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  • January 2021
  • Case

Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
Five years after the company’s founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa’s greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an...  View Details
Keywords: Education In Africa; Entrepreneur; Remote Work; Software Engineering; Edtech; Africa
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  • November 2020 (Revised January 2021)
  • Supplement

Bridge International Academies in 2020: Battling Headwinds to Solve Africa’s Education Problems
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
By 2020, Bridge International Academies and its "school in a box" model had achieved great scale. By leveraging digital technology and public-private partnerships, they had reached one million children across Africa and India through hundreds of schools. However, the...  View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Africa; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Education; Bottom Of The Pyramid; Education In Africa; Scale; Partnerships; Education; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Health Pandemics; Problems And Challenges; Education Industry; Africa
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  • December 2019
  • Background Note

'Africa Rising:' Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent
By: Caroline M. Elkins and Hakeem Belo-Osagie
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Africa
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  • November 2019
  • Case

Edita: Making Choices in Uncertain Times
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Juan Alcácer, Alpana Thapar and Youssef Abdel Aal
After 15 years of steady growth and expansion, Edita, a leading Egyptian snack producer, faced a series of challenges in the wake of the Arab Spring. In January 2011, the Egyptian Revolution sparked political and economic turmoil that reflected the waves of protest and...  View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Developing Countries And Economies; Economy; Business Or Company Management; Price; Crisis Management; Growth And Development Strategy; Distribution; Risk And Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Expansion; Currency; Food And Beverage Industry; Egypt; Africa; Middle East
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  • October 2019
  • Case

Agility Africa
By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying...  View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Innovation And Invention; Expansion; Emerging Markets; Decision Choices And Conditions; Real Estate Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa
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