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Goran Kapicic at Actavis China
Author: Lowe, Joo Yong
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
The managing director of a multinational company turns a loss-making business into a profit-making venture by using his unique brand of leadership to change the organizational culture and develop a responsible proactive attitude in his employees.
Food for Thought: The 2008 China Milk Scandal
Authors: Lim, Vivien K.G.; Rajah, Rashimah; Prasad, Smrithi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
In 2008, a scandal in China involving milk products tainted with melamine (a chemical used in plastic production) brought regional and global attention to the country. The case illustrates how the pressure of rapid economic development resulted in measures to cut costs at the expense of consumer safety and health, bringing into question the ethics underlying business practices in the country.
Chairman Zhang and Broad Group: Growth Dilemmas
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Dai, Nancy Hua; Yin, Lynn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Zhang Yue, founder and chairman of Broad Group, had developed a series of innovative products aimed at solving China's environmental problems. Would scaling the new businesses result in compromises to the mission and values that guided the company? If so, was the overall environmental impact from the new building technology worth the cost?
Tianlong Company and the Toxic Capsule Scandal
Authors: Dong, Lili; Beamish, Paul W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
On April 15, 2012, China Central Television disclosed that several capsule producers in Ru’ao had illegally used industrial-grade gelatin to produce medical capsules. The capsules were found to contain excessive chromium, a heavy metal harmful to human health. The director of Tianlong must decide how to address customers’ concerns and keep Tianlong’s good reputation from being damaged as a result of the current scandal.
Enterprise Ownership and Control in China: Governance with a Chinese Twist
Authors: Ho, Daniel; Lau, Alex; Young, Angus
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Inefficient state-owned enterprises in China were compelled to restructure to remain competitive, which resulted in phenomenal economic growth. However, this transplantation process did not occur without problems, and certain domestic attributes had to be supplemented in corporate legislation to correspond with Chinese socialistic objectives and cultural values. This article analyzes the key attributes of Chinese corporate governance and regulations concerning shareholders’ rights...
Urbanizing China
Authors: Iyer, Lakshmi; Donovan, G. A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
China's rapid urbanization, and the accompanying conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses, raised a number of economic, social, and political concerns. How would the challenges of urbanization affect the business environment for private firms? The success and viability of China's overall growth strategy depended crucially on managing a successful urban transition.
Wal-Mart in China 2012
Authors: Farhoomand, Ali F.; Garrett, Linda Holland
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2012
In this updated case on Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, the company remains actively committed to rolling out and refining its Every Day Low Price strategy across China, while making smaller, yet important strides to be locally relevant to its Chinese consumers...
Novo Nordisk: Managing Sustainability at Home and Abroad
Authors: Knudsen, Jette Steen; Brown, Dana
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Novo Nordisk is well known for striving to integrate its business activities in a financially, environmentally, and socially responsible way, and many Novo Nordisk employees proudly refer to Novo Nordisk as a “triple bottom line (TBL) company.” Novo Nordisk therefore faces new challenges concerning how best to organize its TBL program in a way that ensures a comprehensive approach throughout the organization, yet allows Novo Nordisk China to adopt initiatives that fit the Chinese business context.
Low-carbon, Indigenous Innovation in China
Author: Vietor, Richard H.K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
For the past seven years or so, the Chinese government has been powering ahead with industrial policies to promote low-carbon energy technologies--wind, solar, electric batteries and vehicles, nuclear power, and even carbon capture and sequestration. The net effects of these initiatives leave low-carbon energy industries in the United States in the dust...
Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings -- A Corporate Governance Drama
Authors: Kirby, William C.; Manty, Tracy Yuen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant investment in the company. The venture capital firm was confident that it and the current management could work together to revamp the fortunes of China's leading electronic retailer. However, it did not anticipate the power Huang had behind bars…
DHL Supply Chain
Authors: Chu, Singfat; Ringrose, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The degradation of the environment has led many governments and customers to pressure businesses to make their operations more environmentally friendly. The case illustrates an effective example of corporate social responsibility.
Phase Separation Solutions (PS2): The China Question
Authors: Peng, George; Beamish, Paul W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Paul J. Hill School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
A small high-tech company is simultaneously faced with two separate but significant growth opportunities in China. The case is intended for use in strategy, international business or entrepreneurship courses.
Dialogue in the Dark, Hong Kong: A Role Model for Social Enterprises in the Making
Authors: Au, Kevin; Tsui, Anna Po Yung; Chan, Elsa Tsz Ying
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Although it has to raise the awareness of the public toward blind or visually impaired people and promote employment opportunities for them, Dialogue in the Dark Hong Kong aims to achieve financial success — financial sustainability and dividend payout to investors.
Journey to the East: Natcore Technology in China
Authors: Abrami, Regina M.; Shaffer, Matthew; Zhang, Weigi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Why is a U.S. solar technology firm manufacturing in China instead of the U.S.? Chuck Provini faces this question not just from the market, but also from the U.S. government...
China Life: Micro Insurance for the Poor
Authors: Cole, Shawn; Xu, Lilei
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
China Life must decide whether to accept the government's "invitation" to develop a micro-insurance product for the rural poor. Can it be done profitably?
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
Authors: Duhigg, Charles; Barboza, David
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2012
In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions...
James Bowman and Coopertree Capital in China
Authors: Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, Jenny; Keevil, Adrian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
James Bowman, a founding partner of a private equity fund manager based in New York City, has traveled to China to meet with a China Power Investment Corporation manager in the hope of cultivating a business relationship. But Bowman is flabbergasted when the manager, in what is supposed to be an introductory conversation, asks that Bowman deposit $800,000 into a Chinese banking account.
Using Ownership Incentives in China
Author: Carleton, Tamara
Product Type: Cases
Source: Innovation Leadership Board LLC
Publication Year: 2011
Roy Weber met Cheng Wang, a business consultant and Chinese entrepreneur, at Cheng’s hotel bar in Silicon Valley. Although Roy was slightly familiar with Chinese business practices, he welcomed more advice from a Chinese national. Could Roy transplant Silicon Valley’s model of employee ownership to China, and what would this process entail for a technology startup?
Longtop Financial Technologies (A, B, C)
Authors: Hawkins, David F.; Lobb, Annelena; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
It was April 2011, and Wall Street had its eyes on China. A flurry of Chinese companies had listed on U.S. exchanges in the previous years, with investors cheering them on and snapping up shares. But some of the companies were starting to have serious problems...
China Plays Heavy Metal: Rare Earth Elements and the US Defence Industry
Authors: Ramon-Berjano, Carola; Schuetz, Marcus
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2011
In 2010, 97% of the world's supply of rare earth elements (REE) came from mines in China. The United States faced the challenge of rebuilding domestic REE supplies to achieve self-sufficiency and protect the environment.
Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Zhang, Jianjun; Zhou, Yanhua
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2011
This article analyzes the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and explores its implications for doing business there. It identifies three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems: priorities and incentives, bureaucratic alignment, and transparency and monitoring.
COSCO: Implementing Sustainability
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Yin, Lynn; Yang, Dongning
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
In 2005 COSCO announced it would join the United Nations Global Compact and initiated sustainability reporting practices. How far should COSCO go in promoting the sustainability system as a stand-alone product? What were the next steps in sustainability reporting, and should COSCO try to attain even higher reporting standards in the future? What would be the value in reaching higher sustainability and reporting standards, and how would internal and external stakeholders react? What challenges lay ahead for the consistent implementation of higher standards across COSCO's subsidiaries?
China Minmetals Corporation and Noranda Inc.
Author: Litvak, Isaiah A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The proposed takeover of Noranda Inc. (one of the biggest mineral players in the world) by the Chinese state owned enterprise, China Minmetals Corporation, was cause for Canadian government concern as it required some understanding about the workings and objectives of state owned enterprises. There was particular concern around the labour issues and human rights violations in China...
A New Approach to China: Google and Censorship in the Chinese Market
Authors: Brett, Jeanne; Pilcher, Lauren; Sell, Lara-Christina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
This case concerns the changes in Google and the Chinese government's environment that led to Google withdrawing services from google.cn and the Chinese government saving face by renewing the google.cn license. Google was caught between pleasing its shareholders and preserving its reputation for free access to information, while China was balancing the desire for cutting-edge search technology and the concern that liberal access to information would undermine its political-economic model...
Foxconn Technology Group (A, B)
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Cheng, Beiting
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The case focuses on the challenges that Foxconn faced after a series of suicides took place at its plants.
Canadian Solar
Authors: Beamish, Paul W.; Mitchell, Jordan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
In late September 2009, the CEO of the Nasdaq-traded solar cell and module manufacturer, Canadian Solar, was at an inflection point in the formation of its international strategy. Canadian Solar had decided to focus on 10 major markets in the next two to three years where strong renewable policies existed. Students are challenged with deciding if any changes to the company's global strategy are necessary.
Chinese Fireworks Industry - Revised
Author: Beamish, Paul W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Starting from the mid-1990s, safety concerns led governments both in China and abroad to set up stricter regulations for the Chinese fireworks industry. At the same time, there was rapid growth in the number of small family-run fireworks workshops, whose relentless price-cutting drove down profit margins.
ECG Group: Fraud and Liquidation of a Joint Venture in China
Authors: O'Connor, Neale; Loo, Grace
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2011
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The case explores the challenges and difficulties of running a joint venture, especially when more than one jurisdiction is involved. It alerts students to the importance of a vigilant monitoring system in joint-venture exercises and challenges them to take on the role of a negotiator in a difficult business situation.
Kitchen Best: Ethics when Doing Cross-boundary Business in Southern China
Authors: Goo, Say; Loo, Grace
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2011
Kitchen Best is a Hong Kong based electrical-appliance company. A series of instances of misconduct and unethical behavior makes the CEO realize that the business is suffering from a lack of internal control. The case highlights legal and cultural differences that pose a challenge in maintaining ethical standards when doing business internationally.
Privatization of the Tiger Leaping House in Nanjing, PRC
Author: Grainger, Stephen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The Liang family left China’s mainland under pressure in 1949; they resettled in Taiwan, resumed their hospitality business and now, two generations later, return to find their family's old guest house is a run-down state-owned enterprise. How will they deal with this privatization and the inevitable bureaucracy of purchasing, demolition and rebuilding the old guest house? How will they convert human resources trained under planned economy conditions into dynamic employees operating in the market economy while being culturally sensitive?
CNOOC: Building a World-class Energy Company
Authors: Bower, Joseph L.; Dai, Nancy Hua; Chen, Michael Shih-ta
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Fu Chengyu, CEO to lead China National Offshore Oil Company, believes that the way CNOOC has been managed, a blend of market orientation, sustainability, and concern for employees and the nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to select new areas to explore and new sources of energy, and to develop managers with the capability of leading those businesses in the face of world class competitors.
Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs
Authors: Macomber, John D.; Carr, Chad M.; Zhao, Fan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately held company providing the entire supply chain of water treatment, waste water, and integrated municipal solid waste capabilities. However, state owned enterprises can observe the success of private business and can enter and compete using their own skills, contacts, and inexpensive capital.
The Tzu Chi Foundation's China Relief Mission
Authors: Leonard, Herman B.; Chu, Yi Kwan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Rooted in the value of compassion, the organization has many unusual operating features -- including having no long term plan. This case explores the basic operating approach of the organization and invites students to explain the overall effectiveness and success of the organization and its surprising success in securing an operating license in China.
Winds of Change: Corporate Social Responsibility in China
Authors: Sarkis, Joseph; Ni, Na; Zhu, Qinghua
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2011
Chinese companies are not the standard setters when it comes to Corporate Social Responsibility. But, contrary to many published reports, they are implementing and following best practices...
Global Expansion at Sanford C. Bernstein
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Teppert, Dana M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Discusses the leadership challenges of building and leveraging a global platform, the challenges of driving organizational change, and the role of leaders in creating a supportive environment for collaborative work from the perspective of the leader.
Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (A, B)
Authors: Sebenius, James K.; Qian, Cheng
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Seeking to secure a large supply of specialty cotton in an ethical and socially responsible fashion, Esquel undertook a major 2002 initiative to negotiate value-creating contracts among itself, local Xinjiang municipal governments, and cotton farmers.
Issues for Responsible Investors: Hong Kong Real Estate
Author: Lewis, Rebecca
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
Shareholders in Hong Kong, and around the world, are increasingly seeking real estate investments that take environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into account to generate sustainable returns, better buildings and stronger communities. Indeed, from a risk mitigation standpoint, proactive ESG management has enabled Hong Kong’s leading property companies to respond more quickly and effectively to a range of new measures introduced by the government during 2010, including the introduction of mandatory building energy codes and legislation on the responsible marketing of properties.
Reverse Engineering, Learning, and Innovation
Author: Shih, Willy
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
This background reading looks at reverse engineering in the context of piracy and knock-offs in emerging markets like China.
East of Africa (and West of China): Chinese Business in Africa
Authors: Schuetz, Marcus; Ramon-Berjano, Carola
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2010
This case discusses China's growing business ventures in the African continent. It allows for a discussion about applying business models and strategies in different countries, as well as the risks entailed. This is more relevant in the presence of weak governance, corruption and human rights issues. Issues such as food safety, land outsourcing, and local employment generation versus imported workforce are discussed.
Issues for Responsible Investors: Forestry in Asia
Authors: Cheng, Billy; Le Clue, Sophie
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
This report attempts to outline the environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues that responsible investors should consider when looking at the forestry sector and, by association, the pulp and paper industry in East, South and Southeast Asia.
Crown Worldwide: Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility in Business
Authors: Farhoomand, Ali F.; Lai, Ricky; Woo, Claudia H.L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2010
Founded in 1965 by Jim Thompson, the Crown Worldwide Group began as a small moving company in Japan, shifting its headquarters to Hong Kong in the mid-1970s. Within 30 years, Crown had became the world's largest privately held relocation and logistics enterprise. With growing concern among customers about CSR, the company recognized that CSR must be integrated into its corporate strategy and day-to-day business operations to achieve sustainability for both the company and society.
Viagra in China: A Prolonged Battle over Intellectual Property Rights
Authors: Li, Yahong; Lu, Jiangyong; Tao, Zhigang; Wei, Shangjin; Chan, Penelope
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2010
Viagra's market entry into China was met with an 11-year battle with local drug companies over Viagra's patent, Chinese trademark and three-dimensional trademark. Pfizer's management is trying to figure out what went wrong in its market entry strategy, how to generate more sales before its patent expires in 2014, and what should be done to better protect the IPR of the drugs it intends to launch in the country.
Follow the Renminbi
Author: Yaghmaian, Behzad
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2010
Beijing is using currency revaluation as a part of a larger strategy to change from being a producer of low-value-added exports to a leader in high-tech, green production.
In China, a Labor Movement Aided by Modern Technology
Authors: Barboza, David; Bradsher, Keith
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2010
It is labor revolt by text message and video upload, underwritten by the Chinese government.
Chinese Business Mogul Sentenced to Prison
Author: Wines, Michael
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2010
A high-school dropout who built the Chinese home appliance chain Gome into a multibillion-dollar empire was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Tuesday after being convicted of insider trading, bribery and other crimes, government prosecutors reported.
Trojan Technologies Inc: The China Opportunity
Authors: Bansal, Pratima; Beamish, Paul W.; Jiang, Ruihua
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
Trojan sold water disinfecting equipment, and the senior market associate's job was to find new areas for growth. China was particularly intriguing because it had as much water as Canada, but 40 times the population, and its economic boom would further stress current water resources.
Hunghom Peninsula in Hong Kong (A, B, C)
Authors: Tsai, Terence; Liu, Shubo Philip
Product Type: Cases
Source: China Europe International Business School, Shanghai
Publication Year: 2010
Hunghom Peninsula was a residential building complex with a superior location in Hong Kong. The harbor-view flats were originally built under the government’s abandoned Private Sector Participation Scheme, a program intended to provide affordable housing for middle-class residents. After taking the project, the consortium announced the demolition of these buildings to make way for luxury apartments. The proposal drew strong oppositions from the general public.
Business Ethics in China: Resources
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Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: Santa Clara University
Publication Year: 2010
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has a long-standing interest in business ethics in the Chinese context.
China is Undergoing a Transformation...Yet Again
Author: Delios, Andrew Karl
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2010
China's hard-charging economy may be getting a little ahead of itself. While manufacturing processes and capabilities continue to improve, the regulatory infrastructure appears to be standing still.
Corporate governance in China
Author: Knowledge@SMU
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: Knowledge@SMU
Publication Year: 2009
Professor TJ Wong from the City University of Hong Kong (CUHK) discusses corporate governance in China as part of the Ho Bee Professorship Chinese Economy and Business lecture series.
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