Tuesday, May 25, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Winning in Emerging Markets
As debate continues over investment in emerging markets and the global impact they will have in coming years, companies are also faced with the decision of which global markets are the best choice. In their new book Winning in Emerging Markets, Professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu make the innovative argument that the primary exploitable characteristic of an emerging market is not its size or probable growth—but rather its lack of institutions. While such “institutional voids” present challenges, the professors say these voids also provide major opportunities for those willing to look at global markets from a different angle. Participants will benefit from the authors’ research on assessing emerging markets’ potential and crafting strategies for succeeding in those markets.
About Professor Tarun Khanna
Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he has studied and worked with multinational and indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. He joined the faculty in 1993, after obtaining an engineering degree from Princeton University (1988) and a Ph.D. from Harvard (1993), and an interim stint on Wall Street. During this time, he has served as the head of several courses on strategy, corporate governance, and international business targeted to MBA students and senior executives at Harvard. He currently teaches in Harvard's executive education programs and is Faculty Chair for HBS activities in India.
David A. Garvin is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined the Business School faculty in 1979 and has since then taught courses in leadership, general management, and operations in the MBA and Advanced Management programs, as well as serving as chair of the Elective Curriculum and faculty chair of the School's Teaching and Learning Center. He has also taught in executive education programs and consulted for over fifty organizations around the globe, including Biogen Idec, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, BP, Frito-Lay, Gillette, L. L. Bean, 3M, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley, Mueller, Novartis, RPG, Seagate, and the U.S. Forest Service.
REGISTER: For Paid Alumni Club Members Only. This event is free. To register for this limited capacity event, please use the link below ("Click here to buy tickets!!!), call 847-256-4846, or fax your reservation to 847-256-5601. You must R.S.V.P. by end of day on Thursday, May 20. The call-in details will be emailed to you as soon as the club receives them.
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