Strathmore Business School’s new dean, Dr. Edward Mungai, travelled to Boston, Massachusetts to visit Harvard Business School. Dr. Mungai will be cementing Strathmore’s newly established ties

Professor Edward Mungai, Dean, Strathmore Business School

with Harvard’s Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, headed by renowned business strategist Professor Michael E. Porter. (To view snapshots of Professor Mungai’s visit, click here.)

Specializing in the study of entrepreneurship, Dr. Mungai attendied a two-day program as part of the Institute’s course called Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development. The course 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. 

The Institute 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.

Over 100 schools arond the world are affiliates of the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness. Strathmore Business School is one of five African business schools, and the first busines 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 Maritius in Maritius.

Dr. Mungai, who has recently received his Ph.D. from IESE Business School in Spain, was previously teaching mathematics and helping direct the Technology Centre at Strathmore. Prior to attaining his doctoral degree, he received his masters and bachelors degrees in mathematics from the University of Nairobi. During his Boston visit, Dr. Mungai will also be meeting other academic colleagues, as well as joining a reception in his honor with friends and alumni of Strathmore in the Boston area.