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  • April 2010
  • Case

Globalization at Komatsu

By: Michael Y. Yoshino
The case captures the challenges Komatsu, the second largest manufacturer of the earth moving equipment faced during the past five decades as it sought to globalize its operations. By 2007, it had become the second largest manufacturer of the earth moving equipment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Distribution Channels; Production; Organizational Culture; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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  • 10 Nov 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among 250 offices of a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

product categories, or stores. Some are even changing long-held attitudes toward consumption. To many folks, filling the home with more stuff or keeping up with the Joneses is no longer appealing. As a result, the degree of uncertainty in... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

mitigation policies within its supply chain and in government policy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/caesars-entertainment-betting-on-sustainability/   Working Papers Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • Career Coach

Philippe Taieb

multinational company) - Regional Manager; Motul (manufacturing) - Assistant to CEO; Braxton Associates (strategy consulting) - Consultant; Doctors of the World (healthcare) - Department Manager View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • October 1996
  • Teaching Note

International Sourcing at Intercon TN

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Marie-Therese M. Flaherty
Teaching Note for (9-688-055). View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Supply Chain; Selection and Staffing; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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  • April 1992 (Revised June 1993)
  • Case

Otis South Africa (A)

By: Michael Beer
Otis Worldwide CEO, George David, was frustrated with the slow pace of nonwhite advancement within Otis South Africa. After a few years of trying to elicit action from South African management, he decided to send a 28-year old U.S. employee to take over as the human... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Race; Operations; Business Headquarters; Performance Improvement; Human Resources; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Industrial Products Industry; South Africa; United States
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  • Jul 2012
  • Article

A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses

The U.S. corporate tax code is broken. High rates and perverse incentives drive capital away from the corporate sector and toward other uses and countries. This is bad news for U.S. workers, because corporations aren't making investments that would increase View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Driving the family business onto a global stage

Anand Mahindra (AB 1977, MBA 1981), as chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), has grown the family business into a thriving Indian multinational automotive manufacturing corporation, creating jobs for thousands. Not... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

expected reductions in productivity gains, or simply a decline in trust among some North Atlantic trading partners, the discussion seems to be occurring with increasing frequency. Boiled down to its simplest level, the underlying question... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational Authors:Prithwiraj Choudhury, James Geraghty, and Tarun Khanna Publication:Global Strategy Journal 2, no. 1 (February 2012) Abstract We build on the emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

New Releases

The Differentiated Network by Nitin Nohria and Sumantra Ghoshal (Jossey-Bass Publishers) The key to building an effective multinational corporation (MNC) is organizing its various parts as a differentiated network, according to a new book... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, and agent, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different approaches to the new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

multinational company with operations in 26 countries and numerous international partnerships. In 2017, the company had more than half a billion mobile, fixed, and TV customers. During case discussions, students explore Vodafone’s... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information
  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

subsidiaries of multinationals taking on stronger local identities and becoming "hybrids". Over the past two decades, as the pace of globalization quickened, ambiguities increased again, especially if the focus is the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 1996 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Schroder Ventures: Launch of the Euro Fund

By: Josh Lerner, Kate Bringham and Nick Ferguson
Schroder Ventures is considering launching a pan-European fund in response to investor demand. This will lead to changes in the interactions between the parent organization and the national affiliates. A related question is the extent to which the private equity model... View Details
Keywords: Change; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Launch; Europe
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  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

Asante Should Governments Demand Equity in Foreign-Owned Extractive Projects? By: Wells, Louis T. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52573 2016 The Challenge of BRIC View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Do You Speak Business?

with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly pressed to move toward international norms in the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross