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  • 23 May 2018
  • News

John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1955 Born, Queens, New York 1973 Launches clothing manufacturing business in Ecuador 1978 Earns BS, Finance, New York University 1980 Earns MBA, Baker Scholar 1980 Joins Boston... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Laura Dries Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Making Donor Dollars Work: Measuring Impact in Rural Ecuador Laura Dries 22 Feb 2018... View Details
  • March 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Inge Skjelfjord and the Cacao Supply Chain

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Inge Skjelfjord, with a long career in international finance focused on agribusiness projects, had a vision to build a cacao research center that would help smallholder cacao farmers, who benefited the least from the chocolate value chain. He aimed to support the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness Industry; Farming; Farm; Policy; Change Management; Innovation; Agribusiness; Education; Economic Growth; Research; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Ecuador
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement

By: Paul Carrillo, Dina Pomeranz and Monica Singhal
Reducing tax evasion is a key priority for many governments, particularly in developing countries. A growing literature has argued that the ability to verify taxpayer self-reports against reports from third parties is critical for modern tax enforcement and the growth... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Taxation; Ecuador
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  • April 1992 (Revised July 1993)
  • Case

Conoco's: "Green" Oil Strategy (A)

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Conoco faces challenges in formulating a proactive environmental strategy for its proposed oil development in Ecuador's pristine tropical rain forest region. The case outlines the innovative process in which Conoco collaborated with a wide range of often conflicting... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict Management; Ecuador
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  • 22 Jun 2023
  • News

Book Smart

David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. It turned out it was the local library—and no one was... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Other Presentation

The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition... View Details
Keywords: Society; Ecuador
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  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Other Presentation

Ecuadorian Competitiveness: Ready for the Next Stage?

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); "Strategy and the... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Ecuador
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  • November 1998 (Revised February 1999)
  • Case

Bolsa de Valores de Guayaquil (BVG): Reaching Worldwide Investors Through the Internet

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ramiro Montealegre, Dusya Vera and Karen Barone
The Guayaquil Stock Exchange developed a Web site to provide information about the market in Ecuador. Though the system provided some dynamic information for potential investors and allowed for some transactions to occur via the Internet, it had not at the time of the... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Foreign Direct Investment; Emerging Markets; Internet; Technology Industry; Ecuador
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  • Profile

Kira Epler

perspectives based on completely different family and cultural experiences." As an example, Kira cites a case about Shell's operations in Nigeria. Based on her years with Dow, "my view was slanted one way," Kira explains. "Then a student who had... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

ANNOUNCES 2018 SOCIAL ENTERPRISE TRACK SEMIFINALISTS Margot Dushin 06 Mar 2018 In 2018, the HBS New Venture Competition—an annual student competition sponsored by Harvard Busin... Making Donor Dollars Work: Measuring Impact in Rural View Details
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • Other Presentation

The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition... View Details
Keywords: Society; Ecuador
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  • September 1992 (Revised September 1992)
  • Teaching Note

Conoco's "Green" Oil Strategy (A) TN

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall
Teaching Note for (9-392-133). View Details
Keywords: Ecuador
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  • February 1991 (Revised March 1995)
  • Case

Alantar, Inc.

By: Jay W. Lorsch
The CEO and chairman of Alantar, Inc. is confronted with the problem of how to create a more effective board of directors and also how to provide for his own successor. View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Ecuador
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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Analyze This

(239), Chile (159), Colombia (83), Ecuador (39), Peru (82), and Venezuela (85). On the African continent? Answer: South Africa (775), followed by Nigeria (239), the only other country in triple digits. It hasn’t always been this way. In... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • Profile

Juan Pablo Moncayo

"I've always been a left-brain, right-brain person," Juan Pablo "JP" Moncayo says of his parallel interests in music (trombone and voice) versus science and politics. When he left his home town of Quito, Ecuador for... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Exotic Travel

Nichols Photo courtesy Bill Nichols Want to show your kids a real rainforest instead of the Rainforest Cafe? Marketing consultant Bill Nichols (MBA ’78) and his wife, Jennifer, did just that, taking their two children to locales such as Ecuador, Thailand, and Tanzania.... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; Hospitality; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Exploring the Galápagos

“Marty should be here for this; this is what he came here for,” Esther Flashner laments to our Galápagos National Park guide, as a dozen of us stroll the sandy beach of Darwin Bay on the island of Genovesa. We are improbably close to nesting sea birds, four species of... View Details
Keywords: Ted A. Adams; Arts, Entertainment
  • 18 Apr 2022
  • News

Book Smart

David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. He asked his tour guide what could possibly be inside... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

nationalistic pride and identity but also allows them to leverage monetary policy, one of the most significant tools that governments have to affect their economies. However, we’ve seen countries like Ecuador getting rid of their national... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information