The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proudly announces the selection of its 17th cohort of Legatum Student Fellows for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.
The Legatum Center at MIT proudly announces its largest Foundry Fellowship cohort yet, featuring 15 entrepreneurs from Africa's rapidly growing economies, committed to innovation-led entrepreneurship.
This blog, written by Salma Baghdadi, explores the critical challenges faced by African ecosystem builders, particularly the issue of foreign dependency. While international funding and support play a pivotal role in nurturing African ecosystems—fueling innovation, entrepreneurship, and capacity-b...
The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) and the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Sloan) announced the successful completion of the USADF Accelerator pilot program powered by the Legatum Center at the MIT Sloan Scho...
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT, in partnership with the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), the Ghana Hubs Network (GHN), The She Hub Ghana and with the generous support of the Mastercard Foundation, successfully concluded its intensive bootcamp for early-stage innovators...
This paper lays out a new framework for understanding the different ways in which entrepreneurs unlock value in broken or dysfunctional markets. Based on the study of how successful business and social entrepreneurs are transforming markets for growth and impact in both emerging and developed econom...
The Kallas are a mission-driven family. Dr. Hassan El Kalla founded CIRA in the early 90s with the mission of transforming Egypt bottom-up, student by student. He believes that Egypt’s greatest resource is its people and that quality, accessible education has the power to create generations of probl...
Africa’s financial landscape is undergoing a seismic shift driven by the rapid ascent of digital banking. However, as its influence grows, it is imperative to critically assess whether digital banking authentically fulfills its pledge of inclusivity or inadvertently perpetuates the pre-existing disp...
The success stories of Swvl, Andela, BRCK, Sanergy, and countless others underscore the profound impact of effective communication. They remind us that a strong brand can propel a startup from obscurity to iconic status. They show us that storytelling forges connections that transcend borders and to...
Despite Vietnam’s transition to an emerging economy, the healthcare sector has not witnessed the same progress seen in other sectors. Vietnam is a country of innovators and entrepreneurs, and this should be leveraged to address the country’s healthcare challenges.
