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- 31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
largest in Africa second to South Africa. Senegal was one of the first African countries to come up with a resiliency plan. It included all the necessary health support for patient treatment and contact tracing, including procurement of... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
donors—“you don’t naturally have a feedback loop”—and you have to build strategic alliances. “No nonprofit is going to achieve big objectives alone,” Laidler-Kylander explains. Trickle Up invested in 41,000 women living in extreme poverty in Asia, Latin America, and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Tanzania. Now based in Kigali, Rwanda, Ngoyi finds her global experience is a good fit with her current role. In May 2022, she was named CEO of the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA). A $670 million investment fund and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
entrepreneurs. “If you don't give it a try, you can't know if it's possible.” “If you don't give it a try, you can't know if it's possible.” Gbadegesin and two Nigerian classmates, all of whom were officers in the HBS Africa Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Rising Star
enrolling at HBS, there came a stint as manager of South Africa’s Tourism Board in Paris. As Dhlomo related to Forbes magazine (June 6, 2011), “I was in my favorite city outside South Africa and promoting my country to the French market,... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
The NBA's African Expansion
The National Basketball Association recently announced the creation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will operate the Basketball Africa League (BAL), build corporate partnerships, expand content and media rights, and support local efforts... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
with fellow alumni from around the world. While sub-Saharan Africa - consisting of the 48 countries south of the Sahara desert -is underdeveloped and faces staggering challenges, experts agree that the region, with its vast natural... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) When Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) cofounded the grocery delivery platform BulkWhiz in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in spring 2017, she joined a nascent startup scene in the Middle East and North View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
@Soldiers Field
Complex was hoisted into place in November. After its completion in 2020, it will be home to more than 1,800 students, researchers, and faculty from the Harvard John A. Paulson (MBA 1980) School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. VALUE CHAIN In March, the HBS View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin Great application of dedication, common sense, and perseverance. If Nigeria can be turned around, perhaps there may be hope for the remainder of Africa and its people. —Fred Brodsky (OPM 27, 1999) via... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Scott Royster (MBA 1992) believes higher education has the power to transform Africa if only its students have access to it. “Statistics from around the world show that individuals who are able to obtain a university degree earn higher... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
abroad, he now has plenty of company: More than half of the School's faculty conducts research overseas each year. HBS professor Thomas R. Piper, who also taught in the ISMP program, currently heads two Senior Executive Programs in Africa... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
of their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. It is a problem Akuete and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 07 Dec 2020
- News
Lifting The Stigma
he gave his TED talk from the perspective of an African Black man, Delle says he’s since been contacted by people from Idaho to Sudan. “There’s a universality of the experience, which has been deeply moving,” says Delle, who now serves as CEO of View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
the stuff, it is powdered Nescafé bought from streetside trolleys. Africa remains by and large the last part of the world to resist coffee, with tea and chocolate drinks the go-to hot beverages. (Exceptions are in the Francophone... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
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Acting Naturally
our business has an impact. So we're very conscious on our labels, and our packaging, and what we're doing for the people inside of Rocky Mountain Soap, in the communities that we exist in. “We've gone to India and Africa and taught... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
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Raising Prospects for Female Funders
the tools to manage the risks of this asset class. There are already more than 200 women participating as investors in Europe. And this is not the only place where they exist. There is a Rising Tide Africa coming out, and one in the US.... View Details