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Featured HBS cases from
my course
Globalization
and Emerging Markets

Here is the syllabus of my course Globalization and Emerging Markets
(elective course of the MBA program at Harvard Business School).
Feel free to take ideas from it. If you need teaching plans or any
of the materials in the syllabus please write to me (amusacchio at hbs dot
edu). Below are some selected cases and a
quick summary of the main issue of the case.
On State Capitalism and Turnaround
in State-Owned Enterprises:
"The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC)
(A)." Harvard Business School Case 712-006. (What model of
China do you need to sell to make the largest IPO on earth a
success?)
"Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (A),
(B), and (C)." Harvard Business School Case 710-069. (On
the debt crisis in Dubai and how investors got confused because
they didn’t understand the pyramidal structure of state-owned
holding companies)
"Banco Ciudad (A) and
(B): Who is the Owner?" Harvard Business School Case 712-029.
(How to turnaround a state-owned bank with agency problems and that
suffers from political intervention)
"Vale:
Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining."
Harvard Business School Case 710-054. (About how a company should
have manage its relationship with the Brazilian government to avoid
the ousting of its CEO)
"Brazil: Leading the BRICs?" Harvard
Business School Case 711-024 (About how Brazil has successfully
used the WTO in its favor and how it won the battle against Merck
for the patent for Efavirenz)
"Petrobras in Ecuador
(A) (B) and (C)
" Harvard
Business School Case 309-107. (About the government of Ecuador
expropriating Petrobras. Diplomacy vs.
what minority shareholders want)
"Petrobras in Ecuador (C): Lula and Political
Risk at Home." Harvard Business School Supplement 310-029. (On
Petrosal, Lula’s virtual expropriation of
oil deposits in the Pre-Salt area in Southeastern Brazil)
"Indian Railways: Building a Permanent Legacy?"
Harvard Business School Case 710-008. (Case on the turnaround of
the second largest company by employment in the world)
"Pakistan:
Is Foreign Aid Helping or Hindering Development?" Harvard
Business School Case 712-005.
“Mexico: Crisis and Competitiveness."
Harvard Business School Case 710-058.
"Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk."
Harvard Business School Case 710-012.
"Iceland (A)." Harvard
Business School Case 709-011.
Recent company cases
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****These
company can be taught using the institutional voids framework of Khanna
and Palepu, Winning in Emerging Markets
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"Sherritt Goes to Cuba (A), (B), and (C):
Political Risk in Unchartered Territory."
Harvard Business School Case 711-001.
"Silver Lake and Private Equity in Brazil:
Carnaval or Calamity?" Harvard Business
School Case 712-004.
"Veracity Worldwide in Syria: Assessing Political
Risk in a Volatile Environment." Harvard
Business School Case 712-009.
Ideas to include some of my cases in
your emerging markets course
Here is the syllabus of my course Globalization
and Emerging Markets (elective course of the MBA program at
Harvard Business School). Feel free to take ideas from it. If you
need teaching plans or any of the materials in the syllabus please
write to me (amusacchio at hbs dot edu)
*You can also assign Tarun Khanna
and Krishna G. Palepu. "Spotting
Institutional Voids in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business
School Note 106-014 with any of the three company cases above.
Also, you can follow their syllabus and add any of my cases (see
their syllabus here).
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