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- 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
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni Connections
right) with guests at the Harvard Business School in Africa event held at the Four Seasons Hotel The Westcliff in Johannesburg, South Africa. Armerding was introduced during the program as director of HBS’s... 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
basketball-based fitness clinics at more than 225 schools, training coaches and getting more than 140,000 students on the court. Africa First office opened: 2010 (Johannesburg) As evidenced by the six African players on NBA rosters, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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
- 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... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet
governments like South Africa and Bhutan and even China, investing in sustainability," says Roberts, who hopes to do more to get the US government out of gridlock and into the fight to save the world from... View Details
- 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Setting the standards higher for safety and success
Cynthia Carroll (MBA 1989), former CEO of Anglo American PLC, talks about the impact of her decision to make mining safety the company's highest goal. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
through the ministry’s work, launched a $1.3 billion economic resilience plan, representing 7 percent of GDP, the second largest in Africa (second to South Africa). Senegal was one of the first African... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Iron Lady
second largest in sub-Saharan Africa but far smaller than South Africa’s) and then declared that she would bring charges against some 200 other individuals and organizations allegedly involved in... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
the BRI is considered one of the most ambitious infrastructure undertakings ever conceived. It comprises a vast collection of development and investment projects stretching from East Asia to Africa to Europe. This signature foreign policy... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Professor Senior Associate Dean for International Development Research Center Highlights The following highlights illustrate the breadth of HBS’s global activities before and during the pandemic. Africa Research Center The View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
department. Christensen went on to become an important figure at Harvard University's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Beyond Harvard, he served as a visiting professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
and grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart,’ literally ‘apart-hood’) years, so issues of human rights and social justice have always been important... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Harvard Asia Law Society, East Asian Caucus at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Keynote speakers: Dr. Soon-Hoon Bae, former Minister of Information & Communication, South Korea, former chairman & CEO, Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.;... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
among her experience of Africa and something else emerges. The image she chooses reveals much about the spirit of the continent she has grown to love and much about her own optimism, quiet determination, and humanitarian commitment. At a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
in the Night: A Memoir of Resilience (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), makes clear. In addition to being a truth-to-power minister and antiapartheid crusader (his 1997 book, Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
(239), Chile (159), Colombia (83), Ecuador (39), Peru (82), and Venezuela (85). On the African continent? Answer: South Africa (775), followed by Nigeria (239), the only other country in triple digits. It... View Details