ASSIGNMENT NO 2

PRN:-16030141001

Name: - Manasi Parulekar

MBA-IT Div A

A multinational company is one which is incorporated in one

country (called the home country); but whose operations extend

beyond the home country and which carries on business in

other countries (called the host countries) in addition to the

home country.

It must be emphasized that the headquarters of a multinational

company are located in the home country.

A multinational corporation is usually a large corporation

which produces or sells goods or services in various countries.

It consists of

Importing and exporting goods and services

Making significant investments in a foreign country

Buying and selling licenses in foreign markets

Engaging in contract manufacturing—permitting a local

manufacturer in a foreign country to produce their products

Opening manufacturing facilities or assembly operations in

foreign countries.

To function effectively, Multinational Corporations must

understand the socio-political, cultural, economic and

regulatory environment of the countries they operate in.

Whether it is managing overseas operations, directing an

international sales force, helping expatriate employees and their

families adjust to living and working in a foreign culture, or

negotiating a deal with a government official or a customer,

such understanding is essential for success.

In India, there are number of multinational companies are

present. Here is an example of Oracle Corporation.

With more than 420,000 customers and deployments in more

than 145 countries, Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully

integrated stack of cloud applications, platform services, and

engineered systems.

Oracle is shifting the complexity from IT, moving it out of the

enterprise by engineering hardware and software to work

together – in the cloud and in the data center. By engineering

out the complexity that stifles business innovation, Oracle is

engineering in speed, reliability, security, and manageability.

The result is best-in-class products throughout an integrated

stack of hardware and software, with every layer designed and

engineered to work together according to open industry

standards. Oracle’s complete, open, and integrated solutions

offer extreme perfor­mance at the lowest cost – all from a

single vendor. Its’ integrated, industry-specific solutions are

engineered to address complex business processes across a

wide range of industries, including financial services, telecom,

manufacturing, government, utilities, retail, healthcare,

automobile, pharmacy, oil and gas, steel, engineering and

construction among others. Oracle also provides the industry’s

broadest and most complete portfolio of public, private and

hybrid cloud offerings. Oracle offers an optimized and fully

integrated stack of business hardware and software systems to

its 400,000 customers in more than 145 countries around the

globe.

Oracle's HQ buildings are located in Oracle Parkway, Redwood

Shores, California, USA.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Lawrence J. Ellison:-

Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology

Officer

Larry Ellison is executive chairman of Oracle Corporation and

chief technology officer. He founded the company in 1977 and

served as CEO until September 2014.

Jeffrey O. Henley:-

Vice Chairman of the Board

Jeffrey O. Henley is vice chairman of Oracle Corporation. He

served as Oracle’s chief financial officer and an executive vice

president from 1991 to 2004, and has been a member of

Oracle’s board of directors since 1995. Henley was chairman of

Oracle from 2004 until 2014. He also serves on Oracle’s

Executive Management Committee.

Safra A. Catz

Chief Executive Officer

Safra A. Catz is chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation

and a member of the company’s board of directors. She

previously served as president of Oracle and has also served as

the company’s chief financial officer. Catz first served as

Oracle’s chief financial officer from 2005 to 2008, as executive

vice president from 1999 to 2004, and as senior vice president

from April to October 1999. She served on the board of

directors for HSBC Holdings, one of the world's largest

banking and financial services organizations, from 2008

through 2015.

Mark Hurd

Chief Executive Officer

Mark Hurd is chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation and

a member of the company’s board of directors. He joined

Oracle in 2010, bringing more than 30 years of technology

industry leadership, computer hardware expertise, and

executive management experience to his role with the

company. Hurd is also a member of the Baylor University

Board of Regents. Mark Hurd oversees the corporate direction

and strategy for Oracle's global field operations, including

sales, support, consulting, marketing, and alliances and

channels. He focuses on strategy, leadership, innovation, and

customers.

Before joining Oracle, Mark Hurd served as Chairman of the

Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of HP. Since

joining Oracle, Mark Hurd has worked to share Oracle's

strategy and vision with customers, partners, shareholders, and

investors.

Corporate Executives North America

Karl Braitberg

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations

Karl Braitberg is senior vice president of Oracle’s worldwide

operations. He joined Oracle in 2016 and is responsible for the

end-to-end supply chain operations for the company. Prior to

Oracle, Braitberg spent ten years at Cisco in a variety of

executive-level supply chain and operational roles spanning

customer service, planning and customer fulfillment, supply

chain transformation, strategic sourcing/direct procurement,

and cloud infrastructure operations.

Braitberg is recognized as one of the industry’s most successful

and well-respected operational leaders and is passionate about

finding new and innovative ways to increase organizational and

supply chain performance. He is known for his open

communication, leadership style, and the ability to grow and

retain top talent.

Braitberg was named by Supply and Demand Chain Executive

magazine to its “Pros to Know” list and has been cited in

numerous publications including Supply Chain Management

Review, ComputerWorld, and InfoWorld.

Douglas Kehring

Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff, and Head of

Corporate Development

Douglas Kehring has served as Oracle's executive vice

president, chief of staff since March 2015. As chief of staff, he

is responsible for helping drive Oracle’s business

transformation to the cloud, including organizations, systems,

and processes. In early 2016, Oracle launched a critical

component of that transformation, the Oracle Accelerated

Buying Experience that allows customers to purchase Oracle

Cloud services quickly and easily.

Kehring also continues to serve as the head of Oracle's

corporate development group, a position he has held since

2005. The corporate development group provides planning,

advisory, execution, and integration management services to

Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, source-code and object-

code licensing, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other

related transactions.

Kehring began his career at Oracle in 2000 as part of the Oracle

Venture Fund. He joined the company after working for the

investment banks of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Dain

Bosworth. Kehring is a graduate of the University of

Wisconsin–Madison School of Business.

Dorian Daley

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary

Dorian Daley serves as executive vice president, general

counsel, and secretary of Oracle Corporation. She began her

career at Oracle in 1992 after spending five years with the

commercial litigation group of Landels, Ripley & Diamond in

San Francisco. She is a 1986 graduate of the Santa Clara

University School of Law and a 1981 graduate of Stanford

University. Prior to her appointment as general counsel, Daley

was a vice president and associate general counsel for Oracle.

Thomas Kurian

President, Product Development

Thomas Kurian is president of Oracle product development and

reports to Oracle executive chairman of the board and chief

technology officer Larry Ellison. He is responsible for leading

software development and transitioning the company's

technology to Oracle Cloud. For the past several years, Kurian

has been responsible for the Oracle Fusion Middleware family

of products. Under his leadership, that business became the

fastest-growing within Oracle and the industry's leading

middleware product suite. Since 2008, Kurian has also led the

development for Oracle's next-generation business applications,

Oracle Fusion Applications.

Kurian has been with Oracle since 1996, holding various

product management and development positions. Prior to

joining Oracle, he worked as a consultant in London, Brussels,

and San Francisco with international management consulting

firm McKinsey & Company, serving clients in the software,

telecommunications, and financial services industries.

Jeb Dasteel

Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer

Jeb Dasteel is senior vice president and chief customer officer

at Oracle. He is responsible for driving customer focus into all

aspects of Oracle's business. In this capacity, Dasteel serves as

a customer advocate and works with the Oracle organization to

develop and deliver customer programs that increase customer

retention, value delivered, satisfaction, and loyalty. He has been

with Oracle for 18 years in a number of corporate and field-

based roles.

Edward Screven

Chief Corporate Architect

Edward Screven is chief corporate architect at Oracle.

Reporting to Executive Chairman and Chief Technical Officer

Larry Ellison, he drives technology and architecture decisions

across all Oracle products to ensure that product development is

consistent with Oracle's overall strategy. An Oracle veteran

since 1986, he is responsible for Oracle's open-source

businesses, including Linux, virtualization, and MySQL.

Screven also leads company-wide strategic initiatives,

including industry standards and security.

Mary Ann Davidson

Chief Security Officer

Mary Ann Davidson is the chief security officer at Oracle,

responsible for Oracle software security assurance. She

represents Oracle on the board of directors of the Information

Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-

ISAC), and serves on the international board of the Information

Systems Security Association (ISSA). She has been named one

of Information Security's top five "Women of Vision," is a

Federal 100 Award recipient from Federal Computer Week,

and was recently named to the ISSA Hall of Fame.

Judith Sim

Chief Marketing Officer

Judith Sim is chief marketing officer at Oracle Corporation.

Sim joined Oracle in 1991 and has held various customer-

related and marketing positions during her tenure. Currently,

she is head of corporate marketing programs, including

corporate communications, global customer programs,

advertising, campaigns, events, and corporate branding.

Mark Sunday

Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President

Mark Sunday is chief information officer and senior vice

president at Oracle. He is responsible for providing the global

communications, computing, and security infrastructure that

enable Oracle's internal business operations. Sunday is also

responsible for a variety of hosting and education services for

Oracle customers. Additionally, he and his team strive to be the

first adopter, biggest influencer, and best promoter of relevant

Oracle technologies. Sunday routinely shares his insights in

optimizing business results through the use of technology,

developing world-class global teams, fueling innovation, and

enabling IT operational excellence.

Joyce Westerdahl

Executive Vice President, Human Resources

Joyce Westerdahl is leading Oracle HR’s cloud transformation

to ensure that business leaders and more than 135,000

employees are enabled to achieve Oracle’s mission to be the

number one cloud company in the world. Since taking the lead

of Oracle HR in 2000, she has continuously implemented a

roadmap of progressive HR modernization initiatives intended

to keep Oracle at the leading edge of technology innovation.

Westerdahl continues to transform HR by leveraging Oracle

HCM Cloud technology to provide better visibility, utilization,

and development of the company’s talent pool; more insightful

analytics to drive informed business decisions; improve the

impact of compensation models; and more effectively recruit,

hire, and onboard the right talent. The latest effort in the

modernization of Oracle HR is moving self-service transactions

to a more user-oriented experience and taking advantage of the

continuous product innovation cycle in Oracle HCM Cloud.

The Board of Oracle Corporation has throughout its history

developed corporate governance practices to fulfill its

responsibility to Oracle Corporation stockholders. The

composition and activities of the Company's Board of

Directors, the approach to public disclosure and the availability

of ethics and business conduct resources for employees

exemplifies the Company's commitment to good corporate

governance practices, including compliance with new

standards.

The Board has adopted the following corporate and committee

guidelines to help ensure it has the necessary authority and

procedures in place to oversee the work of management and to

exercise independence in evaluating Oracle Corporation's

business operations. These guidelines allow the Board to align

the interests of directors and management with those of Oracle

Corporation's stockholders.

Oracle continually applies good corporate governance

principles to multiple areas of the Company. In addition to

these guidelines, Oracle has had a Code of Ethics and Business

Conduct since 1996.

Corporate Governance Guidelines

Finance and Audit Committee

Independent Committee

Compensation Committee

Nomination and Governance Committee

Oracle has the wide range of the services and products to offer.

Those are as follows:

Applications

Cloud

Industries

Sales and Services

Systems

Technology

database management systems (Oracle Database, Oracle

RDB, TimesTen, Berkeley DB, etc.)

tools for database development (Oracle Developer Suite -

Forms, Reports, JDeveloper, etc.)

application server (OC4J, Portal, SSO, etc)

enterprise resource planning software (ERP)

customer relationship management software (CRM)

supply chain planning software (SCM)

Oracle Revenue distribution by line of business and by

geography.

Oracle in India

In India, Oracle works with more than 7,000 customers with

help from over 1,000 partners, across the private, public and

government sectors. It employs over 31,000 professionals

operating in various businesses namely Sales & Marketing,

Oracle India Development Center (R&D), Oracle Consulting,

Oracle Direct Sales, Global Support Center, Global Financial

Information Center (GFIC streamlines Oracle’s worldwide

financial and accounting operations) and Oracle Financial

Services Software Limited. Oracle has been in India for over 20

years. It has 9 offices across the country, 8 R&D centers and 1

Partner Solution Center. About 250,000 students and more than

1200 learning institutions benefit from the Oracle Academy

program annually in India.

Oracle CEO Safra Catz met with Prime Minister of India Shri

Narendra Modi and announced three major investments that

support the country’s global digital leadership. Catz unveiled a

massive, state-of-the-art campus centered in Bengaluru, 9

incubation centers throughout India, and an initiative to train

more than half a million students each year to develop

computer science skills.

“Oracle has been in India for over 25 years and during that time

we’ve grown our investments tremendously,” said Catz. “In

fact, India now represents our second largest employee base

outside of the United States, with nearly 40,000 current

employees and an additional 2,000 current job openings. We

are investing over $400 million USD in Bengaluru, opening 9

incubation centers, and training half a million students each

year during this expansion phase to support India’s tremendous

growth. We ‘Make in India’ for the rest of the world.”

Oracle Financial Services Software Limited is a subsidiary

of Oracle Corporation. It is an IT solution provider to the

banking industry. Oracle Financial Services Software Limited

has two main streams of business. The products division

(formerly called BPD – Banking products Division) and

PrimeSourcing. The company's offerings cover retail, corporate

and investment banking, funds, cash management, trade,

treasury, payments, lending, private wealth management, asset

management and business analytics. The company undertook a

rebranding exercise in the latter half of 2008. As part of this,

the corporate website was integrated with Oracle's website and

various divisions, services and products renamed to reflect the

new identity post alignment with Oracle.

Recently, Oracle Financial Services launched products for

Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process, exposure

management, enterprise performance management and energy

and commodity trading compliance.

Oracle Financial Services Board of Directors

CHET KAMAT

CEO and Managing Director

Chet Kamat is CEO and managing director of Oracle Financial

Services Software Limited, a majority-owned subsidiary of

Oracle Corporation and an integral part of Oracle's Financial

Services Global Business Unit. Mr. Kamat has more than 30

years of financial services, consulting, and business

transformation experience. His expertise in banking

transformation has driven strong top-line impact for both the

products and services businesses at Oracle Financial Services

Software. He is passionate in nurturing a culture of operational

excellence and customer delight.

HARINDERJIT SINGH

Senior Vice President

Mr. Harinderjit Singh (Sonny Singh) is Senior Vice President

and General Manager of Oracle's Financial Services Global

Business Unit. In this role, he is responsible for a global

organization focused on Sales, Consulting, Engineering and

Support, of Oracle's products focused on Banking, Insurance

and Capital Markets.

During his 23-year career at Oracle, Mr. Singh has been

instrumental in leading the creation and execution of highly

successful corporate, business unit, and new market strategies

that produce strong top-line impact across all of Oracle's

hardware, software, and services product lines.

MARIA SMITH

Ms. Maria Smith is Vice President, Assistant Corporate

Controller and Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions

Integration for Oracle Corporation. She is responsible for

leading Global Controller & Accounting Operations for EMEA,

Americas and Japan and also Corporate Accounting.

RICHARD JACKSON

Mr. Richard Jackson prior to joining the Board of Oracle

Financial Services Software Limited, he was for seven years in

China as the President and CEO of Ping An Group's banking

business, 21 years with Citibank in seven different countries

including time as their country head in Korea and Hungary.

ROBERT K. WEILER

Robert K. Weiler is Executive Vice President of Oracle's

Global Business Units. Previously he was Chairman and CEO

of Phase Forward, a leading provider of integrated data

management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety. Weiler

has more than 30 years of technology-industry leadership

experience

S. VENKATACHALAM

Mr. S Venkatachalam has served Citibank N. A. and its Group

for nearly 30 years and has held Senior Positions. He is a

Chartered Accountant by profession. He has served as an

advisor to Fullerton India Credit Corporation Ltd., a subsidiary

of Temasek Holding (Private) Limited. Prior to Citibank, he

served as a Consultant with A. F. Ferguson & Co., Chartered

Accountants, Mumbai (now a part of Deloitte Haskins & Sells).

He has been an independent Director of the State Bank of India

(2008-2014) and has served several of their Committees.

Currently he is on the Board of few Company and Advisor to

few Financial Services Companies. He has rich experience in

the field of Banking, Finance, Administration, Compliance,

Taxation and labour laws. He is well regarded in the financial

services industry and by regulatory bodies.

SAMANTHA WELLINGTON

Ms. Samantha Wellington is Managing Counsel for Oracle

Corporation. Ms. Wellington has worked in Oracle's Australian,

Asia Pacific, and global businesses and brings more than 10

years of technology-industry legal experience and expertise to

her role at Oracle.

SRIDHAR SRINIVASAN

Mr. Sridhar Srinivasan is a Senior Advisor with Oliver Wyman,

a leading global management consulting firm. He joined Oliver

Wyman in early 2013 as a Partner and India Head. He works

with CEOs, Boards of Directors and other senior leaders of top

Financial Services companies in the region on topics such as

Management Strategy, Risk Management, Client Coverage

models, Product and Distribution strategies, Cost Optimisation,

Governance and Regulatory Compliance.