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Video News Release: Stanford Graduate School of Business Launches Two Educational Opportunities to Empower Youth and Entrepreneurs in Southern Africa

Silicon Valley-based university continues to expand global program offerings with new partnership with De Beers Group

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Stanford Graduate School of Business (www.GSB.stanford.edu) (Stanford GSB) today announced a USD $3 million, three-year partnership with De Beers Group to empower young, budding entrepreneurs and owners of established businesses in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa through two new educational programs launching in 2018. Stanford is expanding two of its…

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Stanford Seed Entrepreneurs Join Obama, Top Silicon Valley Business Leaders, at Global Entrepreneurship Summit

Milling around him were 700 other entrepreneurs from 170 countries, all gathered to participate in the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit

Afolabi Abiodun, CEO of Nigeria-based telecommunications company SB Telecoms, couldn’t quite believe his eyes as he stood on Stanford University’s (www.GSB.Stanford.edu) bustling Silicon Valley campus recently.  Milling around him were 700 other entrepreneurs from 170 countries, all gathered to participate in the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. For the next three days, Abiodun,…

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Video News Release: Stanford University Business Program Takes Root in East Africa

Stanford Seed, a Stanford Graduate School of Business-led initiative committed to enabling business owners to lead their regions to greater prosperity, launches in Kenya

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Building on the success of its program in West Africa, Stanford Seed (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/seed/home), the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, has announced the launch of the Seed Transformation Program in East Africa (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/seed/transformation-program/east-africa). In May, the first group of promising business leaders selected by Stanford Seed will gather in…