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January 2021
Case
Cinépolis
By:
Joshua D. Margolis
and Fernanda Miguel
Two weeks after Cinepolis released a documentary film about corruption, a judge ordered its provisional suspension, claiming it had to be edited before it continued to be shown, against Mexican cinematography laws. Cinépolis, Latin America’s largest movie theater chain...
January 2021
Teaching Material
A Half-Deal
By:
Marco Di Maggio
, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
In June 2020, XP and Itaú faced intensified competition and tension in their partnership, with the latter owning a minority stake at XP. Two years earlier, in May 2017, Itaú had announced it would acquire 49.9% of XP for $1.8 billion, followed by three additional...
2021
Book Chapter
International Business History and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises: How History Matters
By:
Geoffrey Jones
and Teresa da Silva Lopes
This chapter provides an overview of the evolution of international business over the long-run as well as the strategies of MNEs. It highlights how strategies became more complex over time with MNEs moving from being coordinators of resources and managers of...
December 2020
Case
XP: Dual Track Financing Alternatives
By:
Marco Di Maggio
, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
XP, an investment platform, was on the verge of defining whether to do an IPO or selling off a majority stake to Itaú Unibanco, Brazil´s largest financial conglomerate. Under the leadership of Guilherme Benchimol, XP´s co-founder and CEO, XP had risen to become the...
December 2020 (Revised January 2021)
Case
Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan
By:
Forest Reinhardt
,
Jose B. Alvarez
, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s...
November 2020
Teaching Material
Unrest in Chile
By:
Vincent Pons
, John Masko,
Rafael Di Tella
and William Mullins
In 2020, Chileans would head to the ballot box to decide their country’s future. Many international observers credited Chile’s decades of neoliberal governance with turning the country into Latin America’s “Tiger,” a prosperous, diversified economy on its way to...
2020
Book Chapter
Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism
By:
G. Jones
This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of...
September 2020
Case
Algramo
By:
Michael Chu
, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores...
September 2020
Teaching Material
Uber: Competing Globally
By:
Alexander J. MacKay
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404.
August 2020 (Revised January 2021)
Case
Nubank: Democratizing Financial Services
By:
Michael Chu
, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
Nubank, a wholly-digital solution created to disrupt Brazilian banking, with 6 million clients and a $4 billion valuation after five years, must decide whether to expand to Mexico. The company was founded in São Paulo in 2013 by Colombian-born David Vélez to seize what...
August 2020 (Revised December 2020)
Case
Latam Airlines and COVID-19: Seeking Bankruptcy Protection in the United States
By:
Laura Alfaro
, Mauricio Larrain, Carlos Vilches and Sarah Jeong
On May 26, 2020, Latam Airlines became the largest airline in the world to be driven to bankruptcy by COVID-19. With a complex debt structure and international investor composition, the company decided to file for bankruptcy protection in the United States, which...
2020
Book
Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
By:
Debora L. Spar
Covering a time frame that ranges from 8000 BC to the present, and drawing upon both Marxist and feminist theories, the book argues that nearly all the decisions we make in our most intimate lives—whom to marry, how to have children, how to have sex, how to think about...
July 2020
Case
Karen Bruck: Growing Managers at MercadoLibre
By:
Joshua D. Margolis
, Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
Karen Bruck, Corporate Sales Director at MercadoLibre, Latin America's largest e-commerce platform, needs to make a decision about one of her managers, who, while analytically savvy, has an approach that does not fit in with the company's culture.
June 2020
Teaching Material
Global Brand Management of Anheuser Busch InBev's Budweiser
By:
Jill Avery
Brian Perkins, chief architect of the $6 billion Budweiser brand, was excited about 2018, in which the company would launch Budweiser into several new markets in Africa and Latin America. He was feeling the pressure to finalize a global brand strategy that would define...
2020
Working Paper
EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
By:
Laura Alfaro
, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on...
May 2020 (Revised June 2020)
Case
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)
By:
Alberto Cavallo
and Christian Godwin
In April 2020, the world struggled to contain the exponential escalation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of countries had imposed restrictions on travel, work, and social gatherings. A large share of the global population was under lockdowns and...
2020
Working Paper
Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19
By: Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla,
George Serafeim
and Hui (Stacie) Wang
The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19...
April 2020 (Revised June 2020)
Case
Uber: Competing Globally
By:
Alexander J. MacKay
, Amram Migdal and John Masko
This case describes Uber’s global market entry strategy and responses by regulators and local competitors. It details Uber’s entry into New York City (United States), Bogotá (Colombia), Delhi (India), Shanghai (China), Accra (Ghana), and London (United Kingdom). In...
April 2020 (Revised July 2020)
Case
Unrest in Chile
By:
Vincent Pons
, William Mullins, John Masko, Annelena Lobb and
Rafael Di Tella
In 2020, Chileans would head to the ballot box to decide their country’s future. Many international observers credited Chile’s decades of neoliberal governance with turning the country into Latin America’s “Tiger,” a prosperous, diversified economy on its way to...
March 2020 (Revised January 2021)
Case
Odebrecht's 'Transformation Journey'
By:
Suraj Srinivasan
,
Lynn S. Paine
, Ruth Costas and Mariana Cal
At the center of one of the largest corruption scandals in Latin America, Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht signed a leniency agreement with American, Swiss and Brazilian prosecutors in 2016 admitting to paying bribes in 12 countries. In an effort to regain financial...
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