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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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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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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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Sanjay Bansal
Sanjay Bansal
  • India

Sanjay Bansal

Former Chairman & Managing Director, Darjeeling Organic Tea Estates Pvt. Ltd.
(Tea, agribusiness)
“My general approach towards the workers and their family was that we were all part of one family. So I think that was a major act of breaking down the formal relationship of the previous [colonial] structure.”
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Ela Bhatt
Ela Bhatt
  • India

Ela Bhatt

Founder and Former General Secretary, Self-Employed Women's Association
(Microfinance)
“I say that poverty is violence, and with the consent of the society... I would say that the basic needs and problems of the poor will not be solved by the government, any government. They will have to be solved by the people themselves.”
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Jorge Born
Jorge Born
  • Argentina

Jorge Born

Former President, Bunge y Born (now Bunge Limited)
(Agribusiness, Food)
“You need to stay incredibly nimble to anticipate what the government will do, and governments often have no plan of any kind”
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Carlos Enrique Cavelier
Carlos Enrique Cavelier
  • Colombia

Carlos Enrique Cavelier

Chairman of the Board and Dreams Coordinator, Alquería
(Dairy)
“I’ve never thought one should use power to benefit a business: power should be used to serve society. I believe that, by building a reputation as a business leader and as a company, one can contribute technical expertise to enhance public policies for an industry – but not for personal gain.”
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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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Madhav Chavan & Rukmini Banerji
Madhav Chavan & Rukmini Banerji
  • India

Madhav Chavan & Rukmini Banerji

Co-Founder and President (Madhav Chavan); Chief Executive Officer (Rukmini Banerji),
Pratham Education Foundation
(Education)
“The important point was to solve the problem. You don’t know where you’re going to end up, but you’ve got to make an entry.”
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Shamlu Dudeja
Shamlu Dudeja
  • India

Shamlu Dudeja

Director, Malika's Kantha Collection & Trading Pvt. Ltd.; Chairperson, SHE Foundation and Calcutta Foundation.
(Textiles, education)
“The people who can look at the distress of another person and put their hand out to help, they are the people of God.”
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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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Melek El Nimer
Melek El Nimer
  • Lebanon

Melek El Nimer

Founder, Social Support Society & Unite Lebanon Youth Project (ULYP);
(NGO, Education)
“When you do not allow people to have a decent income, they get stuck in a refugee camp, and there is no way they can improve their circumstances. In my opinion, the only way out of a refugee camp is education.”
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André Esteves
André Esteves
  • Brazil

André Esteves

Former CEO, BTG Pactual
(Financial Services)
“You always need luck, right? But it’s important that when luck appears you are there working, right? If you are at home, you probably cannot benefit from the opportunities.”
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Dionisio Garza Medina
Dionisio Garza Medina
  • Mexico

Dionisio Garza Medina

Former President and CEO, Alfa S.A.B. de C.V.
(Diversified)
“We focused on modernizing, on reducing costs, because if you sell a commodity you have to have the best costs, because if your product does not differentiate itself from others, then who wins the market?”
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Fadi Ghandour
Fadi Ghandour
  • United Arab Emirates

Fadi Ghandour

Founder and Former CEO, Aramex
(Shipping & Logistics)
“I understood the power of entrepreneurs, and I understood the power of how we affect society—positively or negatively. Because Aramex was a positive story, I understood how positively it affected youth, young people who wanted to become entrepreneurs.”
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Pedro Edgar Gómez Barrero
Pedro Edgar Gómez Barrero
  • Colombia

Pedro Edgar Gómez Barrero

Founder, Pedro Gómez & Co. and Co-Founder, Fundación Compartir
(Construction; Real Estate; Education)
“I would tell young people that good quality training proves instrumental, but a value-based education is even more crucial. What do I mean? I mean that it is more important to learn how to behave ethically.”
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Mohammad Omar Bin Haider
Mohammad Omar Bin Haider
  • United Arab Emirates

Mohammad Omar Bin Haider

Founder and Chairman, Mohammad Omar Bin Haider Holding Group (MOBH Holding Group)
(Logistics; Real Estate; Hospitality; Diversified)
“I want people to remember me, that I made something.”
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Anil Jain
Anil Jain
  • India

Anil Jain

Vice Chairman and CEO, Jain Irrigation Systems Limited
(Agribusiness)
“These small farmers, globally, wherever they may be—if you can provide them with the right products and solutions, it is great for them and also great for you—your own growth, your profitability, your sustainability.”
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