Anabella Dávila is Professor of Management and Strategy and the Research Chair of the Strategy and Management in Emerging Economies Group at EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Previously, she was the Ph.D. in Business Administration Program Director and Research Director. Dr. Dávila has co-edited several books, research chapters, and journal-refereed articles on Latin-American work culture and human resource management. In addition to culture and human resource management in Latin-American organizations, her current research interests include human development and social sustainability. Dr. Dávila earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Universidad Regiomontana in Monterrey, her MBA degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, and her Ph.D. in Educational Administration from The Pennsylvania State University, with the support of the USAID Fulbright Foreign Student Program. Her expertise is organization and management, strategic human resource management, strategic management, social sustainability, human development, and labor culture.
Emerging Markets and Emerging Market Multinationals
Event Overview
In this live virtual event, the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management will present the “2020 Emerging Market Multinationals Report: 10 Years That Changed Emerging Markets,” which highlights the remarkable headway of these enterprises in global business and their contributions to the evolving innovation and technology landscape. Faced with the COVID-19 crisis, 2020 was also a year of rupture — the 2020 Report explores some of the consequences of this crisis for emerging markets and the global economy.
As the Emerging Markets Institute celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, the fifth Emerging Market Multinationals Report has been privileged to receive contributions from several of our partners, including EMnet at the OECD Development Centre, World Bank’s IFC, Division on Investment and Enterprise at UNCTAD, Wuhan University, members of the EMI Research Network, EMI Academic Advisory Board, and EMI Advisory Group.
What You'll Learn
- The power of emerging markets in a post-pandemic world
- Why some countries have fared better than others during the pandemic
- How emerging market multinationals are disrupting the global competitive landscape
Speakers
Anne Miroux is Faculty Fellow at the Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets in the Johnson School of Business at Cornell University. She has over 30 years of experience in international trade and finance.
Dr. Miroux began her career in the United Nations Center 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 issues related to debt in developing countries, foreign direct investment and transnational corporations, and technology and innovation policies. For several years, Dr. Miroux 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 also served as the editor of the UN Transnational Corporations Journal. Dr. Miroux published a number of papers and articles and led research projects and technical assistance activities in developing countries on debt, FDI, and development.
Until late 2015, Dr. Miroux was the Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics in UNCTAD, in charge of the organization’s work on technology and trade logistics. She was also the Head of the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD). Dr. Miroux is a member of the Advisory Board of the Technology and Management Center of the Department of International Development at Oxford University as well as a member of the Board of NetExplo. Dr. Miroux has an MBA from HEC – Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Jouy-en-Josas, France) and a diploma from IEP (Institut d’Etudes Politiques – Paris). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Paris I – Sorbonne.
Lorenzo Pavone oversees the Emerging Markets Network (EMnet), a network of multinational companies promoting policy dialogue and analysis on business in emerging markets, hosted by the OECD Development Centre. He has experience in emerging markets, private sector development, competitiveness, investment promotion, and business climate assessment.
Mr. Pavone holds an MBA from HEC in Paris and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is a member of the Faculty Advisory Council of the Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
Lourdes Casanova is the Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director of the Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets and a Senior Lecturer at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Formerly of the strategy department at INSEAD, Dr. Casanova specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets.
In 2014 and 2015, Dr. Casanova was named one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal. She is a member of the board of directors of Boyce Thompson Institute.
Dr. Casanova is a Fulbright Scholar who holds a Ph.D. from Universidad de Barcelona and an M.A. from the University of Southern California.
Paloma Fernández is Professor of International Business History and Family Businesses in the Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy, and World Economy at the Universitat de Barcelona. Dr. Fernández is currently principal researcher of a competitive public research project and participant in a European Union Horizon 2020 RISE project involving 16 centers on three continents. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. Dr. Fernández’s research interests have focused on family businesses, innovation, internationalization, cross-cultural management, entrepreneurial networks, and diasporas in emerging economies of both past and present times. Her current research focuses on the emergence of a managerial revolution in new large hospitals of the world in the first half of the 20th century, and she has a book forthcoming from Emerald Publishers. Dr. Fernández was twice awarded the ICREA Academia Distinction for Excellence in Research (2008 and 2018) and awarded the Best Book on Economic History by the Spanish Association of Economic History in 2018 for a collective book on family businesses in Latin America and Spain.
Ravi Ramamurti got his MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad (gold medalist) and his DBA from Harvard University. He studies strategy and innovation in emerging markets. Professor Ramamurti has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, the Wharton School, MIT-Sloan School, the Fletcher School, CEIBS-Shanghai, and IMD-Switzerland. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2008 and has served as Deputy Dean of the AIB Fellows (2020 to 2023).
Professor Ramamurti’s nine books include three published by Cambridge University Press on the internationalization of emerging-market firms and one published by HBR Press on reverse innovation in healthcare. A Stanford study includes Professor Ramamurti among the top 2% of all scientists in the world based on citations, and he is among the top 5 most-cited scholars working on emerging markets. He has studied or consulted with dozens of public and private firms in 20 emerging economies.
Veneta Andonova is Associate Professor and former Dean of the School of Management at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. She received her Ph.D. degree in Management from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Dr. Andonova had been full-time faculty at top business schools in Latin America and at the American University in Bulgaria. Her interests lie at the intersection of business strategy and institutional analysis, with a focus on Latin American multinationals, non-market resources, and entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging markets.
Dr. Andonova’s research has been published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Socio-economics, Telecommunications Policy, Review of Law, and Economics, among others. A regular presenter at international conferences, Dr. Andonova’s most recent book, “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Unexpected Places,” was published in 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Anabella Dávila is Professor of Management and Strategy and the Research Chair of the Strategy and Management in Emerging Economies Group at EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Previously, she was the Ph.D. in Business Administration Program Director and Research Director. Dr. Dávila has co-edited several books, research chapters, and journal-refereed articles on Latin-American work culture and human resource management. In addition to culture and human resource management in Latin-American organizations, her current research interests include human development and social sustainability. Dr. Dávila earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Universidad Regiomontana in Monterrey, her MBA degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, and her Ph.D. in Educational Administration from The Pennsylvania State University, with the support of the USAID Fulbright Foreign Student Program. Her expertise is organization and management, strategic human resource management, strategic management, social sustainability, human development, and labor culture.
Anne Miroux is Faculty Fellow at the Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets in the Johnson School of Business at Cornell University. She has over 30 years of experience in international trade and finance.
Dr. Miroux began her career in the United Nations Center 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 issues related to debt in developing countries, foreign direct investment and transnational corporations, and technology and innovation policies. For several years, Dr. Miroux 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 also served as the editor of the UN Transnational Corporations Journal. Dr. Miroux published a number of papers and articles and led research projects and technical assistance activities in developing countries on debt, FDI, and development.
Until late 2015, Dr. Miroux was the Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics in UNCTAD, in charge of the organization’s work on technology and trade logistics. She was also the Head of the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD). Dr. Miroux is a member of the Advisory Board of the Technology and Management Center of the Department of International Development at Oxford University as well as a member of the Board of NetExplo. Dr. Miroux has an MBA from HEC – Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Jouy-en-Josas, France) and a diploma from IEP (Institut d’Etudes Politiques – Paris). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Paris I – Sorbonne.
Lorenzo Pavone oversees the Emerging Markets Network (EMnet), a network of multinational companies promoting policy dialogue and analysis on business in emerging markets, hosted by the OECD Development Centre. He has experience in emerging markets, private sector development, competitiveness, investment promotion, and business climate assessment.
Mr. Pavone holds an MBA from HEC in Paris and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is a member of the Faculty Advisory Council of the Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
Lourdes Casanova is the Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director of the Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets and a Senior Lecturer at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Formerly of the strategy department at INSEAD, Dr. Casanova specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets.
In 2014 and 2015, Dr. Casanova was named one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal. She is a member of the board of directors of Boyce Thompson Institute.
Dr. Casanova is a Fulbright Scholar who holds a Ph.D. from Universidad de Barcelona and an M.A. from the University of Southern California.
Paloma Fernández is Professor of International Business History and Family Businesses in the Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy, and World Economy at the Universitat de Barcelona. Dr. Fernández is currently principal researcher of a competitive public research project and participant in a European Union Horizon 2020 RISE project involving 16 centers on three continents. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. Dr. Fernández’s research interests have focused on family businesses, innovation, internationalization, cross-cultural management, entrepreneurial networks, and diasporas in emerging economies of both past and present times. Her current research focuses on the emergence of a managerial revolution in new large hospitals of the world in the first half of the 20th century, and she has a book forthcoming from Emerald Publishers. Dr. Fernández was twice awarded the ICREA Academia Distinction for Excellence in Research (2008 and 2018) and awarded the Best Book on Economic History by the Spanish Association of Economic History in 2018 for a collective book on family businesses in Latin America and Spain.
Ravi Ramamurti got his MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad (gold medalist) and his DBA from Harvard University. He studies strategy and innovation in emerging markets. Professor Ramamurti has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, the Wharton School, MIT-Sloan School, the Fletcher School, CEIBS-Shanghai, and IMD-Switzerland. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2008 and has served as Deputy Dean of the AIB Fellows (2020 to 2023).
Professor Ramamurti’s nine books include three published by Cambridge University Press on the internationalization of emerging-market firms and one published by HBR Press on reverse innovation in healthcare. A Stanford study includes Professor Ramamurti among the top 2% of all scientists in the world based on citations, and he is among the top 5 most-cited scholars working on emerging markets. He has studied or consulted with dozens of public and private firms in 20 emerging economies.
Veneta Andonova is Associate Professor and former Dean of the School of Management at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. She received her Ph.D. degree in Management from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Dr. Andonova had been full-time faculty at top business schools in Latin America and at the American University in Bulgaria. Her interests lie at the intersection of business strategy and institutional analysis, with a focus on Latin American multinationals, non-market resources, and entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging markets.
Dr. Andonova’s research has been published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Socio-economics, Telecommunications Policy, Review of Law, and Economics, among others. A regular presenter at international conferences, Dr. Andonova’s most recent book, “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Unexpected Places,” was published in 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan.