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Info available on HBS (Harvard Business School) Entrepreneurs

HBS Entrepreneurs is a video archive that captures insights from leading members of the HBS entrepreneurial community. Entrepreneurs speak on a common set of themes including their development as entrepreneurs, strategies for identifying opportunity and leadership.

His biodata from the site:

Hakeem Belo-Osagie, (United Bank for Africa), HBS 1980, grew up in Nigeria, England and the United States. After graduating from HBS in 1980, he returned to Nigeria to work in financial services. He started at a securities trading outfit and soon realized that there was little trading activity going on in commercial paper, treasury bills and bankers acceptances. So, together with a few Nigerian shareholders and some international shareholders like the World Bank, he set up a niche firm.

Later, he realized that if a large commercial bank were well organized and efficient, it would "blow a smaller group (like his) out of the market." When the Nigerian government decided to sell its shares in the United Bank for Africa, Hakeem recognized a bargain and purchased the bank. Today, Hakeem Belo-Osagie is Chairman of the United Bank for Africa. In March 2002, he described his his experiences as an entrepreneur and business leader in Nigeria.

[You can watch the video on the below links]

The interview link:
http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/hakeembeloosagie.html

Other interviews:
http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/

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May we be strengthened with the ability, willingness and capabilities to be good ambassadors of Nigeria contributing to its uplifting, rather than its detriment. - Cxsm

admin · Site Admin Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 5404

He's no longer UBA's chairman

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May we be strengthened with the ability, willingness and capabilities to be good ambassadors of Nigeria contributing to its uplifting, rather than its detriment. - Cxsm