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- 21 Jun 2018
- News
When Will The Tariff Battle With China Start To Affect Us?
- Web
Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Steamships While the profits to be realized in the China trade were magnificent, the four- to five-month voyage from the Eastern ports in the United States to View Details
- September 2013 (Revised April 2014)
- Teaching Note
Transitions Asia: Managing Across Cultures
By: Roy Y.J. Chua, Sharon Mozgai and Dawn Lau
The director of an interim executive research firm, Chee Lung Tham, faced a clash of culture and management styles when his mainland China client threatened to fire the American interim manager that Tham had assigned. The client, Wong Lung, ran a family-owned garment... View Details
- March 2006 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
China: To Float or Not To Float? (B)- Timeline of Changes Relevant to the Chinese Renminbi
By: Laura Alfaro and Rafael M. Di Tella
On July 21, 2005 China revalued its decade-long quasi-fixed exchange rate of approximately 8.28 yuan per U.S. dollar by 2.1% to 8.11% and, at the same time, introduced a more market-based exchange rate system. Many analysts and economists were disappointed with what... View Details
Keywords: Currency; Exchange Rate; China; Macroeconomics; Trade; Currency Exchange Rate; Governance Controls; Policy; China; United States
Alfaro, Laura, and Rafael M. Di Tella. "China: To Float or Not To Float? (B)- Timeline of Changes Relevant to the Chinese Renminbi." Harvard Business School Case 706-022, March 2006. (Revised April 2015.)
- September 2, 2015
- Editorial
Parade Observer: In Competing with United States to Be the Regional Spokesman, China Has Not Forgotten Anti-imperialist and Anti-hegemonic Slogans
By: Jeremy Friedman and Sergey Radchencko
Friedman, Jeremy, and Sergey Radchencko. "Parade Observer: In Competing with United States to Be the Regional Spokesman, China Has Not Forgotten Anti-imperialist and Anti-hegemonic Slogans." Pengpai [The Paper] (September 2, 2015).
- Jul 2012
- Conference Presentation
The Evolution of Railroads as Modern Business Institutions and Its Impact on Knowledge Transfer and Engineering Education in pre-1949 China
By: Elisabeth Koll
Koll, Elisabeth. "The Evolution of Railroads as Modern Business Institutions and Its Impact on Knowledge Transfer and Engineering Education in pre-1949 China." Paper presented at the 16th World Economic History Congress, International Economic History Association, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2012. (Presented in the panel on "Transportation and Institutional Change in Global Perspective.")
- 2018
- Chapter
Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?
By: William C. Kirby
Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked.... View Details
Keywords: Asia; China; Emerging Country; Students; Education; Higher Education; Globalization; International Relations; History; Society; Education Industry; Asia; China; United States
Kirby, William C. "Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?" Chap. 27 in The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power, edited by Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi, 219–230. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- January 2002 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Digital China Holdings Limited: ERP as a Platform for Building New Capabilities
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Guoqing Chen and Kai Reimers
This case analyzes a complex ERP implementation that takes place in one of the leading companies in China. The issues are indistinguishable from those facing a U.S. organization. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Information Technology; Complexity; Problems and Challenges; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Guoqing Chen, and Kai Reimers. "Digital China Holdings Limited: ERP as a Platform for Building New Capabilities." Harvard Business School Case 302-080, January 2002. (Revised May 2002.)
- Article
Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China
By: Crystal Jiang, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe and Janet Murray
We investigate trust relationships between senior business executives and their overseas partners. Drawing on the similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Culture; Management Teams; Cognition and Thinking; Networks; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Trust; China
Jiang, Crystal, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe, and Janet Murray. "Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China." Journal of International Business Studies 42, no. 9 (December 2011): 1150–1173. (Equal Authorship Among All Authors.)
- Web
A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
China Trade Bibliography Manuscript Collections Related Collections Site Credits “Business is too important and interesting not to be chronicled somehow,” Albert Heard wrote. 1 He was referring to his family’s firm, Augustine Heard & Co.,... View Details
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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade
countries. “I am very glad to see America and China on such good and friendly terms,” Houqua wrote to Boston trader John Murray Forbes in 1842. 13 John Heard, Diary, 1891. HC: FP-4, p. 32. Samuel Shaw, The... View Details
- 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
McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, and Ziqian Zhao. "The COFCO Group (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2013.
- Web
After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
became a partner in 1850. Albert Heard came to China after graduating from Yale and became a partner in 1856, the same time that Augustine II went home and John returned to... View Details
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Professional Managers at Political Crossroads: Xia Pingfang at the Bank of China in New York and London, 1939 to 1951
By: Elisabeth Koll
- November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
China Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research: Building a Sustainable, Globally Integrated Research Enterprise
By: Vicki Sato, Christoph Jaeker and Pooja Mehta Solanki
As the head of the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research in China, En Li was shepherding a $1 billion R&D investment in China. So far he had been able to attract a large number of Chinese-born but US-trained scientists to play a critical role in establishing the... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Research; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; China
Sato, Vicki, Christoph Jaeker, and Pooja Mehta Solanki. "China Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research: Building a Sustainable, Globally Integrated Research Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 612-048, November 2011. (Revised February 2012.)
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Competition and Emerging Technologies Albert Heard served in China from 1862 to 1867 when Augustine Heard II returned to take his place. Their uncle Augustine Heard died a year later at age 83. “I shall not... View Details
- February 2014 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
Fei Cheng Wu Rao (If You Are the One): The Media as a Reflection of Society
By: Christopher Marquis, Zoe Yang and Juelin Yin
As Fei Cheng Wu Rao, China's most popular entertainment program, enters its fourth year, company leaders grapple with questions of how to keep the show fresh and reach new markets. In particular, the show is poised to expand to Africa, yet there are significant... View Details
Keywords: China; Globalization; Entertainment; TV; Media; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; China
Marquis, Christopher, Zoe Yang, and Juelin Yin. "Fei Cheng Wu Rao (If You Are the One): The Media as a Reflection of Society." Harvard Business School Case 414-056, February 2014. (Revised June 2015.)
- May 2016 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Agricultural Revolution without a Land Revolution: the Megafarms of CP Group
By: William C. Kirby and Nancy Hua Dai
This case describes the megafarm model launched by the CP group as part of their efforts to ensure the safety and quality of their supply chain of agricultural products (particularly, eggs) in China while also promoting the welfare of Chinese farmers. This model was... View Details
Keywords: China; Poultry; Public-private Partnership; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Family Business; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
Kirby, William C., and Nancy Hua Dai. "Agricultural Revolution without a Land Revolution: the Megafarms of CP Group." Harvard Business School Case 316-150, May 2016. (Revised October 2016.)
- 2014
- Article
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?
By: Christopher Marquis and Cuili Qian
This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Theory; Political Strategy; Non-market Strategy; China; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emerging Markets; Government and Politics; China
Marquis, Christopher, and Cuili Qian. "Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?" Organization Science 25, no. 1 (January–February 2014): 127–148.