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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
Tanzania photo galleries Photography by Graeme Johnson, Alan Steinert, Jr., and Susan Young. Mt Kilimanjaro photo galleries Photos courtesy Norm Boone (MBA ’77) and Linda Lubitz. It’s 5:30 a.m. As our Jeep bumps along a dirt road under a...
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- 04 Feb 2013
- News
Is Tanzania Raising Enough Tax Revenue?
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than women in high income...
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April White
- 03 Dec 2012
- News
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
Another highlight of the trip was a stimulating case discussion on coffee production led by two local alumni, Thomas Dixon (MBA ’88) and Tim Piper (MBA ’88). Dixon and Piper both work for the Tanzania arm of TechnoServe, a global...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
telecoms, but public outcry from the service disruptions was so intense that the attacks eventually stopped. The power of that human connection will no doubt continue to be one of the strongest forces in the country’s future development. As Roshan expands into Burundi,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Safari Beauty
The natural beauty that we saw on the safari portion of the trip — both plant and animal — were truly spectacular. In the Ngorongoro crater, Serengeti, and Lake Manyara regions, we drove around in vans that had pop-up roofs so that we could stand and get an...
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- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Building Cities, spent two weeks in Ethiopia and Tanzania exploring ways the private sector could help finance and operate public infrastructure to achieve better outcomes. In August 2016, in partnership with the Gordon Institute of...
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- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on development projects in Tanzania and...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
Nichols Photo courtesy Bill Nichols Want to show your kids a real rainforest instead of the Rainforest Cafe? Marketing consultant Bill Nichols (MBA ’78) and his wife, Jennifer, did just that, taking their two children to locales such as Ecuador, Thailand, and Tanzania....
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
lights and other electrical devices for three days before it’s swapped out for one that has been recharged. Customers pay a yearly subscription fee per battery and a small fee for each recharge. What comes next: On-the-ground research in villages in View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
universities across the country, the letter read, in part: “It is your turn to show that managers and CEOs can leverage their influence and resources to benefit their own frontline employees.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Supporting Students on Their Journeys Increasing...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Antarctic Adventure
Photo OP: The penguins didn’t seem to mind being the center of attention when 21 HBS alumni and friends ventured ashore during a ten-day trip to Antarctica in early December. The School’s Alumni Travel Program heads to Tanzania and Rwanda...
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Antarctica
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through wireless public pay phones at over one thousand locations...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Dynamic Group
We arrived over several days in early January, most of us flying into Arusha, Tanzania, although some chose to travel via Nairobi, Kenya. Coming from ten countries, we were met by Global Adrenaline’s local representatives, who escorted us to the New Arusha Hotel. For...
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Hospitality
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
The Zanzibar portion of the trip allowed us to slow our pace and take advantage of the seaside resort as well as a series of optional side trips. Given the legendary lure of Zanzibar as one of the Spice Islands, many of us elected to take a tour that explored the...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
“If I had known how hard it would be, I never would have done it. But I’m really glad I did.” That was the most common response among the group of fifteen HBS alumni and friends who participated in the pre-safari optional adventure of climbing the highest peak in...
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