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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
Heyman: hitting 317 screens. As a student at HBS, movie buff Matthew Heyman (MBA '93) used to ask classmates what the theaters were like in their hometowns. When two classmates from Mexico City told him the theaters there were terrible,...
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- 14 Oct 2014
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Financial Services Support Mexico’s Most Underserved Communities
Alvaro Rodriguez-Arregui (MBA 1995), cofounder and managing partner of Ignia, explains how his organization’s impact investing has brought personal finance services to residents of the largest slum in Mexico City while also strengthening...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Brian Franklin (MBA 2018) admits the prospect of partnering with Colgate-Palmolive to...
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- 17 Oct 2014
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A passion for alleviating poverty and inequality
Patricio (“Pato”) Bichara (MBA 2015) is passionate about the need to alleviate poverty and inequality in his native Mexico and the role he expects to play in this challenge. (Published October 2014)
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- 31 Oct 2019
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Finding an Audience
Rene Solis (MBA 1958) is director of Musica en Mexico, a performing arts information service in Mexico City. In this interview he talks about how the group grew out of a personal mission to today serving a wide community of interest. “I...
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- 07 Mar 2019
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Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
did, one step at a time, is bring together concepts and brands from Mexico and from Latin America, establish them in the marketplace, and work them hard to visually have an influence at a store level. We have been responsible, actually,...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and...
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- 10 Apr 2013
- News
Tapped In
steady income, provide carbon sequestration and protection for the land's underground water reservoirs, and—eventually—may help increase resin production for T&R. Eventually, Arias-King hopes to help communities in Mexico plant a total of...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families
Fredo Arias-King (MBA 1996, AM 1998) helps indigenous forest dwellers and their families in central Mexico stay on their land and thrive financially while also safeguarding their local environment. As founder of Green and Tapped...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
had an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS. He had a good job at a sugar company in his native Mexico City. His career path seemed set. Music, though, was innate. His grandparents on his father’s side had been friends...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events
Recent HBS Campaign Regional Events & Alumni Gatherings 1–3 HBS Campaign Mexico City Regional Event held in February at the Hyatt Regency Mexico City: 1 Alfredo Berlanga (MBA 1997), Dan Roig (MBA 1995),...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003
Claudio Knizek “My goal is not only to lead people, but to lead by inspiring them.” Born: El Salvador, grew up in Brazil Citizen Of: Mexico Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German Stanford: BS and MS in industrial engineering...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
buildings 10 miles east of Mexico City that is populated by some of the country’s poorest citizens. Over the past two years, though, market days have been busier than normal at the store—all thanks to a little silver service booth just...
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- 23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1967 Born, Mexico City 1990 Receives Gold and Silver Medals, Rowing, Central American Games 1991 Earns BS, Economics, Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) 1995 Earns MBA...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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The Billion-Dollar Question
that you probably need to rock your own boat again. Disrupt your life with a sabbatical. That doesn't mean you have to spend seven months walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide Trail. After being the first to do...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master
“vindictive” but to settle on compensation for top executives at bailed-out companies that would be competitive without promoting excessive risk-taking. (Feinberg’s definition of “excessive”: “I know it when I see it.”) He noted that 85 percent of the people whose...
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- 01 Feb 2017
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New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
Development. These regional offices—including the one previously established in Mexico City—are staffed by a local researcher and are aligned with one of HBS’s global research centers, which range in size from 3 to 12 people. Many of the...
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- 14 Nov 2012
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Remembering His Roots
having spent the first 16 years of his life alongside his family, moving from Mexico up and down the West Coast of the United States to harvest peaches, olives, cherries, and plums. He managed to graduate from high school in California in...
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- 30 Oct 2018
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Paths of Victory
it to people who previously had no understanding of what we did. The experience made me much more focused on our vision and the incredible importance of its communication.” Vera Makarov (MBA 2010) Co-CEO/COO of Apli, 2017 Alumni Track Grand Prize Winner Apli, based in...
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