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  • June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past

By: Rafael Di Tella, Vincent Pons, Sarah Mehta and David Lane
Over the past several decades, rapid growth in Chinese investment and trade has created for Africa a new development partner. China represents an alternative to U.S. and European nations whose past imperialism, resource avarice, and economic dictates—through the... View Details
Keywords: Copper; Imperialism; IMF; World Bank; ODA; Debt Relief; Growth and Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; History; Development Economics; China; Zambia; Africa
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Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
This article examines the emergence and development of what became the largest business group in Turkey, the Koç Group. This venture was an important factor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; History; Strategy; Auto Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; Turkey
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  • “The ‘Carbon Club’: Oil Companies, Climate Change & the Shaping of Public Policy”. Conspiracy theories abound, but the roles of the major oil companies in influencing public policy on climate change remain largely obscure. This... View Details
  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Strategy; China
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  • 2012
  • Case

Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Human Resource Management; Strategy; China; China
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  • 07 Sep 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Diversification of Chinese Companies: An International Comparison

Keywords: by Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Troy D. Smith & Mengxin Zhao
  • 28 Jun 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and their Implications for Economic Performance

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini
  • Teaching Interest

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Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Strategy; Macroeconomics; State Capitalism; Political Economy; Emerging Markets; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Economics; Energy Industry; Retail Industry; Mining Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; China; Africa; Dubai; Pakistan; India; Brazil; Russia; Cuba; Argentina
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

state-owned construction company strike one deal after another in South Carolina despite political backlash and in New York where well-established competitors dominate? The case examines the U.S. market entry strategy of the CSCEC,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Business of K-12 Education in China

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
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  • December 2012 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

The “Chongqing Model” and the Future of China

By: Meg Rithmire
Since opening to the global economy in 1979, but especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the United... View Details
Keywords: China; Public Sector; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Public Administration Industry; China
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  • 24 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello & Rosilene Marcon; Banking
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

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By: William C. Kirby
A historian by training, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese... View Details
Keywords: China; Internationalization; Educational Policy And Politics; Infrastructure; Government And Business; The Revival Of Family Business In China; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Agribusiness; Education; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Governance; Government and Politics; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Auto Industry; Education Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

governments have started to list state-owned enterprises, have selected professional managers to run them, and have given them more financial autonomy. We argue that the transformation from owner and manager to majority shareholder has... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • July 2020
  • Case

Super 30: Educating the Elite Poor

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
In the summer of 2019 in New Delhi, S K Shahi and his daughter, Meenakshi, faced a difficult problem. India had 19 centers of their non-profit, the Center for Social Responsibility and Leadership. Also called the 'Super 30' program, this offered free training for... View Details
Keywords: Non-profit; Inclusive Growth; Education; Higher Education; Diversity; Nonprofit Organizations; Operations; Expansion; Geographic Location; Strategy; Decision Making; India
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  • Program

Making Corporate Boards More Effective

into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend This program is designed to meet the needs of board members, chairs, and directors of publicly traded and other established companies. This program is not a fit for board members of View Details
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Venezuela could also strike reasonable deals. It may run the resulting state-owned enterprises somewhat less efficiently than foreign firms would, but as I discovered for one of the electric power plants in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
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Events - Business History

Steven Press, Stanford University New time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, followed by refreshments New location: Chao Center, Room 120 Nov 18 18 Nov 2019 Business History Seminar Statoil and the Revival of State-owned Companies in Norway, 1970s -... View Details