Multinational - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

multinational firms, then a framework for how to craft an international strategy that creates shareholder value, Collis provides students and new managers with an integrated perspective on international strategy, drawing on earlier work... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

knowledge-intensive multinational corporation suggest that reluctance to speak up, even with pro-organizational suggestions, is driven by specific implicit theories about speaking up in hierarchies. Study 2 uses open-ended survey... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Projects/BPEA/Fall-2014/Fall2014BPEA_Weinzierl.pdf?la=en Working Papers Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on behavior in large, View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Sep 2003
News

Globalization Revisited

“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt (1983) They were bold, even breathtaking words at the time. Two... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Jul 2014
Blog Post

From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice

well as what the solutions should be and what they really could be given the real and practical constraints we face. This “method” of thinking has become my de facto mindset whenever I’m in the field with our sales team or in a meeting room with a View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

01 Oct 1998
News

A Career to Smile About

Foods, joined Colgate in 1988 as head of its Far East and Canada operations. "How do you take an idea or product that may work in Latin America and introduce it into Asia or Africa, instantaneously? All multinationals are working on this... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

Profile

Clarissa Quintanilla

process for small businesses, and another to help develop the Newmarket district into the first green industrial park in an urban core. This summer, Clarissa will be working with I-Dev International.“It takes a market-based approach to development by linking small... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term

partnerships, values-driven leadership, fi duciary duties, and the blurring of lines between government and business. Three cases focus on issues encountered by Unilever—one of which examines how the multinational conglomerate deals with... View Details

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

Historically, the idea was that multinational firms were looking at after-tax rates of return around the world and choosing to invest their capital eitherat home or abroad up to the point that those returns were equalized. If you believe... View Details

Keywords: by 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

06 Oct 2015
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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

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

1993
Book

Transnational Corporations: A Historical Perspective

By: G. Jones

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management

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Find at Harvard

23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

several concrete managerial prescriptions for the selection problem based on this trade-off. Finally, we demonstrate the value of our framework in a case study that considers air traffic management. Ethnic Innovation and U.S. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

John Schupbach

or disregarded. Yet everyone's voice is respected." After completing his MBA, John will return to Mayo to finish his medical degree and complete his residency. "Eventually, I'd like to divide my time, spending about a quarter of it in clinical practice, and... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

advantage. We will consider how various organizations of labor markets, financial markets, and regulatory regimes, for example, create opportunities and barriers for multinational firms. Second, we will focus on the more informal domestic... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Is the Foundation

fundamental means by which people interact in any organization.” Her research—published in her award-winning 2017 book, The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations (Princeton University... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong

featuring Asian business leaders. Westerners entering the Asian marketplace also need to know something about business relationships based on what the Chinese call guanxi, or "connection." The role of guanxi will be discussed in a session with panelists from major... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung

earned a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1971, Fung has built Li & Fung into a multinational trading and retailing company with 36 offices in 20 countries and an annual turnover of more than $1.6 billion. In Hong Kong, where Li & Fung... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

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