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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Man with a Mission
Force Academy, a running back on the team that defeated Ohio State in the 199o Liberty Bowl, and an Academic All-American. A Rhodes scholar, he earned a doctorate in politics at Oxford. Then he and his wife, Barbara, founded an organization to help young View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Attention, Oenophiles
2008). “Soweto meant apartheid, but the wine festival was completely different and positive.” In talking with vintners there, she found that some had been making wine for generations but had never had full-fledged business opportunities until View Details
Keywords: Wholesale Trade
- Portrait Project
Maria Makhabane
I finally made it home at the age of five. Home - the country from which my father had been exiled for sixteen years when he actively opposed apartheid. Home - the land that he could only hope to one day see again. When apartheid finally... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
and grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart,’ literally ‘apart-hood’) years, so issues of human rights and social justice have always been important to me. Through my business... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
decades of minority rule under apartheid, the government shaped a protected economy that virtually ignored the well-being of the country's black majority and left the country ill-prepared to compete in today's vigorous global marketplace. Since the dismantling of View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
apartheid and its first democratic elections in 1994, was doing everything right. They had liberalized the economy. They had enacted economic reforms that made it easy for foreign capital to flow in and out. They performed well on various... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
in the Night: A Memoir of Resilience (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), makes clear. In addition to being a truth-to-power minister and antiapartheid crusader (his 1997 book, Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
(UWC) in New Mexico, a two-year high-school program that promotes international understanding among students from over eighty countries. “I met people who were very different from me, from the Soviet Union, South Africa, and Eastern Europe,” he recalls. “It was 1982,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
‘That's not me. I'm not a racist. I don't have implicit bias,’ and they just walk out. And they don’t open up to more possibility in this area.” Henderson offers this example: Just after the end of apartheid in South Africa, he walked in... View Details
- Profile
John Smith-Ricco
complain about not having work because we knew why — the problem was race. Now we have democracy and a Black government — but we’re still poor.’ I saw a major disconnect among everyday people between the expectations they once had and what the end of View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
dark, it's dusty, and over your head is a mile of solid rock. Oh, and you are doing heavy physical labor for 12 hours. That's being in the mines." “You had white supervisors who grew up under apartheid overseeing black mine workers.”... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
wine-making. But apartheid had prevented them from owning land or gaining access to capital. Wine had become a $3 billion export industry for South Africa, but just 2 percent of the market was held by black South Africans, who comprise 85... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
and Suharto came and went. Vietnam vets were joined by their Gulf War counterparts in the struggle to put their lives back together after the trauma of armed combat. Noriega was captured. Castro wasn't. The effects of South Africa's View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
Supplements case 712-424. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-084 Apartheid in South Africa A short history of Apartheid in South Africa. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
tackled on the continent. The history and legacy of Apartheid will be examined. I graduated from Harvard business school in 1980 and have worked on the continent for the last 42 years in both business and government. I hope to share with... 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 destructive, and human capital... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
that make sense to all parties—because frankly until it makes sense to China, it's not going to happen." What do you think? Original Article A dozen years after the end of apartheid in South Africa, U.S.-based firms are confronting a... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
resistance to totalitarian regimes, not only in Hitler's Germany but more broadly as well, whether in apartheid South Africa or contemporary China? What does history tell us about the democratic responsibilities of capitalism and firms?... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
from the Indian state of Gujarat; he was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where his family ran a small chain of grocery stores and butcher shops. What wealth the family had built up, however, was expropriated with the rise of apartheid... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna