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- 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
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
of Indian import policies, and I knew them backwards and forwards,” recalls Mittal, sitting in his office at the New Delhi headquarters of Bharti Enterprises, the multinational conglomerate he has built over the past 40 years. “Phones... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 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
- 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 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
technically be within the law but has no practical business purpose. It's just sleight of hand to reduce taxes without a legitimate reason. Typically, it's the bigger companies and multinationals that engage in this activity. People in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
research, drawing parallels with their own work or experience. A case in point was HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé's presentation, the first on the agenda. He reported on the initial results of a multination study of factors driving... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
destination end up being so much less attractive despite the relative absence of this usual litany of investment obstacles? Part of the answer may lie precisely in how these obstacles tilt the playing field between local firms and View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
property rights (IPR) to entice international corporate investment. But who really benefits from IPR? Should multinationals feel secure that their secrets will be protected? A Q&A with Assistant Professor Fritz Foley. The Regional Slice... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
over $460,000 for Haitian communities. He also encouraged companies to invest, and Marriott will open up its first Port-au-Prince hotel in 2014. In parallel, Goodwin worked with the US Chamber of Commerce and major multinationals to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
As general managers advance through their careers, they are often asked to bring their skills to bear on a new level of responsibilities. For the recently appointed country or business-unit manager of a multinational organization, such... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
measures to prevent some unintended consequences. A large fraction of corporations’ excess cash — as much as two-thirds, according to some estimates — is held outside the United States to avoid the “repatriation taxes” that occur under the U.S. system of worldwide... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
are thin. The sale of national companies to foreign multinationals weakens regional stock markets even further. Corruption is another issue that must be confronted in most countries. What is the purpose of the LARC? Our mission is to help... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable land currently used by farmers,... View Details