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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
manager with three multinational companies, living in the United States, Venezuela, Bahrain, and London. Increasingly interested in exploring the intellectual and analytical aspects of business, Stobaugh left the View Details
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
the exception of some work done on multinational corporations by HBS professor emeritus Chris Bartlett. It’s only recently that there’s been a resurgence of interest. We wanted to capture that moment.”...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
probably not surprised at her subsequent headline-making ascent in corporate America. “I learned how to balance and prioritize early on,” says the Washington, D.C., native, whose unique combination of determination, grace, and integrity...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
addition to teaching in the MBA and Executive Education Programs, he chaired the School's Doctoral Programs for almost six years. Postings on four continents with multinational corporations had given...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
of international capital markets. Several cases go inside multinational firms to consider how hedging strategies can be devised, how to value assets around the world, and how to pursue major financings that capitalize on distinct legal...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Equanimity has been the hallmark of Tosh Barron's life, one filled with precipitous moments and tests of character that might have overwhelmed a lesser person. From her quiet, comfortable office at Xerox Corporation headquarters in...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 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
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
should examine the issue of product architecture. Careful attention to modularity and intermodule coupling can dramatically lower the cost of change. Chinese Corporate Culture As China moves from a planned to a market-oriented economy,...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do this by allocating scarce...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection rates. “AIDS places a dramatic...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
new water systems or repair deteriorating ones, there is money in water. Already a big business attracting major corporate players such as General Electric, Siemens, ITT, Suez, and Tyco, water is a $400 billion global industry. While just...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
Supporting Faculty Research Endeavors When Tsedal Neeley joined the HBS faculty in 2007 as an assistant professor, she was already deeply interested in the impact that corporate common language practices have in global businesses. “I had...
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- 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...
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Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
Fung's proposals, and by April 1973, Li & Fung was listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. This early success was only the beginning of a distinguished business career that has established Fung, now 48, as one of Hong Kong's ablest and most dynamic View Details
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Alejandro Reyes
- 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...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
organizational values and business ethics, Paine has long focused on American companies engaged primarily in domestic U.S. business. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. corporate...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
of the product is identical by law. That was an interesting puzzle to me.” After focusing his study on antiretrovirals, Deshpandé saw other issues emerge. At the same time, he was asked to join the teaching team for Leadership and View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
multinational company with operations in 26 countries and numerous international partnerships. In 2017, the company had more than half a billion mobile, fixed, and TV customers. During case discussions, students explore Vodafone’s...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
ultimately benefits business as well.” As a member of the eleven-person private-sector department, Naidoo has led multinational project teams in building on research that Oxfam did in partnership with Unilever to determine the...
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