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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
a consultant at Bain & Company in New York, with proposing that they be organized at all. Ballou-Aares worked for Bain in South Africa before receiving a joint degree from HBS and the Kennedy School. “Bain... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
prosperity,” says Elumelu. “That is at the heart of Africapitalism.” The retired chief executive officer, now chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) and the founder of Heirs Holdings, Elumelu has put the tenet of this... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Action Plan: The Power of Story
you were to where you are.” Henderson brings his story to audiences from LA to South Africa as managing director of the leadership development firm Henderson, Harper & Associates. Its power lies in its... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
community development, and other conservation efforts in Africa, South Asia, and South America. “The conduit by which we do all of that is exposing guests to experiences that bring to life the wonder of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
Alumni Excursions Bhutan Oct 2004 South Africa and Namibia Dec 2004 Swiss Alps Feb 2005 Costa Rica April 2005 Galapagos and Amazon August 2005 New Zealand Dec 2005 For more information, contact... 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. View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
connect alumni and friends with fellow alumni, faculty members, and other experts around a variety of issues related to the pandemic. Highlights of their efforts include the following: Africa Research Center—In June, the center launched... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
hesitate to contact either me or a Board member in your area. Your input means a great deal, and we hope that our work will serve to connect you better to fellow alumni and to the School. Best wishes, and I look forward to seeing many of you in View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
coveted Nobel for his work in ending the hostilities between the province of Aceh and the government of Indonesia, a struggle that had claimed 50,000 lives during a 30-year war. Before that, he was a key figure in negotiating Namibia’s independence from View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
Rawdon: Fostering a global spirit of cultural connection (photo by Stella Kalinina) Growing up, Leigh Rawdon (MBA 2001) didn’t travel internationally with her family. But she loved to listen to the stories her globe-trotting aunt told of far-off destinations, from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
want to travel to all 54 countries in Africa? What was the sort of motivation for this undertaking? Tapon: I had never been to Africa before, and I had this grand ambition to visit all the countries in the world. There's 193 countries.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
of experience. “Although I was often part of privileged communities, from very early on, I frequently identified with those who were excluded.” Enrolling at Princeton, Massie became an activist, particularly regarding South View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
year and would be grateful for your input and suggestions; feel free to contact any of the committee chairs. In the meantime, our sights are set on South Africa in the spring. I hope you have made plans to... 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
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
Standard Bank, the largest bank in South Africa with a conservative culture of white Afrikaner managers. The management team had already been through this with another consultant, and they had walked out on... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Force Academy. While completing his military service, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned master’s and doctoral degrees. “I worked really hard,” he says of his time at Oxford. “I was sitting next to brilliant people who were smarter than me.” It was on a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
wanted to make our time in Africa an adventure. We wanted to explore. We wanted to experience the idiosyncrasies of the local environment and culture. So we did.” —Rick Walleigh (MBA 1974) on his late career change, as recounted in his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
those? But on Monday morning, when the rubber meets the road in Jakarta or Bogota, the way that we were being taught to do things was not going to work there. Jones: Business schools in Latin America, South Asia, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
that drives economic advancement and development. It’s a process she’d eventually like to go home and be part of: “I believe,” she says, “in South Africa and its future.” —GE Rob Sundy Sundy at Harvard... View Details