Publications

December 2007
Article

China + India: The Power of Two

By: Tarun Khanna

China and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few companies from both nations have been quick to gain competitive advantages by viewing the two as symbiotic. If Western corporations fail to do the same, they will lose their competitive... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Economic Growth; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; China; India

01 Dec 2015
News

Accelerating Research in China

(L to R) Ke Wei, Julia Yang, Will Plummer, Jing Hong, James Qin, Grace Ge, and Tim Wang (all MBA 2005) are contributors to the MBA Class of 2005 Fund for China From his perspective as a business leader in Shanghai, William Plummer (MBA... View Details

27 Jul 2021

HBS Perspectives from China

Please join to hear current students from China discuss the HBS experience. You will have the opportunity to learn more about topics such as academics, recruiting, the social experience, what living in Boston is like, and the admissions... View Details

TeachingInterests

Senior Executive Leadership Program - China (SELPC)

By: Stefan H. Thomke

Today's global business environment offers many exciting prospects for talented executives and ambitious organizations. To take full advantage of emerging opportunities in Greater China and beyond, businesses... View Details

April 2014
Teaching Note

The China Entrepreneurs Forum

By: William C. Kirby and Erica M. Zendell

08 Dec 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Party-State Capitalism in China

Keywords: by Margaret Pearson, Meg Rithmire, and Kellee Tsai

February 2012 (Revised May 2012)
Case

The China Entrepreneurs Forum

By: William C. Kirby, G.A. Donovan and Tracy Yuen Manty

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; China

January 2010
Teaching Note

IFRS in China (TN)

By: Karthik Ramanna

Teaching Note for [110037]. View Details

Keywords: Planning; Adoption; State Ownership; Corporate Disclosure; Interests; Economic Growth; Financial Reporting; Standards; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Power and Influence; China

January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Google in China (A)

By: John A. Quelch

In January 2010, Google threatened in a public statement to stop censoring its search results on its google.cn website, as required by Chinese authorities. Should Google exit China? Or attempt a compromise with the Chinese government? View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; China

December 1999
Case

Avon Products China (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Jennifer Gui

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Ventures; Ethics; Government and Politics; Globalization; Global Strategy; China

01 Jun 2012
News

They Call Him Mr. China

management gap he both anticipated and greatly underestimated. Against all odds, and the advice of many, Perkowski ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to chase his entrepreneurial dreams. A... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

December 1997 (Revised December 1997)
Case

Doing Business in China

By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu

Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; China

March 1994 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Emerson Electric in China

By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Thomas A Gerace

Keywords: Electronics Industry; China

October 1998
Teaching Note

NutraSweet in China TN

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George

Teaching Note for (9-397-029) and (9-398-087). View Details

Keywords: China

February 2010
Teaching Note

Sealed Air China (TN)

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for [308051]. View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Experience and Expertise; Market Entry and Exit; Production; Performance Efficiency; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Service Industry; China; Shanghai

27 Nov 2013
News

Five Challenges China Must Meet by 2034

07 Mar 2011
News

Adventure Travel in China

Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality

1984
Book

Germany and Republican China

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: China; Germany

February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
Case

Yahoo! in China (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Daniel Baer

In 2007 Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo!, was lambasted by U.S. Representative Tom Lantos, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, for Yahoo's role in the arrest and imprisonment of Chinese journalist and democracy advocate Shi Tao. The case describes the... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Compliance; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Business and Government Relations; Internet; Information Technology Industry; China; United States