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  Issue NO. 22 By Josep M. Coll* Emerging markets are not only opening new doors of business and economic opportunities, but redefining our understanding of the world and its globalization dynamics. Any economic empire is fueled by the culture and soft power that underlie it. This was the case for the West, more broadly, […]

Amane Nakashima, MBA ’89 Amane Nakashima remembers feeling shocked when he arrived at Johnson and began taking classes in the summer of 1987, after spending five years working at the former Industrial Bank of Japan. “It was very eye-opening,” says Nakashima, who is president of Nakashimato Co., a food distribution company based in Tokyo, and […]

by Alice Zheng, Catarina Levita Schallenbach and Ria Gabrielle Lim Tencent, a Chinese holding company, was founded in 1988 by Ma Huateng, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Chenye, Chen Yidan, and Zeng Liqing. Huateng currently serves as the Chairman and CEO while Chenye currently serves as CIO (1). Tencent provides media, entertainment, payment systems, online advertising services, […]

Cornell MBA’s Madeleine Mc Dougall, MBA ’19, and Crosby Fish, MBA ’18, joined Seth Olson (MS, Applied Economics and Management, 2018) to participate in the Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition hosted by Duke University.   by Madeleine McDougall On November 6, 2017, Duke University hosted its annual Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition. The case asked […]

  Issue NO. 21 By Otaviano Canuto and Aleksandra Liaplina* The world economy – and emerging market and developing economies in particular – display a gap between infrastructure needs and its finance. On the one hand, infrastructure investment has fallen far short of what would be necessary to support potential growth. On the other hand, […]

Anne Miroux, Research Fellow at the Emerging Markets Institute spoke at the international symposium, jointly organized by the School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Technology and Transnational Corporations Council of Studies in Canada. From October 17 to 23, 2017, Dr. Anne Miroux from the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell’s Johnson College of Management […]

by Cayla Chen and Chris Hooper Flipkart is an e-commerce company in India that operates through a complex corporate structure consisting of nine different companies – four in Singapore and five in India. Flipkart is the industry market leader in India, ahead of other competitors such as Amazon India and Snapdeal. The company achieved a […]

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Neoh, a leading member of the Hong Kong Bar and previously a senior public servant in Hong Kong and Beijing, will speak on the importance of future Chinese economic, social and political development of the 19th Party Congress, which has just concluded in China, and what implications these developments might have for the […]