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  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Making a Case for Women

protagonists in their research, the School is matching the generous financial support of Alfus and C200. The creation of the fund was announced last October at C200's fifteenth anniversary celebration in Chicago, which was attended by... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
  • 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
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  • 2014
  • Supplement

Bluestar's Acquisition of Adisseo (B)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Lei Li
This case describes the post-M&A integration of Adisseo of France in 2006 by Bluestar Group, the largest subsidiary of ChemChina (a Fortune 500 company) until 2013. Adisseo was mainly engaged in production of methionine, a feed additive, while China had no methionine... View Details
Keywords: Internationalization; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Postmerger Integration; Strategy; China; France
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  • 2011
  • Case

CSCEC: Transformation and Development

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Hong Zhang
In 2001, CSCEC, the largest residential building constructor in China, greeted its new General Manager, Wenjie Sun, who was the President of China Overseas, a Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of CSCEC. In the following 9 years, Sun strived to advance the transformation and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Organizational Values; Strategy; Transformations; China
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  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead

faculty chair), Allen Grossman, and F. Warren McFarlan each led a lively exchange that encompassed topics such as measuring SEI’s success in 2014, ensuring that the knowledge... View Details
Keywords: SEI; Social Enterprise Initiative; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 13 Jul 2011
  • News

China Boot Camp

HBS faculty engage in a panel discussion in Beijing. A visit to China Merchant Bank will inform BGIE and other courses at HBS. When Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2011
  • Teaching Note

UFIDA (A) (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Bin Yang and E. Chen
The five-case UFIDA series is about China's largest supplier of management/ERP software, its 20-year evolution, and current strategic challenges. The (A) case is the cornerstone of the series. It introduces the company's history, strategic turning points, current... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Competition; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Strategy; Applications and Software; China
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  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare Richard G. Hamermesh, F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil, Michael Morgan, Andrew Katz, and David LaBordeHarvard Business School Case 311-061 This case presents one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Teaching Note

Bluestar's Acquisition of Adisseo (B) (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Lei Li
This case describes the post-M&A integration of Adisseo of France in 2006 by Bluestar Group, the largest subsidiary of ChemChina (a Fortune 500 company) until 2013. Adisseo was mainly engaged in production of methionine, a feed additive, while China had no methionine... View Details
Keywords: Internationalization; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Postmerger Integration; Strategy; China; France; Chemicals; China; France
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Faculty Learn Firsthand about Chinese Business

Related Links More faculty takeaways on the IXP Read about the Harvard Center Shanghai View upcoming executive programs in China Find HBS Alumni Clubs in China MBA students aren’t the only ones honing their global knowledge by traveling... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2014
  • Teaching Note

Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant Group (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Weiku Wu and Jia Guo
Since the establishment of the first Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant in Beijing in 1996, Wang Gang and his wife Liang Di have opened more than 100 chain restaurants in China and foreign countries, and set up the group headquarters, logistics center, R&D center and central... View Details
Keywords: Internationalization; Management; Standardization; Strategy; China; Restaurants; China
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  • 2013
  • Case

The COFCO Group

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
Keywords: China; Food; China
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  • 2011
  • Teaching Note

CSCEC: Transformation and Development (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Hong Zhang
In 2001, CSCEC, the largest residential building constructor in China, greeted its new General Manager, Wenjie Sun, who was the President of China Overseas, a Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of CSCEC. In the following 9 years, Sun strived to advance the transformation and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Organizational Values; Strategy; Transformations; China; Construction; China
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  • 2013
  • Teaching Note

The COFCO Group (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
Keywords: China; Food; China
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  • 2014
  • Case

Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant Group

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Weiku Wu and Jia Guo
Since the establishment of the first Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant in Beijing in 1996, Wang Gang and his wife Liang Di have opened more than 100 chain restaurants in China and foreign countries, and set up the group headquarters, logistics center, R&D center and central... View Details
Keywords: Internationalization; Management; Standardization; Strategy; Restaurants; China; China
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  • 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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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference

HBS and Asia. He worked with Professor F. Warren McFarlan to establish the HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong and to facilitate trips to the region for HBS faculty.... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Ferrell (42nd PMD) Greenwich, CT Charles F. Milner, Jr. (MBA '65) Adamstown, PA Heiner Thorborg (12th ISMP) Frankfurt, Germany Chairman, HBS Fund Thomas C. Theobald (MBA '60) Chicago, IL President of the HBS Student Association Ronald P.... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

other HBS scholars are essential to understanding the realities of doing business. They provide what Asia-Pacific Initiative director F. Warren McFarlan calls “local content.”... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services