Interview with Agustín Legorreta, interviewed by Valeria Moy, Mexico City, Mexico
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Interviews; Banks and banking; Businessmen; Bankers; Government ownership; Financial crises; Business; History; Politics and government; Commerce; Banco Nacional de México
Description: Agustín Legorreta discusses how he negotiated several major crises, the biggest being the nationalization of all private banks during the economic crisis of 1982, when Banamex was expropriated by the Mexican government. He also talks about how he led the modernization process at the bank.
Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 3, 2015).

Interview translated into English. Transcript available in English and Spanish.

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Interviewed in Spanish on 2013 August 13 in Mexico City by Valeria Moy, Researcher, Harvard Business School through the sponsorship of the Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School.

Interview with Agustín Legorreta, interviewed by Valeria Moy, Mexico City, Mexico, August 13, 2013, Creating Emerging Markets Oral History Collection, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.

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Forms part of: Creating Emerging Markets oral history collection, 2006-