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 December 1997/January 1998 COVER STORY Nokia Wirelessly Takes On The World Now, Nokia is the No. 2 world player in the burgeoning mobile phone market, breathing down mighty Motorola’s neck. pg. 1124 Real Estate’s Cream of the Crop: 1997 IDRC Best Practices pg. 1101 Managing Cultural Differences: Challenges For Americans Doing Business In […]