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- 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
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
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 Research Office in... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 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
- 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
- Web
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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Markets; Planning; Expansion; Global Range; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Africa; South Africa; Johannesburg; Europe; France; Paris; United Kingdom; England; London; United States; New York (city, NY)
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and James Barnett. "Founders Factory." Harvard Business School Case 821-009, March 2021.
- 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