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  • 03 Feb 2023
  • News

Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

companies and organizations that are decades ahead of the US in how they are thinking about and implementing technologies and processes to mitigate climate change. Professor Shih documented the trip in two videos. Watch the videos. Ghana... View Details
  • Profile

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

By his own description, Kwame grew up within challenging circumstances: "a single-parent household, the child of immigrants from Ghana trying to find their way in America." But he also found drive and purpose at an early age. In... View Details
  • January 2021
  • Case

mPharma (A)

By: Rembrand Koning, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Health; Business Model; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Ghana
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  • August 2024
  • Case

Ashesi University: The Journey from Vision to Reality

By: Ranjay Gulati and Caroline de Lacvivier
In 1997, Patrick Awuah had a dream: to bring liberal arts education to Ghana. Amid the country’s declining economy and pervasive corruption problems, Awuah saw education as an opportunity to reverse its fortunes by investing in the next generation of African leaders.... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; Education Industry; Ghana
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  • 18 Apr 2018
  • News

Into the Light

More than 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to electricity. Another 2 billion have limited electricity, just a few hours of often unreliable power a day. “It’s really hard for most of us to imagine a life without electricity,” says Nicole Poindexter (MBA... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Michael Nkansah

October 28, 1990, was the wrong day to be in Monrovia, Liberia. My family would have perished—as nameless casualties of a senseless war in a foreign land—were it not for the intervention of a motley peacekeeping force led by Ghana and... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Nana Quagraine

I faced remarks about the inferiority of blacks and women in science. These experiences threatened to shatter my values and aspirations. Growing up my parents taught me to treat each person equally, irrespective of their status. But as an immigrant from View Details
  • 08 May 2019
  • News

Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities

Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Since enrolling in HBS’s joint MBA/Master of Public Policy program with the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) in 2017, the only thing Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) hasn’t been able to do is get enough sleep. In... View Details
  • 02 May 2018
  • News

Naa-Sakle Akuete Says her Best Business Lessons Came from Her Worst Mistakes

  • 14 May 2015
  • News

Cracking the Nut on Exporting Shea Butter

  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Field Days

Keywords: FIELD 2; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Profile

Dominic Mensah

championed a grand vision of solving poverty and insurgency in Nigeria. Shahaan talked to me about how this was a clear example of why I needed to focus on my company in Ghana and why he believed I was the right person to create such an... View Details

    Nii Narku Quaynor

    Keywords: Internet Provider
    • December 10, 2013
    • Article

    A Market-based Mechanism to Improve Capital Expenditures

    By: Eric D. Werker
    Keywords: Finance; Infrastructure; Debt; Political Risk; Expenditure; Ghana; Africa
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    • Profile

    Kayode Ogunro

    "The chapter that struck me was on VCPE in emerging markets," says Kayode. "I realized that this was the way to bridge the gap between small-scale angel investing and large-scale equity markets." Kayode, whose parents are from View Details
    • 27 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

    dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives such as household-level financing. INTO THE LIGHTNicole Poindexter (MBA 1997), cofounder and CEO of Energicity, is combating “energy poverty”--and improving health... View Details
    • February 2012 (Revised October 2013)
    • Case

    OpenIDEO

    By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa
    The case describes OpenIDEO, an online offshoot of IDEO, one of the world's leading product design firms. OpenIDEO leverages IDEO's innovative design process and an online community to create solutions for social issues. Emphasis is placed on comparing the IDEO and... View Details
    Keywords: Social Issues; Product Design; Social and Collaborative Networks; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Ghana; New Zealand
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    • 16 Dec 2013
    • Blog Post

    A first semester reflection

    touches on my resumé. Of course, this fall hasn’t been all about recruiting. The case method is just as rigorous as ever, and my FIELD 2 team has been busy doing all of our preliminary research and brainstorming for our project in Ghana... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2013
    • News

    A Mission in Motion

    agency Millennium Challenge Corporation, where alumnus Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972) has firsthand experience with largescale training and infrastructure efforts in Ghana ("Sizing Up Social Impact"). "A Healthy Profit" tells the story of... View Details
    Keywords: summary
    • January 2021
    • Supplement

    mPharma (B)

    By: Rembrand Koning, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
    mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Health; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Ghana
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