Emerging MNCs

Today(=Sep 29)’s class was taken in Ru, which had not been mentioned in the syllabus. I had to look around before the class, and I could not discus about today’s topic with other student.

Today’s material is one of HBS Cases; Hikma Pharmaceuticals, a multinational drug producing company originated in Jordan. The Case ended when Hikma got two offers from U.S. distributor and asked readers “Which choice do you recommend?”.

What impressive was that, teacher needed us to judge by ourselves saying “What is your impression?”, “Is it good or bad?” and, ”What do you recommend?”. I remarked twice, but I failed because I could not recognize his saying…

What I missed in the Case is human resource of company and difference in terms of patents among U.S, EU and DC. I thought I had to check information with some framework.


The lecture itself was not so exciting because choices of students were almost same and we could not spend enough time to discuss about that. However, if we had enough time to discuss, our thoughts would not dramatically improved because we don’t have job experience or study business administration. Every time I think, I hope to discuss more theoretically and with someone has management experience, of course I have to improve my English more and more.