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Shanzai! MediaTek and the
Shih, Willy; Chien, Chen-Fu; Wang, Jyun-ChengCase HBS-610081-EThe term "White Box" is often used to describe products without a brand name. Such products are assembled from standardized parts, and they became a very popular category of desktop PCs. Hsinchu, Taiwan based MediaTek is a fabless semiconductor company that unleashed a white box market in mobile phone handsets by offering an innovative "complete solution" for 2.5G and 2.7G handset manufacturers, dramatically lowering the barriers to entry into th...Starting at €8.20
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Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past, Teaching Note
Di Tella, Rafael; Pons, Vincent; Mehta, Sarah; Lane, DavidTeaching Note HBS-717055-EEconomicsTeaching note for case 717034.Starting at €0.00
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Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past
Di Tella, Rafael; Pons, Vincent; Mehta, Sarah; Lane, DavidCase HBS-717034-EEconomicsOver the past several decades, rapid growth in Chinese investment and trade has created for Africa a new development partner. China represents an alternative to U.S. and European nations whose past imperialism, resource avarice, and economic dictates-through the conditionality of IMF and World Bank lending-remain a negative legacy. This case uses the story of Zambia's Chambishi copper mine, which was purchased in 1998 by the state-owned China Non...Starting at €8.20