by Juan Alcácer - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2013
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Plugged In

When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16216 Cases & Course MaterialsEmerging Nokia? Juan Alcácer, Tarun Khanna, Mary Furey, and Rakeen MabudHarvard Business School Case 710-429 By late 2009, Nokia was... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March–April 2022
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School Choice in Chile

By: Jose Correa, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein and Felipe Subiabre

Centralized school admission mechanisms are an attractive way of improving social welfare and fairness in large educational systems. In this paper, we report the design and implementation of the newly established school choice system in Chile, where over 274,000... View Details

Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Family and Family Relationships; Welfare; Chile

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18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

referred to as "the Bosses." The Total Quality Model had been a success in terms of company growth and profitability, sustained by the success of Mercadona's unusually high investment in employee training and satisfaction.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

The kids in Ms. Gubler’s fifth-grade science class are watching Juan Enriquez’s every move — they can’t quite believe that this visitor from Harvard Business School has just denuded a floppy disk. (One girl, Diana, is not so surprised —... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

discovery is increasingly carried out by small research-specialized firms while downstream development, testing, and marketing is conducted by global pharmaceutical firms. Licensing plays an important role... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
News

Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?

ENRIQUEZ: People take too much for granted. PHOTO BY JEFF THIEBAUTH As CEO of Biotechonomy, a life-sciences research and venture capital firm, Juan Enriquez (MBA ’86) has examined the impact of life sciences... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance; Health, Social Assistance

2006
Other Unpublished Work

Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry

By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson

Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Competition; Lawsuits and Litigation

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01 Sep 2005
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Service Leadership Fellows Named

Eight members of the Class of 2005 left Soldiers Field last spring with one-year fellowships coordinated by the HBS Service Leadership Fellows Program. The program encourages graduating students to gain experience in nonprofit and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

productive. That’s a missed opportunity. Questioning is a powerful tool for unlocking value in companies: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and better performance, and it builds trust among team members. And it can mitigate business risk... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Aug 2022
News

Vision: To Go-Go

off the ground? That is exactly what Juan Azuero and Daniela Izquierdo (both MBA 2019) are doing with Foodology, a foodtech startup with operations in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. Azuero and Izquierdo both grew up in Bogotá, both... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

01 Aug 2002
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Service Leadership Fellows

Omosa, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; Juan Carlos Pereira, Presidential Commission for Investment Promotion (in Nicaragua); and (front row) Nicole Hanrahan, Women's Educational and Industrial Union; Alexis Palmer, Lincoln Center... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success

Global Symposium attended by German, Swiss, and Austrian leaders from business, government, and academia, was sponsored jointly by the School’s Division of Research and Faculty Development and Global... View Details

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Transportation - Business & Environment

multitude of biking, transit, and micromobility options.” Chris Dempsey HBS MBA 2012 Director, Transportation for Massachusetts Juan Enriquez HBS MBA 1986 Managing Director, Excel Venture Management “I'm committed to slowing climate... View Details

01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade

U.S. dollar, Juan Peirano of Velox Group explains, "The system is very rigid. The price we pay is higher unemployment and a slower rate of economic growth, but I think we will start to move again by the end... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 2002
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As the Future Catches You

page after page of thought-provoking facts, anecdotes, and ideas; it is an accessible and instructive guide to the new age that lies just over the horizon, an era for which the overworked adjective "revolutionary" will truly apply. by... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological processes implicated in creativity... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

7 PM – 9 PM EDT, 14 Apr 2016
HBS Alumni Events

HBS Boston Young Alumni Networking Reception

HBS alumni MBA 2006-2015 are invited to an evening of socializing and networking in Boston. View Details

Portrait Project

Nick Gerry-Bullard

Juan islands, camping each night in a different inlet, surrounded by otters and whales. Another time, sleeping under the stars in the badlands of Utah, we had to scramble on top of our van to escape a herd... View Details

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