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Africa - Global
admissions and outreach activities on the continent. Locations Africa Research Center: Johannesburg 1st Floor Block C, Rosebank Office Park 181 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parktown North Johannesburg, South Africa Africa Research Center: Lagos...
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History | About
Publishing was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. 1997 to 2017 Global Research Centers opened in Silicon Valley; other regional research centers were opened in Asia-Pacific (1999), Latin America (2000), Japan (2002), Europe (2003), India (2006),...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
World Economic Forum for the Global Leader for Tomorrow program. David holds an honors degree in electrical engineering from Wits University in Johannesburg and an MBA with distinction from HBS. French (MBA 1974) Family Yellow Ribbon...
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About - Global
View More Facts Silicon Valley Mid-US Montevideo Paris Istanbul Mumbai São Paulo Shanghai Hong Kong Tokyo Mexico City Dubai Singapore Cairo Tel-Aviv Johannesburg Lagos Nairobi Eighteen global locations help to build on our legacy of...
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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Cluster (2012) Moscow Transportation (2006) Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Chemicals Cluster (2016) Singapore Singapore Higher Education (2016) Slovakia Slovakia Automobile Cluster (2016) South Africa The Johannesburg Software Cluster (2017)...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
associations on the continent, hosted an in-person event last fall in Johannesburg that featured a virtual discussion with Professor Debora Spar, the senior associate dean for Business and Global Society, who leads HBS’s Institute for the...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2005
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South Africa Explorer
with the naked eye. This was the experience shared by the thirty people who participated in the HBS alumni travel program in January. “South Africa Explorer,” a thirteen-day trip that originated in Johannesburg and concluded in Cape Town,...
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- 09 Aug 2017
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Finding a Path Out of Poverty
for Inspire Belief while studying in the HBS Advanced Management Program, in 2013. The CEO of Johannesburg investing house Momentum—who had once been homeless on the streets of the very same city—had reached the point in his career when...
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Alexandra Stanek
Dalberg Global Development Advisors as a senior consultant in its Johannesburg office, working on projects throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. On a academic level, the joint degree gave me a more expansive view of how business impacts...
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Consulting
- 28 May 2017
- Blog Post
HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire
the chance to sample some delicious food and came away with multiple new friends. 4. When will you visit Africa again? I’m headed back to Africa later this summer. I’ll be making stops in Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa and in...
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- March 2015 (Revised November 2017)
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Bonitas
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
Bonitas, a South African medical scheme (i.e., health insurer), must navigate highly restrictive regulations that make it difficult for Bonitas to innovate, grow, and compete with market leader Discovery as well as providers of alternative insurance products. Bonitas...
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Health Insurance;
Health Care;
South Africa;
Medical Scheme;
Public Policy;
Bonitas;
Bonitas Medical Fund;
National Health Insurance;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Policy;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
South Africa;
Johannesburg;
Africa
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Natalie Kindred. "Bonitas." Harvard Business School Case 315-020, March 2015. (Revised November 2017.)
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
owners opted for an IPO in March 2000. Valued at 400 million Rand on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, its shareholders included about 1,000 of the company's security guards. From Ipo To Acquisition "An IPO abroad wasn't...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
similar issues." Two years ago HBS and Wits Business School in Johannesburg established the program in order to aid the rapid economic and social changes taking place in southern Africa. Participants are middle managers from the private...
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Morgan Baker
- October 2010 (Revised July 2013)
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ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Rachel Gordon
As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality. This case follows a series of radical transformations implemented by the organization's CEO, Ramesh Singh—a...
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Local Range;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Leading Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Power and Influence;
Johannesburg;
London
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Rachel Gordon. "ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability." Harvard Business School Case 311-004, October 2010. (Revised July 2013.)
- 01 Dec 2005
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Connecting with Clubs
by interacting with Alumni Relations, and by attending the annual club Officers’ Roundtable meeting at HBS. As an Alumni Board member, and now as board president, I know my experience with the clubs in Johannesburg and Toronto gave me a...
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Allen Yang
Johannesburg—where they helped their host—a South African home-products company, develop new soap product ideas that would appeal to its core base: middle- and lower-income South Africans. "That's what was so interesting about our assignment," Allen says....
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
Clarke left her position as a vice president at Goldman Sachs to set up a regional office for Abt Associates in Johannesburg in 1995. Not long after settling in her new surroundings, she “bumped into” Ongeri, whose office was in the same...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Leadership in the Digital Age
successful otherwise.” Hill heard the same sentiment from many of the approximately 175 people she and her team talked with around the world over the last year. From London and Johannesburg to Manila and Atlanta, a few common themes...
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April White
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Global Understanding - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
leaders can’t be found anywhere else.” Video clip Global Research Centers Deepen HBS’s Engagement and Impact Silicon Valley Mexico City Sao Paulo Buenos Aires Paris Istanbul Dubai Tel-Aviv Lagos Johannesburg Mumbai Singapore Shanghai Hong...
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- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Africans over the course of the next 30 years,” he says. It was a January 2012 New York Times article about a stampede at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa that helped crystalize Royster’s vision for Maarifa. Five thousand...
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Jill Radsken