Interview with Jorge Born, interviewed by Andrea Lluch, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contributors: Lluch, Andrea, interviewer; Harvard Business School
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Interviews; Industrialists; Food industry and trade; Paint industry and trade; Textile industry; International business enterprises; Business; History; Economic conditions; Politics and government; Commerce; Bunge & Born
Description: Mr. Born relates the institutional history of Bunge & Born and speaks extensively about the economic and political history of Argentina. He focuses greatly on the importance of education and the commitment to rule of law for a country's economic growth, identifying that as the main reason for Bunge & Born's eventual divestment of the majority of its Argentine businesses and its focus on growth instead in Brazil. Mr. Born also points to technology, access to information, and flexibility as major factors for a company's success. He discusses Bunge & Born's multinational presence and its effective strategy of concentrating on its core businesses: paint, textiles, and food.
Notes: Interview translated into English. Transcript available in English and Spanish.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 4, 2014).

Interviewed in Spanish on 2008 August 21 in Buenos Aires by Dr. Andrea Lluch, HBS Research Associate, through the sponsorship of the Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School.

Interview with Jorge Born, interviewed by Andrea Lluch, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 21, 2008. Creating Emerging Markets Oral History Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School.

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Jorge Born was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1934. After graduating at Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, he attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In his business career, he was chairman of global agribusiness giant Bunge-Born, CEO at Holding Bunge Ltd., president of Caldenes S.A., and president of Bomagra S.A. He has also served as a member of the Universidad de San Andrés' Development Committee, Argentina's Business Science Academy, Wharton School's Executive Education Council, and J.P. Morgan's International Council. In addition, he has chaired the Born-Bunge Foundation in Antwerp, Belgium, and the Bunge and Born Foundation in Argentina. He has received an honorary doctorate from Antwerp University in Belgium as well as Argentina's prestigious Konex Prize.

Forms part of: Latin American oral history collection, 2006-2009.

Forms part of: Creating Emering markets oral history collection, 2006-