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  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

according to Koehn, are universal and ring true whether she's teaching the case to advertising execs or second-year students in the MBA program. They include: Take smart (and onging) stock of how you are using your people, your authority, and your resources. Bono... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 14 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?

“It’s critical that tomorrow’s leaders learn how to think about the important societal issues of our generation and the role that business plays.” The BiGS team collaborated with student leaders of the Africa Business Club, Tech Club,... View Details
  • Web

Career Support & Exploration Funds | MBA

Leadership Fellow. Global Opportunity Fellowship (GO:Africa) GO: Africa provides supplemental income to HBS alumni who have accepted a full-time job in Africa. GO Fellows may receive an initial award of up to $50,000, and have the... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

Learning to Code at Business School

recent graduates who took CS50 to learn what the class is all about.  Samuel Gooch (MBA 2015) worked in renewable energy consulting before HBS and is now an engineering program manager at Apple. Sloan Holzman (MBA 2015) formerly worked at a social enterprise start-up... View Details
  • Web

Tools | New Venture Competition

a copy of the FOCUS Foods business plan, please email julia@focusfoodsinc.com . Tomato Jos 2014 Runner-Up Vertically integrated tomato processing company. Executive Summary (pdf) Presentation (pdf) Business Plan (pdf) WAVE Hospitality Academy 2013 Runner-Up Empowering... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

the BRI is considered one of the most ambitious infrastructure undertakings ever conceived. It comprises a vast collection of development and investment projects stretching from East Asia to Africa to Europe. This signature foreign policy... View Details
  • January 2024 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Target Malaria: Editing Mosquitoes through Gene Drives

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
Target Malaria, a non-profit research consortium, is exploring the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to combat malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its approach uses gene drives, a revolutionary tool, to suppress the population of malaria-carrying... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy; Genetics; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States; United Kingdom; Burkina Faso; Africa
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  • Web

Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

services, AI, digital health, medical devices, biopharma, diagnostics, payment and delivery intermediaries, telemedicine, DTC and PBM pharmaceutical delivery, and SaMD. The course has a global focus with case studies set in Africa and the... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Full Stream Ahead

predicts. “In a world where I can sit in my living room in New Jersey and pull content from Africa or Asia or Europe, music won’t have to live in the Top 40 to find an audience anymore, which is still what dominates from an economic... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 23 May 2018
  • News

Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003

Force Academy. While completing his military service, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned master’s and doctoral degrees. “I worked really hard,” he says of his time at Oxford. “I was sitting next to brilliant people who were smarter than me.” It was on a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • February 2009 (Revised November 2016)
  • Exercise

Congo River Basin Project: Role for Dr. Campos

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Anne Starks Acosta, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an integrated research and development project in the Congo River basin. Approved projects will receive an annual... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Process; Projects; Research and Development; Non-Governmental Organizations; Cooperation; Congo Basin
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  • December 2008 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Olam International

By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman
In 20 years, Sunny Verghese had built Singapore-based Olam International from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply Chain; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Singapore
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  • 09 Aug 2017
  • News

Finding a Path Out of Poverty

Helping people improve their lives is of utmost importance to Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013), and he’s using a nonprofit education center, Inspire Belief, to lift young people in South Africa’s poorest communities out of poverty and set them on the path to find their... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Threat in Africa by James M. Hawes (MBA 1971) and Mary Ann Koenig Skyhorse Publishing Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit... View Details
  • March 2019
  • Case

ICSGroup

By: Paul A. Gompers, Christopher Stanton and Silpa Kovvali
Keywords: Hiring; Consulting Industry; United States; Africa
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  • 1 Aug 2010
  • Conference Presentation

Firm Performance, Top Management and Minority Hiring: African‐American Coaches in the NFL, 1970‐2007

By: Andrew Hill and David Thomas
Studies of minority hiring have found that low-status firms are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management, which differs in the level of 1) uncertainty regarding the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Recruitment; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Ethnicity; Sports Industry; Africa; United States
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  • September 2005
  • Article

Decolonising Barclays Bank DCO? Corporate Africanisation Programmes in Nigeria, 1945-1969

The reaction of British business to the decolonisation of the Empire has been the focus of much recent research, but few studies have shed light on the continued presence of commercial activities after independence. Barclays Bank DCO in Nigeria began indigenising its... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Macroeconomics; Banking Industry; Great Britain; Nigeria
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  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

Kola Masha's innovative franchise model. It's a revolution that can't come soon enough for Nigeria. The country was once the breadbasket of West Africa until Royal Dutch Shell discovered vast oil reserves in 1958, and the agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

and threats to Unilever's global business in 1978 based on the commercial and political challenges faced by three of its subsidiaries, Lever Brothers in the United States, Hindustan Lever in India, and United Africa Company in West... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young