I began to perceive striking innovations in the show, things I'd originally failed to notice while channel surfing the unprecedented melting pot, multinational , multicultural cast-- the shocking first televised interracial kiss;the show's willingness to confront and grapple with social issues that, by setting them in a sci-fi context, allowed viewers
There was certainly no internet. Multinational companies had not been multinational .Certainly you could find Coca-Cola in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
and finds that it's harder and harder to make it as the big box stores move in and squeeze out local businesses, and multinational oil companies and national gas chains undercut his price.And so Dean is really one of the main characters in the book.
know sucking up their resources or and exploiting them says the only thing worse than that is to not be overrun by multinationals and at a place like Davos you see countries lining up dozens of them really begging to have a meetingwith uh with Eric Schmidt or with Bill Gates or or you know other CEOs because they want that investment they want
They lose about $500 billion per year in repatriated profits. So multinational companies that operate in global South countries then don't reinvest their profits locally. They take them back and store them in the US and the UK.
It's OK. It's OK. --big multinational companies paying tax.
This is the other change in the weather. In multinational boardrooms and executive suites, I have been drinking, dining, and kvetching with executives over problems they have from extreme weather, from lost commodities, from inability to figure out their profit and
How these issues are changing, how our policy of our government impacts those communities and the opportunities that young people are offered. Our multinational corporations, the policies and rules that they practice when they're abroad. I think there's a number of considerations that we have to really be challenged by, and I'd like to leave you with
A second thing that we tackle-- a sort of second myth or common assumption-- is that Chinese firms are somehow advantaged in their competition against what Western multinationals -- because of the very strong engagement by the Beijing. And indeed, when you read the newspaper-- when you open a newspaper-- you'll see that President Xi Jinping may travel to Africa, or Latin America, or to Southeast Asia,
Or you want me to? large multinationals . So Ben & Jerry's is owned by Unilever.
The word he used was hogtied. The multinationals had him hogtied. And meanwhile, the economy of the region was plummeting so that people were more and more dependent on Walmart for everything that they needed.
this question of how do you move people from Psych 101 lectures into you know roles the workforce important roles in through multinationals also through uh through through Americans going abroad and asking for internships or or talking
We just got a mixture of these two forms. - "You are a large multinational company.
Dr. Moyo currently serves on the boards of Chevron Corporation and the 3M Company and formerly served on many multinational corporation boards. She has received numerous accolades and awards including "Time Magazine's" 100 Most Influential
This is the busy slide, but I just want to highlight a few key characteristics about the women we chose. They were multinational . A certain number of American, but we also tried to include Europeans, and Chien-Shiung Wu was born in China, so an international flavor.
So think about sending money around the world, even inside a company. If you're a multinational corporation, you've got money in your treasury in Kenya and you want to send it to your affiliate in Canada, you can't just do that directly.
not the multinational corporations that are coming just to take away the value.
She works for a multinational .
10 years ago large multinational corporations tended to be dismissive of environmental concerns.
Now many big multinational organizations, such as Walmart and Chevron and Coca-Cola, are very concerned about environmental issues,
The parent company, which owns Stella McCartney, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, is going to do an environmental profit and loss across the whole multinational . There are other multinationals embarking on a similar kind of metric.
Only a few large multinationals achieve comparable market positions." The question that he asks, I think, is very important.
The first is that environmental damages can bankrupt environmental systems, ecosystems, as well as financial systems. The second is that multinationals are playing a truly surprising role in the world. I have been a Greenpeacer for over 30 years.
loss across the whole multinational . There are other multinationals embarking on a similar kind of metric. And why are these metrics important?
Executives there's a uh there's a a saying by a famous sociologist old Rich Beck he says the only thing worse than being overrun by multinationals you know you're familiar with poor countries getting getting really barreled over by companies that are coming and and uh you know sucking up their resources or and exploiting them says the only thing worse than that is to not be overrun by
their future it's not even so much is uh Ben Ali the president of Tunisia one day and not the next day or not it's how many companies multinationals otherwise are in that country creating jobs uh for the people or not and uh that's again an area where companies play a vital role what I have found in country after country especially in the Middle East is that they're not all that interested in
So I think having that multinational identity, and identifying in both ways is who I am.
We have loads of-- it's a multinational country.
Sal is a VP at a large multinational accounting firm.
How do you see the role of multinational corporations?
So she's working for the multinational Stabilization Force.
I went into Fortune 500 and multinational companies, and within those environments I really wanted to understand them with an anthropological eye.
the first female owner of a multinational .
So he's put in this multinational force fighting in northern Germany.
That's why every big American multinational corporation hired Sullivan and Cromwell.
I was just in Burma the last month, and I suppose some of you may know that the country's slowly opening up. And you could not believe how many multinational companies are descending in weeks on this place and trying to set up their factories. Because this is 60 million people with no work, very cheap labor.
We work for some of the largest multinational food companies in the world, like Kraft and Kellogg's, and General Mills, Starbucks, McDonald's.
this question of how do you move people from Psych 101 lectures into you know roles the workforce important roles in the same time companies have have have multinational companies have taken internships abroad uh that's been one of the major ways that they've spread
you guys know intuitively as a global multinational in this space but um what we wanted to do was do these
So many of them are bluechip multinationals .
We also find the Chinese firms themselves often want to do a better job. They want to compete against Western multinationals . They want to be world-class companies.
Or you want me to? And I think that the big multinationals , which can alter markets more quickly, need rules so that they can
And I wonder if there's an opportunity for multinational corporations to help out not just by matching employees donations,
Had a big institutional advertising contract with a big multinational , and something completely different
religions comes out in a context of empire of multinational Empire and the reason I consider that good news is
was planning to hand over the water supply to certain multinational
And India opened up for the benefit of having multinationals enter this country.
And that has not happened before, where business has stepped up and said, whoa, we think there should be cap and trade. I have done work with a lot of multinationals and have been part of I can't even say how many conversations where CEOs and senior management and board members are, how do we get this to change?
in the case of foreign states like many of these companies are multinational companies, or rather they're active in different jurisdictions.
So in terms of these outflows, just to give you a brief sense for what these entail, for example, we know that the global South loses about $60 billion US per year in extra patent licensing fees that it pays to Western multinational corporations under intellectual property laws and the WTO, that didn't used to be there up until the mid 1990s.