Dow Corning employees focus of Wall Street Journal article

If your job would pay you to travel to a developing country like India and consult on projects in your professional field, you'd probably be thrilled, right? That's one reason behind a trend of overseas service postings at large companies like IBM and Dow Corning; the other, of course, is spotting growing industries overseas for future development.

Excerpt: Dow Corning is among a growing number of large corporations--including PepsiCo Inc., FedEx Corp., Intel Corp. and Pfizer Inc.--that are sending small teams of employees to developing countries such as India, Ghana, Brazil and Nigeria to provide free consulting services to nonprofits and other organizations. A major goal: to scope out business opportunities in hot emerging markets.

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Source: The Wall Street Journal