Africa

What the continent’s first tech unicorn means for the future.

Managers 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.

And why Western investors often miss them.

As long as it's not inappropriate.

How Chinese investment is reshaping Africa

Our annual survey of ideas and trends that will make an impact on business: Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Tyagi believe consumer credit should be made as...

Three policies that will support younger workers — and help scale promising economic opportunities.

If your company is intrigued by the opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid but is hesitant to plunge in, it's not alone: Despite the immensity of...

With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge...

New research identifies 3 strategies organizations can take to engage employees.

Back in the late 1990s Ibrahim, who was running a software and consulting company in the UK, regularly worked with big telecom companies. He began asking...

Lessons from the Igbo apprenticeship system.

They're the fastest-growing markets outside of Asia.

The age-old desire of infertile couples for children has finally found a way to be satisfied—the brave new world of high-tech childbirth. The industry that has sprung into being challenges our ideas about what markets are and can do.

This month, all of Harvard Business Review's Forethought contributions address avian influenza, its potential to become a pandemic, and the red flags...

Adesemi, an American start-up in Africa, had been trying for six years to blanket the developing world with desperately needed wireless communications...

It won’t be able to rely on low-wage manufacturing.

Think digitally, act locally.

Angola is offering financial aid to debt-ridden Portugal. The Economist recently declared Africa a "hopeful continent" after years of writing it off as...

A framework for understanding economic potential in the region.