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- 26 Jan 2011
- News
China, South Africa Advance Sustainability Efforts
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
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
- News
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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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
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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- 02 Nov 2015
- News
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
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
too poor to afford college, he traveled to find work in Johannesburg after losing his job as a barman in Port Elizabeth. When a job eluded him, he wound up living on the streets for nearly seven months. “The biggest challenge with being...
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Margie Kelley
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
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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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
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
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
(VIS '79), director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology in Johannesburg and longtime president of the HBS Club of South Africa, recalls how during the apartheid era, HBS alumni helped the country's business community to...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
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
- News
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
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
Africa for five years, teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and serving on the investment committee of a private equity fund. It was also during this time that she acquired the domain name Africa.com, without...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
village, she went to Johannesburg to live with a white family while spending a postgraduate high school year at an otherwise all-boys, mostly white private school. Formal apartheid had been recently abolished, but nonetheless, Mahlare...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
products can be found in hospitals from Buenos Aires to Warsaw and from Johannesburg to Tokyo. Unlike the use of casts and traction, internal fixation helps the bone heal more quickly, with better long-term results. "I knew that we could...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
School of Public Health as a way to understand the policies and skills required to address the systemic challenges that many developing countries face. She then moved to Johannesburg to assist with efforts by South Africa’s First National...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
Theatre, first starring Eli Wallach and now Hal Linden. After successful runs this year in Johannesburg and Stuttgart, the play will open within a year in eight other cities around the globe. The play draws on Baron's real-life...
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Eileen K. McCluskey