Mr. Friedman doesn't mention my alternative: the HOPE bill, which would provide duty-free, quota-free access to the United States for many African goods, protect workers' rights and not impose a multinational economic vision on Africa's poor.
Second, the Prahalad vision of multinational companies serving the poor does not appear to have materialized in the health sector.
Throughout the 2040s, backed by multinational finance, London set about implementing their vision.
Throughout most of his life, he was the chief opponent of the Polish military and political leader Józef Piłsudski and of the latter's vision of Poland as a multinational federation.
In the end, the multinational company does not achieve its long-term vision but stays in the game due to collaborations with the other stakeholders.
As globalisation accelerates, this is forging a new vision of what it is to be a successful multinational company.
That would be consistent with China's current policies: Hu Jintao, the country's president, has often said it is necessary to bring multinationals' Chinese operations within the union fold to promote his vision of an harmonious society.
But the personal vision of Mr Alierta, boss of Telefónica, Spain's leading multinational and its biggest telephone company, ranges even further.
The United States and Britain won an international mandate to carry out what is largely their vision of Iraq's political future while creating a United Nations-authorized multinational force under American command.
"More importantly," Bharti added, "Bharti's vision of transforming itself from a homegrown Indian company to a true Indian multinational telecom giant, symbolizing the pride of India, would have been severely compromised".
Watching a multinational corporation hoist a commercial about some "good Negro" to feed the mainstream public's vision of us as saints or willing victims -- the two states that absolves America of her sins... it nauseates.
