The company is also looking to restructure its global operations to yield cost benefits.
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Clarke , executive vice president for global operations and likely HP's next chief financial officer.
MetLife is a leading provider of insurance, employee benefits and financial services with global operations including Europe.
's global operations chief Jack Muhs, was in a teleconference with 120 of his managers across the world.
When it comes to glitches in their global operations, financial firms know that time down is money lost.
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He said on Thursday that Northern Ireland offered an "excellent location" from which to support its global operations.
Earlier this year, I participated in the Leaders for Global Operations Conference: The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S., hosted by MIT.
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Regardless of the entity that provides such intelligence, it will become increasingly necessary for global operations to have the benefit of these kinds of services.
The data show that producing and selling locally for the Chinese domestic market is becoming a vital component of global operations of many Japanese companies.
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With global operations, Linksys' main office is located in Irvine, Calif.
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And though some EU countries are willing to shoulder burdens (Estonia, the Netherlands, Sweden and Poland are among the toughies), most have the wrong weapons for global operations.
Pepsi Bottling Group, the largest bottler for PepsiCo, announced Tuesday it is cutting costs as part of a multiyear restructuring program to improve efficiencies in its global operations.
At the same time, Brazilian multinational mining company, Vale (VALE), said it would be hiring around 10, 000 a year over the next three years at its global operations.
In his new role, Fields said he will oversee Ford's day-to-day global operations, while Mulally will shape the long-term execution of his 'One Ford' plan and mentor top executives.
After 18 months of negotiations with RAN, The Walt Disney Company agreed to stop procuring paper for its global operations from endangered rainforests in Indonesia and elsewhere.
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Following Wednesday's flight, Tony Navarra, Globalstar's president of global operations, was quick to thank the Soyuz team and Arianespace, the French company that markets commercial Soyuz launches through its Starsem subsidiary.
Entrepreneurs and executives managing global operations might also benefit from a book that points to corporations thinking about terrorism and security issues in a strategic manner and not just as an afterthought.
The investment is "part of Huawei's long term commitment to position its operations in India as a hub for the company's global operations, " said Ross Gan, a spokesman from the Shenzhen-based company.
To preserve economic competitiveness, companies can begin to implement these tactics and tools to help mitigate the risk of trade secret theft and protect their trade secrets as global operations grow and evolve.
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In response, leaders in manufacturing must place greater importance on transparency in the demand and supply chain gaining a real-time view of global operations, and engaging their entire workforce in improved decision making.
Sood will provide strategic counsel on all aspects of Razer's business, from global operations to sales, marketing and product development, as the brand continues to evolve its business in the United States and abroad.
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This pressure on foreign companies only mounted as the financial crisis caused several companies to rethink their global operations only to discover it is now much harder to fire workers in their Chinese subsidiaries.
The business challenges of 2013 and beyond steeped in business analytics, Big Data, intimate and real-time customer engagement, personalized customer experiences, deeply ingrained social capabilities and outcomes, elegantly synchronized global operations and distribution will simply crush systems that were built for very different purposes and very different outcomes.
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Volkswagen, a much larger company that can lean on its higher-margin luxury brands and strong global operations, has been able to weather the storm more easily by cutting prices and taking market share from weaker rivals like Fiat, Peugeot, Ford Motor and General Motors.
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Russian global intelligence operations are a well-resourced and highly developed instrument of state power.
It has been used by the Bush and Obama administrations to launch global counterterrorism operations, as well as the war in Afghanistan.
Itochu will acquire the global processing operations for canned goods and packaged juices, and the Asian fresh fruits production and sales business.
The United States and Italy have proposed a global peace operations initiative.
"In the future, electric motors might become as important to GM as engines are now, " said Thomas Stephens, GM's vice chairman for global product operations.
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