Furthermore, corruption, despite experiencing a downturn, still remains a major component in doing business in several African countries.
Meanwhile, American components and satellites are suffering because of the cost and delays in doing business with the firms that make them.
Several businessmen testified that they showered Kilpatrick with trips, custom-made suits and jewelry because they wanted his help in doing business with the city.
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Slim's people showed some interest in doing business with them, but the idea went out the window when Grupo Carso and Grupo Sanborns bought Compusa in early 2000.
Alan Chen and David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, asked me to teach a group of senior-level executives interested in doing business in China.
The feedback we are getting is that the decision to keep its PC business has given channel partners and end users relief and giving them comfort in doing business with HPQ again.
At that hearing, radical opponents of the oil and gas industry repeatedly harassed, shouted down and physically threatened a young lady who was attempting to speak on behalf of a company that is interested in doing business in the area.
Recently Cindy McCain, wife of Senator John McCain, announced that she was divesting the portion of her investment portfolio that was invested in companies doing business in Sudan.
And the ruling does not prohibit other measures, such as divestment by state pension funds in firms doing business in Myanmar, a move already being pushed by some Massachusetts legislators.
Such benefits of civility were scarcely visible in the rowdy Harvard students and others who forced cancelation of a university dinner for alumni at their university's recent 350th birthday celebration because they objected to the university's investments in companies doing business in South Africa.
My firm started out representing U.S. companies doing business in Russia or Korea, as well as Russian and Korean companies doing business in the U.S. Fairly soon after that, we were representing Korean-American and Russian-American businesses as well, mostly relating to their transactions with Russia and Korea.
Two recent examples underscore this reality of doing business in China and are clarion warning calls for those who plan on doing business there in the future or investing there as well.
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Josh filed a bill in the current legislative session in Ohio to end that state's investments in foreign companies doing business in and with Iran.
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Following a 75% peso devaluation (and a major debt default) in 2002, doing business in Argentina became much cheaper in dollar terms--a big draw for U.S. companies.
The real estate industry in general remains largely a face-to-face business in which consumers are still more comfortable doing business in the real world.
But entrepreneurs are still having to dole out cash--to the numerous bureaucrats involved in every aspect of doing business in Russia.
The other day I ran into an important U.S. official who pointed out that there's now something of a competition in a number of developing countries to see which one can improve most in the Doing Business annual survey.
And they are also a company that had a lot of business in Iraq, and now they're doing business in the Gulf Coast as well.
This grants immunity for actions a foreign government takes when it is acting as a government, but not for actions taken when it is acting as, for example, a commercial enterprise, which might occur when the government in question owns a company doing business in the United States.
Mayor Daley and his brothers-in-arms in business are doing their best to tackle it, but their best is unlikely to be enough.
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That was the campaign in the 1980s demanding divestment from companies doing business in South Africa.
In one anecdote, a woman doing business in the Middle East was taken out to lunch by a customer.
Our business model, in a sense, is we can do well in business by doing good for people.
According to the Boston Consulting Group (its partners reported some of their insights in Forbes here), a consumer company doing business in 70 locations (cities and counties) in China could reach 70% of consumers in the middle and affluent classes as of 2005.
Today, people need to pause and examine whether they are doing business as usual in a world that increasingly does not reward doing business as usual.
My own best guess is that Eli Lilly, Amylin, and Boehringer will work out their differences in a manner that will allow them to continue doing business in something akin to their marketing arrangements now in place.
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Mexico ranks 73rd among the 155 countries surveyed in ease of doing business.
The World Bank, in its 2011 Doing Business Report, finds that Afghanistan is a better place to do business than Venezuela.
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