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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
African continent and import taxes are exorbitant, prices can run sky-high—to the tune of US$80,000 for a 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser, for instance. To address these problems, Nairobi-based startup Mobius Motors has reimagined an affordable...
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Amy Yee
- 02 Jul 2015
- News
Public-Private Alliance Can Solve Affordable Housing Crunch
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
Talk to Tony O. Elumelu (AMP 166, 2004) for more than a few minutes and you are sure to hear about “Africapitalism.” The Nigerian businessman and philanthropist coined the term in 2010 to describe the investment strategy that has shaped his career and will, he...
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April White
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut. At TSG he was introduced to one...
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Jill Radsken
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business model is being replicated in...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS
Chalsty and his wife are from South Africa, and they have requested that the fellowship be used to support black South African MBA students at HBS. Since earning his MBA with high distinction, Chalsty has been active as an alumnus,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working...
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Dan Morrell
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
the African continent. "Step Change" is the story I wrote to try to understand how a person—and a country—can adapt and evolve so quickly—as well as the ups and downs that come with that growth. It's published in the March issue of the...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Financing Africa’s infrastructure
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt....
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- 22 Apr 2020
- News
Covid-19 in Africa: Navigating Short and Long Term Strategies
- 04 May 2017
- News
The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership
- 06 Dec 2013
- News
Prescription: Leverage Human Nature
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
behavior helped him verify the changes he saw in response to antibiotics. Rodakis’s meticulous tracking of more than 20 parameters of his son’s behavior helped him verify the changes he saw in response to antibiotics. “That’s not how innovation and venture View Details
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 12 Feb 2024
- News
Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award
education and entrepreneurship.” LeFebvre went on to become cofounder and managing partner for AIC International Investments. Then, in 2006, he founded 3.5.7.11, a privately owned equity investment firm. It has raised more than $1 billion in institutional View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through...
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- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would have been possible without the game of chess. The founder of...
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Maureen Harmon
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
six-story, mixed-use building will soon rise above the dirt and gravel. The ground floor will feature an Afrocentric bookstore-café where customers can peruse books by African authors while sipping hibiscus tea and baobab juice. (Dlodlo,...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
matched in ambition by its goals, which include nothing less than creating an economic growth engine that can support the world’s youngest and fastest-growing continental population, says Mark Tatum (MBA 1998), the NBA’s deputy commissioner and COO. “We want the first...
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Dan Morrell