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What Chinese Companies Want from International Deals

Harvard Business Review

Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. Geely launched new models at around double the price of its other cars. The acquisition was a huge success.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%. In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% billion in 2010. In 2011, the U.S.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. Fostering innovation.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively. And rarely is an American product or service the low-price leader in India’s market.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 coffee sector revenue grew from $28 billion in the late 1990s to $47 billion in 2010. Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. of revenue growth. Yet total U.S.

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