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- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
refugee women about reproductive health. “I was shocked the first time I heard some kids call me La Blanche—“The White Lady”—because I am a lighter-skinned African American,” she laughs. Working in West Africa put the future into sharper... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
you about coffee growing regions in Africa in order to create an intimacy. Stores were designed as a place for lingering and relaxing. For customers who were looking for an in-and-out buying experience, that was frustrating and frivolous.... 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
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
South Sudan. After they were married in 2014, they found themselves increasingly spending more time apart—with Michael traveling frequently from San Francisco to East Africa and then to Cuba. It felt like a crossroads. “I woke up one day... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
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
- 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
- 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
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their... View Details
- 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 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
- 20 Dec 2011
- News
Inside the Planning of a New Course
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
side effects of the powerful drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS and TB. In February, DFA’s reach broadened when the Gates Foundation continued its support by awarding the group a $2.99 million grant to develop agricultural diagnostics for rural farmers in sub-Saharan 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
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
Enhancing the Worldview of HBS Students and Faculty Building on a legacy of global engagement, Harvard Business School has made internationalization a key priority for its second century. To prepare leaders to meet the challenges of today’s society, the School focuses... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
play." They came. Brown: I'll never forget a tournament we played in New York on Ellis Island. Most of the other teams were made up of guys from Europe or South Africa or New Zealand who were working in New York. After the games, we'd sit... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
of what charity can look like the summer after college. With her Harvard degree in government in hand, she signed up for a service trip and was shipped to a remote area of South Africa to help with a construction project. As she unpacked... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
entities. I’d always thought that Africa was the next generation’s problem — that it was just too tough. But the more I looked at MP’s Millennium Villages initiative, the more similarities I saw to what we did in the private sector in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
(which are often legal and unavoidable), while maintaining a strong anti-corruption and anti-capture stance. HBS professor Lou Wells, with many years of experience working on mining agreements and as a negotiator in Africa and Indonesia,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Profiles & photographs by Susan Young Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989 CARROLL: Discussing safety awards in her London office. Photographs by Susan Young This year's recipients join a distinguished group. Video portrait of this year's honorees. Shortly after she was named... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural economic development in East... View Details