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Taking a Chinese Company Global (Spanish version)
Khanna, Tarun; Vargas, Ingrid; Palepu, Krishna G.Case HBS-718S02StrategyIn 2005, Haier, China's leading appliance manufacturer, had over $12 billion in worldwide sales and was the third-ranked global appliance brand behind Whirlpool and GE. Describes Haier's rise from a defunct refrigerator factory in China's Qingdao province to an international player with nearly $4 billion in overseas sales. Haier had followed a nontraditional expansion strategy of entering the developed markets of Europe and the United States as a...Starting at €8.20
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Subsidies and the China Price
Haley, Usha C.V.; Haley, George T.Article HBS-F0806C-EService and Operations ManagementNew research suggests that Chinese companies' price advantage comes not from low-cost labor but from massive government subsidies. That finding has major implications for foreign firms that compete with, or source from, those companies.Starting at €8.20