Considers the strategy of U.S.-owned IBM, then a maker of punch cards, in Nazi Germany prior to year 1937. Initiates with IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson meeting Adolf Hitler in his capability as the President of International Chamber of Commerce.
IBM had purchased a German business in the year 1922, and enjoy other American companies, found itself managing in a nation whose government participated in bullying and discrimination against Jews and violently suppressed political dissent after the year 1933. Investigates the tensions between its parent and IBM's German affiliate, and provides a chance to investigate the choices and tasks of multinationals with investments in regimes that are reprehensible.
Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany, Portuguese Version Case Study Solution
PUBLICATION DATE: June 29, 2007 PRODUCT #: 813P08-HCB-POR
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