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clients on e-commerce, supply chain, delivery, and global postal transformation. Here, he fields your questions about what the emerging race to your front door means for the future of last-mile delivery. Will 3D printing do to the Postal... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

September 2012 (Revised December 2013)
Supplement

Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (B)

By: Juan Alcacer and Kerry Herman

In February 2006, Intel has selected the location for its new assembly and test plant. This case discusses why this location was chosen from the list of possibilities introduced in "Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (A)." View Details

Keywords: Location Choices; Location Strategies; Strategy; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Technology; Technology Industry; United States; Viet Nam

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August 2012 (Revised October 2022)
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Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)

By: Geoffrey Jones and Lana Ghanem

The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Government and Politics; Global Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Middle East

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06 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

India Needs to Encourage Trade with China

Everyone points out that China-India bilateral trade, at roughly $19 billion in 2005, is a far cry from the $2 billion in 1999. Indeed, the increase is to be celebrated. Chinese President Hu Jintao's current visit to New Delhi cements the diplomatic and economic... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business. In the following e-mail interview, Jones explains the origin... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace