Engaging Emerging Markets – 39 Country Initiative

The Case for Africa

Ivey's HBA students are sharing their knowledge of case-based learning with their counterparts in Africa while also learning how to do business in this rapidly growing area of the world.

Click here to watch a 9-minute interview with Ivey Associate Professor Nicole Haggerty on Ivey's new Service Learning in Africa elective course.

Empowering Business Educators in Developing Countries

Business cases are one of the most powerful building blocks of management education. Ivey Business School is taking a definitive step to make cases more accessible in the least developed countries around the world. University faculty members in 39 countries with per capita GDP of less than $2,000 a year can use all cases from Ivey Publishing’s catalogue of more than 7,000 cases at no charge.

The 39 countries eligible to participate are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Click here to listen to the CBC interview with Professor Paul Beamish, Director of Ivey Publishing and the Engaging Emerging Markets Research Centre.
 

	(above) Dr. Saeed Sheikh Mohamed, President of Somaliland University of Technology, and (left) Dr. Samual H. Donkor, President of All Nations University College in Ghana discussed the 39 Country Initiative with Paul Beamish during their visits to Ivey.

"I am really pleased to get access to all this valuable information which will certainly help our faculty and students. It is the first time that such information was made available to the black continent free of charge," Dr. Sheikh Mohamed noted.

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Featured Cases   Read more...

Social Enterprise Under Adversity: Bridge EXP in Kibera (A)

The case illustrates the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs involved in developing a pro-social business venture in emerging economies by outlining the interplay between a Nairobi-based venture by Insta Products (Insta) and a Toronto-based non-profit volunteering consultancy for sustainable new ventures with a high potential to accelerate local development.

Yogurt Mamas: Probiotics in Tanzania

The case illustrates a grassroots enterprise path to self-sufficiency in a subsistence market context. It explores the gradual evolution of a business model with strong pro-social mandates (pro-health, pro-women) and asks which growth options may best marry profitability and positive social change.

A Model of Clean Energy Entrepreneurship in Africa: E+Co's Path to Scale

The founder and executive director of E+Co faces the challenge of ten-fold growth and reviews the core parts of the company's innovative business model, the changes in the energy markets around the world, and the rationale for local solutions to energy scarcity and inefficiency.

Honey Care Africa: A Tripartite Model For Sustainable Beekeeping

The director and co-founder of Honey Care Africa (Honey Care) looks back over the six years of operations and describes the original business model and several sequential changes based on feedback from rural communities, partner organizations, and learning by doing through field operations. Increasing international recognition highlights the potential impact of the model on inspiring sustainable grassroots ventures in the agriculture sector in Kenya.

City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam

This case examines how the Tanzania government intends to address a pressing deterioration in the infrastructure and services of Dar es Salaam's Water and Sewage Authority.

For more Africa focused research activities in diverse fields including waste management, ecosystem health, health policy, gender studies, linguistics, refugee studies, transitional justice, and others, we invited you to visit The Africa Institute at The University of Western Ontario, a dedicated centre of excellence in scholarship and policy development dealing with various aspects of African, society, politics, economy, culture, and health.