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  • 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
  • News

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
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Playing to Win

No less intense was the off-field rivalry between the world's leading athletic equipment companies. With their dueling events, giveaways, and advertising - and through the on-field heroics of the teams and stars they equip - the companies' ongoing View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

FIELD 2 in Accra

between developed and emerging economies. "The skills we learn at HBS—how to analyze problems, propose solutions, and execute—are tremendously valuable in places like Ghana," asserts Leach, who will bring an awareness of the role View Details
Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Information

    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
    • 23 Jun 2016
    • Op-Ed

    Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

    Harvard Business School faculty offer their views: Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Geoff Jones, who researches the evolution, impact, and responsibility of global business and has authored numerous books on these topics, including View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
    • 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

      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
      • September 1997 (Revised September 1997)
      • Case

      Koc Holding: Arcelik White Goods

      By: John A. Quelch
      Management is considering its options for future international expansion. Koc is the dominant supplier of white goods (kitchen appliances) in Turkey and has been increasing its export efforts. As lower import tariffs invite foreign competitors to enter Turkey, Koc must... View Details
      Keywords: Expansion; Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Consumer Products Industry; Distribution Industry; Turkey
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      • 01 Feb 1976
      • Conference Presentation

      The Transnational Corporation and the Host Country

      By: Louis T Wells Jr
      Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management
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      • 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
      • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
      • Supplement

      ABB: Accountability Times Two (B)

      By: Robert L. Simons
      Describes internal allocation conflicts in a complex global company structured as a matrix organization. ABB Switzerland has secured and will build an important power station project; however, internal market allocation policies dictate that this work be handled by ABB... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Conflict Management; Complexity; Sweden; Switzerland
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      • January 2004 (Revised August 2015)
      • Case

      Weetman Pearson and the Mexican Oil Industry (B)

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Lisa Bud-Freirman
      Supplements the (A) case. View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; United Kingdom; Mexico; Arizona
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      • May 2003 (Revised May 2009)
      • Case

      ZARA: Fast Fashion

      Focuses on Inditex, an apparel retailer from Spain, which has set up an extremely quick response system for its ZARA chain. Instead of predicting months before a season starts what women will want to wear, ZARA observes what's selling and what's not and continuously... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Spain
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      • June 2019
      • Teaching Note

      The National Hockey League

      By: Robert F. Higgins and John Masko
      Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-036. View Details
      Keywords: Sports; Media; Multinational Firms and Management; Expansion; Strategy; Sports Industry; United States; Canada
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      • 01 Dec 2014
      • News

      In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)

      As CEO of the London-based telecom Vodafone Group, Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) has led a series of headline-grabbing acquisitions and divestitures, from the company’s $1.7 billion purchase of British multinational telecom Cable & Wireless... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; technology; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
      • 25 Feb 2020
      • News

      The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

      Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational... View Details
      Keywords: April White
      • 01 Feb 1998
      • News

      Stephen Covey's Successful Habits

      survive. Another force is unsatisfactory personal relationships. I asked a CEO of a major multinational why he had his 35,000 employees trained in the 7 Habits. He said, "My wife had told me I didn't listen to our daughter." After he... View Details
      • 01 Jan 2007
      • News

      Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

      into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP,... View Details