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    Agustín Legorreta

    Keywords: Financial Services
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    Sebastian Velasco

    pursuing capital, debt management. She took me on business trips to New York City; I got to know what the business world was like." The combination of his mother's influence and their business trips together led to Sebastian's first... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Services
    • 12 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 12

    is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 1992 (Revised March 1993)
    • Case

    Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program

    By: Willis M. Emmons III and Monica Brand
    Mexico's largest construction company, Empresas ICA, makes an initial public offering to international equity investors in April 1992 to help fund its participation in an ambitious new private-sector approach to highway development. Under the new program, launched by... View Details
    Keywords: Construction; Transportation Networks; Infrastructure; Privatization; Private Equity; Investment; Initial Public Offering; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Policy; Construction Industry; Mexico
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    • 15 May 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

    ©iStockphoto Here's some heartening news for working mothers worried about the future of their children. Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Blog

    How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America

    follow-up interviews remotely. Zoom also enables us to work more efficiently within a team. For example, two members of a research team are usually not in the same office—one might be in Mexico and the other in Argentina. This View Details
    • 15 Aug 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: August 15, 2006

    expect bankers to have been less central than in Mexico and, perhaps, the United States. Second, I test if the availability of financing alternatives, like a well-developed bond market in Brazil, reduced the average importance of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Hiring International Students

    requires at least a bachelor’s degree Annual quota of 85,000 new H-1B visas with 20,000 reserved for individuals who hold advanced degrees from US universities Individuals who previously held H-1B status not subject to cap A total of 6... View Details
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    Events - Business History

    (Johns Hopkins University), "Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy" Organized by Geoff Jones and Kwelina Thompson Seminar meets on Zoom. Oct 2 02 Oct 2023 Business History Seminar: Business, Society,... View Details
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    Request the Data - Leadership

    Mexico Monaco Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Ireland Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Paraguay Peru Phillippines Poland Portugal Qatar... View Details
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    National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Presentations on National Competitiveness The Institute has developed research-based economic agendas for more than 60 nations since its founding in 2001. Asia-Pacific Australia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Mongolia Nepal View Details
    • 06 Jul 2023
    • News

    Home Economics

    In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve formed with the assistance of... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 11 Sep 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: September 11

    systems that place these leaders in positions of power, Indispensable sheds new light on how we may be able to identify the best leaders and what lessons we can learn, from both the process and the result. Profiling a mix of historic and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 24, 2006

    and environmental standards. Natura began to seek international markets in 1982, but experienced many setbacks until surviving the economic crisis in Argentina in 2001. The company opened operations in France and Mexico in 2005, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

    that’s my number one leadership takeaway.” HOME REGION Mexico City, Mexico UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Columbia University PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IGNIA, Home Depot, Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch... View Details
    • 23 Dec 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: December 23, 2008

    welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 30 Nov 2018
    • Blog Post

    8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS

    Still, it can be hard to share this with 93 people immediately. Evolve takes sharing your story in a new direction. Twice a month, small groups of five get together to discuss meaningful topics: what do we value, what brought us to HBS,... View Details
    • 19 Oct 2012
    • Other Presentation

    Building a Competitive Mexico: The Role of Business

    By: Michael E. Porter
    This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Mexico
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    • 03 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 3, 2006

    ABC provides a simpler and more powerful method. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106068 Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (A) Harvard Business School Case 306-090 Dana Hall is a private all-girls school in View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

    New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance