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Where Will We Find Tomorrow’s Leaders?
Emerging markets Magazine ArticleWe might not recognize the leaders we really need because of who they are, where they’re from, or how they behave. -
Africa's Maker Movement Offers Opportunity for Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleNew innovators can change the competitive landscape. -
A Lean Startup Approach to International Development
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleLarge-scale planning isn't the answer. -
Managing Authenticity: The Paradox of Great Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLeaders and followers both associate authenticity with sincerity, honesty, and integrity. It's the real thing--the attribute that uniquely defines great... -
Before Your Next African Investment
Global Business Digital ArticleWhile attending a UN-sponsored workshop last month in Freetown, Sierra Leone, I noticed an amazing transformation in that country, fuelled primarily by... -
Seven Reasons Why Africa's Time Is Now
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleSurprising facts about Africa, which promises to be the world's next growth hot spot. -
Africa's New Generation of Innovators
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWith a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge... -
Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility
Social enterprise HBR BestsellerGovernments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their activities. Myriad organizations rank companies on the performance of their corporate social responsibility (CSR), and, despite sometimes questionable methodologies, these rankings attract considerable publicity. As a result, CSR has emerged as an inescapable priority for business […] -
What Africa’s Leaders Have Learned About Facing Huge Challenges
Government Digital ArticleOvercoming them is a learnable skill. -
The Rapid Growth of Digital Business in Africa
Global Business Digital ArticleWhat the continent's first tech unicorn means for the future. -
Nurture Entrepreneurs in Africa
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIn the last few months, the number of entrepreneurship workshops and trainings in Africa has increased. Entrepreneurship has become the next big thing... -
Life’s Work: Desmond Tutu
Leadership Magazine ArticleAmong human rights activists, he’s often compared to Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., but Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu demurs at those comparisons. The South African cleric jokes that he won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize mostly because the Nobel Committee was looking for an anti-apartheid figure whose last name was easy to pronounce. “What […] -
Improving Innovation in Africa
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to move from an invention economy to an innovation economy. -
Where Babies Come From: Supply and Demand in an Infant Marketplace
Economics Magazine ArticleThe age-old desire of infertile couples for children has finally found a way to be satisfied—the brave new world of high-tech childbirth. The industry that has sprung into being challenges our ideas about what markets are and can do. -
Dream Deferred: The Story of a High-Tech Entrepreneur in a Low-Tech World
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAdesemi, an American start-up in Africa, had been trying for six years to blanket the developing world with desperately needed wireless communications... -
The World's Next Great Manufacturing Center
Global Business Magazine ArticleAccording to data from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, privately owned Chinese companies are making more than 150 investments a year in Africa's manufacturing... -
Why African Entrepreneurship Is Booming
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleCreative ideas in the right economic conditions. -
How Right Should the Customer Be?
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIf your salespeople aren't sure who their boss is--the district manager? the regional manager? the customer?--it could be a sign that your company's sales... -
A Nigerian Model for Stakeholder Capitalism
Global Business Digital ArticleLessons from the Igbo apprenticeship system. -
Meet the Tech Companies Creating Opportunity in Africa
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThey have entrepreneurial zeal and a talent for problem solving.
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African Entrepreneurship: Weighing Adventure Travel Business Opportunities
Management Case Study8.95View Details It was June 2021 and the international tourism industry was beginning to show signs of revival after the COVID-19 global pandemic. Small business owner... -
Rahama Wright and Shea Yeleen
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Rahama Wright and Shea Yeleen is the story of a young female social entrepreneur, Rahama Wright, who started a non-profit venture, Shea Yeleen, to train... -
OCP Africa: Building Ecosystems For Sustainability
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The OCP Africa illustrates the challenges of entering a market challenged by unfavorable conditions for the target customer - be it infrastructure, access... -
Celtel International B.V.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Mo Ibrahim, chairman of Celtel International, the largest provider of cellular services in sub-Saharan Africa, must decide on his company's future. After... -
PlayPumps: A Playful Solution to Africa's Water Problem? (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This two-part case examines the PlayPumps project, which aimed to provide an innovative solution to water problems in southern Africa. Part A begins with... -
Social Entrepreneurship: Kiva
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details After hearing a talk by Muhammad Yunis, a Bangladeshi economist, about an innovative program to provide loans to beggars, Jessica Jackley Flannery became... -
Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare
Management Case Study8.95View Details In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first ESG investor event focused exclusively on its efforts... -
Honey Care Africa (B): Opportunity Knocks
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Mara Group
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study12.00View Details Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which... -
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details By December 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had swept across the globe, creating widespread disruption in all aspects of everyday life. Almost 90 million... -
SA Taxi: A Vehicle for Empowerment? (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details SA Taxi was a vertically integrated business that operated in South Africa's distinctive taxi industry. Despite being plagued by violence, informal structures,... -
EnergyNow: Powering a New Market
Management Case Study8.95View Details In August 2022, EnergyNow co-founder and CEO Stuart MacWilliam (MBA 2015) considers the company strategy for building solar panels to provide power in... -
Ethiopia's Industrial Parks Strategy
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Moleskine Foundation: Can Creativity Change the World?
Management Case Study8.95View Details The Italy-based Moleskine Foundation worked with young adults in Africa and Europe to inspire social change through art and creative projects. Adama Sanneh,... -
Margaret Huebner: Building the Human Resources Function at Oman's Port of Salalah
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case describes how consultant Margaret Huebner successfully updated the human resources (HR) function for the emergent Port of Salalah in the Sultanate... -
Lafarge, ISIS and the Syrian Civil War: Business in the Face of Terrorism
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 2007, global building products company Lafarge purchased a dilapidated factory in northern Syria and invested $680 million to build and operationalize... -
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A), Portuguese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions... -
Raya Holding: What is the holding really holding?
Management Case Study8.95View Details On 7 October 2020, the employees of Raya, an Egyptian holding company, received an email that sent shockwaves across the entire firm. The board had just... -
Husk Power
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced...
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African Entrepreneurship: Weighing Adventure Travel Business Opportunities
Management Case Study8.95View Details It was June 2021 and the international tourism industry was beginning to show signs of revival after the COVID-19 global pandemic. Small business owner... -
PlayPumps: A Playful Solution to Africa's Water Problem? (A) and (B) Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for case HEC225 and HEC226 -
SimCase Simulation: $50M for Change
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleDeveloped in conjunction with Professor Megan Kashner, "$50M For Change" assigns learners to one of five roles-impact investor, state director of commerce,... -
Rahama Wright and Shea Yeleen
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Rahama Wright and Shea Yeleen is the story of a young female social entrepreneur, Rahama Wright, who started a non-profit venture, Shea Yeleen, to train... -
M-KOPA Solar: Using Digital Disruption to Connect the World's Poor - Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for case LBS188 -
African Entrepreneurship: Weighing Adventure Travel Business Opportunities, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case W31908 -
OCP Africa: Building Ecosystems For Sustainability
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The OCP Africa illustrates the challenges of entering a market challenged by unfavorable conditions for the target customer - be it infrastructure, access... -
Celtel International B.V.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Mo Ibrahim, chairman of Celtel International, the largest provider of cellular services in sub-Saharan Africa, must decide on his company's future. After... -
PlayPumps: A Playful Solution to Africa's Water Problem? (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This two-part case examines the PlayPumps project, which aimed to provide an innovative solution to water problems in southern Africa. Part A begins with... -
SimCase Simulation: $50M for Change, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for SC0017.