globalization

eBay Overseas

Thu Sep 2, 2004 at 12:47 PM

Wherever you are, whatever language you speak, you can use eBay -- thanks to the Internet trading powerhouse's relentless expansion over the last year. EBay says it will increase its share in South Korean online marketplace, Internet ...READ»

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Turkish Starbucks

Mon Aug 23, 2004 at 11:41 AM

Starbucks is thinking outside the cup -- and on other continents. Starbucks Coffee has opened two shops in Ankara, Turkey, making the total number of such stores in the country to 14, Business Wire reports. They are truly Turkish ...READ»

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Amazon Forays Into China

Thu Aug 19, 2004 at 7:20 PM

Amazon.com says it will buy Joyo.com Limited, a British Virgin Islands Company, which operates the largest online retailers of books, music and videos in China. With a price tag of $75 million, the deal is Amazon's ticket into the ...READ»

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Going Global, Locally

BY Heath RowMon May 3, 2004 at 7:15 PM

Do companies need to be large to go global? Not necessarily, writes Chief Executive scribe Dale Buss. In a recent article entitled "Little Giants," Buss considers a handful of example firms -- companies that are staying relatively ...READ»

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Rest in Peace

BY Heath RowThu Mar 4, 2004 at 3:29 PM

FC Now reader Gautam Ghosh emailed this morning to inform us that Sumantra Ghoshal, a management expert from India, died Wednesday. Ghoshal was a fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research in the U.K and a professor of ...READ»

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When Should Government Intervene?

BY Alison OverholtMon Mar 1, 2004 at 11:44 AM

These days it's hard to go anywhere without hearing people say that the government should step in and do something about the offshoring trend -- that hemorrhaging of service sector (and, increasingly, of white collar) jobs from the ...READ»

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Coffee with Lester Thurow

Tue Oct 7, 2003 at 6:59 PM

The title of MIT economist Lester Thurow's new book Fortune Favors the Bold comes from an old Roman saying, "Fortune favors the brave." The underlying logic is priceless: Warriors were told that if they stood and fought, they had a ...READ»

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Give and Get Overseas

Thu Oct 2, 2003 at 5:27 PM

The former Dean of London Business School, John Quelch, writes in the UK's Independent that U.S. multinational corporations aren't doing enough to help the communities they inhabit overseas. With overseas markets become increasingly ...READ»

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P2P... Overseas

BY Heath RowFri Aug 15, 2003 at 10:42 AM

The GeoBridge Project is still currently in its research phase, but if the Economic TeleDevelopment Forum makes good on its promise and potential, it could become a powerful international business networking tool. Combining the ...READ»

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