Centers & Institutes

Prabhu Pingali, director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, researches potential solutions to India’s malnutrition predicament.

by Veneta Andonova and Mauricio Losada-Otálora The challenges faced by Latin American multinational companies, or multilatinas, often require unique strategies tailored to a demanding global environment. The book Multilatinas studies the strategies of internationalisation exercised by large multilatinas, offering the first systematic, quantitative effort to examine the pattern of their international investments within the context […]

Hosted by the Emerging Markets Institute, Wenzhou University delegates came to campus to discuss China’s Belt and Road economic development strategy. The Emerging Markets Institute welcomed delegates from Wenzhou University who came to campus July 18 to share their perspective on China’s One Belt, One Road economic development strategy. First proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in […]

by Pidchapon (Fai) Niruthisard, MBA ’17 ASEAN – A Look Back and Ahead Emerging markets have been gaining more and morerecognition over the past few years. Companies are looking for newopportunities to grow beyond their existing markets. Emerging markets in LatinAmerica, e.g. Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, attract attention fromNorth America, Europe and even China. […]

  ISSUE NO. 17 by Jayne Jin, MBA ’13 The 1st Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) was held in Beijing, China on 14-15 May 2017, with 29 heads of state, three heads of international institutions, and approximately 1,500 guests from over 130 countries attending the event. The main goal of the BRF […]

by Srini Chandrasekharan, AMBA ’17 Latin America (LatAm) has seenextraordinary growth in entrepreneurship, and flow of investment in privateequity (PE) since 2005. From only two funds in 2005, 2014 ended with 55 fundsoperating in Colombia in sectors ranging from mining to financial &business services. While 2015 saw an overall decrease in M&A activity inLatAm, PE […]

Soumitra Dutta and Lourdes Casanova attend the global launch of the Global Innovation Index, https://www.globalinnovationindex.org, and present research on innovation in Brazil funded by the Brazilian Confederation of Industries (CNI).

  ISSUE NO. 16 by Oliver Kovacs, Ph.D.* Fostering energy efficiency is a prerequisite of sustainable development. A recently published Synthesis Report examines the innovation ecosystem in member countries of the Eastern Partnership Countries of the European Union and its role in promoting energy efficiency. A more systemic understanding is to stimulate the necessary paradigm […]

In the world of sustainable business, few brands are as admirable as Patagonia, Inc. By working on regenerative agriculture, they are contributing to minimize the effects of climate change in the agriculture sector.  by Crosby Fish MBA’18 & Amanda Archila MBA’18 In the world of sustainable business, few brands are as admirable as Patagonia, Inc. […]