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  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

concerns of host countries and those of investors. Without these changes, multinational corporations will lose profitable opportunities and poor countries will not gain the contributions that foreign investment can make toward alleviating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

Career Choices for the Class of 2017

focus on opportunities where they can make an immediate impact, whether at a large multinational or an early stage startup. In addition, we saw that over 50% of our students received the offer they ultimately accepted coming to them after... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

significantly narrowed the range of variation in beauty and hygiene ideals. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-056.pdf Nationality and Multinationals in Historical Perspective Geoffrey G. Jones This paper provides a historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 08 May 2015
  • News

Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies

Multinational firms are increasingly mandating a common language—typically English—to gain efficiencies and enhance collaboration overall. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley has discovered, however, that merely mandating a common language... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

$how Me the Money

someone’s offshore account. Even bigger sums are involved in abusive transfer pricing, the otherwise legal practice — common among multinationals — of trading within an organization. As much as 60 percent of global trade’s annual $35... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

    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
    • Portrait Project

    Simon Belsham

    had a bold vision and great ambition to change the world, but what do I have? I have the opportunities of a world that is getting smaller every day. I have visited 50 countries, which is 48 more than my parents. Next year when I'm helping a View Details
    • 23 Apr 2014
    • News

    A corporate leader’s legacy in India

    a multinational conglomerate with interests ranging from technology to energy to consumer products. It is also a major employer and dedicated provider of philanthropic assistance in India. “Apart from values and ethics which I have tried... View Details
    • 01 Feb 1998
    • News

    New Releases

    The Differentiated Network by Nitin Nohria and Sumantra Ghoshal (Jossey-Bass Publishers) The key to building an effective multinational corporation (MNC) is organizing its various parts as a differentiated network, according to a new book... View Details
    Keywords: Judith A. Ross
    • 02 Aug 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

    Protection in a Converging World," the expropriation and its aftermath "illustrate the interaction of property and contract rights in a global setting, how corporate control is shaped by geography, and how multinational firms... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

      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
      • 12 Mar 2013
      • News

      New Thinking for China

      Chen. The son of a scientist and a brain surgeon, Chen learned the value of education at an early age, graduating from an American high school and Boston University before coming to Harvard Business School. After his return to China in 1994, he worked at large View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; higher education, teaching, china, social entrepreneurship
      • 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
      • 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
      • April 1985 (Revised March 1987)
      • Background Note

      Organizing and Controlling MNCs

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management
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      • March 1985
      • Background Note

      MNCs and Host Country Relationships

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management
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      • 25 Apr 2014
      • News

      Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises

      over $460,000 for Haitian communities. He also encouraged companies to invest, and Marriott will open up its first Port-au-Prince hotel in 2014. In parallel, Goodwin worked with the US Chamber of Commerce and major multinationals to... View Details
      • 06 Oct 2015
      • First Look

      October 6, 2015

      psychology, marketing, management, sociology, and anthropology. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49031 October 2015 Business and Politics The Multinational Firm and Geopolitics: Europe, Russian Energy, and... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 May 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

      companies from Germany dealt with the incarceration of thousands of their German national employees in India during World War I and World War II in her recent working paper, Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing