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- 04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time,...
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Susan Young
- 04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar
you about coffee growing regions in Africa in order to create an intimacy. Stores were designed as a place for lingering and relaxing. For customers who were looking for an in-and-out buying experience, that was frustrating and frivolous....
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- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
ways it’s easier to do our collaborative work in Africa and Asia, because they insist upon building relationships. You’re not going to do business together until the third time you’ve gotten together for beer or for tea.” After college,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
challenge will be the extremely concentrated demand, as more than 3 million visitors travel to Cup matches spread over a country that is the world's fifth largest by geographical area. "The dimension of Brazil poses a bigger challenge than what Germany or South View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
not playing by the rules and to recognize and celebrate those who did. —Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) cofounder of West Africa Vocational Education; Social Enterprise track runner-up, 2013 The Value of Slow As one who loves the early-stage...
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- 11 Dec 2014
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Transforming the wine industry for black South Africans
Selena Cuffe (MBA 2003) discovered that only 2 percent of South Africa’s $3 billion wine industry was owned by black South Africans. As CEO of Heritage Link Brands, she now runs the largest import business of these wines, bringing them to audiences around the world....
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- 10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat
nets in Africa that money would buy, for example.” The Atlantic print publication has maintained a stable readership of about 1.5 million over the years; in 2004, its website had about 500,000 monthly visitors, a figure now closer to 25...
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- 20 Dec 2011
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Inside the Planning of a New Course
- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial banking followed, as well as volunteer work in View Details
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Sep 2013
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The First Scrum
play." They came. Brown: I'll never forget a tournament we played in New York on Ellis Island. Most of the other teams were made up of guys from Europe or South Africa or New Zealand who were working in New York. After the games, we'd sit...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Exploring Global Business Practices
Enhancing the Worldview of HBS Students and Faculty Building on a legacy of global engagement, Harvard Business School has made internationalization a key priority for its second century. To prepare leaders to meet the challenges of today’s society, the School focuses...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four
entities. I’d always thought that Africa was the next generation’s problem — that it was just too tough. But the more I looked at MP’s Millennium Villages initiative, the more similarities I saw to what we did in the private sector in...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
(which are often legal and unavoidable), while maintaining a strong anti-corruption and anti-capture stance. HBS professor Lou Wells, with many years of experience working on mining agreements and as a negotiator in Africa and Indonesia,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural economic development in East...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
conceptions of development in another. Lessons from the collapse of democracy in Indonesia were later applied in Chile, just as the challenge of political Islam in Indonesia informed the policies of the left in Iran. Efforts to build agrarian economies in West View Details