Africa.com
is looking forward to welcoming a team of students from Harvard
Business School this week. The team of six students will be in
Johannesburg for a week as part of a required first-year course at
Harvard Business School called FIELD, which stands for Field Immersion
Experiences for Leadership Development. Africa. com is one of 156 FIELD
Global Partners spanning 13 countries around the world. Together they
will host more than 930 students in all.
"We
are pleased to be working with Harvard Business School to provide
students with a real-world learning experience in South Africa said
Teresa Clarke, Chairman and CEO. "We feel certain that the students will
gather insights here that they would never be able to glean from a
classroom discussion alone."
FIELD
has three modules that run through the entire first year of the two-
year MBA program. The first module focuses on developing individual
leadership skills through team feedback and self-reflection. The second
focuses on developing global intelligence by immersing them in a foreign
country to develop a new product or service in country for their Global
Partner organization. The final module brings all the lessons together
by challenging students to develop and launch their own micro-business
as part of a small team back in Boston.
Africa.com
executives have been working with the team remotely in the months
leading up to their arrival in South Africa. While in the country, they
will pitch their ideas to the leadership team, conduct field research
with consumers around Johannesburg and present their final
recommendations to management.
Harvard is quick to acknowledge that this important learning experience would not be possible without the Global Partners.
"We
are extremely grateful to Africa.com and all the FIELD Global Partner
organizations for all they do on behalf of our students," said Professor
Tony Mayo, the faculty head of FIELD. "The students benefit
immeasurably from this experience and we hope the partner organizations
do as well."Distributed by African Media Agency (AMA) on behalf of Africa. com
About Africa.com
Africa.com
is the leading Africarelated website with more than one million views
every month from people in over 200 countries & territories. Our
signature product is the Africa.com Top10 - we read all the Africa news
so that you don't have to. We curate and summarize the top ten African
news stories of the day and of the week. Africa.com is also a one stop
shop to help Africans put their ideas onto mobile websites easily and
affordably.
For
companies and bloggers who want to showcase their African identity as
part of their website address. With offices in South Africa, Nigeria and
the United States, Africa.com is dedicated to changing the way the
world sees Africa.
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