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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables

From its seat at the tip of South America, belted by the equator, Colombia enjoys fairly steady temperatures—an evenness that’s counterbalanced by the seesawing of two rainy seasons and two dry seasons every year. Those peak periods of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Class Day/Commencement 2013

potentially the next person to teach you something. The near future? I don't want to get comfortable. I want to keep the drive that got me here. Long term? I want to combine my interest in technology with business and policymaking to help View Details
Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

Teaching Guidelines - Creating Emerging Markets

featured university professors and educators below. If you have taught CEM materials for your coursework and would like to be featured, please contact us at cem@hbs.edu . Andrea Lluch Independent Researcher, CONICET, Argentina Associate Professor, School of Management,... View Details
  • Web

Commencement 2025 - Commencement 2025

David Soled Venice, CA Jay Bhandari Houston, TX Julie Cruz New York, NY Julia Siegel Denver, CO Ken Zeng Guangzhou City, People's Republic of China Lena Licht Boca Raton, FL Laura Mediorreal Bogota, Colombia & Houston, TX Mireya Iglesias... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

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 stuck in a middle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Portrait Project

Debbie Rosenbaum

conversation flowed between, and in spite of, different dialects. Born in Miami, I grew up in a bilingual city and a multi-language household. When my grandparents fled an anti-Semitic Europe before World War II, they settled in a small community in Bogotá, View Details
  • Career Coach

Alejandro Maldonado

and growth-stage company CEO’s. He has served on various for-profit, impact investing, and non-profit boards, including Accupac, Blush Bar, Ocean Lane Capital, Ventures Foundation, and Teach for America’s Colombia Chapter.   Alejandro... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)
  • Web

Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History - Creating Emerging Markets

about the use digital methodologies including video in the classroom. An important component of the event was learning from past interviews to prepare for a new set of CEM interviews planned in the region over the following twelve months, which will pay special... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2016
  • News

The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus

(photo by Local Motors) (photo by Local Motors) The Jetsonian era may be upon us. A recent NPR piece details how 24-year-old Colombia native Edgar Sarmiento worked with Local Motors to build a vehicle called Olli—a self-driving electric... 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
Keywords: Commercial Banking; Colombia
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  • April 2020 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

Medellín Reborn (A)

By: Jorge Tamayo, Ashish Nanda and Margaret Cross
In 2003, mathematics professor Sergio Fajardo was elected mayor of Medellín, Colombia—one of the most violent cities in the world at that time. As mayor, Fajardo faced a host of daunting challenges. Rampant gang violence had raised Medellín’s homicide rate... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Leadership; Peace; Government; Politics; Priorities; Leadership; City; Strategy; Government and Politics; Problems and Challenges; Transformation; Government Administration; Crime and Corruption; Colombia; Medellín
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  • 18 Feb 2011
  • Other Presentation

Prosperity for Colombia: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter
Regional competitiveness and CSV presentation, Bogotá View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Competitiveness; Economics; Society; Colombia
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  • February 2003 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Asociacion Colombiana de Industrias Plasticas (Acoplasticos)

By: Michael E. Porter and Willis M. Emmons III
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
Keywords: Cooperation; Information Technology; Alliances; Research and Development; Business and Government Relations; Performance Productivity; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Chemical Industry; Colombia
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    María Emilia Correa

    Keywords: B-Corp

      Beatriz Fernández

      Keywords: Food Service

        Lilian Simbaqueba

        Keywords: Consulting
        • Video

        Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez

        Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, former General Manager of the FNC, details the technologies and practices that the organization advanced to protect the environment, preserve water and prevent soil erosion. View Details
        • 21 Jan 2021
        • Video

        José Alejandro Cortés

        José Alejandro Cortés, President of the Colombia-based diversified business group Grupo Bolìvar, explains that he began the group’s international process by moving into countries that spoke the same language. He describes first venturing into Venezuela due to its... View Details
        • 05 Jan 2021
        • Video

        Beatriz Fernández

        Beatriz Fernández, Co-Founder and Manager of Crepes & Waffles S.A., discusses the workshops she holds at the Academy of Arts that focuses on women’s empowerment and the ways in which she supports women from low-income communities. View Details
        • 30 Oct 2019
        • Video

        María Emilia Correa

        María Emilia Correa, co-founder of Sistema B, a Latin American organization promoting B Corporations and sustainability, discusses the problem of corruption in Latin America, and her hope of an entrepreneurial... View Details