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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

June 2018 (Revised October 2020)
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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

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Harvard Business School

International Women's Society of Nigeria and her many awards include one from the South African government for her work with children. Earl 'Butch' Graves Jr. MBA 1988 After a brief career in the NBA, where he played for the Milwaukee... View Details

17 Oct 2014
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Laying the groundwork for a career in Africa

Nneka Ezeigwe (MBA 2015) is looking to make an impact in her native Nigeria through entrepreneurial ventures and work in the public sector. (Published October 2014) View Details

13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

undergraduate at Stanford University, in 2007, Rewane began to put her thoughts into action. She set up an initiative with her sister, Jemine Rewane (MBA 2009), and some friends, called the Impact Initiative (Inspiring Minds, Perceptions, and Attitudes to Change... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

but you also lived in Paris, as a teenager, while you were attending high school. I just wondered what was it like to make that transition from Nigeria to France at that age? Seni Sulyman: I think the one phrase that I would use to... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry

inability to get one of the espresso-based drinks to which he had grown attached during his years working in finance in New York. Dozie hopes to solve both the supply and the demand problems with Café Neo, a coffeehouse chain he and his older brother, Ngozi, started in... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything alone. The private sector is in a... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 May 2019
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Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth

Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A... View Details

Keywords: April White; Crop Production; Agriculture

29 Jan 2019
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Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

are looking forward to when there is a play produced about her creative life!” HBSA of Nigeria Celebrates Star Leaders at Black Tie Gala Close to 300 guests, including many HBS and Harvard alumni as well as top business leaders, converged... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2007
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From A to Z

Temitope Abereoje Hometown: Ilesha, Nigeria Education: B.A., Economics, B.S., Information Systems, University of Maryland, College Park Languages: English, Yoruba Last Job: Associate, Goldman Sachs, New York Age: 25 Why HBS? “I was... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
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Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events

program at HBS. Held in Providence, the event included a panel discussion featuring the club’s four 2017 graduates. 2 The HBS Association of Nigeria (HBSAN) held its annual Black Tie and Awards Gala in Lagos in December. Pictured are... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams

Promise Okeke (MBA 2019) The desire to expand his options and pursue a career in medicine inspired Promise Okeke (MBA 2019) to leave his native Nigeria and travel over 6,000 miles to attend Augsburg College in Minneapolis. “I was from a... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)

Nwogugu with students at Aunty Ayo Girls Comprehensive School in Lagos (photo by Ruth McDowall/The Verbatim Agency) I volunteered at Junior Achievement (JA) in New York when I was working at Goldman Sachs after college. I realized that if I’d had access in View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni Connections

Harvard Business School in Africa & Young Alumni Gatherings 1 Abdu Mukhtar (MBA 2001), Ndidi Nwuneli (MBA 1999), and Hetty Ugboh (GMP 7, 2009) at an alumni reception held at the InterContinental hotel in Lagos, Nigeria in January,... View Details

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Tomiwa Igun

eyesight worsened from the faint beams of flashlight hitting my textbooks as I studied at night. When Nigeria finally won Olympic Gold, I watched the television flicker to darkness due to power failure — I had missed a monumental moment... View Details

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Mira Mehta Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results From HBS to Nigerian tomato fields: launching a dream into reality Mira Mehta 25 Jan 2018 In 2008, I quit my job and... View Details

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Ron Babalakin

desperately wished that I could bring the world to Nigeria to show it how I lived. I will bring African stories and storytellers to global audiences. I will feed these audiences diverse film and television stories about the multifaceted... View Details

27 Nov 2023
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Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

Idachaba-Obaro was born in the US to Nigerian parents. She obtained a Computer Science degree and worked as an analyst with ExxonMobil before deciding to quit her job and return to Nigeria in 2009. She describes how her decision came from... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

2005) took alumni questions on the energy transition, adoption strategies, and the practical steps to a fossil fuel–free future. Nigeria is the sixth-largest producer of fossil fuel in the world, and its national economy derives 90... View Details

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