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- 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
- 01 Mar 2011
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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
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Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2007
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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
- 01 Dec 2011
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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...
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- 13 Jul 2011
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China Boot Camp
organized by C.B. Sung (MBA ’50), a Chinese native who, upon graduation, found himself unable to go home after his country’s fall to Communist forces in 1949. With the gradual opening of China, Sung, a career executive at Motorola, made...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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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...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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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...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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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...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
history. The excitement traditionally generated by these annual events was further heightened this year as participants gathered in Hong Kong, the gateway city to China, which on July 1 will revert from British rule to Chinese...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
says. “And that was overly optimistic; it worked only when everything clicked.” The subsequent national conversation about minimizing risk through reshoring—that is, bringing American manufacturing facilities back to the United...
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- 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...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
was through exporting manufactured goods to the insatiably spendthrift U.S. consumer. To ensure that those exports were irresistibly cheap, China had to fight the tendency for the Chinese currency to...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Emerging Information
membership in exchange for the company's frank assessment of the service. More recently, Mueller added information about Russian and Chinese aviation in response to a request from a large aerospace View Details
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Paul Michelman
- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
demands of increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2011
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Snappy Salute
he can’t get to a gym while traveling.” Pinchuk, who joined Snap-on in 2002 from Carrier Corp., told the Journal Sentinel that while China will eventually be a big market for his auto-repair tools, right now the Chinese automotive fleet...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
the next forum, set for June 15–17 in Shanghai. It’s a great opportunity for alumni to hear from global business leaders, U.S. and Chinese officials, and HBS faculty. While visiting Shanghai, forum participants will experience firsthand...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants...
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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Reimagining China and India
advantage of China’s strengths, and for Chinese entrepreneurs to reciprocate, something that has taken root. Annual trade between the two countries has raced from near zero several years ago to more than $20 billion last year. For their...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Alumni Books
equity, and real estate. KFC in China: Secret Recipe for Success by Warren Liu (MBA ’81) (Wiley) Liu examines the major factors that catapulted KFC to the top of the Chinese restaurant- service industry in less than two decades. He...
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