Abstract
This chapter explores the development of research activity in the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE), particularly in its Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS), and the role Harvard University has played in this evolution. It examines the INCAE-Harvard partnership, results generated, CLACDS’s affiliation with key international development actors, and how this combination of inputs has propelled INCAE and CLACDS to the forefront of knowledge generation for Central American development. Key outputs in recent years include national and regional monitoring for the World Economic Forum and Social Progress Index; the Central American Private Sector Initiative for improved public policy; joint projects with the United Nations for microfinance and sustainable development; and hundreds of publications in regional and international journals.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsNotes
- 1.
The Gini index (or coefficient) is a measure of statistical dispersion generally used to quantify income inequality. A low Gini coefficient indicates a more equal distribution, with 0 equivalent to perfect equality, while a higher Gini coefficient indicates a more unequal distribution, with 1 equivalent to perfect inequality.
References
Artavia, R. (2008). Centroamérica 1982–2007: 25 Lecciones que Aprendí en INCAE [Central America 1982–2007: 25 Lessons I Learned in INCAE]. San Jose: Latinoamérica Posible.
Artavia, R. (2015). Stephan Schmidheiny y su Legado para América Latina, 1984–2014 [Stephan Scmidheiny and his Legacy for Latin America] (pp 131–149). Bilanz: VIVA Trust.
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). (2011). International. Spotlight: Business Schools and Ethics/Sustainability–INCAE Business School.
Barahona, J. C., Doryan, E., Sachs, J., & Larrain, F. (1999). Facing Natural Disasters in a Vulnerable Region: Hurricane Mitch in Central America (Lessons learned). Working Paper for INCAE/CLACDS-Harvard Institute for International Development.
Condo, A., & Majano, A. (2005). La Competitividad y el Desarrollo de la Región, el Enfoque de CLACDS [Competitiveness and the Development of the Region, the Focus of CLACDS]. En Resumen special edition – INCAE 40th Anniversary.
Contreras, C. (2015, September 16). Alberto Trejos: Espero que los Centroamericanos Avancemos en como Invertir en Cuba. Estrategia y Negocios. Available online at http://www.estrategiaynegocios.net/lasclavesdeldia/880668-330/alberto-trejos-espero-que-los-centroamericanos-avancemos-en-c%C3%B3mo-invertir-en-cuba. Accessed 29 Sep 2015.
Harvard Business School (HBS). (2014). Harvard Business School News. INCAE Observes 50th Anniversary at Celebration at Harvard Business School. Available online at http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/incae-50th-celebration.aspx. Accessed 4 May 2015.
INCAE Business School. (2014a). Memoria Anual 2014: INCAE 50 Aniversario [Annual Report 2014: INCAE 50th Anniversary]. Available online at http://www.incae.edu/images/descargables/AcercaDe/incae_anuario_2014.pdf. Accessed 1 June 2015.
INCAE Business School. (2014b). The INCAE Project. Available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ZMGgC0oEc. Accessed 15 Aug 2015.
INCAE Business School. (2015a). History of INCAE – Accreditations and Rankings. Available online at http://conocimiento.incae.edu/EN/biblioteca/recursos-servicios/historia-incae/acreditaciones-rankings.php. Accessed 10 Aug 2015.
INCAE Business School. (2015b). Why INCAE? Available online at http://www.incae.edu/en/why-incae.html. Accessed 1 Aug 2015.
INCAE Business School. (2015c). The ABC Guide. Available online at http://www.incae.edu/en/master-programs/mba-costa-rica.php#compare-3. Accessed 20 Aug 2015.
INCAE Business School – Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y el Desarrollo Sostenible (INCAE-CLACDS). (2015). Available online at http://www.incae.edu/es/clacds. Accessed 10 Mar 2015.
Jenkins, M., Esquivel, G., & Larrain, F. B. (1998). Export Processing Zones in Central America. HIID Central America Project Series – Development Discussion Paper No. 646.
Lodge, G. C. (1999, Fall). The Birth of INCAE (1963–1965): A View from Harvard. ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America.
Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL). (2007). A Lot to Do: A Report Card on Education in Central America and the Dominican Republic. Washington, DC: PREAL Task Force on Education Reform in Central America.
Pratt, L. (2000). Rethinking the Private Sector-Environment Relationship in Latin America. Background Paper for the Seminar on the “New Vision for Sustainability: Private Sector and the Environment” IDB/IIC Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 25, 2000.
Smith, D., & Katz, J. S. (2000). Collaborative Approaches to Research. A joint project with the Higher Education Policy Unit (HEPU), University of Leeds and Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) University of Sussex. Available online at http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~sylvank/pubs/collc.pdf. Accessed 15 Aug 2015.
Social Progress Imperative (SPI). About – Origins. Available online at http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/about/origins. Accessed 10 Sep 2015.
Solis, L. E. (2014, March). 50 Years Illuminating Latin America. INCAE Alumni Magazine (3).
Strachan, H. W. (2007). INCAE Memories 1970–1982. San Jose: Ediciones Guayacan.
Svenson, Nanette. (2012, September 23). R&D in Central America: Panorama and Prospects for International Cooperation. Higher Education, pp. 1–16.
Svenson, N. (2015). Central American Outliers: Leveraging International Cooperation for Research Productivity. In G. Gregorutti & J. E. Delgado (Eds.), Private Universities in Latin America: Research and Innovation in the Knowledge Economy (pp. 157–184). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). (2007). The State of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Guaranteeing Quality Education for All. Santiago: UNESCO Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean.
VIVA Trust. (2007). AVINA-INCAE: A Partnership for Sustainable Development in Latin America. Bilanz: VIVA Trust.
World Bank. (2005). Central American Education Strategy: An Agenda for Action. Washington, DC: World Bank.
World Bank. (2014). World Development Indicators. Available online at http://data.worldbank.org. Accessed 10 Aug 2015.
World Bank. (2015). Data – Country and Lending Groups. Available online at http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-and-lending-groups. Accessed 1 Sep 2015.
Yin, R. K. (2014). Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
Acknowledgments
Several individuals were critical to developing this chapter. Immense appreciation is extended to these scholars for contributing their personal accounts, which add another dimension to the documented facts and figures of the INCAE-Harvard history: George Cabot Lodge (Professor Emeritus of Harvard Business School), Harry Strachan (Professor Emeritus and former Rector of INCAE), Roberto Artavia (former Rector of INCAE and founding Director of CLACDS), John Ickis (Dean of Faculty at INCAE), and Ana Maria Majano (Associate Director of CLACDS).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Svenson, N. (2018). INCAE, Harvard, and International Development: Research for Progress in Central America. In: Gregorutti, G., Svenson, N. (eds) North-South University Research Partnerships in Latin America and the Caribbean. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75364-5_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75364-5_4
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-75363-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-75364-5
eBook Packages: EducationEducation (R0)