Harry’s focus over the past 20 years has been to understand, teach, and help improve how organisations - from micro-enterprises to social enterprises, multinational companies, NGOs, public organisations, and incubators - can innovate their practices, processes, and frameworks to foster, beyond economic goals, the human flourishing of their key stakeholders, particularly of employees and of marginalised groups in society, in Africa and South Asia.
Harry has just completed a five-year research programme - funded by an Advanced European Research Council-grant - on purpose-driven organisations, meaningful work, and social impact for marginalised groups in the global South, with the findings now published in leading management and entrepreneurship journals (AMJ, SMJ, Org Science, JBV, ETP). He also founded, directed, and taught core courses in, the Department of Management’s Master’s in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIE), one of the first full-time programmes of its kind globally, with a strong focus on emerging economies. The programme integrates rigorous training in evidenced-based concepts, theories, and frameworks with action-based learning: students design innovative social business models following intensive fieldwork in Africa as consultants for companies and NGOs. Previously, Harry founded and taught SIE Masters courses at the department and internationally (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-Cape Town program), executive courses in SIE, and a course on Open Innovation, all using action-learning too.
Harry is currently focusing - with the Social Innovation Lab for Human Flourishing (SILF) - on generating, innovating, experimenting with, and further improving knowledge and skills that enable organisations in Africa and South Asia to innovate bottom-up, beyond for economic success, for the human flourishing of their key stakeholders. Together with our SILF-team and ecosystem partners -thought and impact leaders at universities, companies, NGOs, and public organisations across Europe, North America, West, East and Southern Africa, and South Asia. I split my time equally between the global Nor