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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania Authors:Diego A. Comin Abstract Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania, given its unique natural assets, is an ideal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that America’s embassies in Kenya... View Details
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
IBM: The Corporate Service Corps (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [409106]. View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Employees; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Global Strategy; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry; Ghana; Tanzania; Romania; Philippines; Viet Nam
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and investing leaders in countries including Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as field research in Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda. (Several students have shared insights from their field studies here: IFC Africa: Building Cities.) I believe the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
from the wisdom and experience of the General, imparted by him through frequent contact and regular visits. Deryck Tweedley (MBA ’58) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Doriot Taught Standards of Behavior Your article on Professor Doriot brought... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
universities across the country, the letter read, in part: “It is your turn to show that managers and CEOs can leverage their influence and resources to benefit their own frontline employees.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Supporting Students on Their Journeys Increasing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
ophthalmology, gynecology, and so on. His ambition is breathtaking." "He has also started training doctors in Tanzania and Malaysia. His ambition is to cure the poor of the world for one dollar a day. He also thinks there is no... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Business and Pleasure: Kim and Coup Coupounas enjoy the scenic beauty of the Rocky Mountains just as much today as when they moved to Boulder almost a decade ago. (photo by Stephen Collector) The trail weaves back and forth in steep switchbacks before we reach the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
their classmates who benefit from the unique perspectives represented in every HBS MBA class. MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Supporting Students on Their Journeys Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania Embracing Activism for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania Karthik RamannaHarvard Business School Case 112-069 Loan officer Jim Teague discovers his agro-processor client has a serious health-code violation just days before a disbursement is due. Proceeding with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-402 Yara International: Africa Strategy Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
going use my resources, I really started to think about what had I been given, and therefore, that caused me to be grateful and then think about what, therefore, can I give. One of the most formative giving experiences I had was when I went to View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
executed the action plan, and monitored progress—with enthusiasm, charm (I hope), and fervor. Result: We beat the goal and tripled the number of women in high-level jobs in the first year. Mamongae Mahlare (MBA 2004), marketing manager, SABMiller, Dar Es Salaam, View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
telecoms, but public outcry from the service disruptions was so intense that the attacks eventually stopped. The power of that human connection will no doubt continue to be one of the strongest forces in the country’s future development. As Roshan expands into Burundi,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through wireless public pay phones at over one thousand locations... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
paths. Clif Darden worked in economic development in the United States and Tanzania before returning to HBS to earn his DBA in 1982. His career in academia culminated in a tenured professorship in organizational theory and management at... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
case:http://hbr.org/search/711403-PDF-ENG Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania (B) Ramanna, KarthikHarvard Business School Supplement 113-042 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement:http://hbr.org/search/113042-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne