Chinese Manufacturing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

done, but we retain U.S. production. That flexibility and one-stop shopping is a key to attracting business.” For manufacturing operations conducted in China, CGM has experienced on-site teams that are well-versed in View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

purchasing, had just been notified by the contract manufacturer of SmartPak’s dog food that the weight-control formula might contain melamine. The substance, which has been used by Chinese View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

trade relations between the two expanded. China, for a time, became a primary manufacturer of goods for US markets--economists estimate that up to 2 million manufacturing jobs shifted from America to China.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

market. So the future of Li & Fung is selling to the Chinese market, not just sourcing manufactured exports from China to the West. In fact, we expect to expand into selling to India as well. Those are the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

China to buy more American goods—gets the publicity. But it’s likely to have less long-term impact than if China would agree to relax Chinese ownership requirements on American firms desiring to do business in that country through... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

15 Nov 2016
News

China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective

Second-year MBA student Anna Koscielecka (MBA 2016) spent two weeks in China during a January 2016 Immersive Field Course (IFC) that expanded her global perspective. “We fully immersed ourselves in Chinese business culture,” says... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Short Takes

Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

Profile

Yubo Cui

and its Chinese stakeholders. In a joint venture with BYD Auto, Daimler was determined to develop and manufacture an affordable electric car. “Our goal was to make it a family car, not a luxury toy,” says... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

officials show no signs of changing course and backing away from further market reforms. But external criticism of the country’s uneven progress in implementing the trade agreement has grown stronger in recent months. U.S. manufacturers... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

important." Duan Yongping, the founder, Chairman and CEO of BBK Electronics Corp., a Chinese company that manufactures consumer electronics, also said that Chinese... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

24 Apr 2014
News

From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’

Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring young mainland View Details

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

regarding manufacturing activity, exports, and imports. When China made a currency adjustment, market participants took fright, fearing a much bigger slowdown than they expected. The wheels came off an over-exuberant View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

research fellow at Professor Clay Christensen’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, thinks that the smaller, scrappier Chinese automakers may turn out to be the true disruptive innovators of the global EV market. By View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

protectionist policies potentially being imposed by the Indian government, will Indian solar companies be able to meet its deployment goals without the use of Chinese solar modules? Will Indian solar module View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk

his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano, a wildly successful casual... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

other three companies could have provided services to Chinese customers without physically locating their servers in China." After reading the March column, one of my Chinese students asked me if enough... View Details