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- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
Download Sunil B. Mittal profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1957 Born, Ludhiana, Punjab, India 1976 Earns BA, Economics and Political Science, Panjab University 1976 Founds Bharti Enterprises 1982 Becomes...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
speedily sourcing garments and apparel for customers in the West. Its solid reputation is based on its ability to meet required specifications at a competitive price. Fung believes his company’s levelheaded approach to the IT revolution is a model for other “old...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
actors. “The richest countries are the biggest promoters of lawlessness in international trade and finance,” Baker writes in his 2005 book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel. “In a process that parades as agreeable enterprise illegal money...
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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
is increasingly being called on to be part of the solution. How business can do this most effectively is the focus of the GPP's research and scholarly activity. Multinationals Leading The Way While GPP faculty note that it is too early to...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year. View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
analyzers and advisors, aggregators and distributors, transaction facilitators, and more. A useful starting point for managers is to construct an institutional map to identify institutional voids—which may themselves present business opportunities. Western View Details
- 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 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
from local and regional forces rather than from multinational corporations. Corruption is the “oil and glue” of the system in much of Latin America. Reform will come from the private, not public, sector. Asia Business Conference...
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- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research infrastructure is an important, but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
created significant obstacles for multinational enterprises (MNEs). This article focuses on German MNEs in India and shows how they addressed the formidable challenge of the internment of their employees in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
multinational enterprises who want to help reduce poverty, what would be some practical first steps you would suggest they take? A: Many big companies are now spending substantial amounts of time and money...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
mobile services in Delhi and in time became India’s largest telecom company. Then, looking overseas for new markets, Mittal decided on Africa, where mobile penetration is still only about 40 percent, and 60 percent of the continent’s 1 billion people are under 25. In...
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- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
on location choices. However, industries with a significant presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that rivalry among firms plays an important role in firms'...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
something like 800 cases—well, I was dying to do that. And it was a good bet because that was what led me to launch StopLift. Before HBS, I knew nothing about retail.” Almost 14 years later, the Cambridge, Massachusetts—based StopLift now employs nearly 200 people and...
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Margie Kelley
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
another of your working papers, "Globalization as Market Integration and the Future of International Business," you mention that horizontal multinational enterprises that engage in replication are...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
problem, not the root cause,” he says. To learn more about the private sector, Goodwin left the air force to work for a multinational company and to prepare for business school. But his path changed course in early 2001 when President...
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Jill Radsken
- Web
Alumni Authored Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Twaalfhoven, Bert and Spence, Shirley. Learn Earn Return: The Journey of a Global EntrepreneurVlachoutsicos, Charalambos (Harry). Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and US Enterprises Check Your Local Library or Bookstore...
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- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
extensive theoretical literature generates ambiguous predictions concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) reform on industrial development. The impact depends on whether multinational View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Financial Planning at HBS; James R. Hines Jr.; and David Wessel Brookings Institution Press Globalization and multinational corporations have long seemed partners in the enterprise of economic growth....
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- 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...
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Martha Lagace