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  • October 2018
  • Supplement

African Bank Investments Limited (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; South Africa
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History | About

formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. 1997 to 2017 Global Research Centers opened in Silicon Valley ; other regional research centers were opened in Asia-Pacific (1999), Latin America (2000), Japan (2002), Europe (2003), India (2006), Istanbul... View Details
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Africa - Global

admissions and outreach activities on the continent. Locations Africa Research Center: Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa Africa Research Center: Lagos Lagos, Nigeria Africa Research Center: Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya News & Highlights... View Details
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About - Global

View More Facts Silicon Valley Mid-US Montevideo Paris Istanbul Mumbai São Paulo Shanghai Hong Kong Tokyo Mexico City Dubai Singapore Cairo Tel-Aviv Johannesburg Lagos Nairobi Eighteen global locations help to build on our legacy of... View Details
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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Cluster (2016) South Africa The Johannesburg Software Cluster (2017) South Africa Iron Ore Cluster (2013) South Africa Automotive Cluster (2012) The South African Wine Cluster (2009) Textiles & Apparel Cluster in South Africa (2009) The... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

associations on the continent, hosted an in-person event last fall in Johannesburg that featured a virtual discussion with Professor Debora Spar, the senior associate dean for Business and Global Society, who leads HBS’s Institute for the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 09 Aug 2017
  • News

Finding a Path Out of Poverty

for Inspire Belief while studying in the HBS Advanced Management Program, in 2013. The CEO of Johannesburg investing house Momentum—who had once been homeless on the streets of the very same city—had reached the point in his career when... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

South Africa Explorer

with the naked eye. This was the experience shared by the thirty people who participated in the HBS alumni travel program in January. “South Africa Explorer,” a thirteen-day trip that originated in Johannesburg and concluded in Cape Town,... View Details
Keywords: Christine Sullivan; Hospitality
  • Profile

Alexandra Stanek

Dalberg Global Development Advisors as a senior consultant in its Johannesburg office, working on projects throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. On a academic level, the joint degree gave me a more expansive view of how business impacts... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 28 May 2017
  • Blog Post

HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire

the chance to sample some delicious food and came away with multiple new friends.  4. When will you visit Africa again? I’m headed back to Africa later this summer. I’ll be making stops in Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa and in... View Details
  • October 2010 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Rachel Gordon
As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality. This case follows a series of radical transformations implemented by the organization's CEO, Ramesh Singh—a... View Details
Keywords: Local Range; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Power and Influence; Johannesburg; London
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  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

similar issues." Two years ago HBS and Wits Business School in Johannesburg established the program in order to aid the rapid economic and social changes taking place in southern Africa. Participants are middle managers from the private... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
  • March 2015 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

Bonitas

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
Bonitas, a South African medical scheme (i.e., health insurer), must navigate highly restrictive regulations that make it difficult for Bonitas to innovate, grow, and compete with market leader Discovery as well as providers of alternative insurance products. Bonitas... View Details
Keywords: Health Insurance; Health Care; South Africa; Medical Scheme; Public Policy; Bonitas; Bonitas Medical Fund; National Health Insurance; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Policy; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; South Africa; Johannesburg; Africa
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Allen Yang

Johannesburg—where they helped their host—a South African home-products company, develop new soap product ideas that would appeal to its core base: middle- and lower-income South Africans. "That's what was so interesting about our assignment," Allen says.... View Details
Keywords: CPG; Tech; Financial Services
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

owners opted for an IPO in March 2000. Valued at 400 million Rand on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, its shareholders included about 1,000 of the company's security guards. From Ipo To Acquisition "An IPO abroad wasn't... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

Clarke left her position as a vice president at Goldman Sachs to set up a regional office for Abt Associates in Johannesburg in 1995. Not long after settling in her new surroundings, she “bumped into” Ongeri, whose office was in the same... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Connecting with Clubs

by interacting with Alumni Relations, and by attending the annual club Officers’ Roundtable meeting at HBS. As an Alumni Board member, and now as board president, I know my experience with the clubs in Johannesburg and Toronto gave me a... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Leadership in the Digital Age

successful otherwise.” Hill heard the same sentiment from many of the approximately 175 people she and her team talked with around the world over the last year. From London and Johannesburg to Manila and Atlanta, a few common themes... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 02 Nov 2015
  • News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

Africans over the course of the next 30 years,” he says. It was a January 2012 New York Times article about a stampede at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa that helped crystalize Royster’s vision for Maarifa. Five thousand... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 19 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

summers I had to hypothesis-test where I could add the most value in Africa’s private sector development. As I leave HBS, I am most excited to see how invested the school has become in increasing the presence of Africa on campus, whether it be the new HBS Africa... View Details