{"id":14459,"date":"2025-07-17T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/?p=14459"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:26:23","slug":"kelsey-hothinternational-mba-programfrom-united-states-2-2-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/news\/14459","title":{"rendered":"Brian Thafale ANAFI <br>International MBA Program<br>from Republic of Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>\u00a0International MBA Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Expanding Horizons, Empowering Africa, Embracing Japan<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/07\/P.13_ANAFI-Brian-Thafale-610x813.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Enrolling in Waseda\u2019s IMBA program has been transformative. The international diversity, practical coursework, and faculty mentorship pushed me to think critically and lead across cultures. The \u201cZemi\u201d seminars deepened my learning through real business challenges.<br \/>\nInspired by this, I expanded Zafarm Foods in Malawi and co-founded Kantan Solutions in Japan. Exposure to Japan\u2019s culture reshaped my leadership, teaching humility, persistence, and strategic thinking. WBS has been more than academic; it\u2019s a launchpad for global impact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u203bThis information is as of July 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/en\/applicants\/why\/imba\">International MBA Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/en\/about\/student\">Back<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/about\/students\">\u5b66\u751f\u7d39\u4ecb\u4e00\u89a7\u306b\u623b\u308b<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0International MBA Program Expanding Horizons, Empowering Africa, Embracing Japan Enrolling in Waseda\u2019s IMBA p [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14463,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions\/14463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}