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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
quickly, to more than 200 employees. And GiveDirectly continues to push the envelope, recently announcing a universal basic income pilot in East Africa with the goal of providing regular cash payments to poor households over more than 10... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
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
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
ways it’s easier to do our collaborative work in Africa and Asia, because they insist upon building relationships. You’re not going to do business together until the third time you’ve gotten together for beer or for tea.” After college,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
the production process and lower costs. Yong believes the new facility could also spark manufacturing and innovation for local industry. With only 9 percent of the world’s vehicles being produced on the continent—mostly in South Africa or... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
interests choral conducting, prime numbers, carpentry, writing, and yoga. She spent the January Term backpacking around Africa by herself before joining the HBS Outdoors Club to scale Mt. Kilimanjaro. In a regular Harbus column, titled... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- News
A Business Ripe for Picking?
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
not playing by the rules and to recognize and celebrate those who did. —Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) cofounder of West Africa Vocational Education; Social Enterprise track runner-up, 2013 The Value of Slow As one who loves the early-stage... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
elective taught by faculty adviser and senior lecturer Daniel Isenberg. EGG: Engineering Global Growth. Why Africa? Alla “So many people see Africa as a place of violence and corruption. Having lived there, I see it as a market like any... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
become an aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit,’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane, founder of Edify, a nonprofit that provides micro-enterprise loans to faith-based schools in Africa and Latin America. “I’m... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Threat in Africa by James M. Hawes (MBA 1971) and Mary Ann Koenig Skyhorse Publishing Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
challenge will be the extremely concentrated demand, as more than 3 million visitors travel to Cup matches spread over a country that is the world's fifth largest by geographical area. "The dimension of Brazil poses a bigger challenge than what Germany or South View Details
- 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 conflict resolution. Douglas... 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
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Transforming the wine industry for black South Africans
Selena Cuffe (MBA 2003) discovered that only 2 percent of South Africa’s $3 billion wine industry was owned by black South Africans. As CEO of Heritage Link Brands, she now runs the largest import business of these wines, bringing them to audiences around the world.... 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
- 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
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
nets in Africa that money would buy, for example.” The Atlantic print publication has maintained a stable readership of about 1.5 million over the years; in 2004, its website had about 500,000 monthly visitors, a figure now closer to 25... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial banking followed, as well as volunteer work in View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice