International Business

Magazine articles on conducting multinational business and trade.

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Reason July 2004 Brink Lindsey	10 Truths About Trade Is globalization sending the best American jobs overseas? Hard facts about offshoring, imports, and jobs.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Pete Engardio	Global Compact, Little Impact The United Nations Global Compact is meant to ensure that companies conform to basic human rights, labor, and environmental standards. Membership has soared but four years later, there are still no clear reporting or compliance standards.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Stephanie Anderson Forest	When Quotas End, Who Gets The Goodies? When decades-old quotas on apparel imports from low-cost manufacturing countries expire, wholesale apparel prices will plunge, but retailers may not pass on a lot of savings.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Pete Engardio	Kofi Annan's Business Plan (extended) The U.N. chief talks about how to make the Global Compact more effective at promoting corporate responsibility in poor nations
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Pete Engardio	Raising the Bar for Corporate Behavior Says Georg Kell of the U.N. Global Compact: "We want to get companies where the issues are most neglected into the movement."
InternetNews June 29, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Nortel's Big Sell The network gear giant unloads plants in Brazil and Canada for a hefty sum. Facilities in France and Northern Ireland are next.
Fast Company July 2004 Lucas Conley	Refusing to Gamble on Privacy Chief global privacy officer at Proctor & Gamble expands on the company's approach to privacy, the need for consistency, and the challenges associated with keeping up with change around the world.
HBS Working Knowledge June 28, 2004 Peter J. Williamson	What the New Asia Means for Multinationals Asia is remaking itself, and that means important strategic rethinking for Western multinationals doing business there. An excerpt from the new Harvard Business School Press book, Winning in Asia.
InternetNews June 24, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Global IT Growth With India leading the pack, IT services revenue climbed around the world last year, says Gartner.
InternetNews June 23, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Orders a Thai 'Starter' The company delivers an easier, cheaper XP -- but only for Thailand.
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