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- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1955 Born, Queens, New York 1973 Launches clothing manufacturing business in Ecuador 1978 Earns BS, Finance, New York University 1980 Earns MBA, Baker Scholar 1980 Joins Boston...
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Susan Young
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Laura Dries Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Making Donor Dollars Work: Measuring Impact in Rural Ecuador Laura Dries 22 Feb 2018...
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- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. It turned out it was the local library—and no one was...
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- March 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Inge Skjelfjord and the Cacao Supply Chain
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Inge Skjelfjord, with a long career in international finance focused on agribusiness projects, had a vision to build a cacao research center that would help smallholder cacao farmers, who benefited the least from the chocolate value chain. He aimed to support the...
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- 2014
- Working Paper
Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement
By: Paul Carrillo, Dina Pomeranz and Monica Singhal
Reducing tax evasion is a key priority for many governments, particularly in developing countries. A growing literature has argued that the ability to verify taxpayer self-reports against reports from third parties is critical for modern tax enforcement and the growth...
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Carrillo, Paul, Dina Pomeranz, and Monica Singhal. "Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-026, October 2014. (R&R at AEJ Applied. Note: Previously circulated as "Tax Me if You Can: Firm Misreporting Behavior and Evasion Substitution.")
- Profile
Kira Epler
perspectives based on completely different family and cultural experiences." As an example, Kira cites a case about Shell's operations in Nigeria. Based on her years with Dow, "my view was slanted one way," Kira explains. "Then a student who had...
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- 24 Oct 2011
- Other Presentation
The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition...
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Porter, Michael E. "The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Quito, Ecuador, October 24, 2011.
- 24 Oct 2011
- Other Presentation
Ecuadorian Competitiveness: Ready for the Next Stage?
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); "Strategy and the...
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Porter, Michael E. "Ecuadorian Competitiveness: Ready for the Next Stage?" Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Quito, Ecuador, October 24, 2011.
- November 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Bolsa de Valores de Guayaquil (BVG): Reaching Worldwide Investors Through the Internet
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ramiro Montealegre, Dusya Vera and Karen Barone
The Guayaquil Stock Exchange developed a Web site to provide information about the market in Ecuador. Though the system provided some dynamic information for potential investors and allowed for some transactions to occur via the Internet, it had not at the time of the...
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Stocks;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Emerging Markets;
Internet;
Technology Industry;
Ecuador
Applegate, Lynda M., Ramiro Montealegre, Dusya Vera, and Karen Barone. "Bolsa de Valores de Guayaquil (BVG): Reaching Worldwide Investors Through the Internet." Harvard Business School Case 399-070, November 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- April 1992 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
Conoco's: "Green" Oil Strategy (A)
Conoco faces challenges in formulating a proactive environmental strategy for its proposed oil development in Ecuador's pristine tropical rain forest region. The case outlines the innovative process in which Conoco collaborated with a wide range of often conflicting...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Ethics;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Outcome or Result;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Conflict Management;
Ecuador
Salter, Malcolm S., and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. Conoco's: "Green" Oil Strategy (A). Harvard Business School Case 392-133, April 1992. (Revised July 1993.)
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
(239), Chile (159), Colombia (83), Ecuador (39), Peru (82), and Venezuela (85). On the African continent? Answer: South Africa (775), followed by Nigeria (239), the only other country in triple digits. It hasn’t always been this way. In...
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- 25 Oct 2011
- Other Presentation
The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition...
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Porter, Michael E. "The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Guayaquil, Ecuador, October 25, 2011.
- September 1992 (Revised September 1992)
- Teaching Note
Conoco's "Green" Oil Strategy (A) TN
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall
Teaching Note for (9-392-133).
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Ecuador
- February 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Alantar, Inc.
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The CEO and chairman of Alantar, Inc. is confronted with the problem of how to create a more effective board of directors and also how to provide for his own successor.
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Governing and Advisory Boards;
Management Succession;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Ecuador
Lorsch, Jay W. "Alantar, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 391-158, February 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact Making Donor Dollars Work: Measuring Impact in Rural Ecuador Laura Dries 22 Feb 2018 Are we sure...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
“Marty should be here for this; this is what he came here for,” Esther Flashner laments to our Galápagos National Park guide, as a dozen of us stroll the sandy beach of Darwin Bay on the island of Genovesa. We are improbably close to nesting sea birds, four species of...
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Juan Pablo Moncayo
"I've always been a left-brain, right-brain person," Juan Pablo "JP" Moncayo says of his parallel interests in music (trombone and voice) versus science and politics. When he left his home town of Quito, Ecuador for...
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Financial Services
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
Nichols Photo courtesy Bill Nichols Want to show your kids a real rainforest instead of the Rainforest Cafe? Marketing consultant Bill Nichols (MBA ’78) and his wife, Jennifer, did just that, taking their two children to locales such as Ecuador, Thailand, and Tanzania....
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- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. He asked his tour guide what could possibly be inside...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
nationalistic pride and identity but also allows them to leverage monetary policy, one of the most significant tools that governments have to affect their economies. However, we’ve seen countries like Ecuador getting rid of their national...
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