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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

  Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Faculty Research Online

property rights (IPR) to entice international corporate investment. But who really benefits from IPR? Should multinationals feel secure that their secrets will be protected? A Q&A with Assistant Professor Fritz Foley. The Regional Slice... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

    Stanley C. Gault

    Taking the helm of the company his father helped to found, Gault was instrumental in reorganizing and revitalizing Rubbermaid from a small household gadget company into a streamlined and efficient View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • Fast Answer

    International Job Search Resources

    Creating a target list of multinational company locations. Creating a target list of companies headquartered in one country with operations in another country. ... View Details
    • 26 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 26

      PublicationsBanks as Multinationals Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:New York: Routledge, 2012 Abstract This is a revised edition of a comparative, international study which looks at the history of View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The New International Style of Management

    while average companies in France, Germany, and Japan may all look quite different from each other, those countries' best-performing multinationals look quite similar. "When you consider the... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
    • February 1985 (Revised July 1986)
    • Case

    Applichem (A)

    Applichem has six plants in different countries making the same chemical product. The purpose of this case is to allow students to think about what costs are relevant to management in this process industry environment, about how to define a comparison of costs and... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Operations; Performance Improvement; Chemical Industry
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    Mengwen Zhao

    Before Mengwen Zhao (MBA 2019) arrived at HBS, she had worked for six years with two giant multinational corporations, Johnson & Johnson and Nestle. In a way, HBS represented a chance to think smaller. "In China, there are lots... View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; CPG; Healthcare/Biotech
    • 21 Apr 2014
    • News

    Spirit of philanthropy advances Executive Education

    underprivileged. “It has been the DNA of the organization to play a role in the community,” says Tata of his family’s company, the Tata Group, which he led as chairman from 1991 to 2012. The multinational conglomerate comprises more than... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2008
    • News

    Reimagining China and India

    advantage of China’s strengths, and for Chinese entrepreneurs to reciprocate, something that has taken root. Annual trade between the two countries has raced from near zero several years ago to more than $20 billion last year. For their part, View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management; Retail Trade
    • June 1996
    • Case

    Becton Dickinson: Managing the Global Enterprise, 1996

    Becton Dickinson, a U.S.-based maker of medical and diagnostic devices, has been organized into a mixed structure of U.S.-based divisions and country/region organizations. In 1995, three businesses shifted to become worldwide divisions, forcing a reexamination of the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    Capturing Human Capital

    Confronted with the fundamental changes that are transforming today's global business environment, a number of firms are finding it necessary to reevaluate their organizational priorities. "These are turbulent times for business as many View Details
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    Managing Global Operations

    features Company information Capital IQ Sophisticated and easy to use search engine, auditable financials, earnings call transcripts, key developments, peer analysis, company ratios. For a multimedia... View Details
    • 01 Apr 1999
    • News

    Short Takes

    tolerate human rights abuses, Spar advocates that multinationals and human rights are not such strange bedfellows as once thought. Reebok, for instance, created a new production facility in Pakistan and established a system of independent... View Details
    Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance
    • 12 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

    multinational enterprises who want to help reduce poverty, what would be some practical first steps you would suggest they take? A: Many big companies are now spending substantial amounts of time and money... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 08 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 8, 2008

    companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 08 Dec 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

    companies grappling with the familiar (yet complex) questions that confront any organization trying to do business across borders. According to Collis, every strategic choice that multinationals face falls... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • May 1994
    • Case

    Colgate-Palmolive: Managing International Careers

    Colgate-Palmolive, the U.S.-based consumer products firm, has long emphasized international experience for its managers and has developed a comprehensive policy to manage expatriate assignments. The rise in dual-career families has made some managers reluctant to... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Personal Development and Career; Experience and Expertise; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 24 Mar 2002
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

    security services to companies in South Africa, other African countries, and parts of Europe. In the case, Gray has recently undergone a financial restructuring with the help of private equity firm Brait Capital Partners. Now its owners... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna