{"id":1033,"date":"2014-03-31T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2014-04-01T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:46:08","slug":"back-to-sub-saharan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/2014\/03\/31\/back-to-sub-saharan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Sub-saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em> magazine says a Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine<\/strong> is increasingly likely and armed motorcycle gangs or “colectivos<\/a>” continue to terrorize and murder protesters across Venezuela<\/strong>, Africa continues its economic development<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago GE’s Jay Ireland<\/a> was in IESE talking about the potential for Africa<\/strong> and how GE has profoundly modified its approach to international business to fit with the breadth and complexity of the region<\/a> where it hopes to be present in 25 countries by 2015.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, my IESE colleague Africa Ari\u00f1o is at the Lagos Business School in Nigeria and is regularly writing about business in Africa<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The Top-3 African Countries to do
\n<\/strong>Business,\u00a0<\/strong>According MBA Students<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last month, my colleague Adrian Caldart<\/a> and I asked our first year MBA students to look at Sub-saharan Africa. The students were asked to recommend countries for investment<\/strong> \u00a0and also which segments were thought to be most interesting in those countries. I taught two of the four sections and the results were so compelling that I thought I would share it:<\/p>\n