Multinationals - Publications - Faculty & Research

1986
Chapter

New and Old Multinationals: Competitors or Partners?

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Competition; Partners and Partnerships

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

capital. Would it be a better idea to ride the wave of globalization and try to get acquired by a multinational corporation? Or should the firm remain privately owned and focus its growth in Africa? After all, he noted, markets beyond... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Fast Answer

Managing Global Operations

products and industries worldwide from Euromonitor International. Useful for understanding consumer lifestyles. Business Source Complete Articles and examples from academic and industry publications on topics in this category, such as View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs

with distinction in 1965. Following nine years working for large multinational corporations, Wyss struck out on his own as an entrepreneur and established Synthes USA. He has taken on leadership roles in both this country and Switzerland... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2011
News

A Modest Tax Proposal

profits, as most industrialized countries use.Â In a pure territorial system, the profits of multinational companies based in the United States would be taxed only by the country in which the profit is earned. But none of our major... View Details

Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

Institute/Taubman Center Policy Brief, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010. An abstract is unavailable at this time. Working PapersThe Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 4

http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science/article/pii/S0305750X1400254X November 2014 Special Issue on Governments as Owners: Globalizing State-Owned Enterprises Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

"repatriation taxes" that occur under the US system of worldwide taxation. Simply put, multinational firms currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

01 Jun 2001
News

Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

priority of policymakers in emerging markets cannot be achieved rapidly nor by government decree. After all, it took the United States a century to achieve its present level of development. Finally, agencies and multinational companies... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

yours to provide unique customer solutions. Purchase this book: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=1721-HBK-ENG&conversationId=355532&E=3159 Merchants to Multinationals Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:Tokyo:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

result of such despondency, children are not encouraged to go to school; many fail to attend at all or drop out early. Yet many multinational corporations, while undertaking their regular profit-making activities, have managed to change... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

02 Dec 2017
News

A Leveraged Investment

Omar, Hesham (OPM 37, 2008), Adlina (OPM 46, 2015), and Adam Hafez Hesham Hafez, who was born in Egypt and grew up in Austria, launched the Paper Distribution International Group in Dubai while in his 30s, and within a decade he had grown the company into a View Details

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational Authors:Prithwiraj Choudhury, James Geraghty, and Tarun Khanna Publication:Global Strategy Journal 2, no. 1 (February 2012) Abstract We build on the emerging... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

an important question, given the rise of entrepreneurship around the globe over the last fifteen years, he said. His project complements the growing body of academic literature in three separate areas: international business (which is mainly focused on large View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

upending longstanding principles of free trade established when China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Today, multinational firms must adapt, both in terms of trade and doing business within China itself. In fact, some experts... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

18 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

How Brand China Can Succeed

tightened and enforced nationwide. Western multinationals have a role to play in ensuring their Chinese subcontractors deliver on quality, but Beijing must push provincial governments to upgrade and enforce existing laws. Tough sentences... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

Web

Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

significantly underserved. This makes possible innovative, disruptive models that dramatically expand access while generating commercial returns equal to or greater than conventional businesses. This success has drawn the attention of large View Details

26 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2020
Article

Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Geographic Location; Value Creation

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