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  • December 2019
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Noiler

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
In 2019, Nigerian entrepreneur Dr. Ayoola (Ayo) Oduntan is accelerating distribution of Noiler, a genetically optimized breed of poultry, to smallholder farmers across Nigeria. The bird was bred to be productive as a source of both meat and eggs and to thrive in the... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Poverty; Health; Growth and Development Strategy; Nigeria
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  • September 2012 (Revised September 2015)
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Doing Business in Ghana

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Elena Corsi
An entrepreneur considered investing in tomato paste manufacturing in Ghana, an emerging economy, and pondered the opportunities and challenges of investing here. Ghana's economy had been growing over the last decade, reaching a peak of 14.4% growth rate in 2011. Now a... View Details
Keywords: Emergent Countries; Strategy; Opportunity Cost; Emerging Markets; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Ghana
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  • December 2017
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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta
It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Technologies; Youth Unemployment; Innovation In Nonprofits; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Cash Flow; Labor; Employment; Commercialization; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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Creating Emerging Markets

President, Indian Dairy Association; Former Managing Director, GCMMF (Amul) Nigeria Omobola Johnson Senior Partner, TLcom Capital; Former Minister of Communication Technology, Nigeria (2011-15) Oman Mohammed... View Details
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Africa - Global

Africa Research Center in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2017 followed by an office in Lagos, Nigeria in 2019, and an office in Nairobi, Kenya in 2022. This center plays an important role in helping HBS develop and strengthen relationships... View Details
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Find a Club - Alumni

2004 Mrs. Ebony Simone Morczinek, MBA 2007 HBS Association of Hong Kong President Ms. Jolie Chow, MBA 2010 HBS Association of New Zealand President Dr. Claudia U. Wyss, MBA 2005 HBS Association of Nigeria President Mr. Collins Onuegbu,... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
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HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

[...] Read more 07 Feb 2025 Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation Kasite Ugo-beke Author MBA Students tag Health Care Innovation Health Care at HBS Kasite Ugo-beke’s journey from View Details
  • 25 Jan 2024
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Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 13 Oct 2015
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Information Technology Industry ; Technology Industry ; Africa ; Nigeria ; South Africa ; Kenya ; Uganda ; California ; San Francisco Citation Educators Purchase Related Kluender, Raymond, and Emanuele Colonnelli. "Untapped Global:... View Details
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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Zealand's Marine Cluster (2009) Nicaragua The Nicaraguan Coffee Cluster (2006) Nigeria Lagos ICT Services Cluster (2017) Nollywood — The Nigerian Film Industry (2008) Nigeria Financial Services (2008) Norway... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

members who are living on the East Coast. During most of the 1990s, Gbadegesin was unable to go back to Nigeria because his family was blacklisted due to their involvement with the pro-democracy movement. “There is a cost to being... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • November 2021 (Revised December 2022)
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Babban Gona: Great Farm

By: Kristin Fabbe, Tarun Khanna, Caroline M. Elkins, Zeke Gillman, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Thomaz Teodorovicz
In 2020, Babban Gona was one of the world’s largest farming operations with over 140,000 acres of maize farms, an area over ten times as large as Manhattan, and over 80,000 member-farmers in Nigeria. According to the company, the average Nigerian farmer’s net income... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Value Creation; Agribusiness; Capital Budgeting; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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Request the Data - Leadership

Mexico Monaco Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Ireland Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Paraguay Peru Phillippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

With Hepatitis C running rampant in Egypt in 2012, Clifford Samuel, then of California-based Gilead Sciences, convened a series of urgent meetings with Egyptian government officials, doctors, and patients. His goal? To make Gilead’s lifesaving Hepatitis C drugs... View Details
Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
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NVC Regions - Alumni

Barcelona Denmark France Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Israel Spain Norway Sweden The Netherlands International Countries Argentina Chile Columbia Nigeria Brazil Egypt Lebanon Mexico Peru South Africa Turkey Gulf Cooperation Counsil... View Details

    Ray A. Goldberg

    A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

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    Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
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    National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Tunisia United Arab Emirates North America Canada Mexico United States Sub-Saharan Africa Botswana Ghana Kenya Madagascar Mauritius Nigeria Rwanda South Africa Tanzania Uganda “The fundamental goal of economic policy is to enhance... View Details
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    Curriculum - Business & Environment

    Babban Gona: Great Farm Key concepts: Agricultural Development, Strategy, Nigeria Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution Tesla in 2024: Holding on to the EV Lead? What IKEA Do We Want? Key concepts: Business models, Customer... View Details