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DAY IN IFC: Safiya Karsan (MBA 2017), United Kingdom - MBA
Life Project Partner Locations Locations Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Hong Kong, China London, United Kingdom Los Angeles, California Shenzhen, China Taichung, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan Tohoku, Japan Tokyo, Japan Filters Read...
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Day in IFC: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017), Africa - MBA
Life Project Partner Locations Locations Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Hong Kong, China London, United Kingdom Los Angeles, California Shenzhen, China Taichung, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan Tohoku, Japan Tokyo, Japan Filters Read...
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- June 1990 (Revised February 1991)
- Case
In the Shadow of the City
Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Focuses on a serious set of disagreements which develops several months into the project between the two...
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Keywords:
Nonprofit Organizations;
Conflict and Resolution;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Ethiopia
Donnellon, Anne, and James Reed. "In the Shadow of the City." Harvard Business School Case 490-093, June 1990. (Revised February 1991.)
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
Thailand, after the Khmer Rouge, and to Somalia and Ethiopia in the early days of the famine. “I was always interested in the most difficult situation,” says DeFehr. “They were all organizational problems.” Today he’s working in...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
global health bottlenecks through CHAI (now known as the Clinton Health Access Initiative since its mission has expanded to include pandemics like tuberculosis and malaria). As director of operations research working out of CHAI’s Boston office, Kim has widened his...
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- May 2022 (Revised April 2023)
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The Freedom Fund (A): Ending Modern Slavery
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
The Freedom Fund founded in 2013 to end modern slavery had raised more than half its intended target (by 2025) of $200 million. In 2021, impressed by its decentralized-partnering style of operations, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott awarded the Fund a gift of $35 million...
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Keywords:
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Spending;
Decisions;
India;
Thailand;
Ethiopia
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Courtney Han. "The Freedom Fund (A): Ending Modern Slavery." Harvard Business School Case 522-099, May 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
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Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan - MBA
Life Project Partner Locations Locations Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Hong Kong, China London, United Kingdom Los Angeles, California Shenzhen, China Taichung, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan Tohoku, Japan Tokyo, Japan Filters Read...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Infrastructure: Lessons from Africa MBA students and project developer Sam Alemayehu (orange vest) tour the Reppie Waste-to-Energy project under construction near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — the first of its kind in Africa. (photo by John...
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- Research Summary
Overview
I am currently working on a series of projects that focus on three questions: (1) how currency fluctuations affect different types of firms across countries; (2) how various macroeconomic policies affect manufacturing growth in developing countries; (3) the...
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Alice Yang
Turkey and Ethiopia on its own initiative this year. In Ethiopia, Alice and her classmates worked with local NGOs and university students to conduct interviews with impoverished villagers, collecting data that will serve as a baseline for...
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
telecoms, commercial real estate, and more. Harvard Business School students visit the Reppie Waste to Energy Plant, the first waste-to-energy project in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Credit: John Macomber We have conducted several...
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- 03 Apr 2018
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Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
Jake Cusack (MBA 2012) is cofounder of CrossBoundary, an investment firm that helps companies explore business opportunities in frontier and developing markets. In this interview, he explains how he and his partners focus their efforts on locations that make solid...
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- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
well and make very sure that were seen to be doing good and right." It was not only in Kenya that politics proved a challenge. Chandaria's business survived throughout Africa by virtue of persistence, confidence, and forgiveness. "In View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
potential expansion opportunities against the growing risks in its production and export markets. With $121 million in 2012 revenues, VP Group has grown rapidly in recent years by expanding its vegetable and flower production beyond Kenya into View Details
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Sean Silverthorne