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Curriculum - Business & Environment

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 relationship... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Developing Countries and Economies ; Economic Growth ; Banking Industry ; Financial Services Industry ; Information Technology Industry ; Technology Industry ; Africa ; Nigeria ; South Africa ; Kenya ; Uganda ; California ; San Francisco... View Details
  • October 2017 (Revised October 2022)
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Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (A)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Namrata Arora
Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Marketplace; Inventory; Ecommerce; Funding; Business Ecosystem; Business Ecosystems; Competition; Business Model; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Logistics; Competitive Strategy; E-commerce; Retail Industry; India; Nigeria; Africa
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  • 24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Ibadan, Nigeria 1975 Earns BA, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Oxford 1979 Earns JD/MBA 1980 Clerks for US Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall 1982 Joins... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 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
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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
  • 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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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
  • 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
  • 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
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands North Macedonia Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2022
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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
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

Gabby worked in management consulting at Deloitte. She received her BBA at Emory University and her MBA from Harvard Business School. You Might Want to Read 07 Feb 2025 Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for... 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
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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

    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 Innovation Kasite Ugo-beke 25 Jan 2023... View Details
    • March 2021 (Revised March 2024)
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    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
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    • March 2022
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    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
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    • 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
    • 22 Mar 2024
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    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