Sirius Capital Limited is looking forward to welcoming a team of MBA students from Harvard Business School later this month.

The team of six will be in Ghana for seven days as part of a required first-year course at Harvard Business School called FIELD, which stands for Field Immersion Experience for Leadership Development.

Sirius Capital is one of 140 FIELD Global Partners spanning 10 countries around the world. Together they will host more than 900 students in all.

In line with the corporate vision to improve financial literacy and wealth creation through investment in the money and equity markets among Ghanaians and more importantly making efforts to bridge the gap between academia and industry, Maame Yaa Gyambrah Incoom, Head of corporate finance at Sirius Capital said “We are pleased to be working with Harvard Business School to provide students with a real-world learning experience in Ghana.” Miss Gyambrah Incoom said “We feel certain that the students will gather insights here that they would never be able to glean from a classroom discussion alone.”

FIELD has three modules that run through the entire first year of the two- year MBA program. The first module focuses on developing individual leadership skills through team feedback and self-reflection.

The second focuses on developing global intelligence by immersing them in a foreign country to develop a new product or service in country for their Global Partner organization. The final module brings all the lessons together by challenging students to develop and launch their own micro-business as part of a small team back in Boston.

Sirius Capital's executives have been working with the team remotely in the months leading up to their arrival in country. While here, they will pitch their ideas to the leadership team, conduct field research with consumers around Accra and present their final recommendations to management.

Harvard is quick to acknowledge that this important learning experience would not be possible without the Global Partners.

“We are extremely grateful to Sirius Capital Limited and all the FIELD Global Partner organizations for all they do on behalf of our students,” said Professor Alan MacCormack, the faculty head of FIELD.

“The students benefit immeasurably from this experience and we hope the partner organizations do as well”, he added.