Columbia Business School’s Africa Business Initiative (ABI) is a partnership between faculty, adjuncts, industry leaders, and administrators. Following is an index that includes the diversity of roles and disciplines supporting the ABI:
Kamel Jedidi, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of Global Business
- Co-Director, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Africa Program
- Faculty Director, Africa Business School (ABS) [Morocco] - Columbia Business School partnership
- Taught Marketing Strategy for ABS (as part of the partnership)
- Teaches Global Immersion: Business and Entrepreneurship in Tunisia and EMBA International Seminar--Morocco: A Gateway to Africa
- Authored the following Columbia case studies: Layla's Delicacies; Moulins d'Or; AfricInvest’s Stake in Nouvelair: Managing Risk in a Turbulent Market
- President, Open Startup International
William Duggan, Senior Lecturer in Business
- Co-Director, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Africa Program
- Co- Author, ‘The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty’
- Teaches Innovation for ABS (as part of the partnership)
Mable Abraham, Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business
- Teaches Power and Influence in EC-Africa
Modupe Akinola, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business; Faculty Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics
- Teaches Global Immersion: Lessons from Rwanda on Conflict, Leadership, Change, and Business Opportunities.
- Teaches Leadership in EC-Africa
Asim Ansari, William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Ann Bartel, Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation
- Teaches HR in EC-Africa
Omar Besbes, Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business
- Co-Founder of EC-Africa
- Teaches Operations in EC-Africa
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Joel Brockner, Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business
- Teaches Change Management in EC-Africa
Bob Dorf, Serial Entrepreneur and Author
- Teaches Strategy in EC-Africa
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Mark Cohen, Director of Retail Studies
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Adam Elmachtoub (Engineering)
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Nelson Fraiman, Professor of Professional Practice
- Co-Founder of EC-Africa
Carlos Gila, Adjunct Professor of Business
- Teaches Strategy in EC-Africa
Neale Godfrey, Executive in Residence
- Head Think Bigger Project Coach in EC-Africa
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Jorge Guzman, Associate Professor of Business
- Teaches Strategy in EC-Africa
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Glenn Hubbard, Dean Emeritus; Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics
- Co-Author, ‘The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty’
Paul Ingram, Kravis Professor of Business
- Teaches Leadership in ABS (as part of the partnership)
- Teaches Leadership in EC-Africa
Sheena Iyengar, S. T. Lee Professor of Business
- Provided core teaching method for EC-Africa
Kinshuk Jerath, Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Gita Johar, Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business
- Teaches Marketing in EC-Africa
Bruce Kogut, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics
- Teaches Global Immersion: Possible Futures for South Africa
Chris LaSala, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Marketing in the Faculty of Business
- Teaches Product Management in EC-Africa
Murray Low, Faculty of Executive Education
- Authored the following Columbia case studies:
- ArcelorMittal’s Mining Project in Liberia: Balancing CSR and Financial Returns
- Banana Investments: Entrepreneurial Growth in Tanzania
- Busy Internet
- Computer Warehouse Group
- Computer Warehouse Group – CWG2.0
- Equity Bank: The Real Thing?
- Matalex: Managing Growth in Ghana
- Palogix International Limited
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Alonzo Martinez, Senior Lecturer in Discipline
- Teaches Strategy for ABS (as part of the partnership)
- Teaches Strategy in EC-Africa
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Sandra Matz, David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business
- Teaches Negotiations in EC-Africa
Jack McGourty, Director, Dean’s Office
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Robert Morais, Lecturer in Business
- Teaches Marketing in EC-Africa
- Faculty Advisor in EC-Africa
Stephan Meier, James P. Gorman Professor of Business
- Teaches Global Immersion: Africa’s Consumer Market: The Case of Ghana
- Teaches Strategy for ABS (as part of the partnership)
- Co-taught inaugural Management Consulting Lab: Midsized Firms in Africa
- Teaches Strategy in EC-Africa
Angela Quintero, Managing Director, W. Edwards Deming Center
- Co-Founder of EC-Africa
Shivaram Rajgopal, Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing
- Teaches Corporate Finance and Assessing Financial Sustainability for ABS (as part of the partnership)
- Teaches Accounting in EC-Africa
Joshua Safier, Managing Director, Chazen Institute of Global Business
- Co-Founder of EC-Africa