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18 Feb 2020
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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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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

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

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18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

investment as it once was—to palm oil. Unilever, the largest private holder and buyer of palm oil (an ingredient used in its famous “Sunlight Soap” and other products), diversified its holdings from the crop’s native West View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

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Tawanda Sibanda

lasting value with a long-term strategy and mission.” After nearly five years in engineering, Tawanda felt a need for general management skills and believed an MBA would be the best way to acquire them. “I want to return to Africa one... View Details

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

5th Annual Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School on March 8. Much of the debate over AIDS in Africa has surrounded the high cost of the drugs that have turned the deadly disease into one that... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

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Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

that contribute to development and are crucial for growth.” Abena began with GE’s medical and health care device divisions, serving as a business analyst responsible for “increasing growth and market share” in West & Central Africa.... View Details

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Fola Folowosele

Latin America. HBS played an integral role in securing both internships. Firstly, it was while organizing a sports panel for the Africa Business Conference in my RC (required curriculum) year that I met my future boss, who I invited to... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products

29 Jul 2013
News

Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers

Selena Cuffe On a trip to South Africa in 2005, Selena Cuffe (MBA 2003) happened across an advertisement promoting the first Soweto Wine Festival. Cuffe, the director of an exchange-student nonprofit, didn't know a lot about wine. Yet the... View Details

Keywords: wine; wine making; wine importing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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Tomiwa Igun

electricity supply in Nigeria. Boundless opportunities exist if businesses can be unshackled from exorbitant costs of self-generated electricity. Imagine Nigeria — electrified. All of West Africa — powered.... View Details

2022
Article

Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment

By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West

Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of... View Details

Keywords: Time; Subjective Well Being; Administrative Costs; Friction; Poverty; Well-being; Money; Perception; Kenya

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Mina Park

I by no means had a typical, average life, and yet I still hesitate to be different. Even the slightest deviation from average discomforted me. I spent endless hours trying to fix my British English because the standard English taught in... View Details

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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

people are included in the labor market today,” says Rewane. “This is not just a West Africa problem—it’s a global problem. We’re learning from on-the-ground implementation, looking to work in partnership... View Details

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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA

response needed to help prevent communities in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa from falling deeper into poverty every time disease outbreaks and other macro shocks occurred. I discovered a pathway to... View Details

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Student Clubs Student Club Handbook (login required) A Aerospace & Defense Club Africa Business Club African American Student Union AI Club Armed Forces Alumni Association Art Society Asian-Affinity Business Association Australian & New... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Think Locally, Act Globally

As for the cultural issue, Mittal notes that India and Africa have a shared past—in trade relations and, in the diplomatic realm, cooperation during the heyday of the Non-Aligned Movement—that has helped build trust and familiarity. And... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

10 Feb 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education

“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes micro-enterprise loans and business training to Christian schools in... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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No Time Like the Present

Africa Health Holdings which works to improve the health care system in West and East Africa and has 38 facilities, 52 community outreach programs, and serves more than 500,000... View Details

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