Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo, interviewed by Henry McGee, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Interviews; Banks and banking; Businesswomen; Women bankers; Women-owned business enterprises; Education; Entrepreneurship; Personnel management; Sex discrimination against women; Social responsibility of business; Business; History; Commerce; Barclays Bank; Barclays Bank of Kenya; Kenya Women Finance Trust; Makini Schools
Description: Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo describes her experiences as a woman entering the world of bank management in the 1960s, her struggles to prove herself, and her efforts on behalf of other women in the industry. She also recounts the context of her decision to found a group of schools and the challenges of making the schools successful in the Kenyan environment.
Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 1, 2015).

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Video interview conducted in English on 2015 February 27 in Boston by Henry McGee, Professor, Harvard Business School through the sponsorship of the Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School.

Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo, interviewed by Henry McGee, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, February 27, 2015, Creating Emerging Markets Oral History Collection, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.

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Forms part of: Creating Emerging Markets oral history collection, 2006-