Global Business

Multinationals can employ strategies for managing distributed innovation in R&D in response to immigration restrictions.

Research shows that people who experience more stress when exposed to an unfamiliar culture learn social norms faster.

Many senior executives lack sufficient understanding of intellectual property issues to make sound strategy decisions.

Companies can help U.S. universities struggling to import the international doctoral talent needed to fuel innovation.

The FCPA helps U.S. companies resist corruption globally. Suspending enforcement harms business interests and ethics.

Chinese companies’ place-based strategies for international expansion offer lessons for businesses worldwide.

Investing in less stable or developed regions can be a source of growth if companies build ties with local communities.

There’s a widespread belief that U.S. companies are increasingly choosing to deglobalize. But is that really happening?

Foreign companies in China should prepare for the possible detention of their executives if a business dispute arises.

New OECD rules will change how businesses are taxed internationally by 2024. Here’s how multinationals should prepare.

A surge in regulations aimed at protecting remote workers poses new challenges to companies dependent on them.

Multinationals should cultivate local ties in the countries where they operate to counterbalance government power.

The spring 2022 issue of MIT SMR focuses on how companies use KPIs to measure performance. Plus: What happy, rude, or activist employees bring to the table; strategic thinking for uncertain times.

Multinationals must understand the forces driving both digital globalization and localization to optimize innovation.

When their operations intersect with labor or human rights abuses, companies need to have a plan of action at the ready.

Companies can and should take meaningful action in response to human rights abuses by governments.

A pharmaceutical giant enlists a consultant to help create an industry-leading global compliance system.

Identifying postcrisis opportunities, marketing to nonbinary genders, and prioritizing during supply chain disruption.

Past disruptions reveal how both ends of the supply chain can best handle product shortages.

Adjusting business strategies and plotting comebacks in the face of uncertainty.