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This library of video clips enables educators and others to search for relevant interview clips by subject, industry, country, or any combination of all three. Users can also search by name to find all clips from a specific interviewee. The clips may be downloaded for academic research, teaching, and other educational use. Any other use, including commercial reuse, web publishing, or other forms of redistribution, requires permission of Harvard Business School. These clips are now being used in a new series of Harvard Business School cases on emerging markets. The first two deal with corruption and innovation. Listen to our Cold Call podcast episode on the corruption case.
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Abbas Akbarally
Abbas Akbarally
Diversification
Abbas Akbarally, the Chair of Akbar Brothers which is Sri Lanka’s and the world’s largest tea company, discusses why and how his firm began diversifying it’s portfolio by importing and selling cement.Duration: 01:26
Muhammad Alagil
Muhammad Alagil
Diversification
Muhammed Alagil, Chairman of Jarir Investment in Saudi Arabia, discusses the diversification of his firm as it expanded from books to electronics, imported goods from China, and translated hundreds if books into Arabic each year.Duration: 05:38
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala
Diversification
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, Chair of the Philippines-based Ayala Group, with interests in real estate, public infrastructure, insurance, and banking, discusses how the government’s liberalization program in the 1990s led the firm into the new industry of telecommunications, and how it built a business in alliance with Singtel of Singapore. The joint venture Globe Telecom now operates one of the largest mobile, fixed line, and broadband networks in the Philippines.Duration: 05:52
Sanjay Bansal
Sanjay Bansal
Diversification
Sanjay Bansal, former head of Ambootia tea estates in Darjeeling, India, discusses the diversification of his business from Darjeeling to Assam, and how this was executed.Duration: 04:52
Mohammed Al Barwani
Mohammed Al Barwani
Diversification
Mohammed Al Barwani, founder of the Oman-based diversified group MB Holding Company, discusses the diversification of his oil production and services companies into other industries ranging from biotechnology to mining, with varying degrees of success.Duration: 08:03
Mohammed Al Barwani
Mohammed Al Barwani
Diversification
Mohammed Al Barwani, founder of Oman-based diversified group MB Holding Company, discusses the diversification of his group into the yacht industry.Duration: 07:43
Antonio Celia
Antonio Celia
Diversification
Antonio Celia, President of Colombia-based Promigas, describes the company’s diversification policy as they expanded beyond natural gas services. This included entering the fuel distribution business in the 1980s after purchasing Terpel from Ecopetrol and creating Colombia’s largest fiber optic cable network. Celia then reflects on his company’s successful expansion into Peru and discusses the importance of understanding and respecting the host country’s culture when internationalizing.Duration: 05:34
Binod Chaudhary
Binod Chaudhary
Diversification
Binod Chaudhary, the prominent Nepalese entrepreneur, describes how under his leadership his diversified group has moved into new businesses, and how seizing these opportunities has influenced the trajectory of the group which had formerly been concentrated on textiles.Duration: 01:28
José Alejandro Cortés
José Alejandro Cortés
Diversification
José Alejandro Cortés, President of the Colombia-based diversified business group Grupo Bolìvar, discusses the diversification of his business from insurance to other financial services, especially banking, and entry into other industries including footwear and cement.Duration: 02:01
Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez
Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez
Diversification
Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, former General Manager of the FNC, articulates the strategies he undertook to differentiate and add value to Colombian coffee products.Duration: 07:56
Adi Godrej
Adi Godrej
Diversification
Adi Godrej, Chair of the India-based Godrej Group, discusses the decision to deploy the cash generated by the group’s businesses to acquire consumer products companies in Africa, Asia and Latin America.Duration: 01:20
Shinta Widjaja Kamdani
Shinta Widjaja Kamdani
Diversification
Shinta Kamdani, owner of Indonesian-based consumer products and energy company Sintesa Group, describes the logic of the Group’s diversification strategies which seek to balance consumer industries which operate with shorter time horizons with others such as hotel management and power which need long-term time horizons.Duration: 01:20