Wheeler Institute research: Understanding the impact on 134 micro-entrepreneurs who have been clients of MBA students.

Since 2012, London Business School has offered a Global Business Experience (GBE) programme as part of its full-time MBA course in the township of Alexandra (colloquially known as Alex), a low-income suburb of Johannesburg. The focus of the GBE is to facilitate the survival and growth of existing small businesses (micro-entrepreneurs) that are owned and managed by historically disadvantaged South Africans. Over the course of this period, 134 micro-entrepreneurs from Alex have engaged with 710 LBS MBAs. After eight years of this unique programme running, the Wheeler Institute is now working to understand if its objective has been realised.

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