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- 2010
- Article
Youxian de huobanguanxi: 1928 nian zhi 1944 nian Zhongguo yu Deguo, Sulian he Meiguo de guanxi [Limited Partners: China's Relations with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States, 1928-1944]
By: William C. Kirby
自1928年国民党统治开始,中国第一次进入了其现代意义上的国际合作关系时期,寻求国际伙伴关系首次成为中国内政与外交政策的主要目标。20世纪30年代和40年代早期的中德、中俄和中美关系各自具有鲜明的特性。中德关系建立在两国领导人互相信任和经验积累的基础之上,某些意识形态上的类似是其得以发展的主要因素,但更重要的是互补的经济利益使国民党可以实现平等的合作。中苏关系和中美关系一开始就是为了增强双方对付共同敌人的力量而形成结盟的,之前都不具有恰当的合作机制,而意识形态是一个复杂的、不利于结盟的因素。在中苏关系中,结盟意味着从直接敌对状态转向谨... View Details
- July 2010
- Teaching Note
China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A) and (B)
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
Teaching Note for 308027 and 308091. View Details
- February 2010 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
International Agribusiness in China: Charoen Pokphand Group
By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Tracy Manty and Yi Kwan Chu
The world's leading Thai agribusiness corporation and largest agribusiness investor in China, CP Group, is facing another crossroads in China as the country starts to undergo rural reform. The issues at hand for Chairman Dhanin Chearavanont is how CP can balance its... View Details
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Sealed Air China (TN)
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
Teaching Note for [308051]. View Details
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (TN)
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Keith Chi-ho Wong
Teaching Note for [308058]. View Details
- January 2010 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China
By: William C. Kirby and G.A. Donovan
With the recent announcement from the Chinese government that the country's healthcare system was going to undergo reform, Jiamei Dental Chairman Liu Jia wondered what that meant for his 15 year-old dental clinic business. Founded in 1993, Jiamei Dental Medical... View Details
- March 2009 (Revised January 2025)
- Background Note
A Strait of Uncertainty: Taiwan's Development in the Shadow of China
By: William C. Kirby, J. Megan Greene, Tracy Yuen Manty, Daniel Fu, Yuanzhuo Wang, Noah B. Truwit and Aqib Zakaria
Relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on the Chinese Mainland, and the Republic of China (ROC), on Taiwan, had improved significantly since 2008. Taiwan investment in China had played a major role in China’s economic boom in recent decades. ... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com
By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty
Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the one they first founded in 2006. Having changed their business model from a social networking site to an... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
Appellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard
By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
Grace Vineyard was a rare family-owned, private winery in China that was set on establishing itself as a world-renowned, quality vintner. Judy Leissner, the second-generation company leader, was at a crossroads in how she wanted to grow the business that her father... View Details
- January 2009
- Case
Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China
By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Keith Chi-ho Wong and Tracy Manty
Huang Teng founded Xi'an International University (XAIU) as a private institute of higher education in 1992. Throughout its ensuing years, the school filled a niche and met the demand of students who did not test into one of China's public institutions. In 2008, it was... 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
- December 2008 (Revised June 2010)
- Background Note
Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Koll and F. Warren McFarlan
Brief political, economic, and social timeline of China from 1949 to present to give context on and provide overview of modern Chinese history. View Details
- November 2008
- Case
HNA Group: Moving China's Air Transport Industry in a New Direction
By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty
HNA Group, the parent company of Hainan Airlines, was positioning itself to go global and make a mark for itself as the largest private airline in China. Positioned squarely behind the "Big Three" state-owned carriers, Hainan Airlines sought to create a world-class... View Details
- February 2008 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Keith Chi-ho Wong and Tracy Manty
With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic changes in China to succeed as a global leader in the auto parts industry and to develop into a broad business... View Details
- February 2008 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Sealed Air China
By: Regina Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Yuen Manty
With a 10-year history of doing business in China, Sealed Air was now betting on the country to help propel its growth as a global company. The company identified China as one of the initial investments in the company's Global Manufacturing Strategy that aimed to... View Details
- January 2008 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Inner Mongolia Yili Group: China's Pioneering Dairy Brand
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Yuen Manty
Setting up the goal to become one of the top 20 enterprises in the world dairy industry by 2010, the Inner Mongolia Yili Group had ambitious plans. As one of China's biggest national dairy companies, its main challenge was competing as a local company against... View Details
- January 2008 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy
By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Wong
After fifty-five years in the semiconductor industry, Morris Chang, founder and Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), was seeing a change. After four decades of regular double-digit growth the industry was still growing-but now at a much slower... View Details