Background
Haigh, Robert William was born on August 22, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harry E. and Mildred (Elliott) Haigh.
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A groundbreaking contribution to the literature of foreign investment, this volume is based on an extensive field study conducted under the auspices of the Tayloe Murphy International Business Studies Center at the University of Virginia. Through in-depth personal interviews with the executives of 20 companies, the author examines the investment strategies and plant-location decisions of foreign corporations in the United States. In addition to identifying the market, cost, and other strategies that influenced the U.S. plant-investment decisions, the author analyzes managerial aspects of the plant-location decision-making process, describes specific location factors considered important by the executives interviewed, and points out salient recent trends in foreign direct investment in the United States. Divided into five parts, the volume begins by defining the objectives of the study and its research methodology. Part 2 examines management strategies, exploring the factors that influenced the investment decisions of the 20 companies in the study and delineating the operational strategies that guided manufacturing operations subsequent to plant start-ups. In Part 3, the author covers the plant location decision-making process, while Part 4 provides a company profile for each of the 20 foreign affiliates under study. The final section summarizes the research findings and presents the author's conclusions. In addition to comparing the present findings with previous work, the author also addresses the implications of his results for business executives, economic development professionals, and government policy makers.
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business administration educator
Haigh, Robert William was born on August 22, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harry E. and Mildred (Elliott) Haigh.
Student, Muhlenberg College, 1945. AB cum laude, Bucknell University, 1948. Master of Business Administration with high distinction, Harvard University, 1950.
Distributed control system, Harvard University, 1953.
Research and teaching faculty, Harvard University Grad School Business Administration, 1950-1956; assistant professor, Harvard University Grad School Business Administration, 1953-1956; assistant to president, Helmerich & Payne, Inc., Tulsa, 1956; controller and assistant to president, Helmerich & Payne, Inc., Tulsa, 1956-1957; finance vice-president, director, Helmerich & Payne, Inc., Tulsa, 1957-1961; finance vice-president, director, White Eagle International Oil Corporation, 1957-1960; vice president corporation planning and development, Standard Oil Corporation (Ohio), Cleveland, 1963-1966; president, Sohio Chemicals & Vistron Corporation Subsidiary, 1966-1967; president, Sohio Chemicals and Vistron Corporation Subsidiary, 1966-1967; group vice president, president education group, director, Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, 1967-1972; executive vice president, Swedlow Corporation, 1973-1974; president, chief Executive officer, director, Swedlow Corporation, 1974; president, Hillsboro Associations, 1974-1975; senior vice president, Freeport Minerals Company, 1975-1976; Chairman of the Board, chief Executive officer, Photo Quest, Inc., Cognitrex, Inc., 1977-1978; director Wharton Applied Research Center, lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1978-1979; Distinguished professor business administration Darden Graduate School Business, University of Virginia Tayloe Murphy International Business Studies Center, 1979-1995; professor emeritus, University of Virginia, since 1995.
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Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1945. Member Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Lambda Theta.
Married Jane Stanton Sheble, June 19, 1948. Children: Cynthia Jane, Anne Sheble, Robert William, Barbara Lynne.