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    Theodore G. Montague

    Montague transformed Borden from a struggling dairy products-centered business into a diversified multinational consumer goods provider. Looking for a way to lessen Borden’s reliance on government intervention, Montague pursued selective... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 14 Oct 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: October 14

    assuring price transparency so advertisers know what they're buying. I explain the need for these rights by presenting specific practices causing particular concern. The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      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 multinational corporation. He embarked on... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods

        Thomas B. McCabe

        McCabe transformed Scott Paper from a sleepy 500 person paper mill company in Chester, Pennsylvania, into a multinational concern with over 60 manufacturing plants throughout the world employing over 40,000 people. By his retirement from... View Details
        Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
        • 01 Apr 1999
        • News

        Short Takes

        the 'best game in town' for using information resources to realize strategic advantage in serving customers." The Spotlight and the Bottom Line Do multinational corporations concern themselves with improving human rights in the countries... View Details
        Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

          Daniel K. Ludwig

          Ludwig created the largest shipping company in the United States (the world’s third largest) and one of the world’s biggest private multinational corporations. His operations spanned 23 countries, employed more than 2,000 people, and... View Details
          Keywords: Transportation
          • 21 Sep 2016
          • Blog Post

          Meet the Global Business Club

          refined geo-political context. We believe these traits will contribute to the success of students as savvy multinational business executives. Our activities are professional, educational and social in nature and are open to all members of... View Details
          Keywords: All Industries
          • 01 Jun 2005
          • News

          Ideas: Books

          Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor emeritus (and Pulitzer Prize-winner)... View Details
          Keywords: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chandler
          • 15 Aug 2006
          • First Look

          First Look: August 15, 2006

          general management at Harvard Business School. Publisher's site: http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/getbook.php?isbn=0073404977 Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Crises Authors:Mihir A. Desai,... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

            James H. Rand, Jr.

            Rand grew his father’s small ledger company into a multinational conglomerate that made a wide array of office products, including filing systems, typewriters and adding machines. Under Rand’s leadership, company sales grew 100 fold from... View Details
            Keywords: Fabricated Goods

              Abe Plough

              In 1908, with $125 borrowed from his father, Plough formed Plough, Incorporated by selling Antiseptic Heating Oil door to door. Over the next 65 years, Plough transformed his company from a small manufacturer of toiletries to a View Details
              Keywords: Healthcare

                William Blackie

                Blackie took Caterpillar Tractor from a small U.S. based factory in Peoria, Illinois to a multinational corporation. Blackie was instrumental in creating new markets for Caterpillar products. He invested heavily in international expansion... View Details
                Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
                • January 1996 (Revised March 1996)
                • Case

                Ellis International Division: Patrick O'Brian

                By: David A. Garvin
                Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management
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                • June 1991
                • Case

                Eli Lilly and Co.: European Pharmaceutical Operations

                By: Michael Y. Yoshino
                Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Pharmaceutical Industry; Europe
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                • 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
                • 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
                • 06 May 2014
                • First Look

                First Look: May 6

                This article examines product market strategy from the perspective of positioning, using the value-based strategy framework. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0543   Working Papers The Global Agglomeration of 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

                  Harold S. Geneen

                  Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to become one of the largest View Details
                  Keywords: Communications

                    David Rockefeller

                    bank’s international business which contributed $6 billion of income in 1979 and positioned it as an important lender to large, multinational American industrial conglomerates, especially oil companies. View Details
                    Keywords: Finance