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- 14 Mar 2017
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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
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
a new luxury brand specializing in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Joan E. Ricart, and Jorge Tarzijan Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198701873.do February 2015 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Improving...
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Carmen Nobel
- 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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by Staff
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
in engineering and infrastructure construction, its challenges in planning and innovation, and the special things that a firm must do to compete successfully in the Chinese market. We conclude with China's approach to the global economy...
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Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
their economies opened up, reducing the competitiveness between them and enhancing the complementarities. Some companies have already developed strategies that make use of both countries' capabilities. India's Mahindra & Mahindra developed a tractor domestically...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
Power Richard H.K. VietorHarvard Business School Case 710-013 Suntech, a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and solar panels, is the third largest solar company in the world. About 90% of its sales...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515072-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-046 W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W.R. Grace & Co. filed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
ensuing ecological risks and costs. We then discuss how an operations management lens contributes to the issue and criteria to help the Sustainable Operations Management perspective endure. This article relates to a presentation delivered by Morris Cohen for Paul's...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
an inability to ignore the sunk costs associated with the stocks' past underperformance or a conscious desire to protect their careers by not admitting prior mistakes. Furthermore, we present evidence that selling off loser stocks helps improve fund performance. A Fine...
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- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
1st full-scale manufacturing plant overseas? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818116-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-414 Pebble: Wearables Pioneer In the summer of 2016, wearables “wunderkind” and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
allegations. The case provides an opportunity to review Value Partners' research approach to investing in Chinese companies and to assess the merits of the Evergrande allegations. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113113-PDF-ENG...
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Anna Secino
- 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
- 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