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- 07 Oct 2021
Top Business School Discussion Series: From Africa to the MBA
Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Wharton School, Tuck School of Business and UCLA Anderson School of... View Details
- February 2021
- Teaching Note
Satrix: Competing in the Passive Asset Management Industry in South Africa
By: Mark Egan
- 2006
- Working Paper
A Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa
By: Linda Hill and Maria T. Farkas
Hill, Linda, and Maria T. Farkas. "A Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-057, June 2006.
- November 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Supplement
Bridge International Academies in 2020: Battling Headwinds to Solve Africa's Education Problems
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
By 2020, Bridge International Academies and its "school in a box" model had achieved great scale. By leveraging digital technology and public-private partnerships, they had reached one million children across Africa and India through hundreds of schools. However, the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Africa; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Bottom Of The Pyramid; Education In Africa; Scale; Partnerships; Education; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Health Pandemics; Problems and Challenges; Education Industry; Africa
Elkins, Caroline M., Tarun Khanna, and Joyce J. Kim. "Bridge International Academies in 2020: Battling Headwinds to Solve Africa's Education Problems." Harvard Business School Supplement 521-048, November 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- 15 Apr 2024
Life at HBS Chat with the Middle East & North Africa Club
Join this interactive session for a Life at HBS Chat with the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Club. This virtual event is a unique opportunity to hear from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Members of the MENA Club... View Details
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
Two Valmont Industries (an international leader in infrastructure products and services) colleagues, Robert (Bob) Meaney and Richard Berkland hoped to improve the lives of small and medium-sized farmers in the developing world through modern irrigation technology. In... View Details
Keywords: Developing World; Farm; Farming; Small-scale Farmers; Agriculture; Agricultural Production; Water Management; Water; Leadership Skills; Agribusiness; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Leadership; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Ghana; Tanzania; Rwanda
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Renee Vuillaume. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-059, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- Panel Discussion
Chief Executive Officers’ Dialogue: Towards an Agenda for Inclusive Growth in Africa
By: Robert Gumede, Aziz Mebarek, Jubril Adewale Tinubu, Catherine Samba-Panza, Euvin Naidoo, Donald Kaberuka and Lerato Mbele
Gumede, Robert, Aziz Mebarek, Jubril Adewale Tinubu, Catherine Samba-Panza, Euvin Naidoo, Donald Kaberuka, and Lerato Mbele. "Chief Executive Officers' Dialogue: Towards an Agenda for Inclusive Growth in Africa." African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings, African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Lisbon, Portugal, June 9–10, 2011.
- 12 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa Cover image features Mostafa Terrab. By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach 9.7 billion people, with more than... View Details
- August 2023
- Article
What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and Asian economies allows us to compare long-run patterns in skill premiums across the colonial... View Details
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia." Economic History Review 76, no. 3 (August 2023): 941–978.
What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia
Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- News
Why Africa Is One of the Most Unequal Continents in the World
- 2011
- Working Paper
Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African... View Details
Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17184, June 2011.
- 27 Nov 2023
- Podcast
From Rags to (Shared) Riches: How James Mwangi Democratized Financial Access Across Africa
James Mwangi made a courageous decision to leave a comfortable, big-city banking job to rescue Equity Building Society, a local financial institution on which Kenyan farmers and villagers depended. Under his leadership, the struggling firm transformed into a... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
External Partner Event: Top Business School Discussion Series: From Africa to the MBA
on students and alumni who are either from Africa or have career interests on the continent. This conversation will be moderated by an admissions officer and will be followed by a Q&A session. View Details
- 2016
- Other Unpublished Work
Turning the World Upside Down: The Investment Opportunity in Africa Has Never Been Stronger
By: Euvin Naidoo
Naidoo, Euvin. "Turning the World Upside Down: The Investment Opportunity in Africa Has Never Been Stronger." HuffingtonPost.com, Inc., September 2016.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa
By: Karthik Balasubramanian and David F. Drake
The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by... View Details
Keywords: Operations Strategy; Base Of The Pyramid; Mobile Money; Inventory Management; Competition; Currency; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology
Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake. "Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-059, January 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- Working Paper
Institutional Access and Failure: Colonial Legal Systems and Persistent Institutional Inadequacy in Tropical Africa
By: Catherine S. M. Duggan