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- 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
- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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
- 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
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunity or bubble] will happen at the national level at once is a big question mark." Warren Ching comments, "The Chinese government wants nothing but [to save] face. They will not allow this kind of economic meltdown."...
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by James Heskett
- 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...
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- 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...
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Manufacturing/Energy
- 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...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 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...
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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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- 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...
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by Julie Jette
- 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
- 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...
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- 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 Mar 2009
- News
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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- 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...
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- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
manufacturer learned after it entered a joint venture with a Chinese company and hired a local manager to run the Chinese operation. As described in Charles Olivier's 1996...
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by James K. Sebenius
- Web
Business Cards Index_c6d0d0c3
LA Misc. Industries Copper, Brass, and Sheet Iron Work The Eureka Car Coupler Co. Grand Rapids MI Misc. Industries Freight Car Coupler Anthony Fisher Washinton D.C. Misc. Industries Scourer Kau Woo & Co. Shanghai China Misc. Industries Dlr. In View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
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