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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

01 Jun 2004
News

Life Lessons

village, she went to Johannesburg to live with a white family while spending a postgraduate high school year at an otherwise all-boys, mostly white private school. Formal apartheid had been recently abolished, but nonetheless, Mahlare... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

13 May 2014
News

Inside Africa

Africa for five years, teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and serving on the investment committee of a private equity fund. It was also during this time that she acquired the domain name Africa.com, without... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

with the financial market system. Johannesburg has a stock market as it has had for over a century, and business executives I spoke with said that you can get a future contract of ten years on the rand/dollar exchange rate—which is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2017
News

Finding a Path out of Poverty

too poor to afford college, he traveled to find work in Johannesburg after losing his job as a barman in Port Elizabeth. When a job eluded him, he wound up living on the streets for nearly seven months. “The biggest challenge with being... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2007
News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

products can be found in hospitals from Buenos Aires to Warsaw and from Johannesburg to Tokyo. Unlike the use of casts and traction, internal fixation helps the bone heal more quickly, with better long-term results. "I knew that we could... View Details

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Global - Global Activities 2020

Lagos Johannesburg Mumbai Singapore Shanghai Hong Kong Tokyo Map of the world Global Research Centers Global Research Offices “These outposts serve as HBS’s eyes and ears on the ground, supporting our faculty in their research and... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

Theatre, first starring Eli Wallach and now Hal Linden. After successful runs this year in Johannesburg and Stuttgart, the play will open within a year in eight other cities around the globe. The play draws on Baron's real-life... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

School of Public Health as a way to understand the policies and skills required to address the systemic challenges that many developing countries face. She then moved to Johannesburg to assist with efforts by South Africa’s First National... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

been doing so for at least three years. Approximately 270 companies using the Global Reporting Initiative's G3 Guidelines are self-declared integrated reporters. As of March 1, 2010, approximately 450 companies listed on the Johannesburg... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

(VIS '79), director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology in Johannesburg and longtime president of the HBS Club of South Africa, recalls how during the apartheid era, HBS alumni helped the country's business community to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

household products. Steinhoff was widely known as a South African company because it first listed on the South African Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and its global headquarters was in South Africa. However, Steinhoff went on to expand... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/413038-PDF-ENG Droga5: Launching Jay-Z's Decoded Elberse, Anita, and Kwame Owusu-KesseHarvard Business School Case 513-032 In 2010, David Droga and Andrew Essex,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2021
Case

Founders Factory

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett

In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within... View Details

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29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans. By 1999, the company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, making 36-year-old Surve the youngest CEO of a listed diversified conglomerate. From... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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