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- September 2003
- Case
Growing Up in China: The Financing of BabyCare Ltd.
By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
The CFO of this infant nutritional products company must choose among competing financing offers. The interplay of Chinese legal and customs restrictions and venture capitalists' bargaining techniques challenge the CFO to navigate a tricky negotiation and to devise a...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Working Capital;
Emerging Markets;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
China
Desai, Mihir A., and Mark Veblen. "Growing Up in China: The Financing of BabyCare Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 204-029, September 2003.
- March 2002
- Case
Anthony Neoh
By: Guhan Subramanian, Michelle Kalka and Qian Sun
This case provides a brief history of the development of the Chinese securities market and details Anthony Neoh's involvement with it. It concentrates particularly on exploring issues specific to emerging markets.
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Subramanian, Guhan, Michelle Kalka, and Qian Sun. "Anthony Neoh." Harvard Business School Case 902-204, March 2002.
- January 2002 (Revised October 2005)
- Case
General Electric Medical Systems 2002
By: Tarun Khanna and James Weber
Discusses one of General Electric's flagship divisions--the world's leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging equipment. Provides an opportunity to examine a multinational confronting massive technological and demographic changes around the world. Genomics has...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Business Model;
Change Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Genetics;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Age;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
China;
United States
Khanna, Tarun, and James Weber. "General Electric Medical Systems 2002." Harvard Business School Case 702-428, January 2002. (Revised October 2005.)
- December 2001
- Case
Alibaba.com (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Fred Young
The challenges the largest Chinese electronic commerce company faces many challenges at the end of 2001. This case describes how it has completely reoriented its strategy in the past 12 months to become a B-to-B company. The key question is: Will it work and what...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Business Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology Industry;
China;
United States
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Fred Young. "Alibaba.com (B)." Harvard Business School Case 302-073, December 2001.
- December 2001
- Case
SinoSecurities.com
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Fred Young
Describes a complex software project that has run into difficulties. Students must decide whether to press forward, stop the project, or reconfigure it. Illustrates many of the similarities to challenges facing U.S. and Chinese companies in this difficult arena.
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Decisions;
Problems and Challenges;
Financial Services Industry;
China;
United States
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Fred Young. "SinoSecurities.com." Harvard Business School Case 302-072, December 2001.
- 2000
- Chapter
Market-Focused Organizational Transformation in China
By: Rohit Deshpandé and John U. Farley
Focuses on a study which investigated the organizational transformation of companies in China and how it affected their success. Conceptual background and hypothesis; Corporate culture of Chinese and other Asian firms; How organizational culture, climate, innovation...
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Deshpandé, Rohit, and John U. Farley. "Market-Focused Organizational Transformation in China." In Greater China in the Global Market, edited by Yigang Pan, 7–35. New York: Haworth Press, 2000.
- December 1999 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Avon Products China (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jennifer Gui
In April 1998, when the Chinese central government bans all forms of direct selling in China in April 1998, executives at Avon China must decide how to respond. The first direct sales company to enter China after its opening to outsiders, Avon sparked widespread...
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Keywords:
Crisis Management;
Sales;
Trade;
Business and Government Relations;
Government and Politics;
Market Participation;
China
Paine, Lynn S., and Jennifer Gui. "Avon Products China (A)." Harvard Business School Case 300-053, December 1999. (Revised April 2001.)
- May 1999
- Case
The Saga of Prince Jefri and KPMG (D): When Are Chinese Walls Enough?
By: Ashish Nanda
Supplements the (A) case.
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Nanda, Ashish. "The Saga of Prince Jefri and KPMG (D): When Are Chinese Walls Enough?" Harvard Business School Case 899-269, May 1999.
- 1998
- Chapter
Foreign Firms in the Chinese Power Sector: Economic and Environmental Impacts
By: F. L. Reinhardt, Fiona Murray and Richard Vietor
Keywords:
Multinational Firms and Management;
Energy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Energy Industry;
China
Reinhardt, F. L., Fiona Murray, and Richard Vietor. "Foreign Firms in the Chinese Power Sector: Economic and Environmental Impacts." In Energizing China: Reconciling Environmental Protection and Economic Growth, edited by M. McElroy, C. Nielsen, and P. Lydon. Cambridge: Harvard University, Committee on Environment, 1998.
- December 1997 (Revised August 1998)
- Case
Shanghai Real Estate (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr
An independent consultant from the United States must decide what to do when faced with his client's apparent violation of an agreement with a third party. The consultant is American, the client is a Chinese real estate developer, and the third party is a French...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Contracts;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Law;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Alliances;
Corporate Accountability;
Consulting Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
China;
United States;
France
Paine, Lynn S., and Harold F. Hogan Jr. "Shanghai Real Estate (A)." Harvard Business School Case 398-088, December 1997. (Revised August 1998.)
- 1997
- Chapter
Intercultural Connections and Chinese Development: External and Internal Spheres of Modern China's Foreign Relations
By: William C. Kirby
Keywords:
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
International Relations;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
China
Kirby, William C. "Intercultural Connections and Chinese Development: External and Internal Spheres of Modern China's Foreign Relations." In China's Quest for Modernization: A Historical Perspective, edited by Frederic Wakeman and Wang Xi, 219–248. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1997. (published first in Zhongguo xiandaihua wenti [Issues of Chinese modernization] (Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 1994))
- September 1995
- Case
Richina Capital Partners Limited
By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green
Richard Yan and Suzanne Foels raise a $52.5 million fund to invest in Chinese companies in concert with major multinational companies. They face all the challenges of starting a business from scratch in addition to the challenges of operating in a cross-cultural...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Problems and Challenges;
Emerging Markets;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Governance Compliance;
Business Strategy;
Expansion;
Investment Return;
China
Sahlman, William A., and Jason Green. "Richina Capital Partners Limited." Harvard Business School Case 396-059, September 1995.
- June 1995
- Case
Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (A1): Getting to Know Each Other
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko
In its second year of operation, the joint venture between Northern Telecom (Nortel) of Canada and Tong Guang Electronics of China to manufacture telecommunications equipment in China has hit a crisis. The Chinese partner has asked Northern Telecom to replace its...
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Keywords:
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Joint Ventures;
Change Management;
Organizational Culture;
Crisis Management;
Financial Crisis;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Leadership;
Telecommunications Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Canada;
China
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Pamela A. Yatsko. "Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (A1): Getting to Know Each Other." Harvard Business School Case 395-081, June 1995.
- April 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
China (C): Energy and the Environment
Describes energy and environmental policy in China during the period 1980-1993. China has implemented ambitious plans for electrification and the substitution of fossil fuels (mostly coal) for biomass. The environmental consequences of these changes, at the local and...
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Keywords:
Energy Generation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Policy;
Pollutants;
Climate Change;
Business and Government Relations;
Globalization;
Energy Industry;
China
Vietor, Richard H.K. "China (C): Energy and the Environment." Harvard Business School Case 794-134, April 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
- July 1990
- Article
Continuity and Change in Modern China: Chinese Economic Planning on the Mainland and on Taiwan, 1943-1958
By: William C. Kirby
Kirby, William C. "Continuity and Change in Modern China: Chinese Economic Planning on the Mainland and on Taiwan, 1943-1958." Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 24 (July 1990): 121–141.
- Book Review
Review of The Chinese Connection, by Michael A. Goldberg
By: Louis T Wells Jr
Keywords:
China
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Review of The Chinese Connection, by Michael A. Goldberg." Journal of International Business Studies 17, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 163–164.