Publications

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-045. View Details

Keywords: 5G; Technology; China

April 2022
Article

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into a major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’... View Details

Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Corruption; Foreign Direct Investment; Political Economy; State-owned Enterprises; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China

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2021
Working Paper

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’ economic... View Details

Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China

2019
Chapter

Local States of Play: Land and Urban Politics in Reform-Era China

Book Abstract: Although comparative politics is conventionally seen as the study of politics across countries, the field has a longstanding and increasingly prominent tradition in national contexts; focusing on subnational units, institutions, actors and processes.... View Details

March 2017
Article

Land Institutions and Chinese Political Economy: Institutional Complementarities and Macroeconomic Management

This article critically examines the origins and evolution of China’s unique land institutions and situates land policy in the larger context of China’s reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the... View Details

Keywords: China; Economic Reform; Land Politics; Macromanagement; Government and Politics; Macroeconomics; China

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09 Apr 2025
News

High Stakes: A Framework for Geopolitical Risk Management

21 Jul 2024
News

7 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into a Secret Investor in Jack Ma’s Companies

15 Nov 2022
News

Xi’s Three Big Pivots Rescue China Markets From Downward Spiral

24 Apr 2014
News

Tackling the data dilemma

In 2008, Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) was among those the New York Times identified as Most Likely to Be First Female US President. After a foray into politics—a gubernatorial bid in California—Whitman became president and CEO of... View Details

December 2022
Teaching Note

Snapp: Scaling Under Sanctions in Iran (A) and (B)

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 721-020 and 721-036. View Details

February 2023
Teaching Note

China's Management of COVID-19: People’s War or Chernobyl Moment? (A)

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-035. View Details

Keywords: China; Coronavirus; Coronavirus Pandemic; China

2020
Working Paper

The Resurgent Role of the State in China's Economy: Experimentation, Domestic Politics, and U.S. Policy

Keywords: China

April 2015 (Revised January 2016)
Case

Egypt: The End of the Revolution?

Educators

December 2013
Article

Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China