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September 1993
Case

Rhone-Poulenc (B)

Rhone-Poulenc, France's largest chemical firm, has achieved a major position in the United States as the result of an ambitious series of acquisitions. As it expanded in the United States from 1986 to 1990, Rhone-Poulenc management sought to take a "hands-off" approach... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Chemical Industry; France; United States

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

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

May 1997 (Revised March 2001)
Teaching Note

Sime Darby Berhad (A), (B), and (C) Teaching Note

By: Tarun Khanna

Teaching Note for (9-797-017), (9-701-117), and (9-701-118). View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Malaysia

April 1985
Background Note

Roles and Responsibilities of the Country Manager: MNC Operations from the National Organization's Perspective

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Multinational Firms and Management

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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

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen Abstract—Assessing the productivity gains from View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

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

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

01 Apr 2001
News

William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

managers are able to e-mail a digital picture of any questionable item to Hong Kong for an instant assessment. But it is Li & Fung’s StudioDirect service that has investors buzzing. For a long time, the company has built a solid reputation among big View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

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

October 2009 (Revised February 2010)
Case

Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell

By: Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons

On the eve of trial, and after nearly 14 years of pre-trial litigation, the parties in Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell jointly announced that the four U.S. lawsuits stemming from the execution of the Ogoni Nine in 1995 had been settled. View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Lawsuits and Litigation; Nigeria; United States

September 2007
Supplement

Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of Microsoft India, discusses market entry, localization, and intellectual property rights in emerging markets. View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology Industry; India