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6 A. John Quelch, Introduction to Cases in Strategic Marketing
Management: Business Strategies in Muslim Countries (Upper Saddle
River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2001).
7 IMF, 2007 estimates.
8 “Doing Business in Saudi Arabia.”
9 www.pg.com/company/who_we_are/worldwide_operations.jhtml.
10 www.unileverme.com/our-company/about-unilever/
middleeast.asp.
11 For example, on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions
Index 2005, the GCC nations scored an average of 5.38 (higher
scores indicate less corruption), better than Italy or South Korea.
The lowest-ranked GCC country, Saudi Arabia, had a score of 3.4,
ahead of China (3.2) and India (2.9).
12 “Building Towers Cheating Workers,” Human Rights Watch Report 18,
no. 8(E) (November 2006), hrw.org/reports/2006/uae1106/
index.htm.

CHAPTER 11

1 Research team survey, 2007.
2 Executive profiles are current as of June 2007.
3 Corporate Web site, www.thecoca-colacompany.com/ourcompany/
bios/bio_92.html.
4 Corporate Web site, www.hsbc.com/hsbc/news_room/news/news-
archive-2006?cp=/public/groupsite/news_room/2006_archive/
hsbc_appoints_new_chief_operating_officer.jhtml&isPc=true.
5 www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/bios/tim_fenton0.html.
6 BusinessWeek, Total Company Profile: People, investing.
businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=
506878&symbol=TOTF.PA.
7 Press release, “Halliburton Opens Corporate Headquarters in the
United Arab Emirates,” March 11, 2007, www.halliburton.com/
default/main/halliburton/eng/news/source_files/news.jsp?
newsurl=/default/main/halliburton/eng/news/source_files/
press_release/2007/corpnws_031107.html.
8 Quoted in Stephanie Kirchgaessner, “Halliburton under Fire over
Dubai Proposal,” Financial Times, March 12, 2007, www.ft.com/
cms/s/977df3ac-d0ce-11db-836a-000b5df10621.html.
9 Quoted in ibid.