The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) has announced a $3m‚ three-year partnership with De Beers Group to empower young‚ budding entrepreneurs and owners of established businesses in Botswana‚ Namibia‚ and SA through two educational programmes that will be launched in 2018. Stanford said it is expanding two of its programmes to Southern Africa: the Seed Transformation Programme of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies‚ known as Stanford Seed; and the Stanford Go-to-Market programme for accelerating business ventures to market. Stanford Seed is a one-year programme of sessions on topics including leadership‚ strategy‚ business ethics‚ accounting‚ marketing‚ and value chain innovations‚ the institution said in a statement. "Seed facilitators also work with participants in carefully constructed leadership peer groups‚ offering networking opportunities‚ resources‚ and ideas to help implement the participants’ transformation plans." Applications are open t...
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