Strathmore Business School's Dean, Dr Edward Mungai travelled to Boston, Massachusetts to attend a two-day course at Harvard Business School's Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC). ISC is headed by renowned business strategist Professor Michael E. Porter. The course was titled Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development.

Over 100 schools around the world are affiliates of the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness. SBS is one of five African business schools, and the first business school in Kenya, authorized by the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness to teach the MOC course in Africa. The other African affiliates are the Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration, the Gordon Institute of Business Science in South Africa, University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania, and the University of Mauritius in Mauritius.

The Director of SBS's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) Dr Allan Katwalo Mulengani; and Dr Wahome Gakuru, an adjunct Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Strathmore too attended the course. Dr Gakuru is also the Director in charge of the Social Sector as well the Acting Director in charge of the Kenya Vision 2030 at the National Economic and Social Council.

MOC is a Harvard University-wide graduate course offered to students from around the Harvard University community including the Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School of Government, and other Harvard graduate programs. The course has been created in a multiyear development effort by Professor Porter and the staff and affiliates of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. 

ISC is dedicated to the study of competition and its implications for company strategy; the competitiveness of nations, regions, and cities; and the relationship between competition and society. The Institute seeks to develop new theory, assemble bodies of data to test and apply the theory, and disseminate its ideas widely to scholars and practitioners in business, government, and non-governmental organizations such as universities, economic development organizations, and foundations.

To view snapshots of Professor Mungai's visit, click here.