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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Best of Costa Rica
Pura vida is an expression that Costa Ricans use to describe an attitude or state of mind. It means “pure life,” and for Costa Ricans, it is a philosophy of living — a peaceful existence, a life close to... View Details
- 07 Apr 2010
- News
Associate Professor Laura Alfaro Named Costa Rican Cabinet Minister
- 01 Jun 2010
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Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
with New Hampshire Audubon to work on global conservation issues in Costa Rica. What are the keys to success in working on environmental issues in a developing country? Costa View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
typically hectic month last spring, he taught in three HBS executive education programs, gave several presentations to alumni, and spent a day each in Nicaragua and Costa Rica leading an effort to create an... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
odyssey of a lifetime. They journeyed with their children to 25 countries in ten months, starting in Costa Rica in November 1999 and ending in Norway last August. The decision to take Alex, Katie, and Ben... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
reviews at INCAE and SSE-Riga have been overwhelmingly favorable. “There is intense student interest in taking a course that covers the fundamentals of competitiveness,” says Arturo Condo (DBA '00), a professor and associate dean at INCAE. Condo reports that teaching... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships,... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
Brazil and Costa Rica take place in March. This year, for the first time since the IXP was launched in 2007, an international program went beyond observing a country’s business environment and engaged in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
official. He eventually turned himself in and served four years in prison in Costa Rica and the United States. Currently on probation, he spoke at HBS last November as part of the Leadership & Ethics Forum... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
programs and around 5,000 in its executive education programs, INCAE — which opened a Costa Rica campus in 1984 — has sent thousands of graduates into leadership positions in the private sector as well as to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
Alumni Excursions Bhutan Oct 2004 South Africa and Namibia Dec 2004 Swiss Alps Feb 2005 Costa Rica April 2005 Galapagos and Amazon August 2005 New Zealand Dec 2005 For more information, contact... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
think a lot about things like resources and strategy,” he observes. “Even if you’re in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, you can begin to understand the foundations of business success.” At HBS, Skelly met professor James Austin, who helped to connect him with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Universities Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE), Costa Rica Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey—Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 27 Oct 2017
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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 Panama... View Details