Africa.com partners with HBS, African business leaders on Covid-19 knock-on effects
Africa.com has partnered with Harvard Business to lead a four-week webinar series called Crisis Management for African Business Leaders. The online series is designed to address new risks and uncertainties posed by the Covid-19 pandemic on African economies.
The webinar series started on April 15 and has been featuring panel discussions led by the Harvard faculty, in conversation with African business leaders, including Kuseni Dlamini, chair, Massmart; Kunle Elebute, chair, KPMG Africa, Foluso Phillips, chair, Phillips Consulting; Jay Ireland, former president and chief executive, GE Africa; Admassu Tadesse, chief executive, Trade and Development Bank; Fred Swaniker, founder and chief executive, African Leadership Group and Sim Tshabalala, chief executive, Standard Bank Group.
The April 15 and April 22 webinars were led by Linda Hill, PhD, Harvard Business School, Professor of Business Administration, faculty chair, leadership initiative, and Kunle Elebute, chair of KPMG Africa respectively.
The webinar for April 29 with the topic: This Isn’t the West – How Africa’s Informal Sector Reacts to Covid-19, will be led by Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Harvard Business School senior lecturer of business administration, while that of May 6 with topic: Strategic Planning in the Face of Uncertainty, will be led by Andy Zelleke, PhD, Harvard Business School senior lecturer of business administration.
All webinars take place on Wednesdays, for 1.5 hours, commencing at 9:00 EDT (New York), 14:00 WAT (Nigeria/UK, 15:00 CAT (South Africa) and 16:00 EAT (Kenya).
Commenting on the webinar, Teresa Clarke, chair and executive editor of Africa.com, said: “We are moved beyond words by the generosity shown by African business leaders and the Harvard faculty to set aside their own tremendous challenges today, in order to share their best thinking with other African business leaders on how they are taking companies forward and protecting the communities they serve.”
About Africa.com
Africa.com is a media holding company with an extensive array of platforms that reach a global audience interested in African content and community. Africa.com’s interests include a business publisher’s ad network, content syndication, the website at www.iafrica.com, email newsletters, various social media platforms, and internet domain names ending with the “.africa.com” extension. Africa.com operates from Johannesburg, Lagos and New York, and has a presence in Cape Town and Nairobi.
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