Panama - Publications - Faculty & Research

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 to study the process of change... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Panama Canal, 1903-1937 Authors: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu Publication: Journal of Economic History 68, no. 3 (September 2008) Abstract The Panama Canal was one of the largest public investments of its time.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

public was further damaged recently by revelations in the Panama Papers about his stockbroker father’s offshore activities, has presided over two of them. The Scottish independence referendum in 2014 nearly resulted in Scotland’s leaving... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

we served and to see all of the day-to-day stuff.” Quainton’s dream job was interrupted in 1964 when he was drafted. After training at the Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, he was sent to the Panama Canal to serve... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure What Roosevelt Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903-29 How About Investing in Human Infrastructure? Are big infrastructure projects worth the money? Share your... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

27 Oct 2017
News

The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received

to uncover new facts about things that you do even regularly, but you're trying to find new ways of thinking about it. Lider Sucre class of 1997, MBA. The best piece of advice I ever got for business and, really, for life, I got from my father, who traveled from View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

Confidential Instructions for Donald Sanger, Chief Financial Officer, Panama Studios Ian LarkinHarvard Business School Case 912-039 Ponce de Leon (POL) is a four-party negotiation exercise in which a film studio is trying to sign a major... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan

By: Forest Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s... View Details

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01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

completion of the widening of the Panama Canal, an improvement that is expected to significantly increase export/import growth in East Coast ports, many of which are serviced by CSX. For every dollar of public money invested in Gateway,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

Gurfein and friends at Iraqi marketplace Courtesy David Gurfein Marine Major David (“Bull”) Gurfein (MBA ’00) was a platoon commander during the 1989 invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War. He left active duty as a reservist in 1998... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government