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Dr. Ahmed Heikal
Dr. Ahmed Heikal, Chairman and Founder of Qalaa Holdings, describes how the initial capital raised to start the firm was applied to profitable investments in cement and construction companies.
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
quite diverse. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, for example, are countries noted for application of Islamic law beyond religious and family life to civic, financial, and commercial affairs, he said. Since the 1970s, other nations such as Jordan, Iran, and View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
Omar, Hesham (OPM 37, 2008), Adlina (OPM 46, 2015), and Adam Hafez Hesham Hafez, who was born in Egypt and grew up in Austria, launched the Paper Distribution International Group in Dubai while in his 30s, and within a decade he had grown...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
2006, addressed graduating HBS students at this year’s Class Day. Born in Cairo, Cohen was 11 when he and his family, along with other Jewish residents, were forced to leave Egypt by the country’s government after the Suez Canal crisis in...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
When author and start-up vet Chris Schroeder (MBA 1992) attended a regional entrepreneurship conference in Dubai in 2010, the energy of the crowd was a revelation. "I could not get my head around the idea that this was coming from places like Mubarak's Egypt—places...
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- March 2020 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Performance Management at Afreximbank (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Siko Sikochi and Josh Steimle
Based in Cairo, Afreximbank was founded in October 1993 as a specialized continental financial institution designed to address the low level of intra-African trade, the decline in financial flows to Africa, the worsening external debt situation of many African...
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Keywords:
Performance Management;
Balanced Scorecard;
Performance Expectations;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Organizational Culture;
Strategy;
Banking Industry;
Africa;
Egypt
Kaplan, Robert S., Siko Sikochi, and Josh Steimle. "Performance Management at Afreximbank (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-029, March 2020. (Revised February 2023.)
- September 2016 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company
By: Victoria Ivashina and Marc Homsy
This case follows Qalaa Holdings, a successful Egypt-based private equity firm, and gives insight into the types of investments it pursued, its growth over time, and the limited partner base it had at hand. It also allows students to consider and debate whether the...
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Keywords:
Africa;
Structuring And Financing Large Projects;
Private Equity;
Infrastructure;
Project Finance;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
Egypt;
Africa
Ivashina, Victoria, and Marc Homsy. "Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company." Harvard Business School Case 217-011, September 2016. (Revised March 2018.)
- April 2024
- Article
Loneliness and Emotion Regulation in Daily Life
By: Lameese Eldesouky, Amit Goldenberg and Kate Ellis
There is a growing understanding that emotion regulation (ER) abilities can be an important buffer for loneliness. However, most of this research is cross-sectional. Thus, it is unknown whether loneliness is associated with ER in momentary evaluations and can predict...
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Eldesouky, Lameese, Amit Goldenberg, and Kate Ellis. "Loneliness and Emotion Regulation in Daily Life." Art. 112566. Personality and Individual Differences 221 (April 2024).
- March 2024
- Case
Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market
By: Paul A. Gompers and Ahmed Dahawy
Karim Nour, the founder of Kashat, an Egyptian nano-lending fintech company, is contemplating how to manage the growth of his startup. Over the summer of 2022, Kashat's loan disbursements had grown by nearly 40%, fueled by macroeconomic instability in Egypt. However,...
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- May 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Teaching Note
CEMEX: Rewarding Egyptian Retailers (TN)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching note to 106065.
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- March 2006 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers
CEMEX has pursued an aggressive decommoditization strategy focused on its relationship with small Egyptian retailers. In particular, the strategic role and effectiveness of the Rewards Program, a tournament that rewarded the sales performance of the retailers, was...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Performance Improvement;
Sales;
Motivation and Incentives;
Construction Industry;
Egypt
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, Joshua Bellin, and Carole Winkler. "CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers." Harvard Business School Case 106-065, March 2006. (Revised January 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Honors Four Alumni
former chairman of London-based Apax Partners, one of the world’s leading venture-capital and private-equity firms, Ronnie Cohen and his parents emigrated, with virtually no possessions, to England from Egypt in 1956. Often said to be the...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
challenging way of teaching, you know. When I first went to Egypt to teach a group of executives, one said to me, “Wow, this case-study approach is nothing that I’ve experienced before, and I really like it. It’s like jazz. We’re used to...
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- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
income. By the end of the revolution in 2014, Hassab Labs was among the top five chains in the country. In October 2014, Seha partially exited Hassab Labs in a sale to an African conglomerate, SAHAM Group. At the same time, Azab learned that foreign investors in a...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
radiology. “Our goal is to offer best-in-class medical service that is unparalleled across Egypt and Africa,” she notes. MRC has recently installed the first PET/MRI machine in Egypt, other African nations, and the Middle East to better...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
Recent Class of 2019 graduates Katharine Bodnar, Doha Tantawy, and Ike Kyei, with Tuyee Yeboah (not pictured) from the Class of 2018, are the first recipients of the GO: Africa Fellowship. (photo by Susan Young) Recent Class of 2019 graduates Katharine Bodnar, Doha...
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