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dynamics across key markets, including country-specific insights on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Central America. In a region characterized... View Details Keywords: Latin America ; Brazil ; Mexico ; Argentina ; View Details

November 2019 (Revised December 2020)
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Grupo Éxito: Facing Colombia's Competitive Grocery Retail Industry

By: José B. Alvarez, Carla Larangeira, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Miguel Diaz Moreno

Grupo Éxito, a leading South American retailer, faced declining market shares in Colombia in 2019 with the arrival of low-cost competitors and emerging digital trends. Originally founded in Medellín, Éxito had over the course of its seventy-year history evolved from a... View Details

Keywords: Grocery; Market Share; Information Technology; Trends; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Colombia; Latin America

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02 Mar 2018
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William F. Maloney, World Bank, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

Moreover, it is unclear whether standard theories about organizational strategy, such as planning, hold true in such environments. We explore these issues using a sample of 730 new ventures in Colombia from 1997 to 2001. We find that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Creating Emerging Markets

Indonesia Shinta Kamdani Owner and CEO, Sintesa Group Colombia Beatriz Fernández Co-Founder and Manager, Crepes & Waffles S.A. India Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon Limited Morocco Mostafa Terrab Chairman and... View Details

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

standard theories about organizational strategy, such as planning, hold true in such environments. Building upon the institution-based view of strategy and past research on planning, we explore these issues using a sample of 730 new ventures in View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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MBA Experience 39% of our Class of 2025 MBA students are international, representing 66 countries. MBA 2025 Guangzhou City, People's Republic of China Ken Zeng MBA 2025 Philadelphia, PA Tim Kluska MBA 2024 Tokyo, Japan Mark McNeill MBA 2025 Bogota, View Details

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General Management - Faculty & Research

local investors, offering a comprehensive view of the region’s efforts to build inclusive and sustainable development through social entrepreneurship. Keywords: Latin America ; Brazil ; Mexico ; Argentina ; Colombia ; Chile ; Impact... View Details

Rohit Deshpande

Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games

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About - Global

faculty. 1946 International enrollment in the Advanced Management Program (AMP) skyrockets, and the School brings in South African business leader Harvey Bishop to direct the program. 1942 Professor of International Relations, J. Anton de Haas, goes to View Details

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Guangdong (2006) Colombia Bogota Software Cluster (2013) The Sugar Cane Cluster in Colombia (2007) Colombia Shrimp Aquaculture (2008) Costa Rica Costa Rica Data Centers (2016)... View Details

Ashish Nanda

Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

September–October 2023. With Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun. The Health Costs of Dirty Energy: Evidence from the Capacity Market in Colombia , Article, Journal of Development Economics, September... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Price ; Competition ; Supply and Industry ; Energy Industry ; Colombia Citation Read Now Related Fioretti, Michele, Junnan He, and Jorge Tamayo. "Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from Renewables." Harvard Business... View Details

Richard H.K. Vietor

Professor Vietor is Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He teaches courses on the international political economy. Before coming to the Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia... View Details

Keywords: energy; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; railroad; shipping

Ray A. Goldberg

A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

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Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

imperialists? A: Americans never like to use that word in describing our actions! I certainly don't. But it fits our behavior in Panama. The "successful" part happened under Teddy Roosevelt: the United States used military force and the threat of military... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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Participating Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

University St. Kliment Ohridski (Sofia) Cambodia CamEd Business School (Phnom Penh) Canada HEC Montreal (Montreal) Chile Universidad de Talca (Talca) Colombia Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Gordas) Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá)... View Details

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