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An Inspired Model... or a Misguided One Oprah Winfrey's Dream School for Impoverished South African Girls, Teaching Plan
Bane, Mary JoTeaching Note HBS-KS1174-ETeaching Note for case HKS129.Starting at €0.00
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Learning From the Entrepreneurial Icebreakers
Prats Moreno, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Sysko-Romanczuk , SylwiaArticle ART-2592-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyThis article shares the insights of "entrepreneurial icebreakers" -- business pioneers who launched private companies in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and who expanded beyond national borders by clearing pathways for themselves and others into international markets around the globe. In documenting the obstacles they had to cut through to get to where they are today, we show the path to break inflexible, outdated str...Starting at €8.20
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Emerging Markets: Look Before You Leap
Khanna, Tarun; Palepu, KrishnaArticle ART-2385-EStrategyThink "emerging markets," and most people think BRICs. The problem with this approach is that it is too simplistic and tends to treat emerging markets as one homogeneous whole, when the exact opposite is true. Instead of asking, "What's my emerging market strategy for Brazil, Russia, India or China?" companies should ask themselves, "In which ways is this particular market emerging?" Viewed this way, the answer may surprise them. The authors synt...Starting at €8.20
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An Inspired Model... or a Misguided One? Oprah Winfrey's Dream School for Impoverished South African Girls
Applegarth, Claire; Bacon, Laura; Edwards, Alix; Kennedy, Kate; Schieffer, Stella; Yang, LinCase HBS-HKS129-EIn 2000, media superstar Oprah Winfrey promised the recently retired Nelson Mandela, first president of post-apartheid South Africa, that she would build his country a top-notch boarding school for disadvantaged girls. Her twin purpose was to use the power of education to help impoverished young girls with exceptional promise-girls much like herself as a child-realize their potential and transform their lives and, at the same time, to train a coh...Starting at €8.20