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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
new opportunities. Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility Author Daniel Litvin presented his evidence that modern companies find it difficult to operate on foreign soil. Big companies, in spite of their wealth,... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- Career Coach
Philippe Taieb
since 2013. Besides providing career counseling, Philippe assists his clients with what keeps them up at night and what their pain points are. He enjoys meaningful connections. Philippe has 25 years of professional experience, in the View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
common missteps, get great results from their employees, and put them on the path to happy and fulfilling careers. Faculty Books Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy Edited... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
someone’s offshore account. Even bigger sums are involved in abusive transfer pricing, the otherwise legal practice — common among multinationals — of trading within an organization. As much as 60 percent of global trade’s annual $35... View Details
- May 1991
- Case
Firestone, Inc.: Globalization
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "Firestone, Inc.: Globalization." Harvard Business School Case 391-236, May 1991.
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
the decision-making process. From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy, by Yves Doz, José Santos, and Peter Williamson, focuses on a new breed of global company — the metanational — that is turning the strategies of traditional View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do this by allocating scarce... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
various marketing positions since graduating from HBS, but had always wanted to start my own business," he says in a soothing British accent. "The time had come to do that." The idea was to buy a small, publicly owned corporation in the... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
improved management and decentralization; (2) larger firms, skill-intensive plants, and foreign multinationals appear better managed and are more decentralized; (3) firms that are both family owned and managed appear to have worse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt... View Details
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
Strategist? Published: July 16, 2012 Corporate strategy has become the bailiwick of consultants and business analysts, so much so that it is no longer a top-of-mind responsibility for many senior executives. Professor Cynthia A.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
unique ways that multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its "milk-district model" that encourages supporting businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
at the Highest Levels By: Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell Abstract—The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
new water systems or repair deteriorating ones, there is money in water. Already a big business attracting major corporate players such as General Electric, Siemens, ITT, Suez, and Tyco, water is a $400 billion global industry. While just... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
probably not surprised at her subsequent headline-making ascent in corporate America. “I learned how to balance and prioritize early on,” says the Washington, D.C., native, whose unique combination of determination, grace, and integrity... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Multinational Corporations, Global Justice and Corporate Responsibility: A Question of Purpose By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—Do multinational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
concerns of host countries and those of investors. Without these changes, multinational corporations will lose profitable opportunities and poor countries will not gain the contributions that foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
manager with three multinational companies, living in the United States, Venezuela, Bahrain, and London. Increasingly interested in exploring the intellectual and analytical aspects of business, Stobaugh left the View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
with distinction in 1965. Following nine years working for large multinational corporations, Wyss struck out on his own as an entrepreneur and established Synthes USA. He has taken on leadership roles in both this country and Switzerland... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace