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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Attention, Oenophiles
THE CUFFES: A new career importing “fantastic” African wines from black-owned vineyards. In 2005, while on a trip in South Africa, Selena Cuffe (MBA ’03) saw an ad for the Soweto Wine Festival. “I was used to seeing negative African... View Details
Keywords: Wholesale Trade
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
Asher: Distilling pisco, riding a wave. Courtesy Melanie Asher In America, it’s the new big thing in cocktails and mixology, or so proclaimed the New York Times (June 22, 2011): “Pisco, the clear grape spirit of South View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
have just expanded our reach with the opening in August of the Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires. The center will support our faculty's research on important business issues in South America,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 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 April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
same, but the scope has expanded from just research to helping business leaders take action to make America more competitive. The number of faculty involved has grown from 15 to almost 25, and a host of HBS alumni and corporate partners... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Global Health Care (BIG), an Executive Education program that attracted, among others, the Nigerian and Liberian ministers of health, the founders of South Africa's second-largest health insurance firm, a highly successful Russian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
speakers: Maria Bartiromo, anchor, CNBC; Betsy D. Holden, president & CEO, Kraft Foods North America Bartiromo on gauging a company’s strengths: Watch the fundamentals. “Cash flow does not lie.” Scrutinize the management. “Governance is... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
collection, a unique research and teaching resource that comprises more than 140 videos of HBS faculty interviewing business leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The five new videos feature South African business... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
four continents, including South America and Asia. Then, on April 1, 2002, she launched her own firm. “I always joked that if it didn’t work out, I would tell everyone it was an April Fool’s prank,” recalls... 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 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
company that actually built things, so upon graduation, he signed on at Ford. Then it was off for some serious globe-trotting, first to South America as managing director of Ford Argentina, next to Japan as... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
“The tone most Americans bring to discussions of Africa is one of pity; pity for people who are poor and helpless,” says Teresa Clarke (MBA 1988, JD 1987, AB 1984). Clarke is working to change that: eliminating those preconceptions by introducing View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
scale and scope of HBS. To round out our global package, we profile three alumni who have had considerable success applying their MBA skills to cross-border business opportunities. Pictured on our cover, Mark Fields (MBA 1989) has worked for Ford Motor Company in View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
Colombian octogenarian Mariano Ospina-Hernandez (MBA 1951) is the resolute visionary behind an ambitious proposal to improve and expand the country’s transportation infrastructure. His foresight could open new possibilities for international commerce and travel by... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reinventing perceptions of Africa through wine
Selena Cuffe (MBA 2003) and her company, Heritage Link Brands, import wine made by black South African vintners. In so doing, Cuffe is helping to reverse the effects of apartheid: the vintners gain access to more capital, can own their... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Relations, shines a spotlight on alumni ventures, supports promising new ventures and awards a $25,000 cash prize to the winning team. Preview the finalists, wish the contestants luck, and cast your vote to the right to predict the winner. Africa HBS Club of View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
Many people associate the name &Beyond with luxury adventure travel. CEO Joss Kent (MBA 1997) thinks of it, first, as a conservation company. Tourism pays for the company’s habitat management, community development, and other conservation efforts in Africa, View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Cooper Elected Alumni Board President
president last year. Cooper, a native of South Africa, moved to Canada 24 years ago. He and a physician partner founded Scienta Health in 2004 to focus on preventive health care. View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
When she joined the new private-sector team at Oxfam America as a freshly minted MBA in 2007, Roshini Moodley Naidoo was essentially given the following directive: All those great ideas we’ve been discussing? Make them happen. It was a... View Details