Publications

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April 1982
Supplement

Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc.--1980 (B)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Gregory L. Parsons

January 1978
Case

Studsel Automotive Co.

By: Robert G. Gilbertson and F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Auto Industry

2013
Teaching Note

Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao

Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details

Keywords: China; Hospitals; China

2013
Case

Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao

Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details

Keywords: China; Hospitals; China

November 1994 (Revised August 1995)
Supplement

Canadian Airlines: Reservations About Its Future (B)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Duncan G. Copeland and Chris L Marshall

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Air Transportation Industry

November 2008
Teaching Note

The AtekPC Project Management Office (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil, John Hupp and Deborah Soule

Teaching Note for [308049]. View Details

Keywords: Consulting Industry

2002
Book

Corporate Information Strategy and Management: The Challenge of Doing Business in a Network Economy

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin and F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Information; Strategy; Management; Problems and Challenges; Economy; Technology

2011
Teaching Note

UFIDA (D) (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ping He, Xiohua Wu and Lijuan Liu

This case describes the financing decisions of a software company at difference stages of its development. Started from 1988 as an individual business, along with the "Reform and Open" policy of China, the firm has experienced tremendous growth, and has become a... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Financial Strategy; IPO; Investments; China; Applications and Software; China

2012
Case

Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang

Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Human Resource Management; Strategy; China; China

March 2014
Article

Why China Can't Innovate

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan

A look at how innovation is happening in China—from the top down, from the bottom up, through acquisition, and through education. Sheds light on the complexities of the issue, highlighting the promise and the problems China faces in its quest to become the world's... View Details

Keywords: Failure; Innovation and Invention; China

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

the book along with Regina M. Abrami, a former HBS professor now at the Wharton School; and F. Warren McFarlan, the HBS Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. "We think the future... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

South Asia - Global Activities 2020

guidance from our professors and discovery on the ground.” Led by Meg Rithmire, the F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, and Willy Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor... View Details

January 2009 (Revised May 2011)
Case

China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy

By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, G.A. Donovan and Tracy Manty

China Mobile was the world's leading mobile communications service provider with over 400 million customers. In some cities, its penetration rate was over 100%. With such huge successes, Chairman Wang Jianzhou was exploring ways to expand its customer base. Nearly... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Investment; Rural Scope; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Telecommunications Industry; China

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