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Africa - Global

Africa Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world, including throughout Africa, a region that is assuming an... View Details

March 2019
Supplement

KITEA (F): Expanding in Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu

he case opens in 2018 after KITEA has recorded two years of double-digit sales growth following IKEA’s entry into the Moroccan market. It then traces the factors that contributed to KITEA’s success and that led Tana Africa Capital Limited to acquire a minority stake in... View Details

29 Nov 2023

Perspectives from Africa

Preparing to submit an application in Round 2? In this Perspectives from Africa virtual event, Africa Business Club ECs will share their RC experience, the difference being an EC, how they are thinking about... View Details

November 2010 (Revised August 2012)
Case

The Indego Africa Project

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Rachel Gordon

Two young attorneys found and begin to build the Indego Africa Project, an NGO partnering with women's cooperatives in Rwanda. Indego connects the cooperatives to the international retail market for handmade artisan products, helps the cooperatives build their business... View Details

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Finance; Non-Governmental Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Rwanda

06 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Africa Business Club

visibility of Africa on campus. We do this by promoting the development of cases that cover African countries, businesses, and protagonists within the curriculum. We also encourage dialogue on economic, political, and social issues in... View Details

12 Apr 2023

Perspectives from Africa

Please join us in this virtual event to meet Harvard Business School students from Africa and learn more about our MBA Program from their perspective. We look forward to seeing you there! View Details

12 Sep 2023

HBS Perspectives from Africa

Please join us in this virtual event to meet Harvard Business School students from Africa and learn more about our MBA Program from their perspective. View Details

Awards

Forbes 10 Youngest Power Men in Africa

Included in the 2011 Forbes "10 Youngest Power Men in Africa" List. View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

South Africa Explorer

South Africa Explorer: January 2005 South Africa photos See our photo archive of past Alumni Travel programs Imagine spending New Year’s Eve in the bush of South Africa, tables decked out in white linen,... View Details

Keywords: Christine Sullivan; Hospitality

April 2011 (Revised December 2012)
Supplement

South Africa (B): Getting Unstuck?

By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Diego Comin

15 years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Employment; Wages; Competition; South Africa

June 2013 (Revised November 2016)
Case

Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa

By: Geoffrey Jones and Elliot R. Benton

This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s... View Details

Keywords: Political Economy; Business History; FDI; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; South Africa; Mining; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Mining Industry; Africa; South Africa

December 2008 (Revised June 2009)
Case

Lapdesk Goes Global - Africa First

Shane Immelman, founding CEO of the Lapdesk Company of South Africa, is facing a number of challenges in taking Lapdesk from South Africa and into the rest of the African continent. How should the African strategy be different from that of South Africa? What is the... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Africa; South Africa

December 2024
Case

Launch Africa Ventures

By: Anywhere Sikochi, Adam Sulkowski and Francesco Tronci

August 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya

15 Mar 2022

MBA Tour: Africa

Join Harvard Business School as we take part in the MBA Tour. The MBA Tour events will introduce you to admissions representatives, students and alumni from a wide variety of schools. Our HBS team will be online and looking forward to meeting you to discuss our MBA... View Details

03 Apr 2019
News

Africa rising? A historical perspective

October 1999 (Revised April 2004)
Supplement

South Africa Supplement

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans

Updates the case. View Details

Keywords: South Africa

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April 2024 (Revised February 2025)
Teaching Note

eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Gamze Yucaoglu and Jordan Mitchell

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-360.The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Value Creation; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Product Marketing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya

November 1998 (Revised March 1999)
Case

Houses for Africa

Traces the founding and development of Houses for Africa, a firm established to build low-income housing in Zimbabwe. Explores entrepreneurship in an emerging market, the problems that arise when complementary markets do not function well, and the importance of... View Details

Keywords: Housing; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Zimbabwe