Publications

July 2015
Case

Uncharted Play (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ali Huberlie

The case recounts the process of launching an early stage venture, from idea conception through initial efforts to validate the concept, followed by product launch, and fund raising. It emphasizes the Customer Value Proposition of the business model, and asks – Who is... View Details

Keywords: Early Stage; Female Protagonist; Value Proposition; Team Building; Founders' Agreements; Start-up; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Business Startups; Sports; United States; North America; Nigeria; Africa

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major corporations, and leaders of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

Business School Case 311-084 In November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing the first of hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables that it had obtained. Among the thousands of cables published by early 2011 were several that shed light on Royal Dutch Shell's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

the ABTI-American University in Nigeria to offer advice on fostering entrepreneurship.) During his travels, Adams found himself wishing he could stay more connected with friends and business contacts who were equally peripatetic in their... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

70 people) and expanded to four other states in Nigeria and five additional African countries. While both programs were making progress, challenges remained. Sanginga had originally hoped that the agripreneurs program would launch dozens... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

January 2025
Case

Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli

In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318019 Harvard Business School Case 718-027 Kickstarting Tomato Jos in Nigeria In the spring of 2016, Mira Mehta (HBS 2014), faced a difficult decision. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

experiencing slowdowns, investors, entrepreneurs, and multinationals are looking elsewhere. They’ve been eyeing frontier economies such as Nigeria and Pakistan with great interest—and enormous trepidation. Can one find serious growth... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

Things Fall Apart, which describes the reactions of an Ibo tribe in Nigeria to the coming of the Christian missionaries and British colonial authorities at the turn of the 20th century. The novel started me thinking about the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

January 2024
Case

Mariam Braimah: Designing a Career in Tech

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley Bowles and Michael Norris

In 2022, Mariam Braimah, a digital designer working at Netflix, is considering the next move in her career. She has spent several years at Netflix, and in her spare time, using her savings, has founded a design-focused fellowship program and a consumer insights company... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Technology Industry; Nigeria; United States; New York (city, NY); San Francisco