British West Africa - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations involved in the Ebola relief effort. I realized my long-term response needed to help prevent communities in Nigeria and the rest of West View Details

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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

Language International MBA 2008 Jillian Ressler Spruce & Co MBA 2015 Misan Rewane West Africa Vocational Education MBA 2013 Neil Rimer Index Ventures MBA 1991 John Rogers Local Motors MBA 2007 Charles O.... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming AK HI WA OR CA ID NV UT AZ MT WY CO NM ND SD NE KS OK TX MN... View Details

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NVC Regions - Alumni

Nina Wanerman , Staff lead Greg Meredith , MBA 1986 Jennifer Hurford , MBA 2017 Olga Bartnicki , MBA 1999 Mary Hainsworth , MBA 1986 Northeastern US/New York States Delaware Maryland New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Virginia Washington, D.C. View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

permitted to seek diversification opportunities beyond West Africa by buying all manner of businesses in Europe. There had been major progress at cutting costs, but less in creating an atmosphere for more... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, North Lobby, First Floor + More Info – Less Info British citizens from all walks of life invested in the South Sea Company: a public-private enterprise that was granted a trade monopoly with Spanish... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Partners Partners Teacher Profiles WA Lacey Aaker Kentwood High School Covington, WA TX Sam Abramson St. John's School Houston, TX Subjects: U.S. History RI Richard Abruzzini Cranston Career & Technical Center-Cranston West Cranston, RI... View Details

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Participating Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(Jeddah) Serbia FEFA- Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration (Beograd) South Africa Gordon Institute of Business Science (Johannesburg) South Korea Solbridge International School of Business (Daejeon) Spain Orkestra-Basque... View Details

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

administered over its trade began to diminish. After the end of the First Opium War in 1842 and subsequent Treaty of Nanking, additional ports were open including the newly formed British colony of hong Kong. By 1843, the Canton trade... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

and governance. In 2022, Florida’s Department of Financial Services pulled $2 billion from asset manager BlackRock in alignment with new legislation aimed against ESG investing. Other states, including Texas and West Virginia, adopted... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About

inspired by Indonesian design, mass-produced by the Dutch, and then sold to the colonies in West Africa. In the 1960s, the material became a symbol of African identity and independence. As Shonibare has stated, “Based on the history of... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Standard Bank Group. (You can read more about Williams’s work with NBA Africa in this recent article from the HBS Alumni Bulletin.) The panel was moderated by Naana Winful Fynn (MBA 2004), a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Thesis Completed at the Faculty of the Humanities at Utrecht University for “Living Standards in British Africa in a Comparative Perspective, 1880–1945: Is Poverty Destiny?” Marlous van Waijenburg : 2010:... View Details

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

my family, experienced what is known in West Africa as "land grab," where all my father's assets were taken away from my mother. So to be coming from that experience and then reaching Harvard Business School... View Details

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Events - Business History

Seminar Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge), "Determinants of African Business Performance in Colonial and Post-Colonial West Africa" 12 pm to 1:30 pm Apr 18 18 Apr 2025 Virtual Seminar Julia Yongue (Hosei University), "Siam Then,... View Details

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Robert Higgins | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem Belo-Osagie United Bank for... View Details

04 Feb 2022
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Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

Patients with resources can easily go where care is provided. "Historically doctors moved from Africa and India to London and New York to provide care. Now we are basically flipping it around and saying, 'Why don't the patients move?... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

asset manager BlackRock in alignment with new legislation aimed against ESG investing. Other states, including Texas and West Virginia, adopted similar measures as part of a larger campaign against “woke capitalism,” a phrase suggesting... View Details

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