Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets

Johnson UAE Trek Spring 2016 by Jonathan Jorge Swavely, MBA ’16 To be honest, I did not have very high expectations for this trip to begin with. Of all the options we had for student treks, traveling to the UAE seemed to me as one of the least interesting. When I travel to a new […]

Many people from the US and Europe tend to group the different countries of Africa into one generalized nation of Africa by David Matthew Breazzano, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow In the second day of classes on exchange in Cape Town, the lecturer of Markets in Emerging Countries asked the class their thoughts on doing business […]

While the last five years has been a difficult period for the emerging economies, there is no denying the seismic shift in the global economy of the 21st century, moving the center of growth from developed to emerging economies. Even a cursory overview of the statistics- home to 80% of the world’s population, over half of […]

Investment in innovation, creation of new products, and diversification of its portfolio are some of the keys to AmBev’s success. by Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer of Management and Academic Director of the Emerging Markets Institute It is not easy to keep my optimistic view these days. At the recent International Monetary Fund assembly in Peru […]

Technology can be a powerful tool in emerging markets. by Brian Liberatore, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow, Zuyao Mao, MBA ’16 and Laura Simion, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow Across from a picture of a child lying against his mother, Facebook’s Internet.org offers the following, “Imagine the difference an accurate weather report could make for a farmer […]

Johnson group helps small and medium businesses thrive at critical juncture for Colombia by Brian Liberatore, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow Colombians don’t have to look far to see the consequence of extreme inequality. A populist regime in neighboring Venezuela, which grew from the frustration of a marginalized population, has delivered political, economic, and social ruin, […]

Argentina has reached a pivotal turning point after decades of economic instability, but will the recent shift toward a more conservative policy be enough to rebound the economy? by Matt Agnello, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow During Mauricio Macri’s short tenure as Argentina’s president he has unpegged the peso from the dollar allowing a 30% currency […]

Poland at a crossroads as a newly elected government takes the reins. by Amanda B. Sieradzki, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow Poland finds itself at a crossroads in 2016 as a newly elected government takes the reins and the European Union (EU) emerges from the remnants of the Great Recession of 2009. Of all the EU […]

Understanding the Backdrop of Iranian Tech Entrepreneurship by Mehrdad Moghaddam, MBA ’17, EMI Fellow In Iran, there’s a popular saying along the lines of “Go and wake up your luck.” Proverbs like this one seem to have reverberated strongly throughout Iranian society since the 2006-2015 economic sanctions imposed by the UN in response to Iran’s […]