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- 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
Arnold, David J. "SADAFCO." Harvard Business School Case 599-021, September 1998. (Revised October 2001.)
- January 1984 (Revised April 1987)
- Case
Turning Around Alcan Europe (A): Patrick Rich's First Four Months as CEO-Europe
Faced with large losses in Alcan Aluminum (Europe), Patrick Rich takes the position of area general manager and slashes capital budgets, introduces new financial controls, and sets up mechanisms for increasing cooperation among the national subsidiaries. The focus is... View Details
Isenberg, Daniel J. "Turning Around Alcan Europe (A): Patrick Rich's First Four Months as CEO-Europe." Harvard Business School Case 484-062, January 1984. (Revised April 1987.)
- 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
- 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
- March 1995 (Revised May 1996)
- Supplement
Dennis Hightower in Conversation with MBA Students, November 21, 1994 (Supplement)
By: Ashish Nanda
Supplements Walt Disney's Dennis Hightower: Taking Charge & Dennis Hightower: Walt Disney's Transnational Manager. View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management
Nanda, Ashish. "Dennis Hightower in Conversation with MBA Students, November 21, 1994 (Supplement)." Harvard Business School Supplement 395-149, March 1995. (Revised May 1996.)
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
should be devalued. On the one hand, one might argue that such discussions are an overreaction to current events, that nations have become so interdependent and multinational business organizations so vital to the world's economy that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2014
- News
Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground
and regions that offer an opportunity multinationals don’t find attractive and local companies don’t adequately address. Then they penetrate this middle ground in ways that won’t immediately trigger a response,” he says. In recent years,... View Details
- 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
- April 1985 (Revised March 1987)
- Background Note
Organizing and Controlling MNCs
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Organizing and Controlling MNCs." Harvard Business School Background Note 385-325, April 1985. (Revised March 1987.)
- March 1985
- Background Note
MNCs and Host Country Relationships
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management
Bartlett, Christopher A. "MNCs and Host Country Relationships." Harvard Business School Background Note 385-299, March 1985.
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
certain qualities and practices not observed in firms that fall short. Multinational firms have understood for some time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution to be successful. At the same... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Jul 2012
- Article
A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses
an end to foreign-income tax would encourage U.S. multinationals to keep more money at home. Any revenue lost could be offset by a small tax on noncorporate business income, which is now exempted. Closing the chasm between how income is... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
Anand Mahindra (AB 1977, MBA 1981), as chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), has grown the family business into a thriving Indian multinational automotive manufacturing corporation, creating jobs for thousands. Not... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
Spirit of philanthropy advances Executive Education
underprivileged. “It has been the DNA of the organization to play a role in the community,” says Tata of his family’s company, the Tata Group, which he led as chairman from 1991 to 2012. The multinational conglomerate comprises more than... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
diverse methodology to understand the relationships between firm boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52688 2017 Geography, Location, and Strategy. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
managers even as we strengthen our management processes with an eye to future growth.” Africa also looked like fertile ground for the same partnering approach Bharti first developed inside India—blending multinational and local-management... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
philanthropy, later incorporating such ideas into their organizational vision and values. Mexico's Bimbo Group provides a clear example; this world leader in the food industry, a multinational corporation with operations in 16 countries,... View Details