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- 24 Jan 2012
- News
How Kenya Is Building a Sustainable Banana
- 13 Jan 2016
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The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
- 25 Jun 2011
- News
It's Africa calling for mobile operators
- 02 Feb 2012
- News
Will Facebook Live Up to the Hype?
- 16 Mar 2013
- News
In the Balance: The Good Leader
- 20 Mar 2014
- News
Europe? Yes, we can
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
Kigali, Rwanda Nairobi, Kenya New Delhi, India São Paulo, Brazil Santiago, Chile Seoul, South Korea * For students who were not able to travel abroad The challenge posed to students in HBS’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course sounds a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) helps African farmers and their families escape poverty through beekeeping. He cofounded Honey Care Africa (HCA), a private-sector enterprise in Kenya that partners with local NGOs and international... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
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A Storybook Beginning
Risher: E-reading the African story “Treasure of the Trees” at the Kade Primary School in Ghana. Courtesy David Risher If you’ve just read Curious George Visits the Library and desperately want to get your hands on Curious George Goes to the Beach, being a second... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
to the previously 'unbanked' at the bottom of the pyramid. Equity Bank has increased financial inclusion while generating good returns for our investors. In five years, Equity's customer base—its depositors— has increased from about 2 million to 7 million; in View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market finishing number one in the world... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
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Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
Yusuf Keshavjee Some years ago, Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) was driving near Lake Victoria in Kenya when he noticed vendors by the roadside selling honey. Not an unusual sight in Africa, but it got Keshavjee to thinking about issues... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
cents a day, are then enrolled in the program, and cash transfers are delivered via mobile payment. Each recipient receives about $1,000—the equivalent of a household’s annual budget. This fiscal year GiveDirectly expects to transfer $43 million to some of the poorest... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Oct 2019
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Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
While meeting with representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority at the Port of Mombasa, faculty members toured a bulk carrier ship off-loading grain commodities to Grain Bulk Handlers, one of the companies HBS faculty visited during the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government changes after a flawed national election in 2007 and a... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Nov 2011
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Lessons From a Kenyan Slum
- 01 Jun 1997
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Jennifer L. Scott
year the show is reinvented," she explains. "It's a lot like a startup." Scott has always sought out new challenges and ventures. After graduating from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, she taught mathematics and business education to rural high-school... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Jun 2012
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At the i-lab, a New Use for Silk
- 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle
private debt and equity options. That position took her on a trip to Kenya this summer to search for investment opportunities—including microfinance, sustainable agriculture, clean cook stoves, and urban sanitation—viewing them through a... View Details