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How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America

the office coping with personal challenges, but the other team member could keep the project moving forward. As the pandemic progressed, everyone throughout the LARC stepped up to help colleagues. "The first year of the pandemic was a very stressful time for all of... View Details

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

Networks in Argentina (Comercio y redes de comercialización mayoristas y minoristas en la Argentina de comienzos del siglo XX) Authors:Andrea M. Lluch and Alejandro Fernandez Publication:In Las empresas como... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 7

born in Argentina in 2003 to provide software services to established companies in the developed world. After reaching sales of $57 million in 2010, the company ponders its next steps to achieve $500 million in revenues by 2015. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

100 years of Argentine economic history." Sure enough, a few weeks after they pitched their investment thesis and invested imaginary funds, Argentina teetered on the edge of defaulting. "They made 25 percent in the first few... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

began selling one of its beer brands in Argentina five years ago, executives believed success lay in replicating the methods that had led to a strong business in Brazil, said sales officer Carlo Alves de Brito. "In the first year [in... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

September 2024
Case

TechEnergy Ventures: Innovating Through Corporate Venture Capital

By: Rebecca Karp and Lena Duchene

This case examines TechEnergy Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of the Techint Group, and its role in scaling innovation within the energy sector. Founded in 2021, TechEnergy Ventures operates with a mandate to invest in disruptive technologies to... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

you need to be doing." Family Ties Professor Pankaj Ghemawat teaches the elective course Globalization and Strategy. Current research, with Professor Tarun Khanna: "Family Ties and the Management of Business Groups: Evidence from View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Marcela Sapone

worldview. Her maternal grandparents, both intellectuals, fled Argentina in a military coup. Her mother, born in Argentina, went to high school in New Jersey and eventually met Sapone’s father there. Married with a young family, the... View Details

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

more than a material exchange in labor relations). Third, we study survey data for the 1990s on the beliefs of Peronist and non-Peronist voters in Argentina and Democrat and Republican voters in the United States. While income and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1995 (Revised March 1998)
Supplement

Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (B-1)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Supplements the (B) case. View Details

Keywords: United States; Argentina

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas Harvard Business School Case 807-155 Examines the career of Ernesto Tornquist, a cosmopolitan financier considered to be the most significant entrepreneur in Argentina at the end of the 19th... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208019 Tetra Pak Argentina Harvard Business School Case 708-402 Deals with the hands-on management of a difficult situation facing the subsidiary of a multinational... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
Case

Los Grobo

Los Grobo, a grain farming company based in Argentina, must decide whether to expand internationally to neighboring Paraguay and Uruguay. Los Grobo has built an IT-facilitated network with hundreds of participants who work together to produce corn and soybeans. Los... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Information Technology; Supply Chain Management; Global Range; Globalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Paraguay; Argentina; Uruguay

September 1995 (Revised September 1998)
Supplement

Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (C)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Supplements the (B) case. View Details

Keywords: United States; Argentina

November 2004
Teaching Note

Merck Sharp & Dohme Argentina, Inc. (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Teaching Note to (9-398-033) and (9-398-034). View Details

Keywords: Argentina; Uruguay; Paraguay

December 1997 (Revised September 1999)
Supplement

Merck Sharp & Dohme Argentina, Inc. (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Hal Hogan

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Argentina; Uruguay; Paraguay

September 1995 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (B)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

YPF, a recently privatized and restructured Argentine-based oil company now turns its attention to international expansion and faces an opportunity to acquire Maxus, a troubled U.S. oil company. The case discusses whether the company should go ahead with the proposed... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Privatization; Natural Environment; Expansion; United States; Argentina

February 2017
Teaching Note

Paez

By: Jill Avery

Paez, an Argentine start-up fashion brand, sold traditional alpargatas, a sleepy category that suddenly woke up when TOMS, a U.S. company, appropriated the traditional alpargata design, covered it with fashionable colors and prints, and tied it to a social cause.... View Details

Keywords: Brand Management; Brand Positioning; Competitive Positioning; Competitive Strategy; Retailing; Go To Market Strategy; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Argentina; Latin America; South America; Europe