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Interviews

The Creating Emerging Markets interview archive forms a permanent and unique resource held in Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. Each interview page includes the transcript, associated video clips and supporting resources about the interviewee and her or his business.

Interview transcripts and video clips are readily available for use in research and teaching without permission. Most Latin American interviews were conducted in Spanish and have an English translation. La mayoría de las transcripciones de las entrevistas latinoamericanas se encuentran disponibles en español e inglés.

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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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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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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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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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Cem Boyner
Cem Boyner
  • Turkey

Cem Boyner

President, Boyner Holding
(Retail)
“Retailing is probably the world’s second oldest profession. You have so many people that come into your store who you touch... our salespeople are psychologists... clairvoyants... They can read character. So we just gave the authority to them.”
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Antonio Celia
Antonio Celia
  • Colombia

Antonio Celia

CEO, Promigas
(Natural Resources)
“At Promigas Foundation, we work to improve public education quality, and we have reached one million children in 17 years. Our motto is 'Education is Everything.' It is inclusion, equity, social mobility. Education frees people and enables them to do what they value.”
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Dr. Manu Chandaria
Dr. Manu Chandaria
  • Kenya

Dr. Manu Chandaria

Chair and CEO, Comcraft Group
(Steel and Aluminum)
“[O]ne principle that we adopted in our lifetime and with our children we always told them that money’s here today; money may not be there tomorrow. A good set of principles and values that you have, those will remain with you for your lifetime.”
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Binod Chaudhary
Binod Chaudhary
  • Nepal

Binod Chaudhary

Chairman, Chaudhary Group
(Diversified)
“I’m happy to say that what we envisioned—that we want to create the first Nepali multinational which will own and promote brands, which will be globally known—[has been realized].”
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Hubert Danso
Hubert Danso
  • South Africa

Hubert Danso

CEO and Vice Chair, Africa Investor
(Financial Services, Media)
“[O]nly 12–15 percent of all of our trade is actually intra-African. So there’s a huge opportunity there, and a need, to build that out.””
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Henry Eder Caicedo
Henry Eder Caicedo
  • Colombia

Henry Eder Caicedo

Chairman of the Board, Inversiones Manuelita
(Agribusiness)
“Working at a public organization has taught me how to deal with public powers – you have to get along with them. If one is a businessman, one also has to get along with politicians and understand what matters to them and how they think.”
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Tomás Hudson
Tomás Hudson
  • Argentina

Tomás Hudson

President, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) (now part of Akzo Nobel)
(Chemicals)
“Our focus was on getting to know the product in order to adapt it to the market and providing technical support. I believe we were innovators, both in product development and better customer service.”
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Mohamed Jaffer
Mohamed Jaffer
  • Kenya

Mohamed Jaffer

Chairman, MJ Group
(Cargo Handling)
“I think entrepreneurs should dwell on this thought - you are not safe in a castle if those around you live in shanties.”
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Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai
  • India

Naina Lal Kidwai

Former Country Head, HSBC India and Founder, India Sanitation Coalition
(Financial Services, Banking, Sanitation)
“It’s very hard to get corporates and NGOs to work together. It’s surprisingly hard to get two corporates to agree on a common agenda or indeed NGOs to agree on common agendas. But I think years of experience, some patience, certainly having credibility with the corporate world, and some credibility with the not-for-profit world helps in driving some of these collaborations”
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Hemendra Kothari
Hemendra Kothari
  • India

Hemendra Kothari

Chairman, DSP BlackRock Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd.
(Financial Services)
“In a successful partnership the basic principles of working in unanimity and on a consensus basis was [were critical], such that everybody understands what’s best for the company.”
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Suresh Krishna
Suresh Krishna
  • India

Suresh Krishna

Chair, Sundram Fasteners
(Metal products)
“There were no secrets in the company at all if you keep on telling the truth, it builds a certain amount of confidence in the work force.”
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Jorge Londoño Saldarriaga
Jorge Londoño Saldarriaga
  • Colombia

Jorge Londoño Saldarriaga

Former President, Bancolombia
(Banking; Finance)
“Disaster can teach us important lessons”
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Erling Lorentzen
Erling Lorentzen
  • Brazil

Erling Lorentzen

Former CEO, Aracruz Celulose
(Pulp and Paper)
“[W]e managed to build a special port in the country. Part of the government said, ‘There are sufficient ports ’ But I got it through it was one of the bases for the success of Aracruz.”
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Antonio Madero
Antonio Madero
  • Mexico

Antonio Madero

Founder and CEO, SANLUIS Corporación S.A. de C.V
(Automotive Parts)
“A company is not made solely by one man. He alone cannot be the leader, the visionary, the one making contacts, the one who opens the doors and establishes the course of the company.”
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