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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
primarily based on a narrow definition of 'good business,'" says Vasella. "If you can improve the way medicine is practiced, I believe you will also make money." With sales up 21 percent to $5.7 billion in the first quarter of 2003, Novartis-the Basel-based View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
extensively on international entrepreneurship and multinational corporations. The author of many books, including Multinationals and Global Capitalism and Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition,... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s Organizational Behavior course,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
multinational corporations, play in the battle against pandemics? Responding to a pandemic is an enormous challenge that will require great coordination among international agencies such as WHO, national governments, nongovernmental... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
illicit money that flows out of developing and transitional economies. These sums — corrupt, criminal, and commercially tax-evading in origin — are staggering, estimated at some $500 to $750 billion annually. The biggest part of this is the commercial component, with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Island native Jim McNerney (MBA ’75). Later, his résumé would include stints at blue-chip companies like Procter & Gamble, McKinsey & Co., and General Electric, where he led various divisions of the multinational giant (including GE... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
around the world, was to have our faculty test the validity of their ideas in front of savvy local business audiences.” Palepu cites an example involving a case he cowrote on the Haier Group, a Chinese multinational manufacturer of home... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the leadership talent and expertise required to build an organization. “There is a worldwide acceptance of Indian goods and services,” he remarks. “The challenge is to think big and achieve scale. We need global Indians who have been abroad to come back. Many are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Officer 4, U.S. Army Air Mission Commander/Standardization Instructor Pilot. Deployed to Afghanistan October–December 2001 to conduct multinational combat flight operations in Soviet MI-17 helicopter, support U.S. Special Operations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Banks as Multinationals edited by Geoffrey Jones (Routledge) This comparative, international study, edited by Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, looks at the origins and business strategies of View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 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
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
Win in India, Win Everywhere by Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992) (Harvard Business Review Press) India is a growing destination for multinational expansion. Venkatesan gives his views on how to tackle the challenges of the Indian market (slow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
international business. Professor Ghemawat and his coeditors have collected articles by leading scholars that focus on five topics in international business: creating value through international expansion, sources of value in global strategy, organizing View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
The Obama administration reportedly is considering big changes in the broken system for taxing the foreign income of US corporations. US multinationals have piled up overseas cash holdings in excess of $1 trillion, according to some... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
strategically and organizationally." A longtime observer of multinational corporations, Bartlett is the School's Daewoo Professor of Business Administration. In 1998 he and Sumantra Ghoshal published a second edition of Managing Across... 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