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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
the best location to start a business, assemble the necessary resources, adapt to local environments, and execute for success. Creating Value through International Strategy edited by Africa Arino, Pankaj Ghemawat, and Joan E. Ricart... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
leapfrog and adapt to climate change, ensuring that Africa can feed itself and even the world. The book is for aspiring and emerging agribusiness entrepreneurs across Africa as well as agribusiness students... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training managers in the developing world
aims to help build a modern professional management class, help create jobs, spark value-added processing of raw materials, and encourage competitive manufacturing. “There are up to 100 institutions in Africa that define themselves as a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
Rawdon: Fostering a global spirit of cultural connection (photo by Stella Kalinina) Growing up, Leigh Rawdon (MBA 2001) didn’t travel internationally with her family. But she loved to listen to the stories her globe-trotting aunt told of far-off destinations, from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
growth that South Africa is leading in the region." The Burden of Geography Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, delivered the first keynote address, a captivating presentation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
variety of private, nonprofit, and governmental sources. Foundations are fickle, so always keep more than a few irons in the fundraising fire. Africa Business Conference. Building the African Dream: Defining a New Approach to Success... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
wildlife in Africa and other continents, broadening her knowledge by studying scientific articles on her subjects. But the dissonance of spending summers in the open plains and the rest of the year in the jungles of New York slowly grew.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta reached out to the student-run Africa Business Club for advice. She also participated in the School’s New Venture Competition. In 2014, Tomato Jos won $25,000 as runner-up in the Social Enterprise category, giving Mehta the money... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
year and would be grateful for your input and suggestions; feel free to contact any of the committee chairs. In the meantime, our sights are set on South Africa in the spring. I hope you have made plans to attend the next Global Alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
Tim Leach (MBA 2015) had backpacked in Africa before, so he was somewhat prepared for the heat, noise, traffic, dust, and disorientation he and his FIELD 2 team experienced in early January, when they emerged from the airport and began... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that reward the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
Sanchez perfected this approach during his two SEAL platoon commands, working with each platoon to develop and execute plans for strategic reconnaissance and training missions in Africa and elsewhere. He is especially proud of his service... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
solve clotting, infection, and clogging issues. Alumnus: Andrew Jones, MBA 1997 Region: Mid-Atlantic US Pawame: Making solar energy affordable in Africa through a microfinance approach using mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) When Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) cofounded the grocery delivery platform BulkWhiz in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in spring 2017, she joined a nascent startup scene in the Middle East and North View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
among her experience of Africa and something else emerges. The image she chooses reveals much about the spirit of the continent she has grown to love and much about her own optimism, quiet determination, and humanitarian commitment. At a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
development." "I want to demonstrate that in Africa we're no different from anybody else in any fundamental way," Lawani elaborates. "We're just at a different point in our development. There's no reason that we can't apply to View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
quickly, to more than 200 employees. And GiveDirectly continues to push the envelope, recently announcing a universal basic income pilot in East Africa with the goal of providing regular cash payments to poor households over more than 10... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details