Costa Rica - Publications - Faculty & Research

Bary Roberts

01 Mar 2004
News

Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students

official. He eventually turned himself in and served four years in prison in Costa Rica and the United States. Currently on probation, he spoke at HBS last November as part of the Leadership & Ethics Forum... View Details

Keywords: Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Dec 1998
News

Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships,... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

Portrait Project

Jeff Norton

What is your favourite movie? An old woman on a train in France told me that her favourite was Casablanca, but it made her sad to think about the War. A little boy in Costa Rica told me that it was Superman.... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning

Brazil and Costa Rica take place in March. This year, for the first time since the IXP was launched in 2007, an international program went beyond observing a country’s business environment and engaged in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets

Columbia Center for Oral History The CCOH’s collection includes six interviews made in the 1970s with prominent Argentinean business leaders. Oregon State University, Special Collections & Archives: Series II (Oral History Sound Recordings) Environmental Movement and... View Details

Jack Ewing

Keywords: Ecotourism

01 Dec 2009
News

INCAE Making Global Impact

programs and around 5,000 in its executive education programs, INCAE — which opened a Costa Rica campus in 1984 — has sent thousands of graduates into leadership positions in the private sector as well as to... View Details

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

think a lot about things like resources and strategy,” he observes. “Even if you’re in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, you can begin to understand the foundations of business success.” At HBS, Skelly met professor James Austin, who helped to connect him with a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

March 1993
Teaching Note

Hintz-Kessels-Kohl A.G. (TN)

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note for (9-284-019). View Details

Keywords: Costa Rica

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Keywords: Ecotourism

01 Dec 2002
News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

Universities Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE), Costa Rica Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey—Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

true cluster in Costa Rica will take decades to complete, but I'm confident that it will be sustainable because the country offers some unique qualities that are a source of competitive advantage — among... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

19 Jan 2016
News

Electric Avenues

Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Mar 2004
News

HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania

Alumni Excursions Bhutan Oct 2004 South Africa and Namibia Dec 2004 Swiss Alps Feb 2005 Costa Rica April 2005 Galapagos and Amazon August 2005 New Zealand Dec 2005 For more information, contact... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

team that wrote hundreds of cases for the new school, now flourishing in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. At the same time, Lodge undertook a three-year research project in the remote province of Veraguas in Panama... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52406 January–March 2017 Enterprise & Society Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica, 1970–2000 By: Jones, G., and Andrew Spadafora Abstract—Between the 1970s and the 2000s, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

debt and served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica from 2010 to 2012. Europe Needs More Europe The game of brinkmanship that the latest Greek government has played... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

2022
Chapter

Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism

By: Geoffrey Jones

This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of... View Details