differentiation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Spending; Education; Competition
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  • April 2007 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (A)

By: Eric Werker
Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Macroeconomics; Foreign Direct Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Africa; South Africa
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  • May 2024 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

MStudio and Djoli: Accelerating Startup Growth in Francophone Africa

By: Paul A. Gompers, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Temitayo Lawal
Djoli, a procurement platform, was one of the startups launched and supported by MStudio, a startup studio in Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023. After a year of operations, Djoli must look beyond MStudio, which had supported them financially and in kind in exchange for equity,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Distribution Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Côte d'Ivoire
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  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Education Innovation

CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) Illustration by Peter Hoey Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap In an article for Harvard Business Review last year, former HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000)... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services
  • Person Page

Educational Technology

Streamlined Real-Time Slide Generation and Editing

Lets an instructor build slides during class, based on class discussion -- "the chalkboard alternative."  Student view offers a clean display with no distracting details (no menus, toolbars, or the... View Details

  • September 1998 (Revised September 2001)
  • Case

IBM's Reinventing Education (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Describes IBM's national innovation strategy to transform K-12 public education through new solutions developed by IBM engineers and consultants using information technology. Examples are: data warehousing in Broward County, FL schools, tracking software for the... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Innovation Strategy; Information Technology; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; Education Industry; San Jose; Philadelphia; Ohio; Florida
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  • TeachingInterests

Executive Education

By: Shawn A. Cole

Shawn Cole regularly teaches executive education. He has taught in the ACCION microfinance in the HBS-ACCION Microfinance Program on Strategic Leadership, View Details

  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education

Vivian Wu (MBA 2000) manages Zuckerberg Education Ventures, an impact investing initiative that supports education entrepreneurs who are developing scalable businesses that will improve learning outcomes and... View Details
  • December 2014 (Revised January 2018)
  • Case

Yara International: Africa Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Kerry Herman
Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, which brought together multiple organizations to enhance agricultural development in rural... View Details
Keywords: Shared Value; Tanzania; Agriculture Reform; Value Creation; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Tanzania
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  • July 2011 (Revised August 2011)
  • Supplement

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (B)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives Africa. Between November 2010 and March 2011 several significant structural changes and leadership appointments were announced at GE, which reflected the company's commitment to global growth... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Products Industry; Hong Kong; Africa; Republic of Ireland
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

An engine of innovation in public education

graduate school of education, and operates a publishing and consulting arm that distributes the results of its work in large school districts. “The goal in our schools is to break through to a situation... View Details