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Cultural Diversity Leads to Better Decision Making
When you allow space for diverse opinions and varying points of view, you and your team can make better decisions. -
Why African Entrepreneurship Is Booming
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Regional Strategies for Global Leadership
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How New Technologies Could Transform Africa's Health Care System
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The Innovations Closing Africa's Electric Power Gap
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Managing Authenticity: The Paradox of Great Leadership
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The Founder of UBI Group on Leading a Transition to Renewable Energy in Africa
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7 Myths About Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa
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When Should a Leader Apologize—and When Not?
Business communication Magazine ArticleFor a leader, a public apology is always a high-risk move. Understanding what apologies can and cannot do will help you avoid both foolhardy stonewalling and unnecessary contrition. -
Africa's New Generation of Innovators
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How Multinationals Can Grow in the Middle East and Africa
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How Right Should the Customer Be?
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How Africa Is Challenging Marketing
Global Business Digital ArticleAfrican consumer markets offer marketers the chance to reinvent the field. -
What Africa's Banking Industry Needs to Do to Survive
Global Business Digital ArticleThink digitally, act locally. -
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... -
Making Better Investments at the Base of the Pyramid
Economics Magazine ArticleManagers of business ventures that work with the world’s poor need more than financials and feel-good stories to measure success. They need to know exactly who’s benefiting and how. -
Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleGetting there will take classic business skills. -
Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?
Economics Digital ArticleHow winner-take-all dynamics affect local economies. -
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... -
Globalizing the Rest of the World
Global Business Magazine ArticleAlthough they account for 20% of the world's population and a major share of its natural resources, Latin America and Africa have been left out of the...
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Etihad Airways: Rethinking Internationalization and Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case presents a situation faced by Tony Douglas, CEO of Etihad Airways, a government-owned, full-service airline. It is February 6, 2020, and Douglas... -
Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Depicts the options facing Mohammed Ibrahim, founder and chairman of Celtel International, the largest pan African wireless telecommunications provider,... -
Databank in Africa
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case tackles issues of regional strategy and strategic institutional arbitrage. Databank is a financial services firm designing its regional strategy... -
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... -
The Indian Tiger Prowls in Africa: Bharti Airtel's Acquisition of Zain Africa
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details On 8 June 2010, India's leading integrated telecom service provider, Bharti Airtel Ltd ("Airtel"), completed its acquisition of the mobile operations... -
Mara Group
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View 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... -
ACTIS' Pan-Regional Payments Platform: Private Equity Buy-and-build Strategy in the Middle East and Africa
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2010, ACTIS embarked on an ambitious project to build a pan-Middle East and Africa (MEA) payments platform. It had purchased Mediterranean Smart Cards... -
Kenya and the Silicon Savannah
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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... -
Process Reengineering in Emerging Markets: An Automaker's Experience (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Set in early 2009, Part (A) of the case describes the operational challenges faced by a growing subsidiary firm of a global auto major, in an emerging... -
Aphro Beverages
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on distribution, sales, and product decisions as Aphro Beverages reaches an inflection point in its growth trajectory. In 2020, Aphro... -
Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. -
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... -
KOKO Networks: Bridging Energy Transition and Affordability with Carbon Financing
Management Case Study8.95View Details The problem was massive: two million hectares of African forests were lost annually to charcoal production for cooking, an area equivalent to 13 times... -
Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: Scaling an Innovative Start-up Financing Venture
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details EFL provides credit-scoring services in developing countries using psychometric assessment, but the potential loss of a large customer makes them reconsider... -
Savannah Informatics: Innovating During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In February 2020, companies around the world contemplated their next moves as the pandemic news grew more grim each day. For Savannah Informatics, one... -
Monitoring and Evaluation for the Novartis Access Initiative
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case StudyThis case is located within the multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis, as key managers decide what kind of monitoring and evaluation to implement... -
The Farming Dilemma
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In early 2019, Chrystopher Jesse, a student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Nakuru, Kenya, inherited a 10-acre piece of land... -
Becton Dickinson: Global Health Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study15.05View Details Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was a medical technology firm headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, with 43,000 employees and 2016 revenues...
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EnergyNow: Powering a New Market, Teaching Note
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Etihad Airways: Rethinking Internationalization and Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case presents a situation faced by Tony Douglas, CEO of Etihad Airways, a government-owned, full-service airline. It is February 6, 2020, and Douglas... -
Celtel International B.V.: June 2004 (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Depicts the options facing Mohammed Ibrahim, founder and chairman of Celtel International, the largest pan African wireless telecommunications provider,... -
Databank in Africa
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case tackles issues of regional strategy and strategic institutional arbitrage. Databank is a financial services firm designing its regional strategy... -
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... -
The Indian Tiger Prowls in Africa: Bharti Airtel's Acquisition of Zain Africa
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details On 8 June 2010, India's leading integrated telecom service provider, Bharti Airtel Ltd ("Airtel"), completed its acquisition of the mobile operations... -
Identifying, Mapping, and Monitoring the Impact of Hybrid Firms
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere is growing recognition that hybrid organizations can play a critical role in tackling intractable global sustainable development challenges. At... -
Cultural Diversity Leads to Better Decision Making
When you allow space for diverse opinions and varying points of view, you and your team can make better decisions. -
Mara Group
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View 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... -
ACTIS' Pan-Regional Payments Platform: Private Equity Buy-and-build Strategy in the Middle East and Africa
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2010, ACTIS embarked on an ambitious project to build a pan-Middle East and Africa (MEA) payments platform. It had purchased Mediterranean Smart Cards...