Frontier Giants: Companies to Watch in Emerging Markets

Great businesses are being built in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and beyond.

It was, for a time, the most expensive road in the world. An unremarkable thoroughfare in Northern California was dearer than Manhattan’s most coveted neighborhoods and pricier than London’s West End.

Beginning with Kleiner Perkins in the early 1970s, Sand Hill Road established itself not only as an expensive place to rent an office but the spiritual hom…