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- 2021
- Working Paper
Diagnosing Quality: Learning, Amenities, and the Demand for Health Care
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Emilio Gutierrez, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
We study the role of amenities in increasing demand for underutilized healthcare services. We evaluate the offer of a high-amenity diagnostic consultation for cataracts with a randomized price and find that a lower price for the high-amenity consultation increases... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Demand; Amenities; Health Care Quality; Cataracts; Surgery; Health Care and Treatment; Demand and Consumers; Quality; Learning; Mexico
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Emilio Gutierrez, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Diagnosing Quality: Learning, Amenities, and the Demand for Health Care." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-110, March 2021.
- January 2017 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
Mexico's Energy Reform
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
Energy—both petroleum and electricity—had been terribly managed for decades in Mexico. The two national monopolies—PEMEX and CFE—were inefficient, overstaffed, corrupt, rife with subsidies, and losing money. Finally, in 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto announced his... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement; Energy Industry; Mexico
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason. "Mexico's Energy Reform." Harvard Business School Case 717-027, January 2017. (Revised August 2017.)
- 27 Apr 2012
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business
This presentation was prepared with the assistance of Professors Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Niels Ketelhohn. The author is grateful for their important contribution to this research. View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business." Sintonía, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, April 27, 2012.
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO (TN)
By: Michael Chu
Teaching Note for 308-094. View Details
- September 2006 (Revised November 2007)
- Case
Patrimonio Hoy: A Financial Perspective
By: Arthur I Segel, Michael Chu and Gustavo A. Herrero
Patrimonio Hoy, a program targeting the housing needs of low-income families launched by CEMEX, a major Mexican corporation and a leading global cement company, has gone from a market research project to a highly visible initiative in 22 cities and has earned public... View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Housing; Income; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emerging Markets; Finance; Mexico
Segel, Arthur I., Michael Chu, and Gustavo A. Herrero. "Patrimonio Hoy: A Financial Perspective." Harvard Business School Case 207-059, September 2006. (Revised November 2007.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending
By: Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda
We use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms and those with "soft... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Financing and Loans; Industry Structures; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Mexico
Canales, Rodrigo, and Ramana Nanda. "A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-101, June 2008. (Revised January 2011, August 2011.)
- August 2001
- Teaching Note
Mexico: The Unfinished Agenda TN
Teaching Note for (9-701-116). View Details
Keywords: Mexico
- December 1986 (Revised October 1987)
- Case
Mexican Debt and Agricultural Policy
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "Mexican Debt and Agricultural Policy." Harvard Business School Case 587-087, December 1986. (Revised October 1987.)
- February 1999 (Revised October 2001)
- Teaching Note
Taco Bell, Inc.(1983-1994) TN
Teaching Note for (9-398-129). View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
and environmental standards. Natura began to seek international markets in 1982, but experienced many setbacks until surviving the economic crisis in Argentina in 2001. The company opened operations in France and Mexico in 2005, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
serial entrepreneur, the New Mexico native ran his first business as an undergrad at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in the early 1990s. Selling medical lab tools from his dorm room and making deals using an old-school,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711033-PDF-ENG Primedic—Providing Primary Care in Mexico Richard G. Hamermesh, Regina Garcia Cuellar, and Lauren MarguliesHarvard Business School Case 811-040 Primedic is a Mexican start-up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
hefty dose of transparency goes a long way to doing the right thing." What do you think? Original Article Early in the Gulf of Mexico oil-rig explosion and leak disaster, BP agreed to activate a camera fixed on the source of the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
extensively with each other. That they don't, at least not yet, is an anomaly. The U.s.-mexico Example Consider the U.S.-Mexico bilateral trade as an example, an order of magnitude bigger than China-India bilateral trade. Indeed, Mexico... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
student, at the Dance Complex in Cambridge. The first sixteen years of Martín Curiel’s life followed the cycles of the harvest. As migrant farmworkers, his parents moved Curiel and his two sisters from Mexico to the United States, where... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
“In That Crucible, You Find Innovation”: Public Safety Transformation in Albuquerque
By: Hise O. Gibson and Antonio Manuel Oftelie
“In That Crucible, You Find Innovation”: Public Safety Transformation in Albuquerque" centers on Mayor Tim Keller’s leadership during the social justice protests in 2020 and his efforts to reinvent Albuquerque’s public safety model. Faced with both a federal consent... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Government Administration; Leading Change; Safety; Social Issues; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Ethics; Public Administration Industry; New Mexico
Gibson, Hise O., and Antonio Manuel Oftelie. "“In That Crucible, You Find Innovation”: Public Safety Transformation in Albuquerque." Harvard Business School Case 625-026, July 2024.