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  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

Growth or Disorder," held at the 5th Annual Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School on March 8. Harvard Business School Professor Debora Spar, the panel moderator, noted that political borders are more permeable now... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 22 May 2024
  • News

Nine Students Win Dean's Award for Service to the School and Society

  • November 2023
  • Case

The Commons Project in Rwanda—Building Digital Infrastructure for the Global Public Good

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Tom Quinn
In September 2022, The Commons Project Foundation (TCP) CEO Zhenya Lindgardt and her team met on a Zoom call to discuss building tools to help Rwandans manage their health data. They believed that helping Africa build digital infrastructure would improve much-needed... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Capital; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Adaptation; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry; Rwanda; United States
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  • 04 Feb 2020
  • Video

Savannah Maziya

Savannah Maziya, the founder of South Africa-based Bunengi Holdings, describes the high-risk, high-reward nature of investing in Africa in the areas of agriculture, infrastructure, and consumer goods. View Details
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • Video

Hubert Danso Full Video

  • Jun 2020
  • Panel Discussion

COVID-19 in Africa: Reflections, Challenges and Next Steps

By: John D. Macomber, Mattias Fibiger, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Shikhar Ghosh, Anywhere Sikochi, Laura Alfaro, Euvin Naidoo and Suraj Srinivasan
In June 2020, the Africa Research Center hosted a four-part webinar series titled COVID-19: Reflections, Challenges and Next Steps. The series brought together alumni and friends from across Africa and provided the opportunity to get to know HBS professors who are... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Macroeconomics; Leadership; Strategy; Africa
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  • 08 Dec 2023
  • Video

Case Studies: Untold Stories of Entrepreneurs in the Middle East

  • 08 Dec 2023
  • Video

Family Businesses in MENA: Setting the Gold Standard

    Savannah Maziya

    Keywords: Infrastructure, Mining
    • 11 Sep 2012
    • News

    US looks to SA for integrated reporting

    • 05 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

    precious three months of my life, not what others might think that I should do,” Takatsuka shared. “I ended up pursuing two internships in developing countries in the middle of COVID-19 – no one recommended that I do that! But for me, I knew I wanted to travel, I was... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship
    • 26 Jun 2020
    • Video

    Peter Vundla

    Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency in South Africa in 1991, discusses how the business started by exploiting the fact that White-owned companies had no understanding of Black... View Details
    • Video

    Nicky Newton-King

    Nicky Newton-King, former CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, explains her development of the Socially Responsible Investment Index, which made South Africa a global thought leader in this space. View Details
    • 25 Apr 2014
    • Video

    Teresa Clarke - Making A Difference

    • 04 Feb 2020
    • Video

    Hubert Danso

    Hubert Danso, Chair of the South-African based financial services group Africa Investor, explains how in West Africa in the 2010s government officials increasingly have a private sector background and are... View Details
    • 28 Aug 2020
    • Video

    Peter Vundla

    Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, discusses how the business started by exploiting the fact that white-owned companies had no understanding of Black consumers and their languages, and by providing a... View Details
    • 04 Feb 2020
    • Video

    Hubert Danso

    Hubert Danso, Chair of the South Africa-based financial services and media company Africa Investor, explains the appeal of Chinese investment to some African governments and businesses, and his own company's involvement in the Chinese investment scene. View Details
    • 04 Feb 2020
    • Video

    Savannah Maziya

    Savannah Maziya, the founder of South Africa-based Bunengi Holdings, explains how the post-Apartheid government of South Africa opened up many opportunities for entrepreneurship to previously excluded groups, including women, and how these policies can provide a model... View Details
    • 06 Sep 2019
    • Video

    SIPs Intro: Caroline Elkins & Hakeem Belo-Osagie

    • Video

    Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe

    Gloria Serobe, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of WIPHOLD, outlines the founding vision for the Black women-owned investment company in 1994, as opportunities in business remained largely unavailable to women in South Africa despite having recently become... View Details