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- 25 Apr 2012
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business
Regional competitiveness and CSV presentation at Expogestión, Baranquilla View Details
- 2012
- Chapter
An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction
By: Carlos Medina and Jorge Tamayo
We use data for Medellín, Colombia, to assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual’s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide... View Details
- May 2011
- Teaching Note
The Dutch Flower Cluster (TN)
By: Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Michael E. Porter
Teaching Note for 711507. View Details
- 18 Feb 2011
- Other Presentation
Prosperity for Colombia: Creating Shared Value
Regional competitiveness and CSV presentation, Bogotá View Details
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness (TN)
By: Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Michael E. Porter
Teaching Note for 710417. View Details
- January 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk
By: Aldo Musacchio, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer and Carolina Camacho
By mid-2009 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had ended decades of virtual civil war and strengthened the business climate, but he faced tough economic challenges. Though he had instituted prominent market reforms and brought inflation down sharply, Colombia seemed... View Details
- September 2009 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness
By: Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Michael E. Porter
The case is designed to explore the process of building competitiveness, particularly in an unstable environment, with a focus on organizing for competitiveness. View Details
- November 2008
- Case
Syngenta International AG: Tropical Sugar Beet
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Alwin R. Kopse
Syngenta has developed a new sugar beet crop especially useful to tropical climates that enable double cropping to take place and provide both food and energy from the soil. Thus both the governments of Colombia and India are enthused about the new technological... View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Other Presentation
Colombian Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Level
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter’s books and articles, in particular, “Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity,” in The Global Competitiveness Report 2005-06 (World Economic Forum, 2005); “Clusters and the New Competitive Agenda for... View Details
- 21 Oct 2005
- Other Presentation
In Search of a Competitive Identity: Towards A Competitiveness Agenda for Colombia
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2005-06, (World... View Details
- February 2003 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Asociacion Colombiana de Industrias Plasticas (Acoplasticos)
Acoplasticos was established in 1961 as a lobbying group for Colombia's major plastics manufacturing companies. In the early 1980s, the organization shifted its focus toward improving the productivity of the Colombian plastics and rubber cluster, which also included... View Details
- September 2001 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Cafe de Colombia
By: Rohit Deshpande and Alexandra de Royere
Discusses sustaining brand equity after a highly successful commodity-product branding ad campaign. View Details
- 2001
- Casebook
Dos Casos Colombianos de Gerencia Social: La Corporacion de Accion Solidaria Corposol y La Compania de Financiamiento Comercial Finansol
By: James Austin, Enrique Ogliastri and Roberto Gutierrez
- March 1998 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Corposol (Abridged Version)
By: James E. Austin
The social enterprise Corposol has become the largest lender to microentrepreneurs in Colombia. Its rapid growth and diversification into other services and geographical areas has created organizational and resource strains. View Details
- June 1990
- Teaching Note
Cut Flower Industry in Colombia (Abridged), Teaching Note
By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn
Teaching Note for (9-390-109). View Details
- April 1990 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
Cut Flower Industry in Colombia (Abridged)
By: James E. Austin
The Colombian Cut Flower Exporting Association faces several problems concerning local government regulations and import restrictions from the U.S. government. The Colombian Export Promotion Agency also faces decisions as to its policy stance toward the industry. View Details
- December 1978 (Revised September 1982)
- Case
Cut Flower Industry in Colombia
By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Colombia