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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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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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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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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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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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Susana Balbo
Susana Balbo
  • Argentina

Susana Balbo

Owner and Chief Winemaker, Susana Balbo Wines
(Wine)
“I had to find a way to produce modern wines with little resources. It’s amazing how resourceful we can be when we need to: we are not aware of the tools we have until we start using them.”
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Hakeem Belo-Osagie
Hakeem Belo-Osagie
  • Nigeria

Hakeem Belo-Osagie

Chair, United Bank for Africa (currently with Etisalat Nigeria)
(Financial services)
“The biggest challenge in Africa is that you constantly have to manage the government and the regulatory agencies. They play a far more pervasive role in Africa than they do in the United States.”
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Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal
  • India

Shyam Benegal

Filmmaker
(Cinema)
“I have always felt that the Indian countryside was never really represented properly on the Indian screen But if you really wanted to understand the Indian psyche, you needed to look at rural India.”
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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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Federico Braun
Federico Braun
  • Argentina

Federico Braun

President and Chair, Sociedad Anónima Importadora y Exportadora de la Patagonia (SAIEP) (La Anónima)
(Supermarkets)
“La Anónima is seen as a company that meets its commitments, has longtime and loyal employees—and this is important—and keeps its word. However simple they may seem, these qualities are not that easy to find.”
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Anand Burman
Anand Burman
  • India

Anand Burman

Chairman, Dabur India Limited
(Natural Consumer Products)
“We want our brand—we want the Dabur name—to signify trust.”
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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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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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Dr. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti
Dr. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti
  • India

Dr. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti

Chair, Nalli Silk Sarees
(Textiles, retail)
“King George IV visited India... In the honor of his visit, the committee in Madras City... wanted to present one Kancheepuram saree or one cloth... They gave that order to my grandfather, because he was very particular about quality.”
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Jim Damalas
Jim Damalas
  • Costa Rica

Jim Damalas

Founder and CEO, Greentique Hotels
(Ecotourism)
“[H]aving a history on the property that goes back to the mid-’70s, we saw how nature had taken back what farmers had unfortunately destroyed when they deforested most of Costa Rica [we] know our customers are here for nature, more than anything else. So it pays to save the landscape.”
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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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