News & Announcements

04/01/2016 Leaders in Emerging Markets speaker Timothy Heyman, president of Franklin Templeton Asset Management Mexico, pointed to the importance of developing financial markets as a key to achieving economic growth in Mexico. By Katie O’Brien ‘16 Economics and finance are often discussed as belonging to two entirely separate spheres. According to Timothy Heyman, president of […]

03/23/2016 The rise of Chinese influence in Latin America and the reasons for South-South collaboration by Evodio Evodio Kaltenecker, Faculty BBS business school Over the last years the world witnessed an impressive rise of the Chinese influence in Latin America, not only thru high-profile contracts but also large-scale investments: oil-for-cash deals with Venezuela, huge imports […]

03/22/2016 Data privacy is an important topic for emerging markets by Nathalia Foditsch, Google PhD Fellow at American University and Evodio Kaltenecker, Faculty BBS business school Data is the currency of our times. To name a few of the emerging technology breakthroughs, that relate to such statement, are the internet of things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, […]

03/16/2016 Diego Molano, Former Minister of ITC in Colombia, discusses the program that helped millions By Katie O’Brien ‘16 When Diego Molano took office as Colombia’s Minister of Information and Communication Technologies in 2010, 38 percent of Colombians were living under the poverty line. By 2014 that number had fallen to 28.5 percent, according to […]

02/29/2016 Juan Matienzo, EMI Fellow Candidate, delivers a REDtalk on how he applied creativity and persistence to land a unique and exciting job in the hospitality industry. By Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 Juan Matienzo, MBA ’17, an Emerging Markets Institute Fellow candidate, underscored the importance of being earnest and optimistic in the face of drawbacks and obstacles in […]

02/26/2016 M-PESA is a transformative mobile phone-based platform for money transfer and financial services. by Leandro Chique MBA’16 EMI Fellow, MJ Myungwon MBA’16 and Trisha Chang AMBA’16 EMI Fellow Last week we learned of a very good example regarding how innovation can change the life in emerging markets. Professor Ndunge Kiiti presented to us the significant […]

02/26/2016 Visiting Professor Ndunge Kiiti describes how M-Pesa has improved everyday life for Kenyans in rural communities. By Katie O’Brien ’16 Most people do not associate emerging economies with technological innovation. But Kenya continues to show the world the possibilities of mobile money with the widespread success of M-Pesa, a phone-based mobile technology. Ndunge Kiiti, […]

02/18/2016 A summary of the lecture by Professor Iwan Azis on February 1, 2016 at the Leaders in Emerging Markets NBA 5260 course. by Mai Amano MBA ’16 EMI Fellow, Andres Bachor MBA ’16, Matt Agnello MBA ’16 EMI Fellow The economies of Asia’s emerging markets have experienced a rollercoaster ride over the past few […]

02/12/2016 Students in the Leaders in Emerging Markets course prepared a summary of current news from Kenya, Malaysia and Brazil. by Natasha Bazely, MBA ’16, Fatma Barkus, MBA ’16 EMI Fellow, and Sasha Bharwani, LLM ’16 Kenya: A Ray of Hope in the Emerging Markets Downturn The recent oil price slump has affected many countries […]