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Recently, McCombs Marketing Professor Vijay Mahajan sat down with Nick Binedell, director of the Gordon Institute of Business Science in South Africa, to discuss the business potential in Africa, home to 900 million consumers. “The market opportunities are not any less than what India and China have to offer,” Mahajan said. Mahajan’s most recent book, Africa Rising, extensively [...]

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Since coming to The University of Texas at Austin from his home country of Kenya, John Kidenda, BBA ’09, has tried to take advantage of every learning opportunity he could, while also serving as a sort of unofficial ambassador for Africa.
Last year, when protest and violence erupted in his home country after a dispute over [...]

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McCombs Marketing Professor Vijay Mahajan spoke to the BBC’s “African Perspective” news program on March 7 to highlight African Economy Week. The segment was broadcast to more than four million listeners across Africa.
Mahajan, author of “Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think,” spoke about the often overlooked market opportunities on [...]

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Texas Executive Education hosted an open house at the new AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center Sept. 9. The event showcased the depth of Texas Executive Education’s capabilities and resources to an enthusiastic audience of current and future clients.
A forum on best practices in talent management kicked off the event.

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In his latest book, “Africa Rising,” Marketing Professor Vijay Mahajan introduces readers to Africa as a place of remarkable optimism and ingenuity with entrepreneurs and businesses working to create a better future for the continent. Crossing thousands of miles across many countries, Mahajan shares the lessons that Africa’s businesses have learned about succeeding on the continent…shows [...]

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