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- February 2018 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise
By: Michael Chu, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai and Yuanzhuo Wang
This case tells the story of how Wang Minghui, Chairman of Yunnan Baiyao Group since 1999, transformed a single-product traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) state-owned enterprise (SOE) into a major diversified consumer health player in China's highly competitive...
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State-owned Enterprise (SOE);
Traditional Chinese Medicine;
Yunnan;
Yunnan Baiyao;
Consumer Health;
Enterprise Transformation;
Transformation;
Health;
Business History;
State Ownership;
Private Ownership;
Business Strategy;
Commercialization;
Competition;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
China
Chu, Michael, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai, and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 318-078, February 2018. (Revised April 2018.)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative...
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- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
funders, most of whom had difficulty understanding that hygiene products are as fundamental to health and well-being as food. But the pandemic changed that: Suddenly, everyone understood the importance of a...
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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
for employees is different from what delivers the most value for the business? Roche: Microsoft conducted an internal survey where they asked employees how they felt about working remotely and how productive they were. It was striking to...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
susceptible to everything from intellectual property theft to uneven product quality. But the novel coronavirus created chasms. “One thing that COVID-19 revealed is the extent to which business systems were predicated on global supply...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
framework for IT baselining and planning, is examining how the new information economy is transforming the traditional management principles of the industrial economy. Nolan is studying, for example, how IT is changing the traditional...
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Elaine Gottlieb
- 15 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Discovering a new organization and state as an intern
will be a nice change from sitting in class each day, and I’m curious to see how different it is from my previous job. I imagine the main difference will be the financial impact of any given project. Given Walmart’s scale, I expect to be...
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Consumer Products / Retail
Charles B. Wang
Realizing that most of the software industry’s products were not responsive to the demands of its customers, Wang founded CA in 1976 with the intent to change that. Though Wang has made numerous acquisitions...
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Services
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
politicians in the years after its publication. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50916 Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Though...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
To illustrate how Cisco uses these three layers, Cunningham cites a hypothetical example. Assume that for a given year, the average score for product reliability has slipped a bit. Drilling down to the bottom two layers of data, Cisco...
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by Jean Ayers
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
sells something for $20 adds a penny cost, it’s meaningless. So we try to eliminate waste and increase productivity in every aspect, whether it’s compliance, shipping, handling, distribution, storage — we strive to find ways to deal with...
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- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (D): Emergency Medicine After September 11
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
The all-risks-ready emergency room prototype project becomes widely accepted as a need after September 11, 2001. The already operational medical informatics system, Insight, comes under heavy demand after its strong performance during crises and is noticed by various...
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- Profile
Cherian Kurien
people to deliver strong results in a responsible and sustainable manner, to lead businesses to engage with local communities that build lasting and meaningful relationships, and to lead organizations that pioneer positive change in the...
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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
established organizations are wise to consider radically new approaches that address changing needs of consumers in today's digital age. Yet companies should be wary of the temptation to toss out all existing practices because they risk...
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- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
ahead of time by participants, Haley said the pair was able to run live searches based on their immediate research needs to demonstrate research tools. Alumni asked about specific topics, such as wanting to find statistics on the worldwide View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
rapidly replicate improved business processes throughout an organization, thereby not only increasing productivity but also market share and market value. We then empirically document a substantial increase in turbulence starting in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Steve Jobs were collectively worth $1.5 trillion and heading companies that would change entirely how we work, play, and live our lives. See Also Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015 With Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill...
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- July 2012 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
MC Tool
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Two partners acquired MC Tool in October 2007 for $5 million. The company was a machine shop that manufactured parts for a wide variety of applications in the energy, automotive, and industrial equipment industries. In their first year of ownership, the partners...
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Capital Budgeting;
Risk Management;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Problems and Challenges;
Transformation;
Production;
Business Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "MC Tool." Harvard Business School Case 213-013, July 2012. (Revised June 2018.)
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
A Match Made in Heaven
Back in the 1980s, while working as a high-priced management consultant, Jim Koch (MBA ’74) decided what this country really needed was an exceptional glass of beer. He drained his savings, maxed out his credit cards, and using an old family recipe perfected in his...
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- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
behavior, and the technology behind the product or service," he says. "How is the technology developed? What changes or threats are on the horizon? What value does your View Details
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by Carmen Nobel