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CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online
Chu, Michael; Ji, John S.; Dai, Nancy HuaCase HBS-316151-EThe world's largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender annually disbursing over a million loans totaling $10 billion, China's CreditEase, must decide whether to IPO in the NYSE its online lending platform, Yirendai, before the year-end window closes in 2015. Yirendai sought to capture its customers and make virtually instantaneous credit decisions online. CreditEase's commercial success makes funding Yirendai's growth not an issue. P2P lending in China, a...Starting at €8.20
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Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise
Chu, Michael; Kirby, William C.; Hua Dai, Nancy; Wang, YuanzhuoCase HBS-318078-EEconomicsThis case tells the story of how Wang Minghui, Chairman of Yunnan Baiyao Group since 1999, transformed a single-product traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) state-owned enterprise (SOE) into a major diversified consumer health player in China's highly competitive fast-moving consumer goods market. The case also traces the development of the company from a private business to an state-owned enterprise (SOE) and then to a SOE under mixed state-privat...Starting at €8.20
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Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B)
McGee, Henry W.; Hsieh, Nien-he; Schwalb, NathanielCase HBS-318079-EThis case supplements "Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A), covering select events in 2017, including 1) a mass shooting in which U.S. law enforcement was not able to access the shooter's encrypted iPhone and 2) Apple's compliance with the Chinese government's request to make it more difficult for iPhone users to download "Virtual Private Network" apps.Starting at €5.74
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The Powers That Be (Internet Edition): Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft
Rayport, Jeffrey; Kelley, Julia; Schwalb, NathanielCase HBS-818111-EEntrepreneurshipAs of early 2018, five U.S. technology companies-Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft-were among the largest companies in the world. Similarly, three Chinese technology firms-Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, or BAT-had emerged as global players due in part to the protection of China's "Great Firewall," which made it more difficult for foreign companies to compete in Chinese markets. As these companies continued to scale by branching into ne...Starting at €8.20