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IU’s South African connections run deep

As the IU delegation leaves behind sunny and mild Johannesburg for rainy and cool Cape Town, it gives me a moment to reflect on a number of interesting IU-South Africa connections that I’ve picked up both before and during this presidential trip. Almost every South African we’ve talked to thus far—whether it be the administrators […] Read more »

A big day in Pretoria

There’s big, and then there’s Africa. But don’t take my word for it.   Fittingly, size has, in large part (no pun intended) driven many of the conversations over the past two days of meetings — both yesterday at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg and today at GIBS’ parent institution, the University […] Read more »

South Africa: ‘A great lab to engage’

Collaboration. Contradiction. Challenge. Community. It was a day to reflect on each of these four “C’s” as the Indiana University delegation took part in its first full day of activities since arriving this past weekend in Johannesburg, South Africa, beginning with an early-morning visit to the nation’s premier business school, the Gordon Institute of Business […] Read more »