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  • 22 Oct 2022
  • News

Shared Value Africa Initiative: Why bridging the digital divide is critical to economic opportunity

  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Southern Africa

By: James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin and L. Alexander Green
In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to persuade white Rhodesian leader Ian Smith to accede to black majority rule. Conducted near the end of President Gerald Ford’s... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Negotiation Process; Race; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal; Government and Politics; Africa; United States
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  • June 2022
  • Supplement

Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Elie Ofek
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  • 26 Mar 2024

The MBA Tour Africa & Middle East

Get ready to take your career to the next level! Don't miss the opportunity to meet with admissions decision-makers, improve your application, and get exclusive GMAT Exam tips from the exam creators. View Details
  • 07 Jul 2016
  • News

Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa

Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977) is helping empower poor and displaced communities in the developing world—particularly women—cope with the impact of climate change through sustainable food, water, energy, and income-generation programs. As chief operating officer for the... View Details
  • October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
  • Case

Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa

By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight countries, was acquired by The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest private social impact investing funds, and by FS... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Investing For Impact; Ecotourism; COVID-19; Equity Financing; Strategy Formulation; Profitability; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Sustainability; Conservation Planning; Corporate Social Responsibility; Investment; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Financing and Loans; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Pandemics; Tourism Industry; Africa; Rwanda; Angola
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  • May 2011 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

Nike Football: World Cup 2010 South Africa

By: Elie Ofek and Ryan Johnson
Nike's Football division needs to devise a strategy to excel at the 2010 World Cup games in South Africa. Nike has gone from a niche player in the market for football apparel and footwear in 1994 to a formidable competitor to Adidas in 2008 (with revenues of over $1... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Divisions; Communication; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Planning; Competition; Apparel and Accessories Industry; South Africa
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  • February 2022 (Revised July 2022)
  • Supplement

InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (B)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin
Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details
Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa
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  • February 2014
  • Article

National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa

By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel framework that accounts both for local geography and cultural-genetic traits. We exploit the fact that the political boundaries in the eve of African independence partitioned... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Local Range; Government and Politics; Africa
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  • October 2000
  • Article

Tokens of Faith: Mission Money in Africa

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Africa
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    Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa

    This review article seeks to build bridges between mainstream African history and the more historically oriented branch of the ‘new’ economic history of Africa. We survey four central topics of the new economic history of Africa — growth, trade, labor, and... View Details

      Africa Research Center Webinar Series: COVID-19: Reflections, Challenges and Next Steps

      In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Harvard Business School (HBS) leadership urged faculty seeking to contribute to not overthink their engagement—to do what they could for whom they could. That hit home with HBS faculty member Euvin Naidoo.... View Details
      • 03 Mar 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

      From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the future may hold as myriad protestors risk their lives for... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
      • spring 1996
      • Article

      Pathways to Business Success in Sub-Saharan Africa

      By: James E. Austin, W. Cohn and J. Quelch
      Keywords: Success; Africa
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        National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa

        We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel framework that accounts both for local geography and cultural-genetic traits. We exploit the fact that the political boundaries in the eve of African independence... View Details

        • 21 Apr 2016
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa

        Keywords: by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri
        • Web

        IFC: Ghana; Africa Rising - Course Catalog

        HBS Course Catalog IFC: Ghana; Africa Rising Course Number 6057 Senior Lecturer Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie January; J; 3.0 credits Fall On-Campus Course Sessions: Thursday sessions: October 31, November 7, November 14, November 21, and... View Details
        • 02 Jun 2021

        Geographic Regions Series: Alumni Perspectives from North Africa

        Join the HBS Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Research Center as they moderate a panel of fellow alumni discussing their MBA experiences and the incredible HBS network in the North Africa Region. View Details
        • 24 Apr 2014
        • News

        Changing the way the world sees Africa

        continent’s 54 nations focusing on current events, business, travel, arts, and culture. “When people have unbiased information about Africa,” says Clarke, “they appreciate the ingenuity, beauty and culture of this continent of a billion people. The world is now... View Details
        • 26 Feb 2016

        HBS Africa Business Club Prospective Student Day

        Join us on campus prior to the Africa Business Conference to get to know HBS and the MBA community. The event will include a campus tour, an information session with MBA Admissions, a Q&A panel with current students and alumni, and an... View Details