Along with the conference, the Third Cornell Emerging Markets Institute Annual Case Competition will be held on November 8th at Cornell Tech campus. The theme is ‘Emerging Markets Multinationals entering new markets’. The competition will focus on identifying and answering questions that real businesses and management face in relation with Emerging Markets.
Goal: Identify and answer questions that real businesses and managements are posing today in relation with Emerging Markets. The growing role of Emerging Multinationals in the business world continues to evolve and this case competition seeks to challenge us to come up with win-win solutions for expanding stakeholders.
The case competition is a key event in the conference. It boosts collaboration among universities and strengthens Johnson’s ties with other academic institutions. Moreover, it speaks to EMI’s focus on international and inter-institutional collaboration.
Benefits to competing students:
➢ Meeting high-profile representatives from industry and academia
➢ Networking with conference participants, business executives, and more
➢ Exposure to conference and case competition sponsors
➢ Free admission to the conference (for finalists)
➢ Prize
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The Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) annual conference to be held on November 8th at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island. Under the theme Constructive Engagement, this year’s conference will explore the diverse challenges brought by the U.S. China trade war and the need to build bridges and encourage dialogue.
This one-day event is the institute’s flagship event to launch the Emerging Markets Institute 2019 report (please download last year’s Emerging Market Multinationals Report: Emerging Markets Reshaping Globalization) and to bring together leading academics, students, and business and opinion leaders to discuss the Emerging Markets achievements. Over the past years, we have forged organizational partnerships and gleaned timely insights from speakers about the ongoing dynamism of the emerging markets landscape, with a focus on China, India, Brazil and Mexico.
Founded in 2010, Cornell’s Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management provides thought leadership on the role of emerging markets—and emerging market multinationals—in the global economy. The Institute brings together preeminent practitioners and academics from around the world to develop the next generation of global business leaders and create the premier research center on the role of emerging markets in the global economy.
Mission:
To prepare and support business leaders who seek a competitive advantage to become experts in emerging markets.
Vision:
EMI will become the thought research leader and educational magnet where businesses with operations in emerging markets hire MBAs to lead their organizations because of recognized expertise on issues related to emerging multinationals, innovation and corporate social responsibility in emerging markets.
Steve serves as the Global Chairman for the Infrastructure practice and the Chairman of Global Cities Center of Excellence for KPMG. He has a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University, an MBA from York University and has over 32 years experience with KPMG. In a private capacity, Steve sits on advisory boards relating to the infrastructure programs at the Stanford University Business School and the Cornell University Program in Infrastructure Policy. Steve is well-recognized as an expert in public infrastructure projects and has worked on engagements across six continents. During his career, Steve has been involved in numerous negotiations on complex infrastructure projects and has been instrumental to his clients in delivering large infrastructure projects. Steve has led many major infrastructure transactions and has advised both public and private sector clients extensively in infrastructure privatization strategy, transportation planning, public-private partnership (PPP) policy development, and project financing.
Rob has leadership experience in successfully building and transforming businesses around the world, spans more than a quarter- century in emerging markets. In senior executive roles at NYSE corporations, he ran the business focusing on the formulation & implementation of strategy, building multinational organizations and developing their talents towards attaining their effective globalization. Rob joined MSA Safety Inc. and during his tenure as President, MSA International - from 2003 to his retirement at the end of 2011. Before joining MSA, Rob’s 28-year career at Trane progressed to general manager in 1987 and VP and corporate officer of American Standard in 1990. In the mid-nineties, he moved to Hong Kong to head Trane's expansion in Asia.
Now, he advises and mentors founders of entrepreneurial companies, lectures on management, organizational transformation, and coaching.
Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier currently serves as Chief of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) New York office of the Secretary-General since 2014. Previously, she was actively involved in the successful negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). During her tenure with DESA, she served as the Major Groups coordinator to enhance non-state actors engagement with the United Nations. Prior to joining the United Nations, she served as Head of the Trade and Environment Program of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Commission for Environmental Cooperation (2000-2007), as policy analyst for the Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture (1998-2000), as postdoc for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in the Brazilian Amazon (1996-1998) and has consulted to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and more.
Lourdes Casanova, a Senior Lecturer and Director Emerging Markets Institute, Johnson School of Management, Cornell University, formerly at INSEAD, specializes in international business with a focus on emerging markets multinationals. Awarded in 2014 and 2015 one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal. Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. Fulbright Scholar with Master degree from USC and Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona. She taught and directed executive programs at INSEAD for senior managers including Telefónica, BBVA and Cemex and Brazilian Confederation of Industries. Lourdes is a member of Latin America Global Agenda Council and the Competitiveness in Latin America taskforce of World Economic Forum, B20 Task Force on ICT and Innovation in G20 summit, Los Cabos (2012), responsible at INSEAD of Goldman Sachs 10,000 women initiative.
Mr. Du is currently the Head of Investment and Research at Haitou Global. Mr. Du has extensive investing and research experience in emerging markets and alternative assets. Mr. Du has researched the Southeast Asian fin-tech industry for more than 3 years and has identified a couple of high-quality private credit opportunities in Indonesia. Mr. Du also specializes in identifying and investing in alternative assets all over the world. Before joining Haitou Global, Mr. Du had worked in several well-known investment banks and asset management companies in China and the United States. Mr. Du received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Wesleyan University.
Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Marina holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from Di Tella University. She also finished an MBA at The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania -majoring in Marketing and Strategic Management. In the last decade, she worked as Global Manager for top brands such as Dove (Unilever), Nike and Underarmour until 2015 when she took the role of General Manager for Argentina, Chile, and Peru of Mercadolibre.com, the Amazon of Latin America. In 2017 she decided to jump into the entrepreneurial world with Wolox, a digital disruption company dedicated to make innovative digital products and help companies to improve the digital experience of their customers and promote corporate venturing. She also serves as a board member of public companies and impacts investing start-ups.
In his role as the Director of Portfolio, Alberto manages Acumen’s global investment platform, including strategy, use of global funds, processes and systems, knowledge and insights, and team training and community. Alberto has deep knowledge of Acumen’s four core sectors and six investment regions, as an IC member, he partakes in Acumen’s new investment decisions and portfolio construction. He also represents Acumen externally and supports BD on partner engagement. Throughout his career, he has been a co-founder, investor, mentor, and Board member to different enterprises and funds; and is passionate about the role of entrepreneurship in the development of economies and the future of work. Before joining Acumen, Alberto spent more than a decade doing middle-market PE investing in Latin America. He was a Vice President at Graycliff Partners as part of the firm’s Latin American middle-market growth equity group. Before Graycliff, he was with Partners Group’s LatAm team.
Paula Kovarsky has a degree in Production Engineering from PUC-Rio and an MBA in Finance from IBMEC. She is an experienced professional with 20 years in Oil & Gas sector having worked at Itau BBA for 9 years in various positions, such as Head of Brazil Equity Research, Head of Latam Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals, Head of Agribusiness and Head of Utilities. Before that, she has
worked at Shell for 10 years as a business development manager in Gas & Power and E&P divisions. She joined Cosan as Investor Relations Director for CZZ in June of 2015 also becoming CSAN3 and RLOG3 Investor relations Officer soon after. In August 2017 she moved to the US to open CZZ’s NY Office and increase focus on CZZ IR developments.
Nicole is the CEO of First Access, a software platform that allows lenders to digitize loan origination and analysis. Lenders have saved borrowers over 300 years of wait time by fast-tracking loans on First Access. Ranked among the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company, Nicole has helped advance financial inclusion in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. First Access has been selected by Unreasonable Goals 2018 for SDG #1 – Poverty, by Entrepreneur Magazine for the Brilliant 100, by MIT for the Zambezi Prize, by PopTech for Social Innovation, and featured in over 70 events and publications, including The Financial Times, The Economist, and Forbes.
Mr. Yuqiang XIAO is the Chairman of ICBC US Management Committee, the General Manager of ICBC New York Branch, the Chairman of ICBC (USA) NA and the Chairman of ICBC Financial Services LLC. He also held the title of the senior economist of ICBC. Previously, Mr. XIAO had been serving as the General Manager of ICBC Paris Branch since 2010 (as head of the preparatory team of ICBC Paris Branch before its opening). Thanks to its remarkable business growth since establishment, ICBC Paris Branch soon became one of the most important foreign banks in France and was awarded as Best Investor of Ile-de-France in 2011. During 2005-2010, Mr. Xiao worked for ICBC Tokyo Branch. He was appointed the Assistant General Manager of ICBC Tokyo Branch first and then further promoted to the Deputy General Manager in 2007. He joined ICBC in the early 90s, working for its Jilin Branch in China; he engaged in international business and accumulated great experience in banking, especially in credit, int'l trading and business development.
Helen Ye joined Ogilvy in 2016. She is in charge of the company’s China Outbound Practice, supporting brand building and high-level government exchange for Chinese companies who have established operations or seek investment opportunities in the US and Europe. Her clients include top China IT, fashion, bank companies, and National project. Meanwhile, Helen provides strategic consultancy to American companies who seek business opportunities in China. Helen Ye is the former Vice-Chair of American Chamber of Commerce in China who represents and advocates for over 1000 US companies in China. Before joining Ogilvy, Helen served as Vice President of the American
Chamber of Commerce in China in charge of government affairs from 2015-2016. She was responsible for planning and execution for advocacy efforts to support the investment and trade relations between the US and China and assisted with operational issues for American and multinational companies.
Anne Miroux is Faculty Fellow at the Emerging Market Institute, Johnson School of Business at Cornell University. She has over thirty years of experience in international trade and finance. She began her career in the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations in New-York where she was involved in the negotiations on the UN Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations. In the mid-1980s she joined the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) where she specialized in particular on issues related to developing country debt, foreign direct investment and transnational corporations, and technology and innovation policies. For several years she led the organization’s work on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics and directed the World Investment Reports (WIR), the United Nations flagship report on FDI and transnational corporations. She served as the Editor of the UN Transnational Corporations Journal.
Peter Cornelius is a Managing Director at AlpInvest Partners, which is part of the Investment Solutions group of The Carlyle Group. At AlpInvest Partners, he is responsible for analyzing the economic and financial environment for private equity markets and examining the implications for the firm’s strategic asset allocation. Mr. Cornelius joined AlpInvest Partners in 2005 from Royal Dutch Shell, where he was Group Chief Economist. Previously, he was a chief economist and Director of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Program. Before that, he was head of international economic research at Deutsche Bank and a senior economist with the International Monetary Fund. Peter studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Göttingen where he received his doctorate in Economics. He has been a visiting professor at Leuven Gent Vlerick Management School and a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Pierre is a semi-retired entrepreneur, private investor, mentor and an advisor for business owners large and small. With his partners at Cerity Partners, he is also a wealth-strategy counselor for individuals, tech entrepreneurs, and business owners. For five years before that, Pierre was at Two Sigma Investments, where he invested personal capital in private deals in the US, Mainland China, and Israel. Through the 90s and early 00s, Pierre was an entrepreneur, co-founding five software companies resulting in 1.5 IPOs, one acquisition, and some spectacular failures. Pierre has been a direct investor in businesses in China and the US and has worked with individuals, families, and companies in both countries. Throughout his life, Pierre has experienced the residual issues and benefits from family ownership of one of the original twelve (and the longest-lived) companies in the DJIA, and the challenges and opportunities of family ownership today of one of the twenty largest private companies in America.
Timothy Heyman is President of Franklin Templeton Asset Management Mexico. From 1997, he developed Heyman y Asociados SC as a leading institutional investment manager in Mexico and in 2013, merged it with Franklin Templeton Investments, one of the largest asset management companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Before founding Heyman y Asociados, He was President of ING Baring Grupo Financiero (México), S.A. de C.V., and of Baring, S.A. de C.V. Casa de Bolsa, the first-ever foreign brokerage in Mexico. He was awarded first place by Institutional Investor magazine for Mexican economic, financial and stock market research for three successive years. He has been a member of the Board and of the Listing and Index Committees of the Mexican Stock Exchange, President of the Research Committee of the Mexican Brokerage Houses’ Association, and President of the Economic Studies Committee of the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF).
Mark W. Nelson is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell. He received his BBA degree from Iowa State University and his MA and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University. Nelson's teaching focuses on corporate financial reporting and intermediate financial accounting at the MBA and undergraduate levels. He has received ten teaching awards, including Cornell's Apple Award for Teaching Excellence, the Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, and the inaugural Cook Prize for Graduate Teaching presented by the American Accounting Association. He is a co-author (with Spiceland, Sepe, and Thomas) of a leading textbook, Intermediate Accounting. Nelson's research examines psychological and economic factors that influence how people make decisions interpret and apply accounting, auditing, and tax regulations and trade in financial markets.
Andrew is Deputy Dean and College Dean for Academic Affairs at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He is a professor of finance and holder of the Harold Bierman Jr. Distinguished Professorship in the College’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is also a professor of economics at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Karolyi is a scholar in the area of investment management with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books and monographs. His research has been covered extensively in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and CNBC.
Moacir is a Professor and the Head of the Business Administration Department at USP - University of São Paulo. Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge - Judge Business School (1997-1998). Chief Editor of INMR – Innovation and Management Review (Emerald); Conference Chair of the 2021 Triple Helix Conference in São Paulo; founding member of the Academy of International Business - Latin America Chapter. Co-editor of the book Startups and Innovation Ecosystems in Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and five other books. Author of more than 50 academic papers. His research interests are related to Startups and Innovation Ecosystems in Emerging Markets and also in Strategy and Innovation in Emerging Markets Corporations. As a consultant in the field of strategy, innovation, and international business, he has been working for major corporations and the government.
Momina is IFC’s Global Head of Microfinance/ Financial Inclusion and works also as Principal Investment Officer in IFC's Financial Institution Group (FIG). She covers IFC’s microfinance investment and advisory activities globally, which exceeds cumulative investments of US$6 billion worldwide with over 300 MFIs, in addition to advisory services worth $63.7 million in 68 projects across 30 countries. This includes oversight of the work in Responsible Forum (which IFC manages for the GPFI/ G20), institutional transformation and capacity building – to better enable financial sector providers to provide diverse and reliable products and services to suit their clients’ needs. She is leading IFC’s efforts to scale up private sector commitments with strategic partners in the digital finance, microfinance and fin-tech space committed to achieving the World Bank Group’s Universal Financial Access by 2020.