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Ahmed Alimi

things done, cultivating relationships as well as leading people. I thought I needed these 'next level' skills and felt HBS was the right place to get them." Gradually, Ahmed also felt "a greater calling. I had been doing some work mentoring youths in View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

this task, he frequently got in trouble with extended family members for choosing formal schooling over the family trade and lost sight in his left eye due to a fight on the issue. Armed with the lessons from such stories, I learned to be driven, empathetic, and... View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Unilever proved flexible enough to retain them, fostered by its belief that ultimately consumers worldwide would want its products. Moreover the oil price rises resulted in an extraordinary growth of profitability of the UAC [United Africa Company] stemming from the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation Kasite Ugo-beke 25 Jan 2023 Women, Work, and the “M” Word Jannine Versi 19 May 2025 Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health Jennifer... View Details

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

continue to do research in health policy and health care innovation, so please keep an eye out for me and cheer me on! You Might Want to Read 07 Feb 2025 Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare... View Details

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

Conference as a student. Nneka made an impact on the founders at that conference and, three years later after working in healthcare consulting and healthcare investing in Nigeria following graduation, Nneka joined the CrossBoundary team.... View Details

Louis T. Wells

Professor Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His... View Details

Keywords: mining; telecommunications; utilities

January 2024
Teaching Note

Nigeria: Africa's Giant

By: Marlous van Waijenburg

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-056. View Details

Keywords: Africa; Nigeria

13 Nov 2017
Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

case method can seem like it requires more work than a traditional lecture, but you get more out of it. 4. I wouldn’t fit into the community at HBS Having lived in Nigeria all my life, I was a bit worried that I wouldn’t fit in. I... View Details

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

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01 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Africa Business Conference at HBS: Reimagining the Road Ahead

Capital and former CEO of Access Bank), Elsie Kanza (Tanzania's Ambassador to the US and Mexico), Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie (Harvard Professor), and Dr. Jumoke Oduwole (Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on Ease of Doing... View Details

March 2021 (Revised March 2024)
Case

M-KOPA: Empowering Lives

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Wale Lawal and Pippa Tubman Armerding

The Pay As You Go solar power company in East Africa had sales of $71 million in 2019. It wished to grow to $300 million by 2025. M-KOPA, founded by three entrepreneurs in 2011, had grown nicely in Kenya and Uganda to reach nearly 750,000 households with an innovative... View Details

Keywords: Mobile Payment; Go-to-market Strategy; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Business Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Renewable Energy; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Marketing Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Kenya; Uganda; Nigeria

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

Guaranty Trust Bank, which I recount in the book, provides a nice example. Given that studies have consistently found Nigeria to be among the world's most corrupt countries, it would not appear, at least initially, to be a very promising... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

March 2022
Case

In Data We Trust: Be Mobile Africa and Furthering Financial Inclusion Across the African Continent

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Pierre Marchesseault

To Cédric Jeannot, leveraging technology to promote financial inclusion was personal. After no established financial institution would accept his technology platform to lower transaction costs for free, Jeannot launched FinTech company Be Mobile Africa in May 2020.... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Fintech; Emerging Market; Fundraising; Financial Inclusion; Strategy; Expansion; Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Finance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Togo; Nigeria; Ghana

22 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

strategy for success, as she met the founders of CrossBoundary (also HBS alumni) while she was leading the Africa Business Conference as a student. Nneka made an impact on the founders at that conference and, three years later after working in healthcare consulting and... View Details

June 2018 (Revised October 2020)
Case

Global Brand Management of Anheuser Busch InBev's Budweiser

By: Jill Avery

Brian Perkins, chief architect of the $6 billion Budweiser brand, was excited about 2018, in which the company would launch Budweiser into several new markets in Africa and Latin America. He was feeling the pressure to finalize a global brand strategy that would define... View Details