1- Innovative and sustainable business models in Emerging Markets:

    a) For local companies prospering from their home based uniqueness to speed up its global competitive advantage and positioning.
    
     b) For multinationals to leverage their global advantage and build their local identity and success story

 2- Critical leadership competences to effectively deal with: 

• Emerging and developed markets interaction and synergies
• Global-local business tensions and dilemmas.         
• Talent development and attraction
• Cultural diversity
• Execution in complex -multi-countries, matrix- organizations
• Corporate citizenship and social responsibility

      
 3- Some relevant issues for business growth in Emerging Markets 

• Risk mapping and management
• Hyper volatile economic environment
• Capital market deficiency 
• Business at the bottom of the pyramid;
• Global-local consumer segmentation
• Customer and IT driven innovation
• Non market key actors interaction: government; regulators; unions; other 
• Institutional voids: labor market; intellectual property, etc. 

 4- Organizational forms at global, regional and local level to maximize value added in decentralized / interdependent firms
 

 
 5- Effective long term public policies and institutional efficiency to boost up competitiveness and socioeconomic development.