Africa - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2010
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Urban Water Partners (A) Spreadsheet Solutions (CW)

By: Karthik Ramanna and George Serafeim

Teaching Note for Spreadsheet (111701). View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Health Industry; Utilities Industry; Dar es Salaam

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Neveen El Tahri

Neveen El Tahri, Chairperson of Delta Shield for Investment, relates the challenges she encountered while building brokerage businesses in Egypt, which included navigating a male-dominated business culture. View Details

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Neveen El Tahri

Neveen El Tahri, Chairperson of Egypt-based Delta Shield for Investment, outlines her transition from banking to entrepreneurship as she built a diverse portfolio of brokerage companies. View Details

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Amina Laraki Slaoui

Amina Laraki Slaoui, President of AMH Group, recalls the life-changing accident which left her paraplegic and explains how she observed a lack of accessibility for people with disabilities upon her return to Morocco. View Details

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Mostafa Terrab

Mostafa Terrab, Chairman and CEO of Morocco-based OCP Group, explains how investments into R&D led to the establishment of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) – now a leading university that focuses on research and innovation for the African continent. View Details

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Mostafa Terrab

Mostafa Terrab, Chairman and CEO of Morocco-based OCP Group, outlines the company’s commitments towards sustainability, which include major investments in solar power as well as the development of customized fertilizer with carbon-sequestering potential. View Details

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Mostafa Terrab

Mostafa Terrab, Chairman and CEO of Morocco-based OCP Group, explains how the proper use of fertilizers can reinforce soil health and potentially sequester significant amounts of carbon. View Details

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Mostafa Terrab

Mostafa Terrab, Chairman and CEO of Morocco-based OCP Group, describes how the company has made targeted donations to smallholder famers in Africa, particularly in response to the decreased availability of fertilizer resulting from the war in Ukraine. View Details

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Mostafa Terrab

Mostafa Terrab, Chairman and CEO of Morocco-based OCP Group, discusses his appointment as director-general of the organization in 2006 and outlines how he prioritized investments into fertilizer production. View Details

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Helmy Abouleish

Helmy Abouleish, CEO of the SEKEM Initiative, lays out the community-building benefits to starting every working day by standing in a circle with all team members. View Details

2012
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Françafrique and Oil

By: Noel Maurer

France's special relationship with its oil-producing former colonies has become entirely divorced from economic or strategic considerations. What drives the relationship, rather, are special interests: the French oil companies, the connections between African leaders... View Details

Keywords: Relationships; Economics; Strategy; Natural Environment; Interests; Crime and Corruption; Energy Industry; France; Gabon; Congo, Republic of the

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14 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

analysis. G – GO: Africa. Beginning with the MBA Class of 2018, HBS offers a Global Opportunity Fellowship (GO: Africa) to supplement the income of MBA graduates who go on to work in Africa following graduation. The aim is to support HBS... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

would triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, these business leaders were concerned about the growing inequality of income within many nations, across nations, and across regions. Half the world's poor would be in sub-Saharan View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

06 Dec 2017
Blog Post

The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

from tech giants Tencent (China) and Paytm (India) along with speakers active in Africa as well as Latin America, thus offering a true worldview of the technology and start-up landscape outside of the U.S. The panel was intended to fuel... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Mar 2017
News

The Realities of the Refugee Crisis

Africa and the Middle East, and to make deals with these countries that they hope will stabilize the region and stabilize refugee flows. KF: One thing Turkey is coming to terms with is the fact that it can’t insulate itself from diversity... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999

in 15 African countries 2012 Launches India’s first 4G service 2013 Elected Vice Chair, International Chamber of Commerce 2014 Bharti’s Airtel launches 4G in Africa Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises With a magnetic smile, an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Profile

Jonathan Bailey

two years at McKinsey & Co. in London, where Jonathan had a chance to "build core skills in business and management" and work on the firm's Climate Change Special Initiative, he worked with Tony Blair in establishing the former Prime Minister's View Details

30 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

guy who looked like he might have worked in finance (yes!). It turned out that he had, before going to medical school and traveling to Africa where he worked on a ship that docked in various ports performing lifesaving surgeries on... View Details

Career Coach

Carole Carlson

Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills, including strategy development,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise

February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
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Finberg: Corporate Venture Capital in Türkiye

By: Paul A. Gompers and Namrata Arora

In December 2021, Murat Özyeğin, Chairman of Fiba Holding, along with Ömer Mert and İhsan Elgin, engaged in discussions about the future of United Payment, a fintech company in which Finberg, a subsidiary of Fibabanka, held a 20% stake. Finberg, established in 2018 as... View Details