{"id":399,"date":"2014-05-28T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/?p=399"},"modified":"2016-10-28T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:20:07","slug":"educating-african-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/2014\/05\/28\/educating-african-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"Educating African Managers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I attended the annual conference\u00a0of the Association of African Business Schools\u00a0<\/strong>(<\/a>AABS). It was hosted by Strathmore Business School<\/a> here in Nairobi. I had the opportunity to talk about IESE’s Africa Initiative<\/strong>. Some of the participants already knew about it, but others were not familiar with how IESE contributes educating African managers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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During a coffee break at the AABS conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The context of my presentation was a panel about the role of institutions in Africa’s economic story.<\/strong> I focused on the role of business schools. Well trained business leaders who manage their companies taking into account both the economic and the social dimensions<\/strong> will have a positive impact on the social and economic development of Africa.<\/p>\n

Given Africa’s expected future growth, some estimations by the African Management Initiative<\/a> Report indicate an urgent need to train 1 M managers!<\/strong> How does IESE contribute to this effort?<\/strong> Basically, in three ways:<\/strong><\/p>\n