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economies "are successful economies and export powerhouses." What is interesting, according to the data he presented, is that Hong Kong and Taiwan did not rely on labor-intensive FDI to develop their export capabilities, whereas Singapore and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Mar 2014
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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

June 2019 (Revised November 2019)
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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
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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
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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

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Tafadzwa Samushonga

opportunities that HBS has provided for her to engage with new markets. “I am particularly excited about how other developing economies are using technology to tackle similar problems to those we are facing back home.” As part of the first-year curriculum, Tafadzwa... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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

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Aspa Lekka

delivery company, Delivery Hero, expanded both the geographic reach and skills depth of her career, taking her from Russia to Malaysia to Singapore then back to Germany again, but now with the experience of managing over 100 employees... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

May 2001
Supplement

Asian Strategies: Ian Buchanan

By: Tarun Khanna

Ian Buchanan, senior VP of Booz-Allen & Hamilton, comments on Sime Darby and the Asian financial crisis. He also discusses the value propositions of different types of business groups in Malaysia. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consulting Industry; Service Industry; Asia; Malaysia

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28 Aug 2020
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Mavath R. Chandran

Mavath R. Chandran, a veteran executive in the Malaysian palm oil industry and an advisor to the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil, discusses how the British colonial regime contributed to the complex ethnic make-up of modern day Malaysia. He discusses at length the... View Details

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Mavath R. Chandran

Mavath R. Chandran, a veteran executive in the Malaysian palm oil industry and an advisor to the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil, discusses the strict ethical codes that his former employer, Belgian-owned... View Details

01 Nov 2019
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Mavath R. Chandran

Mavath R. Chandran, a veteran executive in the Malaysian palm oil industry and an advisor to the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil, discusses sustainability in the palm oil industry and the challenge of... View Details

March 2016 (Revised June 2016)
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Gotong Royong: Toward Sustainable Palm Oil

By: Rebecca Henderson, Hann-Shuin Yew and Monica Baraldi

In late 2015, Jeff Seabright, chief sustainability officer at Unilever, had to report to Unilever CEO Paul Polman on the effort to transform palm oil cultivation. Historically, palm oil was produced using unsustainable methods that included burning large tracts of... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Environment; Industry Self-regulation; Corporate Image; Corporate Strategy; Indonesia; Malaysia

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