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  • November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Votorantim: Uniting Family and Business Across Generations

By: Christina R. Wing, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
Over a 105-year span, the Ermírio de Moraes family built Votorantim, one of Latin America’s largest industrial conglomerates, and among Brazil’s topmost businesses, also credited for helping “build” the country over decades. By early 2023, Votorantim included... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

terms of not only financial performance but management practices and reputation in the community. The result of her efforts is the MBA elective course Globalization, Culture, and Management. According to Paine, as students examine the... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 21 Mar 2014
  • Blog Post

East Asia MBA Market Update

Over the past several months I have engaged with organizations across East Asia regarding job opportunities for MBA candidates. While economic growth has slowed in the region, the job market is still good... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 12 Feb 2015

Latin America Prospective Students Webinar

In this webinar a panel of current students from Latin America will discuss life at HBS. The webinar will also include a brief presentation from MBA Admissions and the Career & Professional Development... View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The Organization of Firms Across Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Asia; Europe; United States
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  • 02 Nov 2015

Latin America Prospective Student Webinar

This webinar will include a brief presentation from MBA Admissions and the Career & Professional Development Office targeted to prospective students from Latin America. It will be followed by a conversation with students from the region... View Details
  • 13 Sep 2022

Alumni Perspectives from Latin America

Join Fernanda Miguel, Executive Director of the HBS Latin America Research Center, as she moderates a panel of fellow alumni discussing their MBA experience and the incredible HBS network in Latin America. ... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2016

Latin America Prospective Student Webinar

Join current students from Latin America for an online discussion and get to know the community of students at HBS. Learn more about life at HBS, the MBA Admissions process, and career opportunities... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2022
  • News

The Political Polarization of Corporate America

  • 2025
  • Working Paper

The Political Polarization of Corporate America

By: Vyacheslav Fos, Elisabeth Kempf and Margarita Tsoutsoura
U.S. executives are increasingly segregating by political party. We establish this new fact using political affiliations from voter registration records for top executives of S&P 1500 firms between 2008 and 2022. We identify key drivers of this trend, including... View Details
Keywords: Political Polarization; Partisanship; Executives; Government and Politics; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders

organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study and identified language differences “as the most divisive,... View Details
  • September 1998 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Power Across Latin America: Endesa de Chile

Endesa, a privatized Chilean electricity generator, has made significant investments in the privatization of Argentina's electricity sector and is now contemplating an even larger privatization opportunity in Peru. In deciding how much to bid in Peru, Endesa must... View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Energy Generation; Privatization; Government and Politics; Utilities Industry; Peru; Chile
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  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Creating more effective content across all media

Associate Professor Thales Teixeira’s research into the economics of attention explores the ways in which companies can better communicate with buyers of goods and services in a marketplace cluttered with messaging across all media.... View Details
  • 2025
  • Chapter

Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America

By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the first global economy before 1929, considerable wealth was... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Globalization; Economic Growth; Latin America
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  • June 2010
  • Article

The Circulation of Ideas across Academic Communities: When Locals Re-import Exported Ideas

By: Julie Battilana, Michel Anteby and Metin Sengul
The circulation of ideas across academic communities is central to academic pursuits and has attracted much past scholarly attention. As North American-based scholars with European ties, we decided to examine the impact of Organization Studies in North American... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Dissemination; Organizational Structure; Learning; Archives; Civil Society or Community; North and Central America; Europe
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  • Web

Capstone | MBA

MBA and MS coursework. Students will receive guidance on their work from faculty mentors and present their work to their classmates and joint-degree program faculty at the conclusion of the course. 1. As in the real world, conversations... View Details
  • Research Summary

The Future of MBA Education

David Garvin, together with Srikant Datar and Patrick Cullen, is examining the future of MBA education and the evolving role of business schools. The research has several components: interviews with business school deans and business executives to identify the... View Details
  • 21 Sep 2018
  • News

America traded one recession for a far more serious one

  • 07 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again

A native Miamian, HBS alum Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012) spent the early part of her career working as a Teach for America corps member in her hometown. Maxeme later went on to work in the New York City Mayor’s Office and the Bill and Melinda... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2022

HBS College Programs Series: Latin America

Come learn about the ways you can get involved with HBS as a college student. This includes our deferred admission process for college seniors, 2+2, and our MBA preview experiences Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and Summer Venture... View Details