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- August 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Haier: Taking a Chinese Company Global in 2011
By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Phillip Andrews
In 2011, Haier, China's leading appliance manufacturer, had over $20 billion in worldwide sales and had just been named the leading refrigerator manufacturer worldwide. Describes Haier's rise over three decades from a defunct refrigerator factory in China's Qingdao...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Global Strategy;
Expansion;
Diversification;
Emerging Markets;
Consumer Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
China
Khanna, Tarun, Krishna G. Palepu, and Phillip Andrews. "Haier: Taking a Chinese Company Global in 2011." Harvard Business School Case 712-408, August 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Explosives Saved an American Company From Chinese Competition
- Article
Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
By: Takao Kato and Pian Shu
We study the impact of social identity on worker competition by exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and coworker...
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Keywords:
Social Identity;
Coworker Effect;
Productivity;
Relative Performance Incentive;
Intergroup Competition;
Competition;
Groups and Teams;
Performance Productivity;
Identity
Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu. "Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 131, part A (November 2016): 37–50.
Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia
The literature on the private provision of public goods suggests an inverse relationship between incentives to contribute and group size. We find, however, that after an exogenous reduction of group size at Chinese Wikipedia, the nonblocked contributors decrease...
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- 01 Jan 2010
- Conference Presentation
With my Head or with my Heart? A Study of How Chinese Executives Trust Overseas Chinese and Non-Chinese Business Partners
By: C. Jiang and Roy Y.J. Chua
- 25 Jun 2012
- Conference Presentation
Effects of the European Crisis on the Chinese Economy
By: Dante Roscini
- 10 Aug 2008
- News
Brands act local to woo a billion Chinese consumers
- 25 Feb 2014
- News
Successful Chinese Hot Pot Chain Stumbles In U.S. Expansion
- 26 Nov 2023
- News
XI Jinping’s Grip on Chinese Enterprise Gets Uncomfortably Tight
- January 2019 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Chinese Infrastructure Investments in Sri Lanka: A Pearl or a Teardrop on the Belt and Road?
By: Meg Rithmire and Yihao Li
In 2015, a surprise presidential election result seemed to imperil Chinese investments in Sri Lanka, which were associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative to build global infrastructure. In the previous decade, China had undertaken two major projects in the...
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Rithmire, Meg, and Yihao Li. "Chinese Infrastructure Investments in Sri Lanka: A Pearl or a Teardrop on the Belt and Road?" Harvard Business School Case 719-046, January 2019. (Revised January 2022.)
- 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.
- February 2008 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills
By: Elisabeth Koll
This case focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by...
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Keywords:
History;
Law;
Organizational Culture;
Family Ownership;
State Ownership;
Corporate Governance;
Financial Crisis;
Business and Government Relations;
Entrepreneurship;
Change;
Manufacturing Industry;
Shanghai;
China
Koll, Elisabeth. "Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills." Harvard Business School Case 308-068, February 2008. (Revised September 2010.)
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
Lillian Too (MBA '76), formerly Kim Lim, is the executive chairman of her own publishing and investment company in Malaysia. She is the author of eight best-selling books on the ancient Chinese science of Feng shui (pronounced FUNG...
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- August 11, 2008
- Article
Brands Act Local to Woo a Billion Chinese Consumers
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "Brands Act Local to Woo a Billion Chinese Consumers." Financial Times (August 11, 2008), 12.
- 2013
- Chapter
Vietnam through Chinese Eyes: Divergent Accountability in Single-Party Regimes
By: Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky and Yu Zheng
Abrami, Regina, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng. "Vietnam through Chinese Eyes: Divergent Accountability in Single-Party Regimes." Chap. 9 in Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe, edited by Martin Dimitrov, 237–275. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- November 2019
- Case
Floating the Exchange Rate: In Pursuit of the Chinese Dream
By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
In the decades following 2005, China faced significant financial challenges. Inflation spiraled upwards and China’s economy stagnated in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. The country’s leaders took an interventionist approach to weather the storm, controlling...
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Keywords:
Exchange Rate;
Inflation;
Debt;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Inflation and Deflation;
Borrowing and Debt;
China
Alfaro, Laura, and Sarah Jeong. "Floating the Exchange Rate: In Pursuit of the Chinese Dream." Harvard Business School Case 320-039, November 2019.
- 2011
- Chapter
A Fine Balance: Chinese Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Historical Perspective
By: Elisabeth Koll
Koll, Elisabeth. "A Fine Balance: Chinese Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Historical Perspective." In The People's Republic of China at 60--An International Assessment, edited by William C. Kirby. Cambridge: Harvard University, Asia Center, 2011.