The 2020 Annual Emerging Markets Institute Conference TEN YEARS THAT CHANGED EMERGING MARKETS
NOVEMBER 6-7th ONLINE EVENT
(Draft schedule)
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WELCOME
Welcome to the 10th Emerging Markets Institute Annual
Conference. The Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) was
launched in 2010 to broaden global leadership horizons
in business research and talent development. The EMI
has excelled in multiple frontiers over the last years. We
now have over 200 MBA alumni from our Emerging
Markets Fellows program who are pursuing careers in a
variety of countries including China, Brazil, Mexico, India
and Ethiopia. The program is now a Concentration, with
about 10% registration per class, including Cornell Tech
MBA students. Research on Emerging Markets has won several awards including Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business Excellence in Ethics Best Dissertation Proposal Award and the Duke Center of Lenow Leadership and Ethics Best Dissertation Proposal Award. The Cornell S.C. Johnson college of business provides important support to global programs including the Cornell-Tsinghua MBA/F-MBA dual degree program offered in Beijing (in both English and Mandarin) and the Cornell EMBA Americas program, which has boardrooms in Canada, Mexico City, Monterrey, Lima and Santiago. These global programs have played a significant role in enabling the Johnson School’s recent Bloomberg Business Week ranking as the 10th best program in International Business. The EMI is also expanding its support of EMBA and undergraduates from both the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the School of Hotel Administration by enabling their valuable interactions with graduate students in a variety of curriculum projects.
Kevin Hallock, Dean, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Joseph R. Rich Professor
Andrew Karolyi, Deputy Dean and Dean of Academic Affairs, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management
CONFERENCE SPONSORS Xiaojun Huang, MBA ‘19 Hangyu Lin, Cornell Tech ‘21
Henry Renard BS ’54 MBA ’55 and the Ada Kent Howe Foundation
Nell Cady-Kruse BS ‘84 MBA ‘85
Gail and Rob Cañizares, BS ’71, MBA ‘74
I am pleased to welcome you to the tenth Emerging Markets Institute Conference. Under the theme of 10 years that changed emerging markets, this online event is the institute’s flagship, where we will launch the 2020 report on Emerging Multinationals authored by Lourdes Casanova and Anne Miroux. The event brings together leading academics, students, and business and opinion leaders. This year, we will celebrate the EMI’s 10th anniversary, looking back on 10 years of education and research into emerging markets and examining how these markets have progressed over the last decade.
Within the conference, the EMI will hold its 4th Emerging Markets Case Competition, an event in which 160 students from the best business schools across nine countries have competed this year. We’re also excited to launch the first Emerging Markets pitch competition in partnership with nine universities from all over the world.
We would like to acknowledge and thank all of our speakers, EMI fellows, Cornell Alumni, experts and volunteers who have taken the time to participate in our event and broaden the body of knowledge surrounding Emerging Markets and Emerging Multinationals.
We sincerely appreciate the collaboration of our conference partners: the Einaudi Center at Cornell University, the OECD Development Center and IFC from the World Bank. We’d also like to acknowledge the generosity of Gail and Rob Cañizares, Henry Renard and the Ada Kent Howe Foundation and Hangyu Lin, Cornell Tech ’21. We owe our thanks also to the Advisory Council members of the Emerging Markets Institute: Nell Cady-Kruse, Rob Cañizares, Rustom Desai, Peter Luerssen, Paul Kavuma and Bob Staley, for their valuable guidance and support.
I would like to encourage interested companies and individuals to further engage with the EMI through speaking engagements, corporate partnerships, joint research, and blog posts, among our other events. I encourage you to view our website for more details.
I hope you enjoy the conference.
Lourdes Casanova
Gail and Rob Cañizares Director, Emerging Markets Institute
Cornell S. C. Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
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The last decade has been transformational for emerging markets; their economies have grown, poverty levels have gone down and, in some cases, extreme poverty has been eradicated. On the business side, companies from emerging markets, mainly from China and Korea but also from India, Mexico or Brazil, have become major global players. On the innovation front, emerging markets have increased patent applications and investments in research and development. EMI’s annual conference in November 2020 will celebrate the institute 10th anniversary and focus on the achievements of emerging markets over the last ten years. EMI was created at Johnson in 2010 in the aftermath of the Global Financial crisis. A decade later in 2020, emerging markets are faced with yet another global crisis and this is an opportune moment for the EMI Annual Conference to explore how emerging markets will not just cope with the Covid 19 crisis but also, hopefully, emerge stronger to shape the
global future.
Case Competition
Along with the conference, the Fourth Cornell Emerging Markets Institute Annual Case Competition is a key event in the conference (online). 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. The competition will focus on identifying and answering questions that real businesses and management face 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 think about how navigating in a changing context.
Pitch Competition
The Cornell Emerging Markets Institute is also launching its first ever Cornell EMI Pitch Competition! The objective of the pitch competition is to give international recognition to startups with presence in Emerging Markets. The final round of the competition will be part of the flagship event of the institute - the EMI Annual Conference on November 6th, 2020. Ten rising startups from emerging markets, will be judged by a panel of international investors and experts.
AGENDA SPEAKERS (Tentative)
EST Friday, November 6th
Master of Ceremonies: Mariana Flores, Mumuksha Khicha, Maria Peña
9:00am-9:15am Welcome and opening remarks
Kevin F. Hallock, Dean, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
9:15am-9:30am Meet and Greet
9:30am-11:00am 10 years of EMI: Reflecting Back, Moving Forward
On its 10th anniversary, the Emerging Markets Institute the founder directors,
alumni reflect back, and discusses the role the institute can continue to play in the business education at Cornell and in the development of emerging markets in the decade to come by encouraging education, research, connecting cultures, and
fostering leadership surrounding emerging economies
Moderator: Joe Thomas, former Dean of S.C. Johnson School of Management
Panel members:
• Andrew Karolyi, Deputy Dean and Dean of Academic Affairs, Cornell SC
Johnson College of Business
• Bob Staley, BS ‘58, MBA ‘59 Former Chairman, Emerson Electric
• Rob Cañizares, BS ‘71, MBA ‘74 Former President MSN International
• Nell Cady-Kruse, BS ‘84, MBA ‘85 President Cady-Kruse Family office
• Rustom Desai, MBA ‘95 Global Tech Executive, Board Member
11:00am-11:15am Antonio Moya-Latorre, PhD Student City and Regional Planning music by Schubert and himself
Meet and Greet with Advisory Board Members
11:15am-12:15pm Mexico, Brazil and the BRICS
How have Latin American and BRICS nations uniquely shaped emerging
markets? To what extent has the pandemic impacted their potential growth at the cusp of the decade, and how long is the path to recovery? How multilaterals old
and new like the New Development Bank can be part of the solution in this crisis? Our panel of experts sheds light on many such pressing questions facing these
emerging economies today.
Moderator: Dan Keeler, Editor, Frontier Markets, The Wall Street Journal
Panel members:
• Blanca Treviño, Chair of Softtek, Monterrey, Mexico
• Luis Henrique Guimaraes, CEO of Cosan, São Paulo, Brazil
• Marcos Troyjo, President New Development Bank, Shanghai, China
12:15pm-12:30pm Meet and Greet with speakers
12:30pm-1:45pm EMI Report: 10 years that changed Emerging Markets Launch 5th EMI Report. Lourdes Casanova and Anne Miroux with
• Lorenzo Pavone, EmNet OECD Development Center,
• Momina Aijazuddin IFC/WB,
• Alicia García Herrero, Chief Economist Officer of Natixis
1:45pm – 2:00pm Closing Remarks
Andrew Karolyi, Deputy Dean and Dean of Academic Affairs, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
EST Saturday, November 7th
9:00am-9:15am Welcome and opening remarks
Mark Nelson, Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Professor of Accounting, SC
Johnson School of Management
9:15am-10:30am Case Competition (Organized by Amanda Ward and Swapnil Gupta) 10:30am-10:45am Meet and Greet
10:45am-12:15pm Pitch Competition (Organized by Diana Neves and Daita Goswamy)
• 10:45am-11:15am – Pitches presentations (recorded)
• 11:15am-11:45am – Live feedback session + winner announcement
• 11:45am-12:15pm – Networking session
12:15pm-12:30pm Meet and Greet
12:30pm-1:45pm The Day After: View from Emerging Markets and beyond: Emerging markets are uniquely impacted by global crises. This year, EMs
struggled through a global financial crisis and a pandemic—the long-term effects of the latter are still to be seen. However, this decade has also been one of
tremendous milestones and growth, with some countries altogether “emerging” to become developed economies. Our panelists discuss the past and future of
emerging economies: the good and the bad, the struggles and the hopes of some of the most diverse and dynamic nations in the world.
Panel members:
• Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, Federal Minister of Education, Nigeria
• Hashem El-Dandarawy, Founder of Team 4
• Yuqiang Xiao, Chairman of US Management Committee of ICBC
• Chi Fan Johnson Cheng, Chairman and Founder Chi Fan Group
• Anindo Dutta, Partner, Asia Pacific, Ernst & Young
1:45pm-2:00pm Meet and Greet speakers
2:00pm-2:05pm Closing Remarks
Lourdes Casanova, Gail and Rob Cañizares Director, Emerging Markets Institute
GLOBAL VISION
Founded in 2010, Cornell’s Emerging Markets Institute at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business 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.
SPECIAL THANKS
The EMI conference would not be possible without the support of so many people. Thank you to the members of the EMI Advisory Board.
Thank you to our amazing EMI Fellows and co-Presidents of the Conference Organizing Committee, for all their hard work and taking the time to help us organize the conference. Gabriel Borges De Barros Ferraresso, Swapnil Gupta, Amanda Ward, Soraya Quiroga. And Diana Neves who led the pitch competition.
To Mumuksha Khicha, thank you for your help with the design of the different materials and being a great project manager. To Mark Yeager. Maiko Minami, thank you for your contribution. Without the support of the EMI team and the researchers: Eudes Lopes, and Daniel dos Anjos with the research, the conference and the report would not have been possible.
To Noemi Poclaba and the college’s marketing team for the design of the front picture.
The Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) team
Lourdes Casanova, Gail and Rob Cañizares Director Anne Miroux, Faculty Fellow
Eudes Lopes, Research Fellow
Daniel dos Anjos, Research Assistant
Mumuksha Khicha, Project Manager
Vineetha Pachava, EMI Coordinator
Vritika Patni, Program Coordinator
Mihika Badjate, Research Assistant