Publications

Book Review

Review of The Chinese Connection, by Michael A. Goldberg

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: China

September 1985 (Revised October 1988)
Case

NIKE in China

By: James E. Austin and Francis Aguilar

Nike is reviewing its strategy for producing shoes in China for the U.S. market. Compares the experience in China with that in other countries. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Production; Manufacturing Industry; China; United States

1984
Book

Germany and Republican China

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: China; Germany

February 1983 (Revised May 1985)
Case

China: Central Economic Planning

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Economy; Planning; Policy; China

January 1981 (Revised February 1982)
Case

People's Republic of China: Development Strategies and Performance

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; China

November 1980
Case

People's Republic of China

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: China

spring 1978
Article

Foreign Investment from the Third World: The Experience of Chinese Firms from Hong Kong

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Global Range; Learning; Hong Kong

Teaching Interest

Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms—(Executive Education)

By: David B. Yoffie

Summary

Without exception, the most valuable companies in the world today are platforms. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other firms have built their fortunes by facilitating innovation across global ecosystems or... View Details

Keywords: Platforms; Technology; Strategy; Digital Business; Social Networks; Self-driving Cars; Mobile Gaming; Esports; Financial Services; Online Retail; Ride-sharing; Search; Auctions; United States; Asia; China; Europe

Research Summary

Cross-border negotiations, emphasis on China

By: James K. Sebenius

For several years, I have been interested in the special challenges of cross-border negotiations. I am now working with colleagues on this topic, but with an emphasis on negotiations involving Chinese parties. In particular, through the Harvard China Negotiation... View Details

Research Summary

Current Research

By: William C. Kirby

Doing business in China in the early 21st century

Chinese companies and consumer markets

Chinese Universities: Leaders of the 21st Century?

The enduring role of State-Owned Enterprises in China

Business, political, and cultural... View Details

Teaching Interest

Doing Business in Africa

By: John D. Macomber

This course introduces frameworks and models for smart and focused investing and operations across sectors, nations, industries, and time frames in Africa. Students will learn tools and skills to help navigate the business landscape of Africa in terms of selection... View Details

Keywords: Africa

Research Summary

Evolution of firm structure in vertical specialized technology supply chains

The global market in many everyday products has been transformed by the internationalization of production. In many industries, semiconductors and electronic products in particular, a sequential mode of production has evolved in which goods are produced... View Details

Keywords: Globalization Of Supply Chain; Globalization; Technological Innovation; Manufacturing Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Asia; China

Research Summary

Global Supply Chains: The Looming “Great Reallocation”

By: Laura Alfaro

Global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of US-China trade tensions, the Covid-19 pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We document shifts in the pattern of US participation in global value chains over the last four decades, in terms of... View Details

Research Summary

Great Negotiator Study Initiative

By: James K. Sebenius

What can be legitimately be learned from closely studying great negotiators at work? Since 2000, the Program on Negotiation (PON)—an active inter-university consortium mainly comprised of numerous faculty from across... View Details

Teaching Interest

IFC Asia: China's Belt & Road Initiative

The course objective is to provide students perspectives and insight into one of the major political and economic development programs of China – its Belt and Road Initiative, a strategy that involves infrastructure development and investments in countries spanning... View Details

Keywords: China; Globalization; Trade; Infrastructure; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Central Asia

Teaching Interest

Immersive Field Course: China and Taiwan

I designed this course to enable students to examine cross-strait issues between the Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of China—(Taiwan) at a critical juncture. Many products produced for the global marketplace—televisions, computers and computer components,... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Supply Chain; Operations; Technology Industry; China; Asia; Taiwan

Research Summary

Industrial competitiveness in high tech and science-based businesses

How do emerging economies develop industrial and technical capabilities that overtake those of advanced economies? Are there some industrial sectors that are especially susceptible to such targeting? What will it take to restore America’s... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Diffusion; Knowledge Flows; Competitive Advantage; Globalization; Manufacturing Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; China; Asia

Research Summary

Knowledge flows and capability acquisition