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Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness, Teaching Note
Ramirez-Vallejo, Jorge; Porter, Michael E.Teaching Note HBS-711481-EEconomicsTeaching Note for 710417.Starting at €0.00
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Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness
Porter, Michael E.; Ramirez-Vallejo, JorgeCase HBS-710417-EEconomicsThe case is designed to explore the process of building competitiveness, particularly in an unstable environment, with a focus on organizations for competitiveness.Starting at €8.20
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Asociación Colombiana de Industrias Plásticas (Acoplasticos) (Spanish Version)
Porter, Michael E.; Emmons, Willis M.Case HBS-705S10StrategyACOPLASTICOS se estableció en 1961 como un grupo de presión para los principales plásticos de Colombia las empresas de fabricación. En la década de 1980, la organización cambió su enfoque hacia la mejora de la productividad de los plásticos de Colombia y clúster de goma, que también incluían cierto petroquímica, fibras sintéticas o artificiales, la pintura, y las industrias de tinta. Con el tiempo, las actividades de la organización se ampliaron ...Starting at €8.20
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Juan Valdez: Innovation in Caffeination, Teaching Note
Norton, Michael I.; Dann, JeremyTeaching Note HBS-514027-EMarketingTeaching Note for 513090.Starting at €0.00
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Colombia and the Economic Premium of Peace
Vietor, Richard H.K.; White, HilaryCase HBS-715011-EEconomicsColombia, the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both labor productivity and total factor productivity have been low for the past decade, despite economic growth of 4.7% annually. Many factors contribute-everything from infrastructure, to banking, to informality. President Santos, one year into his second term, is well aware of these difficulties and has put in place new policies to mitigate them. H...Starting at €8.20
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Antanas Mockus: The Prohibition of Fireworks in Bogot , Teaching Plan
Datla, Anjani; Fung, ArchonTeaching Note HBS-KS1306-EEconomicsTeaching plan for cases HKS790 and HKS791.Starting at €0.00
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Cocreating Business's New Social Compact
Brugmann, Jeb; Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-R0702D-EEconomicsThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Moving beyond decades of mutual distrust and animosity, corporations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are learning to cooperate with each other. Realizing that their interests are converging, the two sides are working together to create innovative business ...Starting at €8.20
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TransMilenio: The Battle Over Avenida Septima
Mojica, Carlos; Gomez-Ibanez, JoseCase HBS-HKS681-EStrategyIn August of 2007, the mayor of Bogota, Luis Eduardo Garz n had to decide whether to proceed with plans to build a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line in Avenida S ptima, one of the most important transportation corridors in the Colombian capital. The proposed line would be an extension of Bogot 's BRT system, called TransMilenio, which had opened in 2000 as the first BRT system to be built in a large metropolis. TransMilenio's modest construction co...Starting at €8.20
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Devil in the Details: Designing a Social Impact Bond Agreement in Medellin Teaching Plan
Levy, Dan; Varley, PamelaTeaching Note HBS-KS1168-EEconomicsThis teaching plan accompanies Case Number 2043.0. In July 2012, three freshly-minted Harvard Kennedy School graduates bought one-way tickets to Medellin, Co-lombia, to launch a nonprofit startup they called Instiglio. Their idea: to bring Social Impact Bonds, still experimental even in affluent nations, to Colombia and other low to middle income countries. This statistics case-one of two nearly identical HKS cases about Instiglio-provides backgr...Starting at €0.00
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Antanas Mockus: The Prohibition of Fireworks in Bogot
Fung, Archon; Lurye, InessaCase HBS-HKS790-EEconomicsIn 1994, Antanas Mockus, an unlikely politician and former President of the prestigious National University of Colombia, became Bogot 's first independent mayor, bringing with him a unique vision of harmonious citizenship. The city's new leadership under Mockus, unlike in the past, included academics and researchers, who helped create a raft of new initiatives designed to align public behavior with the rule of law, through education and positive...Starting at €8.20