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April 2021
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Glovo: Expanding Quick Commerce

By: Antonio Moreno and James Barnett

In March 2021, delivery app CEO Oscar Pierre and his team consider strategies to grow Glovo’s quick commerce delivery service and to approach their expansion in Kenya. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Food; Global Strategy; Operations; Strategy; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Web Services Industry; Africa; Kenya; Nairobi; Europe; Spain; Barcelona; Middle East; Central America; South America

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Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West View Details

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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

School Juan Pablo Del Valle HBS MBA 2001 Chairman of the Board, Orbia “In an era of climate change, one of the greatest challenges of sustainable urbanization is managing the efficiency of water systems. At Orbia, we are striving to make cities more resilient. For... View Details

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

Business School. Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Laura Castrillo is the former head of analytics for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at True Fit. [Image: iStockphoto/cybrain] How has... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

17 Dec 2017
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How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

camp in Uganda, and you heard a woman's song. Heaney: I was over in Africa doing some work, and in Africa, many of the organizations need very specific skill sets, medical training, logistics experience. I didn't have those, so I had to... View Details

October 1995 (Revised May 2006)
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Andersen Consulting - EMEAI: Reorganization for Revitalization

By: Ashish Nanda and Michael Y. Yoshino

Vernon Ellis, managing partner of Andersen Consulting -- Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India (AC -- EMEAI), is considering how best to reorganize. AC -- EMEAI has grown rapidly over the past five years to become Europe's largest consulting operation. However, Ellis... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Organizational Design; Growth Management; Cost vs Benefits; Leading Change; Management Teams; Consulting Industry; Europe; Africa; India; Middle East

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Philipp Schäelli

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I wanted to do an MBA for three main reasons: 1) Making the next step in my career, 2) Broaden my academic footing and 3) Expand my network of friends that follow a business career. From the beginning of my application... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services

December 2015
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Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization

By: Geoffrey Jones and Christos Pitelis

This article explores the role of entrepreneurial imagination on the international expansion of multinational enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The article explores how appropriability-informed and... View Details

Keywords: Imagination; Globalization; History; Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Africa; Asia; Europe; North and Central America

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03 Apr 2012
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Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence

Keywords: by Shon Hiatt & Wesley Sine

December 2010
Teaching Note

Urban Water Partners (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Karthik Ramanna and George Serafeim

Teaching Note for 111016 and 111029. View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; Utilities Industry; Dar es Salaam

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Urban Water Partners (B)

By: Karthik Ramanna, George Serafeim and Aldo Sesia

The case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get their company through August 2010, but needs more capital thereafter. An HBS alumnus is interested... View Details

Keywords: Human Needs; Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Health Industry; Utilities Industry; Dar es Salaam

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Keywords: Telecommunications; Diversified

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Neveen El Tahri

Neveen El Tahri, Chairperson of Delta Shield for Investment, describes an increased interest in entrepreneurship among youth in the country particularly since the 2011 Egyptian revolution. View Details

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Helmy Abouleish

Helmy Abouleish, CEO of the SEKEM Initiative, outlines the principles of biodynamic farming and how they relate to sustainable economic, ecological, social, and cultural development. View Details

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Helmy Abouleish

Helmy Abouleish, CEO of the SEKEM Initiative, describes the group’s early days as his father first established the groundwork for biodynamic agriculture and an “economy of love” in the Egyptian desert. View Details

12 Aug 2021
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Ouided Bouchamaoui

Ouided Bouchamaoui, the Nobel Prize winning co-founder of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet and CEO of Hédi Bouchamaoui Group, explains how she was able to improve the relationship between the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade, and Handicrafts and the... View Details

04 Aug 2021
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Ouided Bouchamaoui

Ouided Bouchamaoui, the Nobel Prize winning co-founder of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet and CEO of Hédi Bouchamaoui Group, discusses the influence her father, who founded Hédi Bouchamaoui & Sons, a family business focused on oil and gas exploration, had on her... View Details

31 Jan 2011
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Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

empowering its black affinity network led to a sevenfold growth on the continent of Africa in seven years. He also is researching the dynamics that lead to blacks being chosen as chief executives—focusing on the corporate structure of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717498-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-034 Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past Over the past several decades, rapid growth in Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne