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- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
the parent company of a 100%-owned subsidiary, Huijin, which invested solely in key state-owned financial institutions in China. Moreover, the fact that CIC was a SWF presented broader political challenges for it, its shareholder the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust their overseas partners differently depending on the partners' cultural ethnicity. In a field survey of 108 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
period has a significant persistent effect on post-colonial outcomes. Cases & Course MaterialsBaosteel Group: Governance with Chinese Characteristics Harvard Business School Case 309-098 The new outsider-dominated board of directors...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
is to middle managers, who may become obsolete when layers of managers are no longer needed to convey messages up and down the organization. The key to success in the social networking era is to empower the people who do the actual work—designing products, View Details
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- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to innovate. The result has been an exodus of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
and Galanz, which has brought microwave ovens to millions of Chinese consumers previously considered too poor to buy such an appliance. What’s more, the essentials of development can be “pulled in” by market-creating innovators—and over...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
away from Brazil (as Vale increased its exports to China and purchased Chinese vessels to ship iron ore to Asia) were reasons to start an open campaign to pressure Vale and Roger Agnelli to invest in integrated steel mills in Brazil. In...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
in improving processes. Retailers can certainly learn from the auto industry's experience. Like in manufacturing a few decades ago, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in retail operations today. However, to harvest these fruits retailers...
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- 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007
company is deciding how it could apply the lessons of the Chinese experience, as well as the lessons of its experience across Asia, Europe, and Latin America, to India. First of all, should Lincoln Electric own a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
distinguished body of research has documented the importance of user innovations. For the most part, this literature has found that users innovate but do not commercialize their innovations. Instead, users benefit from using their innovations and allow View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
different cities across China. As competition for investments becomes more intense, Jin and Li must decide the growth and strategic direction that SCGC should pursue. The case highlights the important success factors for VC/PE investing in China as well as the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
Yi-Ling WeiHarvard Business School Case 610-005 Tony Lo, the CEO of Giant Manufacturing, the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, finally realized that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers when even his wife...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
to influence prices set by downstream retailers. Although manufacturers expect retail partners to comply with MAP policies, violations of MAP are common in practice. In this research, we document and explain both the extent and the depth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52379 March 2017 Politics & Society Land Institutions and Chinese Political Economy: Institutional Complementarities and Macroeconomic Management By: Rithmire, Meg Abstract—This article...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
symbiotic economic relationship that has developed between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. The entry of Chinese labor into the world economy has significantly boosted the returns on capital relative to the...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
manufacturer (ODM)? Tung Lung Metal Industries Co. Ltd. is a Taiwanese maker of door lock hardware that is faced with the question of whether to continue to focus on its ODM business or start placing more emphasis on its own brand...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
Abstract—We explore how people balance their needs to belong and to be different from their friends by studying their choices of a virtual-house wall color on a leading Chinese social-networking site. The setting enables us to randomize...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost...
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Sean Silverthorne