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- 24 Jun 2010
- News
Liberia: A Flower Grows in West Africa
- 11 Mar 2009
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Asian footsteps in Africa
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
possibility, but between her junior and senior undergraduate years, a summer internship with UNICEF in the West African country of Benin and a visit with relatives in Ghana, Togo, and Nigeria put that plan on hold. “It was, by far, my... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Courage and Hope in Africa
Sierra Leone, the West African nation of five million people, has been the scene of a brutal civil war for most of the 1990s. An accord signed last year has yielded an uneasy truce; with it has come an opportunity to restore some measure... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
to development assistance, as it works to move Third World countries beyond subsistence toward genuine participation in the global economy. Best of all, the MCC is producing demonstrable results, including in Africa, where Bloom is the MCC’s View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
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Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Standard Bank Group. (You can read more about Williams’s work with NBA Africa in this recent article from the HBS Alumni Bulletin.) The panel was moderated by Naana Winful Fynn (MBA 2004), a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
West Point days, entered the military, “it was because we wanted to be part of something greater than ourselves,” says Jung, who was a member of a unit responsible for clearing bombs while deployed in Afghanistan. She explains that she... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
my family, experienced what is known in West Africa as "land grab," where all my father's assets were taken away from my mother. So to be coming from that experience and then reaching Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
six-story, mixed-use building will soon rise above the dirt and gravel. The ground floor will feature an Afrocentric bookstore-café where customers can peruse books by African authors while sipping hibiscus tea and baobab juice. (Dlodlo, who hails from View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Rising Star
enrolling at HBS, there came a stint as manager of South Africa’s Tourism Board in Paris. As Dhlomo related to Forbes magazine (June 6, 2011), “I was in my favorite city outside South Africa and promoting my country to the View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
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Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
Selena Cuffe On a trip to South Africa in 2005, Selena Cuffe (MBA 2003) happened across an advertisement promoting the first Soweto Wine Festival. Cuffe, the director of an exchange-student nonprofit, didn't know a lot about wine. Yet the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
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No Time Like the Present
Africa Health Holdings which works to improve the health care system in West and East Africa and has 38 facilities, 52 community outreach programs, and serves more than 500,000... View Details
- 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
- 01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts
determined to revive Serbia's economy and one day see his country join the European Union. Not so long ago, Djelic, as a partner at McKinsey in Paris, was enjoying what he terms “a charmed and privileged existence” in the French capital.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
responsibilities of Christians who are serious about following Jesus. Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A Country Divided By James Glenn (MBA 1965) Independently published In the years following the end of World War II,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
Toby Klein, postmarked Tubuai, French West Polynesia. Toby wrote, "Several years ago I told the world to go to hell and moved to Tubuai, French View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes micro-enterprise loans and business training to Christian schools in... View Details