DAILY NATION

Kenyan firms to be studied in colleges

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Publication Date: 10/15/2005

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Kenya has joined the leading business schools in the world in using local case studies to
educate students. Launching the first eight case studies yesterday at United States
International University (USIU), Trade and Industry assistant minister Zandock Syongo
said the information would expose the country's investment environment.

Already, Safaricom case study has been taught at the London Business School. The other
case studies are on Alfa medical, Firestone, Mabati Rolling Mills, Kenya Airways, Bidco
and Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA).

The case studies will serve as the basis for practical business education in Africa and in
business schools in other parts of the world.

The project is jointly funded by International Finance Corporation and USIU at a cost of
Sh12 million. The project is among the four in Africa that IFC is funding under the
Global School Business Network (GSBN). The others are in Ghana, Nigeria and South
Africa.

The university's Chancellor, Prof Freida Brown said the GSBN had been expanded by the
ministry of trade to three other universities under a different programme, adding that 24
case studies on small and medium enterprises were expected at the end of the year from
these institutions.