Professor Andy Wu ; CEO, EbonyLife Group, Mo Abudu and Professor Feng Zhu of the Harvard Business School.
This means that all first-year students currently at Harvard Business School will read a case about an African company, led by a Nigerian woman. The EbonyLife case study will become one of approximately 500 case studies read by students over the course of the two-year MBA programme. Nearly half of these cases are based on global organisations.
The interaction will be streamed to other class sessions happening at the same time. Later that day, she will have other opportunities to interact with students and faculty, to offer further insight into her approach to EbonyLife’s strategic growth. She said, “At first, I was surprised by Harvard’s interest in us, however, I can now see how a diverse faculty and student body could benefit from looking at how companies in Africa and other parts of the world deal with challenges unique to their environment. I’m looking forward to the discussions and the students’ perspectives.”