Two Yale SOM students partner with the University of Ghana Business School to research entrepreneurial initiatives across the region.
Two Yale School of Management students – Tim Sullivan and Eric Lockhart – partnered with the University of Ghana during the summer for a six-week indepedent study in Ghana. The students partnered with faculty and staff at the University of Ghana Business School to direct them to on-the-ground resources to help them with their research project.
“In our case it was very much an ‘ask and you shall receive’ scenario, where we had an idea—a starting point—about what we wanted to accomplish, and we thought of the ways the Global Network could provide resources and connections to make that happen,” TSullivan says. “We were enabled to do that by what the Global Network had to offer, every step of the way.”
Sullivan and Lockhart spent six weeks in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire visiting nearly 60 small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), fund managers, and development finance institutions, while taking note of which sectors were flourishing. Their research, facilitated by John Effah, head of UGBS’s Department of Operations and Management Information Systems, will be presented in a series of articles. Sullivan and Lockhart also plan to share their findings with a group of University of Ghana students visiting Yale in early 2016.
