Publications

April 1990 (Revised August 1993)
Case

NIKE in China (Abridged)

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; Consumer Products Industry; China; United States

Educators

January 1990
Case

Citibank in Zaire (Abridged)

Keywords: Banks and Banking; International Finance; Banking Industry; Congo, Democratic Republic of the

1989
Chapter

Minguo shiqi Zhongwai jingji jishu hezuo: Meigo zhanshi shengchan quwentuan huan Hua, 1944-1946 [Sino-foreign Economic and Technical Cooporation in Republican China: The U.S. War Production Mission to China, 1944-46]

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: History; International Finance; International Relations; Cooperation; Developing Countries and Economies; China; United States

1989
Chapter

Technocratic Organization and Technological Development in China, 1928-1953

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: History; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; Developing Countries and Economies; China

July 1989 (Revised December 1990)
Case

CIBA-GEIGY Pharmaceuticals: Pharma International

By: John A. Quelch

Examines the decision by Pharma International on whether to launch an antimalarial product in Nigeria and, if so, how that should be implemented. Involves commercial, ethical, and policy considerations. Rich in situation assessment data, the case refers to criticism of... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Launch; Policy; Developing Countries and Economies; Pharmaceutical Industry; Nigeria

Educators

April 1989 (Revised April 1990)
Case

Hunger in the Sudan

Keywords: Poverty; Sudan

November 1988
Case

Central Soya in the Soviet Union and China

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; China; Soviet Union

June 1988 (Revised December 1991)
Case

An Tai Bao Coal Mining Project

By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick

An Tai Bao is the world's largest open-pit coal mine and is located in China's Shanxi province. After eight years of planning and negotiating, Occidental Petroleum, the foreign partner in the deal, is about to sign an ownership and financing agreement for $475 million... View Details

Keywords: Planning; Agreements and Arrangements; Non-Renewable Energy; Equity; Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation Deal; Joint Ventures; Mining Industry; China

Educators

April 1987
Article

Joint Ventures, Technology Transfer and Technocratic Organization in Nationalist China

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Information Technology; Organizations; 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

June 1982
Case

Polaroid in South Africa (A), Supplement

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; South Africa

December 1978 (Revised December 1985)
Case

Citibank in Zaire

Keywords: Banks and Banking; International Finance; Banking Industry; Congo, Democratic Republic of the

01 Jan 1978
Conference Presentation

United States Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Egypt

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; International Finance; United States; Egypt

2012
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek (A): Lighting Liberia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Anne Arlinghaus

After successful careers as lawyers Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by increasing Liberian citizens’ access to lighting solutions. They developed the Liberian Energy Network, which aimed... View Details

Teaching Interest

Africa: Building Cities: Immersive Field Course

By: John D. Macomber

This second year elective takes students into the field to assess and report on the opprtunities in the next decade for the private finance and delivery of public infrastructure in the Global South. In January of 2016 and 2017 the cities studied were Addis Ababa,... View Details

Keywords: Cities; Urbanization; Economic Development; Infrastructure; Sustainability; Africa; Latin America; Peru; Argentina; Ethiopia; Tanzania

Research Summary

AIDS in Africa: Life, Death and Property Rights

By: Debora L. Spar

In the final years of the twentieth century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--the plague of AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought... View Details

21 Mar 2013
Other Presentation

Building a Competitive Nigeria: The Role of the National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report (World Economic... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Nigeria