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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Action Plan: In Context
Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) knows that many people think of etiquette as outdated, nothing more than “stuffy, stuffy old manners.” She has made a career—and now a Netflix series, Mind Your Manners—out of updating this old-fashioned perspective. “I see etiquette as the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Joint Venture
The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet. But the knee also is a complicated and vulnerable knot of bone, muscle, and sinew. Nearly everyone knows... View Details
Keywords: Shoshi Parks
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
communication, transportation, and travel, creating a new commercial reality. He argued that the future belonged not to the multinational corporation but to the global corporation that did not cater to local differences. Known for his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
destined to succeed his father, William R. Timken Jr. (MBA 1962), at the helm of The Timken Company, the Canton, Ohio–based multinational manufacturing firm. Indeed, Kurt worked at Timken for five years before HBS, followed by three years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (MBA ’03) was excelling at his job — selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals — when the company’s 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Mourns Professors Christensen and Vernon
multinational corporations and international business and held a joint appointment at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he was Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus. Tributes to both professors will... View Details
- 18 Sep 2014
- News
Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground
and regions that offer an opportunity multinationals don’t find attractive and local companies don’t adequately address. Then they penetrate this middle ground in ways that won’t immediately trigger a response,” he says. In recent years,... 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
- 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Nurturing students who can think outside of the box
“Liberal education prepares you for the rest of your life,” he says. After returning to China in 1994, Chen worked at large multinationals and in banking before purchasing the land for Xing Wei College in 2005. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 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
- 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 by C. Fritz Foley, the André... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
more than 1 million homes. He has also arranged partnerships with multinationals to combat illness. For example, he persuaded Adidas to build a shoe that conformed to the company’s quality standards but still would cost only one euro.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
profits, as most industrialized countries use. In a pure territorial system, the profits of multinational companies based in the United States would be taxed only by the country in which the profit is earned. But none of our major... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
plantations to local growers, transforming itself into a marketing company. The firm’s shareholders opted for lower risks but also lower profits. Multinationals and Global Capitalism by Geoffrey Jones (Oxford University Press) Professor... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
Omar, Hesham (OPM 37, 2008), Adlina (OPM 46, 2015), and Adam Hafez Hesham Hafez, who was born in Egypt and grew up in Austria, launched the Paper Distribution International Group in Dubai while in his 30s, and within a decade he had grown the company into a View Details