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Nigeria’s leading CSD brand 7Up has announced Ms Oreoluwa Agunbiade as the recipient of the 7Up Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA Scholarship for the 2023/2024 session.
Ms Agunbiade becomes the 13th winner of the scholarship which was instituted in 2010. The fully-funded MBA scholarship at the prestigious Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is awarded each year by Seven-Up Bottling Company to a Nigerian resident in Nigeria who must have been admitted to HBS for an MBA programme but is unable to fund it.
The scholarship award goes through a thorough and rigorous competitive process until a winner is selected based on the set criteria by the management of Seven-Up Bottling Company. Ms Agunbiade, a lawyer-turned management consultant was unveiled at an inspiring ceremony at SBC’s head office in Ijora, Lagos.
Mr. Norden Thurston, SBC’s Chief Marketing Director explained that the 7Up Harvard Business School Scholarship was launched in 2010 by the Chairman of SBC, Mr Faysal El-Khalil in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the business based on his passion to raise and inspire a generation of young Nigerian leaders by leveraging quality global education that breeds and equips them with the right mindset.
According to Mr. Thurston, the 7Up HBS Scholarship has already created a pool of young business leaders in the political economy of Nigeria who are driving innovation and change in diverse sectors for a better society. He further highlighted that a key part of this initiative’s next step would be establishing an Alumni community that will have all past recipients who are doing amazing things and adding value to society such as Olujimi Williams (2012), Mayowa Kuyoro (2013), Oluwasola Olaniyan(2014), Bankole Makanjuola(2015), Chidozie Ibekwe(2016), Ahmed Alimi(2017), Olunma Izejiobi (2018), Uzoma Anyanwa (2019), Abdul-Rahman Buhari (2020), Desayo Ajisegiri (2021) and Dafi Rogers-Halliday(2022) all come together to see how they can further inspire the next generation of young leaders and see opportunities to give back collectively.
Commenting on the 7UP HBS scholarship, the Managing Director of SBC Mr. Ziad Maalouf said: “as an organization that strives for excellence, diversity, and inclusion, we are pleased to welcome Ms Oreoluwa Agunbiade to the 7UP Harvard Business School family. I have no doubt that you will follow the tradition of hard work and excellence that has been the hallmark of previous recipients of this prestigious scholarship in one of the world’s iconic business schools. We were swayed in awarding you this scholarship by what you are already doing to impact your environment and our hope is that you are able to return and impact Nigeria by insight and learning gained”.
