Multinationals - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 1996 (Revised March 2000)
Teaching Note

Intercon Japan TN

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Marie-Therese M. Flaherty

Teaching Note for (9-688-056). View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Business Subsidiaries; Conflict and Resolution; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

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11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

China's Huawei has recruited 1,500 engineers in India to develop software for its telecommunications products. Even the countries' state-owned oil companies, including Sinopec and ONGC, have teamed up to hunt for oil together. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

S. Paine When Unilever CEO Paul Polman announced the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) in November 2010, commentators took notice. The plan set ambitious goals, to be sure, but more than that, the nature of the goals was highly unusual for a publicly traded,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
Case

Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain

In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London

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06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using data from the Carbon Disclosure Project's Supply Chain Program, a collaboration of multinational corporations requesting such information from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212006-PDF-ENG IBM China Development Lab Shanghai: Capability by Design Willy Shih, Kamen Bliznashki, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 611-055 When IBM shifted from a traditional territory-based View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 28

states, thereby helping increase the incomes of 80–100 million farmer families across the country. However, despite its success, Amul is beginning to come under increasing pressure. Multinationals like Nestlé and Unilever are increasing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

global marketplace, it is imperative for multinational organizations to have clear language strategies. Neeley has coauthored a September Harvard Business Review article with HBS Professor of Management Practice Robert Steven Kaplan on... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

hand, found this more of an American phenomenon than a European one. "There is not a single German brand being communicated in the same way around the world," he said. For multinational Nestlé, the truth fell somewhere in... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

1980; and Alberto Tazartes (HBS MBA '84), a senior partner in the Milan office of BC Partners, a private equity firm that focuses on acquiring and developing large businesses throughout Europe in partnership with management. Founded in 1972 under the name View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

from its main competitors such as multinational Danone in that it is a 270-person workers' cooperative with 60 percent of its membership made up of mentally disabled individuals. Since its establishment in 1982, the organization has aimed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 1993 (Revised September 1994)
Case

Becton Dickinson: Worldwide Blood Collection Team

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Kathleen Scharf

Describes Becton Dickinson's evolving attempt to develop products and strategies to meet worldwide competitive and market needs. Traces the evolution of a classic parent company-led product-market strategy to truly transnational product and strategy development.... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Product Development; Innovation and Management; Competitive Advantage; Multinational Firms and Management

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24 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 24

Program, a collaboration of multinational corporations requesting such information from thousands of suppliers in 49 countries. We find evidence that suppliers are more likely to share this information when requests from buyers are more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2021
Teaching Note

From Globalization to Dual Digital Transformation: CEO Thierry Breton Leading Atos Into 'Digital Shockwaves'

By: Tsedal Neeley

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 419-027 and 419-046. Thierry Breton, chairman and CEO of IT company Atos, faces a pivotal juncture. After spending eight intense years scaling the company globally to over 100,000 employees in 70 countries, he sees digital shockwaves... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Transformation; Strategy; Disruption; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Organizational Culture; Digital Transformation; Information Technology Industry

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January 2010 (Revised November 2012)
Teaching Note

Genzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play its HAND (TN)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Teaching Note for [910407]. View Details

Keywords: Programs; Intellectual Property; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Markets; Biotechnology Industry

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26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

toothpaste brand in the United States. During the interwar years, however, the brand suffered a precipitate decline and fell into oblivion. This article explores the rise and fall of the Pebeco brand. It shows the challenges faced by German-based View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 1993 (Revised June 2004)
Case

PepsiCo Bottling in Mexico

By: Kenneth A. Froot

This case describes Pepsico's program to restructure its Mexican bottling network. It wants to work with existing bottlers and find an organizational arrangement that will allow the bottlers to grow and change with the Mexican soft drink industry. View Details