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Casey Gerald
cities and towns not (yet) known for entrepreneurship. Throughout the summer of 2013, the MBAs Across America team will travel across country in an RV, making week-long stops to record and promote the stories of local entrepreneurs, to... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
The Global Classroom: From Boston to Jakarta
emerging economy. This year, students could choose from the following locations around the world: Europe (Athens, Helsinki), Africa (Casablanca, Johannesburg, Cape Town), South America (Sao Paolo, Bogota,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
Historical Collections and faculty interaction surround the north, river-facing lobby, and the new south entrance is home to The Exchange, a gathering place offering real-time news and business information. Faculty offices line the upper... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood in View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
than seventy faculty, deans, and rectors from business schools in Spain, Eastern Europe, Nigeria, South Africa, China, and Latin America for the Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, an intensive... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
California/San Diego, Shanghai, South Africa, Toronto, and United Arab Emirates acted as regional hubs, and finalists were chosen in March through contests held around the world. In addition to BioMine, the regional finalists,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
Casado says, students of fellow CPCL alum Michael T. Bendixen visited the FEA from the Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa, to meet with faculty and graduate students and learn more about the university's approach to... View Details
- July 1997
- Teaching Note
Compania de Telefonos de Chile (TN)
By: W. Carl Kester
Teaching Note for (9-293-015). View Details
- December 2018 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Instituto Dara: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale
By: Julie Battilana, Marissa Kimsey, Priscilla Zogbi and Johanna Mair
Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Instituto Dara in 1991 to help poor families break the cycle of poverty and illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on... View Details
Keywords: Social Innovation; NGO; Scaling; Health; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Non-Governmental Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Poverty; Health Industry; South America; Brazil
Battilana, Julie, Marissa Kimsey, Priscilla Zogbi, and Johanna Mair. "Instituto Dara: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale." Harvard Business School Case 419-048, December 2018. (Revised July 2023.)
- August 2016
- Case
CSI Ingenieros
By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
CSI's business unit managers gathered around the downstairs conference room for the company's weekly meeting to discuss project bids. Cristina WaldAshley Hartman, who was in charge of finding projects for the engineering firm to work on, read through several she had... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Board; Board Committees; Board Dynamics; Organization; Organization Alignment; Dynamic Capabilities; Organization Design; Organizational Prototyping; Organizational Silence; Organizational Learning; Organization Behavior; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Manufacturing Industry; South America; Uruguay
- November 2012 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Colbún and the Future of Chile's Power
By: Forest Reinhardt and Shon R. Hiatt
This case is about Colbún, Chile's second largest electricity generator, which is facing significant uncertainty regarding the cost and availability of alternative energy sources. Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the volatility of oil prices,... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Chile; Environmental Protection; Energy Generation; Energy Industry; South America; Chile
Reinhardt, Forest, and Shon R. Hiatt. "Colbún and the Future of Chile's Power ." Harvard Business School Case 713-047, November 2012. (Revised April 2013.)
- February 2024 (Revised May 2025)
- Case
Doing Business in Medellín, Colombia
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Karina Souza
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Colombia. It highlights Colombia's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main... View Details
Keywords: History; Economics; Crime and Corruption; Business and Government Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; Colombia; Medellín; South America
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Karina Souza. "Doing Business in Medellín, Colombia." Harvard Business School Case 224-079, February 2024. (Revised May 2025.)
- 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
McAfee, Andrew P., and Alexandra de Royere. "Los Grobo." Harvard Business School Case 606-014, December 2005. (Revised January 2007.)
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
anti-American sentiment in many nations was rising because of the Iraq war. Most of the consumers were like the South African who candidly said, "I hate the country, but I love their products." A Filipino confessed: "I used... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Thumbs Up Down Under
It was with mixed emotions that Rich Wilson (MBA '82) and his coskipper Bill Biewenga set sail from New York Harbor last September aboard their 53-foot trimaran Great American II, heading south on a long-planned voyage to Melbourne,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
community development, and other conservation efforts in Africa, South Asia, and South America. “The conduit by which we do all of that is exposing guests to experiences that bring to life the wonder of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
as the recent renovation of historic public spaces at The Plaza hotel or the proposed redevelopment of the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. “The Conservancy sees itself as a voice of reason,” he notes. “We’re not anti-development,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
continued as a doctoral student at HBS, where he challenged GE CEO Jack Welch in front of uncomfortable first-year MBA students about GE’s investments that, according to Massie, supported South African apartheid. Massie has never been shy... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
and grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart,’ literally ‘apart-hood’) years, so issues of human rights and social justice have always been important to me. Through my business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
the addition of Spangler Center on the south side of campus and the opening of a south entrance to Baker Library, the School now prominently faces Harvard’s future expansion into Allston. The reconstruction... View Details