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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
contribute to a better South Africa and world. Rather than ‘seeking new landscapes,’ I believed a profound change within my current field and gaining ‘new eyes’ on the world was what I needed most.” Magwegwe... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving students a chance to attend elite private schools
Teresa Clarke (AB 1984, JD 1987, MBA 1988) reflects on helping start the Student Sponsorship Foundation of South Africa to give black students the opportunity to attend elite private schools. (Published... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Editor's note: With the death of Nelson Mandela, the words of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 27 BC) seem particularly appropriate in celebrating his life and achievements in freeing South Africa from the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Video Perspectives: Magashe Ngoepe
View Video TRANSCRIPT Magashe Ngoepe: My purpose in life is to increase access to meaningful opportunities that allow people to have upward social mobility in society, and to have greater quality of life, specifically geared towards South... View Details
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
productivity revolution due to the loss of skills in society. "The other key underpinning is education," he continued. "In South Africa in particular, the legacy of apartheid was extremely... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
attempts to copy successful services haven’t always worked out. For example, despite Vodafone’s widespread success in Kenya, its effort to take the M-Pesa model to South Africa fell flat. Mobile money... View Details
- Profile
Nathalie du Preez
Nathalie says. "Afterwards, five students approached me to talk about South Africa and investment opportunities. It struck me how inquisitive and curious HBS students are — and it made me want to go to... View Details
- Profile
Rawiah Abdallah
discuss leadership in every course." Rawiah got to experience a different region of her home continent when she participated in the South Africa IXP during January term. In addition to meeting... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
With few opportunities for IPOs, a developing infrastructure, low transparency, and a limited labor market, the environment for private venture financing in Africa could be described as "challenging" at best. Yet if the demands... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Profile
Humbulani Dombo
"Even though I wasn't an engineer, I was attracted to this engineering company. I wanted to learn about an industry so crucial to South Africa's history and economy. The whole point of the rotational program was to generate general... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
with fellow alumni from around the world. While sub-Saharan Africa - consisting of the 48 countries south of the Sahara desert -is underdeveloped and faces staggering challenges, experts agree that the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 11 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Casey O'Connor
working on the HBS Leadership Fellows Program, which is a great opportunity for both organizations and students. What is your favorite city? It is a tie between Cape Town, South Africa and Istanbul, Turkey.... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, where they engaged with 10 global partners on a dozen different design projects. A renowned scholar of colonial-era African history, she isn’t the most obvious candidate for teaching modern business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
On a continent with many challenges to development, no issue is more pressing in Africa than the heavy toll of the AIDS epidemic. In addition to the staggering costs in terms of social upheaval and human suffering, AIDS cuts down workers... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in businesses and charities brings jobs and stability
Kathleen Danoher (MBA 1998) talks about the impact of investing in businesses and charitable organizations in South Africa. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
conduit, by which we do that, is exposing guests to experiences that bring to life the wonder of the land, wildlife, and people,” Kent says. Among those projects, Rhinos Without Borders is an ambitious effort to relocate 100 rhinos from View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
on the entire mining industry as well. Carroll’s mettle was tested early on when she was visiting South Africa and learned that another death had occurred in a nearby platinum mine. “That’s enough,” she... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
problems. Werker's research adds to a body of work, largely in Africa, that examines fragile states, foreign aid and investment, and conflict and governance. Into Africa Werker found his way to Africa after... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard