How Culture Affects International Negotiations
Gary Oddou discusses how culture affects international negotiations and what you can do to improve your intercultural relationships. Learn how to measure your intercultural relationships and understanding of diversity by joining our assessment training July 21st-22nd...
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The Repatriate Knowledge Your Organization Is Missing
When people take the time to ask repatriates about their international assignments, the repatriate knowledge gained during their experience abroad is often a surprise. There is enormous transformational potential in an expatriate experience -- for many people, it is...
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How Can HR Departments Use Assessments for Workplace Challenges?
Companies that do business internationally or have diverse workforces face a number of challenges. Typical challenges organizations face in this diverse world include: Difficulties training individuals to be able to adapt to foreign people and their customs and...
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What Can Repatriates Teach Us?
Thousands of repatriates have a vast amount of valuable global knowledge that few companies make any attempt to systematically harvest lessons from. Instead of treating them like a valuable competitive advantage, these repatriates global knowledge is often ignored and...
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What Role Does Culture Play In International Business?
Picture these scenarios that involve culture in international business: Scenario 1: New Importing Business You’re thinking about importing slippers from China and selling them in the U.S. You’ve seen various types online through Alibaba and other sites and are trying...
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What Global Challenges Do Universities Face Today?
Universities face a raft of global challenges today that relate to intercultural competence. Unprepared for Global Workplaces Many campuses have an institutional learning objective focused on preparing students for a global world that has to be assessed for...
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How Can MBA Students be Effective in Commerce?
Virtually every business, regardless of its size, product or service focus is affected by global trends. In the midst of such activity, people of different cultures, ethnic origins, and languages, are constantly interacting. A project team for developing the next...
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How To Improve Your Global Mobility to Become a Corporate Expatriate Leader
Global mobility has undergone dramatic changes over the past decade, with several trends driving the transformation. Among these are two in particular: strategic talent management that shapes the use of expatriate assignments for development; data analytics that...
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Finding Global Leadership Potential & Making It Stronger
In partnership with Aperian Global, Allan Bird and Mark Mendenhall hosted the "Finding Global Leadership Potential & Making It Strong" webinar on November 10th, 2016. You can watch it anytime below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14qlhPlU5wI
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What is Leadership?
At the 2013 Global Leadership Summit, hosted by the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University asked Mark Mendenhall to answer the question "what is leadership?" Watch for the answer and how to become a leader in your field:...
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