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Interviews

The interviews in the Creating Emerging Markets archive form a permanent and unique resource held in Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. Many interview transcripts can be downloaded immediately in full, and all others are available upon request. Each interview page includes supporting resources about the interviewee and her or his business. If the interview is conducted in a local language, an English translation is provided. Many of the interviews are on video. Harvard ID holders are able to access the full-length videos through the website. Most Latin American interview transcripts are in Spanish and English. La mayoría de las transcripciones de las entrevistas latinoamericanas se encuentran disponibles en español e inglés.

Interviews are freely available for research & teaching. For academic research, we ask that you credit HBS using the citations provided on the transcripts. For more information, visit our Research Guidelines page.

We welcome feedback and suggestions for ways to improve the project.

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Mohammed Al Barwani
Mohammed Al Barwani
  • Oman

Mohammed Al Barwani

Founder and Chairman, MB Holding Company
(Oil; Gas; Mining Exploration; Diversified)
“If you can invest in brands internationally, and especially brands which are exclusive, there’s always a market and there’s always demand.”
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Kwasi Abeasi
Kwasi Abeasi
  • Ghana

Kwasi Abeasi

CEO, Africa Investconsult Ltd.
(Financial Services)
“You have to negotiate. And you have to go with a team that knows how to negotiate. Otherwise you’ll get a deal that looks good. Later on you find out it’s no good.”
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Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
  • Bangladesh

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

Founder and Chair, BRAC
(Microfinance, Development)
“I’ve never thought that you can do good only through nonprofit activities. You can do good also by doing business.”
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Helmy Abouleish
Helmy Abouleish
  • Egypt

Helmy Abouleish

CEO, SEKEM Initiative
(Agriculture)
“We have this concept of sustainable development which tries to balance economic, ecological, societal, and cultural developments in a harmonious way.”
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Arturo Acevedo
Arturo Acevedo
  • Argentina

Arturo Acevedo

President, Grupo Arcelor Mittal (Acindar)
(Steel and Mining)
“It is important to clearly define social responsibility. We have always upheld a very active and responsible policy in this field. We make mistakes, and a lot of things still need improving, but corporate social responsibility is a major corporate concept.”
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Anu Aga
Anu Aga
  • India

Anu Aga

Thermax Private, Ltd.
(Engineering Manufacturing)
“[As a leader], you don’t have to know everything In fact, one of the beliefs I have is [that] skills can be hired. The leader has to show wisdom—that cannot be hired.”
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Hamdi Akın
Hamdi Akın
  • Turkey

Hamdi Akın

Founder and Chairman, Akfen Holding
(Construction, infrastructure)
“[W]e want these companies to last 100, 200, or even 300 years. We want them to survive in the long term. We don’t want them to just live and die with us.”
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Abbas Akbarally
Abbas Akbarally
  • Sri Lanka

Abbas Akbarally

Chairman, Akbar Brothers
(Tea; Diversified)
“The main thing is integrity, honesty; and once the banks know that you are not going to take their money and go to the casino, they will give you the money.”
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Muhammad Alagil
Muhammad Alagil
  • Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Alagil

Jarir Marketing
(Electronics; office supplies; books; diversified)
“We just want to keep developing a good reputation. We want to have exciting time. We want to add something to the community.”
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Kutayba Alghanim
Kutayba Alghanim
  • Kuwait

Kutayba Alghanim

Chairman, Alghanim Industries
(Diversified)
“Being able to be flexible is good, because conditions in the marketplace change—continuously. You have to keep up with those conditions.”
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Roberto de Andraca
Roberto de Andraca
  • Chile

Roberto de Andraca

Chair, Cap S.A.
(Steel)
“[I]n 1998–2000, when a severe steel price depression developed and 30% of steel companies went bankrupt. At the time we already ranked among the 20% lowest-cost steel companies.”
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Roberto Angelini Rossi
Roberto Angelini Rossi
  • Chile

Roberto Angelini Rossi

Chair, Empresas Copec S.A. and AntarChile S.A.
(Petroleum, Forestry, and Fishing)
“Businessmen are never allowed to say ‘I’m done.’ We can never sit down to see what happens. There is constant evolution ... we must provide orientation to our companies and keep on expanding and innovating.”
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Eva Arias
Eva Arias
  • Peru

Eva Arias

President, Compañía Minera Poderosa
(Mining)
“The economics of a mine—any mine—creates a very deep symbiosis with the local area For instance, at Poderosa, we provide employment—counting our own employees and outsourced workers who do some specific jobs—to over 3,500 people.”
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala
  • Philippines

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala

Ayala Corporation
(Real Estate, Infrastructure, Insurance, Banking)
“We wanted to be part and parcel of the development cycle of the country and to be relevant as an institution in a country which needed a lot of growth, a lot of development, and a lot of institutional support. [We wanted] to have an Ayala that was relevant to the national development agenda, but at the same time put capital to work and gave good return on investment.”
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Gülsüm Azeri
Gülsüm Azeri
  • Turkey

Gülsüm Azeri

Group President, Şişecam; CEO, OMV Petrol Ofisi
(Chemicals and glass; Petroleum)
“[B]eing an engineer always helped me. I went for R&D. If there wasn’t sufficient R&D, I formed it...”
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Seema Aziz
Seema Aziz
  • Pakistan

Seema Aziz

Founder, CARE Foundation; Managing Director, Sefam
(Education and Retail)
“I understood that an education [is] the only gift which no flood can take away, which becomes a part of a person and changes lives like nothing else can.”
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Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi
  • India

Shabana Azmi

Actress
(Cinema)
“Art can lead to a climate in which sensitivity allows change to occur, and with it inherently comes social responsibility.”
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Syed Babar Ali
Syed Babar Ali
  • Pakistan

Syed Babar Ali

Founder, Lahore University of Management Sciences
(Education; Government)
“I felt, having been in industry and business for a fair amount of time, that you could so much with management, but not enough unless you added value to what the country is producing.”
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Alberto Baillères
Alberto Baillères
  • Mexico

Alberto Baillères

CEO, Grupo Bal
(Diversified)
“One of the cornerstones of the group’s competitiveness, in comparison to our international competition, is our emphasis on human relations. We try very hard to be a family”
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Rahul Bajaj
Rahul Bajaj
  • India

Rahul Bajaj

Chair, Bajaj Group
(Diversified)
“We were in a socialist raj. You couldn’t make anything until you got an industrial license and you couldn’t make more than the license capacity.”
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