One avoidable complication comes from state ownership, which may or may not give a multinational company a significant advantage but triggers anxieties.
But not giving a CEO enough time to realize his vision--after all turning around a multinational is a bit trickier that running a corner deli--can be equally damaging.
But the idea of handing over your entire computing system to a multinational running a cloud computing system is that they have in place the structures to stop such mistakes.
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Because 85% of his sales now come from overseas, Nam's plan is to make his headquarters look more like that of a big multinational than a Korean chaebol.
Buying or partnering with a Chinese company can help level the playing field, enabling a multinational to build a leading market position.
So when we are cheering for British businesses, should we shout louder for Vodafone, a British multinational, than for O2, owned by a Spanish multinational.
Not only that, but the integration made possible by the cloud enabled us to create NetSuite OneWorld, which can run a complex, multinational business in a single application.
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Of immediate concern are plans to raise billions of dollars through a multinational offering of shares in a huge coal project, Tavan Tolgoi, also in South Gobi province.
The challenges on the site are incredibly varied and include everything from a multinational food company looking for a "Reduced Fat Chocolate-Flavored Compound Coating" to an electronics firm trying to design a solar-powered computer.
My knowledge comes from some work I did for one of the multinational firms a couple of decades back in the UK (err, actually this one in an earlier corporate guise).
Xerox was a multinational corporation, with shareholders, a huge sales force, and a vast corporate customer base, and it needed to consider every new idea within the context of what it already had.
In 2004 in the stone ages of CSR when paying clients were scarce, I was asked to help the Canadian arm of a multinational dairy and food corporation develop a cause-marketing promotion that would be featured on milk cartons.
The hacker culture has long been engrained at Facebook, a multinational corporation that famously has roots in a Harvard dorm room.
For China, the deployment in the Gulf of Aden is as much about flying the flag and showing solidarity with a multinational effort as it is about making a real difference to the security of Chinese shipping in the region.
By 1931 Hornby was the owner of a multinational business, MP for Everton, and a millionaire.
To run a multinational organisation, it helps if you have a rough idea of what is going on.
Security Council approved a resolution Friday to authorize a multinational force to go into Liberia, by a vote of 12-0.
It is the first time a Dutch multinational has been taken to a civil court in the Netherlands in connection with damage caused abroad.
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He noted the canceling of a multinational naval exercise with Russia scheduled for Friday and a U.S.-Canadian-Russian exercise set for this month.
It is nearly impossible to really grasp the inner workings of a multinational, diversified corporation for an outsider who spends a couple of days per year on it.
But many a multinational has come to India with dreams of making a killing only to be defeated by its vast distances, its regional quirks and its sheer poverty.
Speaking at the Ambrosetti Forum on the banks of Lake Como, Beccalli-Falco told CNN that General Electric -- a multinational founded in 1892 -- is "making a lot of investments" in Germany.
International students who do enroll at Hult's London branch are encouraged to take a three-pronged approach to the job hunt: seek sponsorship in the U.K., search for a job at a multinational company in their home country, or find a local company back home.
After meeting America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, on Thursday, and Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, on Friday, Mr Annan acknowledged that diplomats were discussing the possibility of agreeing a multinational force to guard UN sites and staff, with a separate command structure but in some way under the influence of the American military.
The firm invited about 55, 000 consumers across 15 markets to participate in a study of those 100 most reputable companies, all multinational businesses with a global presence.
The firm invited about 48, 000 consumers across 15 markets to participate in a study of those 100 most reputable companies, all multinational businesses with a global presence.
Electrolux, a white-goods firm that has successfully turned itself into a multinational, has never quite convinced the financial markets that it is a match for its American competitors, General Electric and Whirlpool.
Even so, a multinational's growing sales are as likely to be the result of a thriving economy as the other way round.
He works for a multinational firm, and thinks that open EU borders for goods and workers are a good thing (he had a great time at a Polish colleague's wedding).
And we think that -- U.S. forces are playing a constrained supporting role in a multinational coalition whose operations are both legitimized by and limited to the terms of a U.N.
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