Caroline Elkins

Caroline Elkins is a Pulitzer-Prize winning Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and Visiting Professor of Management at the Harvard Business School. She is the founding director of Harvard's Center for African Studies, and has taught for over 20 years at Harvard offering a wide range of Africa-focused courses to undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral students. At HBS, she created and teaches the short-intensive program, “Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent,” and is the course head for the MBA FIELD Global Immersion program. She has also led HBS students and faculty in global immersions to Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania, and serves on multiple foundation and corporate boards in Africa.