PRBuzz
05-05-2012, 07:00 AM
Companies worldwide adopt English-only policy
English is emerging as the common tongue of the global economy, and companies that fail to adopt an English-only policy could face a competitive disadvantage.
So argues Harvard Business School professor Tsedal Neeley in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review. In her article, Neeley notes that such companies as Airbus, Daimler-Chrysler, Fast Retailing, Nokia, Renault, Samsung, and SAP have “mandated’’ English as their corporate lingua franca.
English is emerging as the common tongue of the global economy, and companies that fail to adopt an English-only policy could face a competitive disadvantage.
So argues Harvard Business School professor Tsedal Neeley in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review. In her article, Neeley notes that such companies as Airbus, Daimler-Chrysler, Fast Retailing, Nokia, Renault, Samsung, and SAP have “mandated’’ English as their corporate lingua franca.