Publications

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

1986
Chapter

Competition Encountered by U.S. Companies That Manufacture Abroad

By: Robert B. Stobaugh

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Competition; Trade; Manufacturing Industry; United States

May 1991
Case

Firestone, Inc.: Globalization

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; Corporate Strategy

September–October 2017
Article

GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration

By: Ranjay Gulati

Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving local needs with the economies of worldwide scale. Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati looks at how it tackled the challenge. He identifies several important takeaways for other... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management

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01 Feb 1976
Conference Presentation

The Transnational Corporation and the Host Country

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

improvements in impoverished countries. Lodge advanced the ideas in a January 2006 two-part piece in YaleGlobal coauthored with economist Craig Wilson. The authors also have a book due in May, A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

June 2019
Teaching Note

The National Hockey League

By: Robert F. Higgins and John Masko

Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-036. View Details

Keywords: Sports; Media; Multinational Firms and Management; Expansion; Strategy; Sports Industry; United States; Canada

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to consider as they approach world markets. Levitt's key insight... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

February 2001
Case

Mavesa (B): International Strategy and Valuation Concerns

Examines Mavesa's response to economic liberalization. Looks at Mavesa's efforts to expand into neighboring countries. Also looks at efforts to support the firm's stock price. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Global Strategy

Educators

1986
Chapter

New and Old Multinationals: Competitors or Partners?

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Competition; Partners and Partnerships

July 1997
Case

Walt Disney's Dennis Hightower: Weaving Together the European Operations

By: Ashish Nanda

The case describes the actions taken by Dennis Hightower as president of Disney Consumer Products in Europe and the Middle East from 1988 to 1994. It focuses on how he has gone about establishing a regional office and knitting local operations closer together, the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Middle East; Europe

Educators

2009
Chapter

Third World Multinationals: A Look Back

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Oceania; West Indies

September 1998 (Revised October 2001)
Case

SADAFCO

SADAFCO has long enjoyed a dominant position in the milk and ice cream markets in Saudi Arabia. In the mid-1990s, this dominance was under threat as Nestle, Unilever, and Mars all entered the ice cream market. The case outlines the Saudi Arabian ice cream wars. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Food; Multinational Firms and Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia

Educators

October 1996
Case

American China Enterprises

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mollie H. Carter

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Competition; Business and Government Relations

19 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

change. Thus, for a capitalist system to evolve in an effective developmental sense through time, it must have two hands and not one: an invisible hand that is implicit in the pricing mechanism and a visible hand that is explicitly View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 1991 (Revised May 1991)
Case

Hoechst in the United States (A)

Describes the U.S. market for chemicals following WW II to the present and the attention of the market for global chemical companies. Traces the involvement of Hoechst in this market up to the 1980s when minimum growth has been offered through Hoechst's U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Chemicals; Acquisition; Chemical Industry; United States