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- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
Summing Up The jury is in. Nearly all respondents to this month's column would advise U.S. firms such as Yahoo, Google, Cisco, and Microsoft to continue to operate in China despite the government's possible use of their content or... View Details
- 2023
- Editorial
American and Chinese Universities Must Reject Calls to Disengage: Restrictions on Entry of Scholars Will Set Back U.S. Advances
By: William C. Kirby
Keywords: Higher Education; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Competition; China; United States
Kirby, William C. "American and Chinese Universities Must Reject Calls to Disengage: Restrictions on Entry of Scholars Will Set Back U.S. Advances." Nikkei Asia (2023).
- 2018
- Chapter
Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?
By: William C. Kirby
Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked.... View Details
Keywords: Asia; China; Emerging Country; Students; Education; Higher Education; Globalization; International Relations; History; Society; Education Industry; Asia; China; United States
Kirby, William C. "Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?" Chap. 27 in The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power, edited by Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi, 219–230. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- January 2016 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Uber in China: Driving in the Gray Zone
By: William C. Kirby, Joycelyn W. Eby, Shuang L. Frost and Adam K. Frost
CEO and Founder of Uber Technologies, Travis Kalanick, had made clear to investors and the public that expansion into China was one of his company's major priorities for 2016. Uber had already demonstrated remarkable capacity for rapid, global scaling, and for... View Details
Keywords: China; Uber; Start-up Growth; Regulation; Ride-sharing; Transportation; Business Startups; Growth and Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; China
Kirby, William C., Joycelyn W. Eby, Shuang L. Frost, and Adam K. Frost. "Uber in China: Driving in the Gray Zone." Harvard Business School Case 316-135, January 2016. (Revised November 2016.)
- Web
Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog
Chinese SOEs into modern, global corporations The diverse political risks Chinese firms encounter in foreign markets The challenges of developing public affairs strategies outside China Challenges and... View Details
- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
a window into what data-driven regulation of digital platforms should look like in the future—deeply grounded both in the analysis of consumers behavior on the platform and complementing existing regulatory standards. “What’s fascinating... View Details
- 2014
- Book
Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System]
By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
This book is the Spanish edition of our award winning paper "These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18713, January 2013. The book examines the effects of foreign bank entry into Mexico. Foreign banks... View Details
Keywords: Banks And Banking; Mexico; Commercial Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; Competition; Financial Markets; Banking Industry; Mexico
Haber, Stephen, and Aldo Musacchio. Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System]. Mexico City, Mexico: Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, 2014, Spanish ed. Electronic.
- 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
McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao, and Hong Zhang. "Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2012.
- Web
Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
With their shallow draft, steamships could sail closer to land and venture into the rivers. After the Second Opium War between Great Britain and China (1856–1860), additional Chinese coastal ports as well as... View Details
- December 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
In the Eye of a Geopolitical Storm: South Korea's Lotte Group, China and the U.S. THAAD Missile Defense System (A)
By: Andy Zelleke and Brian Tilley
By late 2016 and early 2017, Lotte Group, a South Korean chaebol (large family-controlled business group) had become embroiled not only in the domestic political turmoil surrounding President Park Geun-hye, but also—uncomfortably—in a four-country geopolitical storm. ... View Details
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese... View Details
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
records relating to the nineteenth-century China trade, present a look into momentous events concerning Sino-Western relations as well as the day-to-day activities of American traders in the treaty ports.... View Details
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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Exploring Trade Links in the Interior After the Second Opium War (1856-1860), the opening of new ports and riverways sparked tremendous growth in trade. Westerners now ventured from the treaty ports into the interior of View Details
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
China and also became a major source of currency. 16 Millions of dollars’ worth of opium were imported into the country, distributed into the interior, and sold at retail shops... View Details
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
East were being more closely drawn into the mainstream of world trade.” 45 Albert Heard to Augustine Heard II, June 3, 1861. HC: HL-35. John Heard, Diary, 1891. HC: FP-4, p. 164a. Lockwood, p. 110. Hao, The Comprador in Nineteenth Century... View Details
- October 2022
- Case
Star Magnolia Capital: Becoming Experts at Finding Experts
By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, River Ewing and Grace Headinger
Shinya Deguchi, Founder and Managing Partner of Star Magnolia Capital, a Shanghai-based multi-family office (MFO), considered how to convince a new prospective family that the MFO’s endowment model approach would best suit their needs. In recent decades, there has been... View Details
Keywords: China; Asia; Family Office; Shanghai; Financial Industry; Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Human Capital; Family Business; Financial Services Industry; China; Shanghai
Cohen, Lauren, Hao Gao, River Ewing, and Grace Headinger. "Star Magnolia Capital: Becoming Experts at Finding Experts." Harvard Business School Case 223-038, October 2022.
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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade
States made its foray into the China trade after independence from Great Britain and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The following year the first American ship, Empress of View Details
- 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
McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao, and Hong Zhang. "Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation." Tsinghua University Case, 2012.
- Web
A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
records relating to the nineteenth-century China trade, present a look into momentous events concerning Sino-Western relations as well as the day-to-day activities of American traders in the treaty ports.... View Details
- Web
Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese... View Details