Malaysia - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Mar 2014
Blog Post

East Asia MBA Market Update

showing commitment to the region and local knowledge. Malaysia Malaysia aims to become a developed economy by 2020 and as a result it has been undergone major reforms to be more business friendly and... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

22 Aug 2019
News

Getting There

the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an app to... View Details

Keywords: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

Business of Emerging Markets

of the palm oil cluster in Malaysia and Indonesia and its global implications for corporations, governments, and individual actors, especially in emerging economies. I’ve also reframed key ideas and theoretical contributions underlying my... View Details

6 May 2003
Other Presentation

Malaysia’s Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Stage

By: Michael E. Porter

Competitiveness presentation delivered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Malaysia

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September 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Supplement

Malaysia: The Economic Transformation Program (B)

By: Diego A. Comin and Ku Kok Peng

Keywords: Economic Transformation Program; Productivity Growth; New Economic Model; Najiv; Idris Jala; Malaysia

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October 2002
Teaching Note

Malaysia: Capital and Control (TN)

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Laura Alfaro

Teaching Note for (9-702-040). View Details

Keywords: Malaysia

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March 2001
Case

Sime Darby Berhad (B): The Asian Crisis Begins

By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Conglomerates; Economy; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Malaysia

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01 Dec 2018
News

Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia

in Singapore, she and her family traveled throughout Southeast Asia. “The fellowship enabled me to conduct research on Malaysia and Indonesia, and also to look at Chinese investments in different parts of the region,” she explains. An... View Details

June 2019 (Revised November 2019)
Case

Malaysia: An 'Asian Tiger' Reawakens

By: Richard H. K. Vietor

On May 9, 2018, in an extraordinary upset, Mahathir Mohamad again became Malaysia’s Prime Minister. Najib Razak, who had headed the government since 2009, had been swept up in the 1MDB scandal—perhaps the biggest state-corruption incident in history. Although... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Economy; Leading Change; Malaysia

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October 1987
Case

Malaysian Airline System

By: James I. Cash Jr. and Arthur L. Gilbert

Keywords: Air Transportation Industry; Malaysia

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May 1997 (Revised March 2001)
Teaching Note

Sime Darby Berhad (A), (B), and (C) Teaching Note

By: Tarun Khanna

Teaching Note for (9-797-017), (9-701-117), and (9-701-118). View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Malaysia

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17 Apr 2016
News

Driving Digital Expansion

Growing up in Borneo, Rohana Rozhan (AMP 171, 2006) was known by all the boys as “Rohana the Piranha,” a nickname that offers some sense of the 53-year-old’s fierce commitment as CEO of Astro Malaysia, a $1.4 billion company providing pay TV subscriptions to 67 percent... View Details

August 2022
Teaching Note

Political Legitimacy and Global Capital Markets: Malaysia’s 1MDB (A) and (B)

By: Meg Rithmire

Teaching note for HBS Case Nos. 720-030 and 721-042. View Details

Keywords: Malaysia

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March 2021
Supplement

Political Legitimacy and Global Capital Markets: Malaysia's 1MDB (B)

By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han

Keywords: Malaysia

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October 2010 (Revised January 2011)
Teaching Note

Malaysia: People First? (TN)

By: Diego A. Comin

Teaching Note for 710033. View Details

Keywords: Malaysia

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April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Malaysia: People First?

By: Diego A. Comin and John Abraham

On March 30, 2010, Prime Minister Najib Razak presented his new economic model (NEM) for Malaysia. With the goal of raising per capita income to over $15,000 by 2020 from the current level of $6,634, the plan included measures to improve human capital, reduce migration... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Problems and Challenges; Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Development Economics; Emerging Markets; Transformation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Malaysia

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July 1998
Case

Westport: Spearheading Malaysia's Economic Challenge (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Ambar Agustono Bin Machfoedy

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Problems and Challenges; Malaysia

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01 Sep 2011
News

Just Doing His Job

Malaysia’s Petronas Towers may be among the tallest structures in the world, but the man chiefly responsible for building them prefers to keep a low profile. Describing Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (MBA ’64) as an individual who “guards his privacy more jealously than... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services