February 2016

18 Feb 16

Made in Nigeria: Government’s role in supporting local manufacturing

#BuyNaijaToGrowTheNaira You may have recently seen the #BuyNaijaToGrowTheNaira phenomenon going on online for almost two weeks now. If you are out of the loop check out some of the recent posts here on twitter. This has been spurred by the actions of the Senate President and Sen Ben-Murray Bruce to support…

10 Feb 16

Prof. Pedro Gardete: The benefits of information sharing in business

During our conversation with Prof. Pedro Gardete of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, we discussed the benefits of information sharing among competitors in the business world especially within the manufacturing industry. Professor Gardete specializes in marketing strategies in contexts of high uncertainty. In his current work he studies the DRAM manufacturing…

05 Feb 16

The benefits of manufacturing in Nigeria

Nigeria has a current population of close to 200 million people. If you don’t think that’s substantial enough, consider that there are only six countries in the world that have a population bigger than that of Nigeria. From an economic perspective, that’s a huge market and there is a…