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    Core Readings in Entrepreneurship Series

    • Becoming an Entrepreneurial Leader
    • Recognizing and Shaping Opportunities
    • Developing Business Plans and Pitching Opportunities
    • Attracting Talent and Building Ecosystems
    • Financing Entrepreneurial... View Details
    • May 2014
    • Article

    Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

    By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell
    We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find... View Details
    Keywords: Women; Female; Political Reservations; Development; Informal Sector; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Manufacturing Industry; India; South Asia
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    • August 2020 (Revised December 2020)
    • Case

    Satrix: Competing in the Passive Asset Management Industry in South Africa

    By: Mark Egan, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
    In late 2017, Satrix, one of the largest passive asset management firms in South Africa and a pioneer in the industry since 2000, had to decide its strategy going forward in a market where passive asset management had become increasingly commoditized and... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; South Africa; Africa
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    • 13 May 2014
    • News

    Inside Africa

    reason Americans view Africa as a land of misfortune is that all they hear about in the media is African misfortune. To counter this simplistic picture, Africa.com offers curated articles showing the... View Details
    Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
    • 21 Apr 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa

    Keywords: by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Southern Africa

    By: James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin and L. Alexander Green
    In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to persuade white Rhodesian leader Ian Smith to accede to black majority rule. Conducted near the end of President Gerald Ford’s... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Negotiation Process; Race; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal; Government and Politics; Africa; United States
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    • Web

    Africa - Global

    Africa Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world, including throughout Africa, a region... View Details
    • February 2022 (Revised July 2022)
    • Supplement

    InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (B)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin
    Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details
    Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa
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    • 29 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

    Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr & Stephen O'Connell
    • February 2014
    • Article

    National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa

    By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
    We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel framework that accounts both for local geography and cultural-genetic traits. We exploit the fact that the political boundaries in the eve of African independence partitioned... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Local Range; Government and Politics; Africa
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    • 14 Jul 2021

    Women in Industry Series: Entrepreneurship

    Wonder what an MBA could do to help with your professional growth? Learn from Professor Allison Mnookin why HBS is #1 in female founders and how HBS supports women hoping to start their own company. Hear from HBS female founders as they... View Details
    • 06 Nov 2008
    • News

    Nurturing entrepreneurship in India's villages

    • Article

    Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

    By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    Entrepreneurship research is on the rise, but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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    • 15 Oct 2019
    • News

    Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

    members arrived at Kenya’s State House in Nairobi to meet with the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, as part of the School’s faculty immersion in Africa. “Business and View Details
    • November 2010 (Revised August 2012)
    • Case

    The Indego Africa Project

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Rachel Gordon
    Two young attorneys found and begin to build the Indego Africa Project, an NGO partnering with women's cooperatives in Rwanda. Indego connects the cooperatives to the international retail market for handmade artisan products, helps the cooperatives build their business... View Details
    Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Finance; Non-Governmental Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Rwanda
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    • 03 Oct 2016
    • News

    Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship

    • 2005
    • Report

    Measuring Innovation: Evaluation in the Field of Social Entrepreneurship

    By: Mark R. Kramer
    Social Entrepreneurship has brought a new vision to the field of philanthropy and, with it, a different perspective on evaluation. In fact, many familiar approaches to evaluation in philanthropy miss the key criteria that funders consider essential to success within the... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Evaluation
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    • spring 1996
    • Article

    Pathways to Business Success in Sub-Saharan Africa

    By: James E. Austin, W. Cohn and J. Quelch
    Keywords: Success; Africa
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    • 2013
    • Article

    Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

    By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen O'Connell
    We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
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      National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa

      We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel framework that accounts both for local geography and cultural-genetic traits. We exploit the fact that the political boundaries in the eve of African independence... View Details