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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
While meeting with representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority at the Port of Mombasa, faculty members toured a bulk carrier ship off-loading grain commodities to Grain Bulk Handlers, one of the companies HBS faculty visited during the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
year the show is reinvented," she explains. "It's a lot like a startup." Scott has always sought out new challenges and ventures. After graduating from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, she taught mathematics and business education to rural high-school... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
Alexandra Morehouse (MBA 1984) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Alexandra Morehouse (MBA 1984) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) In 1992, my husband and I were staying at a game preserve in Kenya as part of our honeymoon. I’m an experienced... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- News
Lessons From a Kenyan Slum
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government changes after a flawed national election in 2007 and a... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 24 Aug 2010
- News
Bringing Art Into Kenya's Schools
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
private debt and equity options. That position took her on a trip to Kenya this summer to search for investment opportunities—including microfinance, sustainable agriculture, clean cook stoves, and urban sanitation—viewing them through a... View Details
- 22 Jun 2012
- News
At the i-lab, a New Use for Silk
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
convince the MBA students gathered in the Burden Hall auditorium that his startup, ConnectHealth, can change the way healthcare is delivered in Kenya and throughout Africa. “Eighty percent of the doctors live in just two cities in Kenya,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
Recent Class of 2019 graduates Katharine Bodnar, Doha Tantawy, and Ike Kyei, with Tuyee Yeboah (not pictured) from the Class of 2018, are the first recipients of the GO: Africa Fellowship. (photo by Susan Young) Recent Class of 2019 graduates Katharine Bodnar, Doha... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
candidates in the upcoming months, splitting its support equally between candidates for the two major parties. Barcott grew up in Rhode Island and attended the University of North Carolina on an ROTC scholarship. During the summer before his senior year, he travelled... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
let down a lot of people, just superficially say, well, wait a second, none of this stuff is unseen. I've lived in Africa or I traveled all over Africa. Well maybe for you, but I define unseen Africa is for most people who are like tourists, who've been there. They go... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that America’s embassies in View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
Jake Cusack (MBA 2012) is cofounder of CrossBoundary, an investment firm that helps companies explore business opportunities in frontier and developing markets. In this interview, he explains how he and his partners focus their efforts on locations that make solid... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- News
The Type of Innovation That Builds Nations
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never imagined. Wanting to help, he... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
education for a poor person in Kenya relative to an evening of lighting for someone in India?” says Bannick. “It’s really hard—and ultimately subjective.” With a nascent model and results that are just starting to come in, what impact... View Details