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Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Real Estate’s Cream of the Crop: IDRC Best Practices Excellence. It’s something all firms strive for — to be the best. Many companies today are working hard to make their real estate operations the best they can be. The International Development Research Council (IDRC), the world’s preeminent […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Managing Cultural Differences: Challenges for Americans Doing Business in Europe by Gary M. Wederspahn With the powerful lure of the European Union’s 374 million-strong market and the continued opening of Eastern Europe to commerce with the West, the number of American business travelers going to Europe has […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Globalizing: Real Estate Payoffs and Perils by Jack Lyne Globalization: Clearly, it’s transformed 20th century business life. Far less clear, though, is how to optimally globalize business operations, particularly when it comes to real estate. “Globalization has been a long evolutionary process,” says Marvin Manheim of Northwestern […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 The Drive to Globalize: Profit Motive Rules as Foreign Direct Investment Soars by Tim Venable How global is your company? If you’re committed to making your firm as profitable as it can be, it must be increasingly worldwide in scope. Your headquarters might be in Peoria, but […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Nokia Wirelessly Takes on the World by Jack Lyne Helsinki-based Nokia has achieved a remarkable business turnaround. After losing US$213 million in 1991-92, the old-line Finnish conglomerate, founded in 1865 as a forest-industry operation, has totally transformed itself. Now, Nokia is the No. 2 world player in […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? December 1997/January 1998 Contract, Expand, Adapt: The Auto World’s All-at-Once Imperative by Karen E. Thuermer Today’s auto industry is getting a very mixed message: Contract and expand and adapt . . . quickly. On one hand, sluggish North American and European sales have made retooling and streamlining imperative. Simultaneously, emerging […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Flash Points:Hot Business Climates Ignite Worldwide Blaze of Location Moves by Tim Venable Want to know where the world’s hottest business climates are? Just take a look at where companies are placing the most offices, factories and other facilities. According to Conway Data’s exclusive New Plant database, the […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Case Study: Nortel Builds a New HQ — and a ‘New City’ Global power Nortel shattered the mold with its new headquarters, moving 3,000 key knowledge workers from Class A high-rises to a reconverted, one-story, 1960s’ factory in Brampton, a Toronto suburb. What’s more, it created a workplace […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 Legislatures on a RollThird Straight Tax Cut Adds $2.6 Billion Shine To Already-Bright State Business Climates by Audrey Pennington State governments found themselves awash with surplus funds in 1997, relatively speaking, more than they’ve seen since 1980. As a result, lawmakers spent much of their legislative sessions figuring […]

Highlights from Site Selection ? October/November 1997 C O V E R      S T O R Y Hong Kong: Business Still Dances Inside the Dragon’s Jaws by Jack Lyne Forget the hype and hysteria. Hong Kong’s turnover hasn’t dulled its legendary business buzz. Hong Kong is awash with conviction a month after becoming a […]