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Reform of Pemex and the tax system in Mexico under Calderon
09/15/2007
Reform of Pemex is part of broad reforms and this includes a tax overhaul.
Linked Articles
Economist 12/19/2007
Mexico Enacts a Tax-Overhaul BillNew York Times 09/15/2007
Suzuki in India and Nissan's effort in emerging markets.
09/04/2007
Nissan's Ghosn opens factory in Tangier, Morrocco, to make the Logan, a $7500 car already made in several countries.
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 12/13/2007
Ghosn Bets Big on Low-Cost StrategyWall Street Journal 09/04/2007
The experience of Petrobras of Brazil and Mexico's Pemex compared.
08/30/2007
Transformation of state oil companies, Pemex and Petrobras. Struggling with the similar issues, President Calderon of Mexico takes them on over 10 years after President Cardozo faced them in Brazil in 1995.
Linked Articles
Economist 12/19/2007
How a Sleepy Oil Giant Became a World PlayerWall Street Journal 08/30/2007
P&G (Procter & Gamble) and Cadbury- strategy of operating at low price points in emerging markets
07/16/2007
Linked Articles
Cadbury Redefines Cheap Luxury
Wall Street Journal 06/08/2009
P&G's Global Target: Shelves of Tiny StoresWall Street Journal 07/16/2007
Unilever's bet on emerging markets in India, China, Indonesia and other countries
03/22/2007
Linked Articles
As Its Brands Lag at Home, Unilever Makes a Risky Bet
Wall Street Journal 03/22/2007
Unilever Sales Rise as Its Prices ClimbWall Street Journal 11/04/2011
Doug Parker of US Airways and the proposed merger with American Airlines (AMR) in 2012
11/20/2006
Linked Articles
Lessons Learned? How US Airways Would Navigate Merger - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal 11/20/2006
Steven Pearlstein: Two can play the airline bankruptcy game - The Washington PostWashington Post 04/29/2012
Fiat's full ownership of Chrysler- management and business skills of Marchionne's team leads to valuable diversification (3)
11/10/2006
A win-win for the U.S., Chrysler, and Fiat, is the result of the remarkable business and management skills of Sergio Marchionne of Fiat. An integrated global company emerges for the first time under Marchionne's leadership. An outsider to the auto industry Marchionne looked for good business talent and younger managers not tied to old ways. He benchmarked Fiat products to Apple products in a innovative way only an outsider would do.
Linked Articles
BusinessWeek 11/10/2006
In Turnabout, Chrysler Profit Offsets Fiat LossWall Street Journal 07/31/2012
The actions of Japanese prime minister Koizumi and lessons America can take from Japan
08/28/2006
Linked Articles
Koizumi's Success Charts the Path To Japan's Future
Wall Street Journal 08/28/2006
In Japan’s Stagnant Decade, Cautionary Tales for AmericaNew York Times 02/13/2009
An internal 2006 Pemex report showing a sharp decline in production, and the situation in 2013 with Mexico a net energy importer in March 2013
08/02/2006
Mexico's oil law comes as the nation faced a crisis in declining oil production since 2006. Efforts by the newly elected PAN party Calderon administration in that year and throughout its term in office failed to open up the oil industry to foreign investment, as the PRI and the PRD opposition parties opposed this. A two thirds majority in Congress was needed to change the constitution allowing foreign oil companies to compete with state owned Pemex. The increasing oil production from shale in the U.S. and Canada has increased the urgency, and the potential in deep waters off Mexico for which Pemex needs the technology of foreign oil companies has added to this.
Linked Articles
How Shale Helped Frack Mexico's Energy Impasse
Wall Street Journal 12/12/2013
Mexico's Biggest Oil Field Sees DeclineWall Street Journal 08/02/2006
IBM in the Indian market and its transformation.
06/05/2006
How Moffatt's transformation of IBM is taking shape. Its putting behind outsourcing concept and multinational concept of running business in favor of a new concept of competency centres worldwide, a global business factory where just as in the auto industry work can be transferred based on where the best competency rest. Its also based on competing with the Indians in the Indian domestic market and neutralizing the people resources advantage of the Indian IT firms by expanding in India big time.
Linked Articles
BusinessWeek 06/05/2006
IBM's Big Deal in IndiaBusinessWeek 12/28/2007
The Oil Price Shock of 2006 and the potential for oil price increases for 2012
04/29/2006
In 2006 as in 2012 the world faces tight supplies and a confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program.
Linked Articles
Fears of a 2008 Repeat for Oil
Wall Street Journal 03/18/2012
Trading Frenzy Adding to Rise in Price of OilNew York Times 04/29/2006
Strategies of mining companies BHP and Rio Tinto of Australia to cope with a slowdown in China and falling commodity prices
04/13/2006
Linked Articles
Mining Firms Bulk Up, Echoing Big Oil Mergers
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2007
Boom Times for Mining Giant Signal Deep Changes in SectorWall Street Journal 04/13/2006
Brightening human lives- the work of Ingvar Kamprad of Ikea and Karl Albrecht of Aldi
03/26/2006
Linked Articles
IKEA Billionaire Founder Proud to Be Frugal at 80
New York Times 03/26/2006
Aldi's Co-Founder Karl Albrecht, a Pioneer in Food Retailing, Dies at 94Wall Street Journal 07/22/2014
The dangers of single hit products like Motorola Razr phone and the Ford F-150 truck and Explorer without a full line of new products to transition to
09/14/2007
How Motorola's experience with single hit products like the Razr cell phone compares with Ford's single hits like the F-150 truck and the Ford Explorer. Why this got both into trouble and the lack of new product at both companies during a critical period as competitors moved ahead.
Linked Articles
Motorola to Spin Off Handset Unit, As Icahn Waits
Wall Street Journal 02/01/2008
Detroit Auto Makers Try Some New TricksWall Street Journal 09/14/2007
IBM's strategies and growth in India.
09/03/2007
IBM's rapid upscaling of the Indian operations as one of its biggest overseas operations. And as a first IBM has focussed on getting a large share of the Indian IT market which Indian IT companies haven't focussed on to the extent IBM has.
Linked Articles
BusinessWeek 12/28/2007
A Red-Hot Big Blue In IndiaBusinessWeek 09/03/2007
Ratan Tata's leadership of the Tata Group
08/13/2007
The achievements of the Tata family, the immense change Tata companies are going through, expansion into many businesses as India grows, and Ratan Tata's leadership.
Linked Articles
BusinessWeek 08/13/2007
Four Wheels for the Masses: The $2,500 CarNew York Times 01/08/2008
Auto parts manufacturing in China and India.
06/07/2007
As the auto parts manufacturing shifts to Asia and other countries companies like Visteon and American Axle close US plants and move to new plants overseas. China and India become major base for autoparts manufacturing and determine the economics of the autoparts industry.
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 01/23/2008
Chinese Auto Parts Enter the Global MarketNew York Times 06/07/2007
Finding a new approach to Afghanistan with roots in the Kashmir Valley- India, Pakistan, the U.S. and Europe
12/06/2006
Linked Articles
Pakistan Makes Offer to India On Settling Kashmir Dispute - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal 12/06/2006
India Puts Kashmir on TableWall Street Journal 04/11/2012
Doug Parker of U.S. Airways working on his second merger wih American Airlines after difficulties with the first merger
11/20/2006
Linked Articles
US Airways Chief Describes Biggest Challenges in AMR Settlement
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2013
Lessons Learned? How US Airways Would Navigate Merger - WSJ.comWall Street Journal 11/20/2006
Wal-mart in India and China
10/17/2006
Linked Articles
Wal-Mart Exports Big-Box Concept to India
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2009
Wal-Mart to Buy Grocer-Retail Chain in China - WSJ.comWall Street Journal 10/17/2006
An earlier incident showing neglect of pipeline maintenance and quality control at BP.
08/07/2006
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from deepwater drillig is only one in a line of failures in quality systems and careful preparation at BP.
Linked Articles
BP's Hayward Says Company Could Have Done More Disaster Preparation
Wall Street Journal 05/13/2010
BP to Shut an Alaska Oil Field Amid Pipeline Flaw, Small LeakWall Street Journal 08/07/2006
Putin's experiences after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Russia's transition to democratic processes
07/13/2006
Clues from Putin's experiences and thinking after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the direction for Russia's democratic processes- the early enthusiasm for democratic forms in the immediate years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall followed by the chaotic period and the aftermath of economic collapse, appear to have shaped his thinking.
Linked Articles
In Putin's Past, Glimpses Of Russia's Hardline Future
Wall Street Journal 12/21/2007
Group of 8 Talks, Like So Much These Days, Are All About Energy: Russias Gas and OilNew York Times 07/13/2006
Friedman of NYT compared Detroit carmakers to "crack dealers."
06/02/2006
With their gasoline rebates and gasoline purchase paid credit cards to buyers of large SUV's, GM and Ford were increasing America's dangerous dependence on imported oil. Contrst that with the vigorous approach of Hyundai to fuel efficiency. And go fast forward to 2009 when Hyundai sees August 2009 sales 47% higher than August 2008 sales, Hyundai being the only large car company to increase sales by end of 2009 in the American market.
Linked Articles
Detroit's No Good, Very Bad May
BusinessWeek 06/02/2006
Hyundai Aims for Efficiency LeadWall Street Journal 09/03/2008
The contrasting experiences of Brazil's Petrobras and Mexico's Pemex and president Nieto's effort to do for Pemex what Cardozo did for Petrobras
04/21/2006
Linked Articles
Brazil's Petrobras: Self-Reliant or Pliant?
Wall Street Journal 04/21/2006
Mexican president proposes historic changes to state-owned Pemex oil monopoly - The Washington PostWashington Post 08/13/2013
Karl Albrecht of Aldi and Ingvar Kamprad of Ikea- putting forward the idea (and product) that customers of average means should be able to have quality food and designer furniture
03/26/2006
Linked Articles
IKEA Billionaire Founder Proud to Be Frugal at 80
New York Times 03/26/2006
Aldi's Co-Founder Karl Albrecht, a Pioneer in Food Retailing, Dies at 94Wall Street Journal 07/22/2014
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