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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

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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

23 Mar 2003
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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

29 Jul 2013
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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

2022
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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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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

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Ghana

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Africa: research, news, analysis

on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent AllAfrica.com Useful for: includes 100 publishers with content in both French and English, including independent, government- and opposition-controlled... View Details

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Student Clubs | MBA

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 Mar 2005
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A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

Toby Klein, postmarked Tubuai, French West Polynesia. Toby wrote, "Several years ago I told the world to go to hell and moved to Tubuai, French View Details

Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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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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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

Nigeria, saw how Ebola ravaged West Africa from 2014 to 2016, which prompted her to think about how she could have an impact in Africa when macro shocks occurred. The crisis... 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

01 Oct 2021
News

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

10 Feb 2016
News

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

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Ben Seipel

progressed from West Point to aviation training. And he had served two 12-month tours of duties in Afghanistan, where he lead helicopter companies of the 101st Airborne. Most importantly, Ben had just received notice of a pending... View Details

Keywords: Tech

01 Oct 2002
News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

determined to revive Serbia's economy and one day see his country join the European Union. Not so long ago, Djelic, as a partner at McKinsey in Paris, was enjoying what he terms “a charmed and privileged existence” in the French capital.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

03 Apr 2017
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The International Experience at HBS

geographies. As a matter of fact, I was part of the French Society, the European Society, the Middle East and North Africa Club and the Africa Business Club. Each club brought... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin Great application of dedication, common sense, and perseverance. If Nigeria can be turned around, perhaps there may be hope for the remainder of Africa and its people. —Fred Brodsky (OPM 27, 1999) via... View Details

22 Mar 2024
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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

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