East Africa - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

from West to East, but from East to West. And it is a mighty flow. In 2007, the United States needed to borrow around $800 billion from the rest of the world; more than $4 billion every working day. China, by contrast, ran a current... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that offer a window into the nuances of business in a particular place, at a particular time. As such, they're invaluable resources for research that influences future generations of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

assistant director of the School's Middle East and North Africa Research Center. Robin Abrahams is a research associate at HBS. [Image: Shutterstock/Christian Horz] What steps are you taking to cope with the... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab companies and help the region... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

01 Sep 2012
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High Honors

are good at looking after people, and we could all use more looking after.” Franklin P. Johnson Jr., MBA 1952 JOHNSON: At home in Palo Alto. When Pitch Johnson left his position as an assistant superintendent in East Chicago’s Inland... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About

preserve the ties that make this community so special. You also came together to learn. As a result, I was honored to recognize the key leaders of two student clubs, the Jewish Student Association and the Middle East and North View Details

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

the love of his life, and eventually three children. He shares his experiences doing business in the Common Market, communist countries, the Middle East and Africa from 1961 to 1980. This book is based on... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

Community Values and the MBA Honor Code . GO: ASIA does not accept applications from alumni, unlike the GO: AFRICA Fellowship . You have accepted a job offer for a full-time, MBA appropriate position at an existing organization. A... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Howard (MBA 1971) Boiling Point Editions This story depicts a youth’s journey set in the turbulent Middle East and spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Life can either grind you down or... View Details

April 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Teaching Note

Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-096. View Details

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Ohnouna, Rebecca Sichel, and Daniel Silberwasser) and Middle East and North Africa Club (Loujaine AlMoallim, Line Hachem, and Abdullah Mahomed), along with Teresa Danso-Danquah—all members of the MBA Class... 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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

been stationed on the East Coast, rather than its Portland headquarters, and the choice was deliberate. Between her presence and experience, as well as her particular brand of service leadership, McKenna is already shifting the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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 View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Past Issues - Alumni

plan, and a mission to create deep economic and social change, NBA Africa is shooting for a continental shift in basketball Singing to the Corn Taylor Keen’s Sacred Seed project shows how a Native American approach to agriculture can... View Details

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Print View - Course Catalog

Business, Government & the International Economy Reshmaan Hussam Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top I Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising General Management Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie January 2026 J 3.0 IFC:... View Details

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