Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets

Although Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy, it has been battling with economic and political instability, particularly Boko Haram and the recent oil crisis. by Ibijoke Oke, MPA ’16, EMI Fellow A few months ago, the World Bank published its annual 2016 Doing Business[1] Report and Nigeria ranked 169 out of 189 economies in the ease of doing […]

The 2016 Mai Bangkok Business Challenge. by Jeremy Kuhre, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow “I’ll tell you what. I’ll offer you $300,000 for 50% of the company right now.” My partners and I were pitching our company, Produce Power, live on national television, and in this moment, I knew what it felt like to be an […]

Winning image captures early mangrove saplings coming to life, taken on an eco-tour with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) along the Makran Coastal Highway in Pakistan Rizwan Quraishi, MBA’16, was named first-place winner, North America, in Morgan Stanley’s annual Campus Photo Competition. Throughout the months of January and February 2016 students across the three […]

Baidu is involved in a series of public relations crisis, which opens a great opportunity for Bing to explore the China market. by Winston Sun, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow Launched in 2009, Bing is still at the corner of the stage. As of April 2016, Bing only accounts for 12.37% of the global search market. […]

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 […]