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- 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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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
studying French at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, Nneka moved to the United States to begin her career as a Process Engineer at Shell. Coming from an oil-rich economy, Nneka was interested in the oil and gas industry, and was drawn to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
activities during the 2022–2023 academic year, from developing cases to convening thought leaders to conducting business history interviews. AFRICA RESEARCH CENTER (Johannesburg; offices in Nairobi and Lagos) Addressing some of society’s... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Events - Business History
Post-Colonial West Africa" 12 pm to 1:30 pm Mar 28 28 Mar 2025 Business History Seminar Erik Baker, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America 12PM-1PM. Erik Baker (Harvard University) will discuss his recent... 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
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
West Point days, entered the military, “it was because we wanted to be part of something greater than ourselves,” says Jung, who was a member of a unit responsible for clearing bombs while deployed in Afghanistan. She explains that she... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Runner-Up Empowering youth in West Africa to access employment opportunities through vocational training. Business Track, 2012 Vaxess Technologies Michael A. Schrader Anura Patil Livio Valenti Patrick Ho... View Details
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- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
growth, Nneka felt she could make a significant impact at home. After obtaining her degree in chemical engineering in London and studying French at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, Nneka moved to the United States to begin her career as a... 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
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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
- 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
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
six-story, mixed-use building will soon rise above the dirt and gravel. The ground floor will feature an Afrocentric bookstore-café where customers can peruse books by African authors while sipping hibiscus tea and baobab juice. (Dlodlo, who hails from View Details
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
Africa to watching the sunrise over ancient temples in Cambodia. Never could we have imagined handling long-distance from the United States’ East Coast to Australia’s West Coast for nearly three years. Never... View Details
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
subordinate group... September–October 2024 Harvard Business Review Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal? By: John D. Macomber A family-owned and controlled conglomerate in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa,... View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
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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
- 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
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
requires us to address the past,” Desai says. Indeed, the case covers other episodes where victims of racial injustices have been compensated, and these efforts at reparations have been critical for progress. West Germany paid reparations... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
trying to augment the curriculum with international cases. For example, I wrote a case about a hotel in Barcelona, a shopping center development in Hungary, and the recapitalization of Canary Wharf in London. Currently, most of my focus is on Latin America, but I hope... View Details