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Appellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard
Kirby, William C.; Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-309075-EGrace Vineyard was a rare family-owned, private winery in China that was set on establishing itself as a world-renowned, quality vintner. Judy Leissner, the second generation company leader was at a crossroads in how she wanted to grow the business that her father founded in 1997. Their wines were rapidly growing a strong following and had won international awards. How could the company capitalize on this success? Should Grace expand its operatio...Starting at €8.20
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CNOOC: Building a World-Class Energy Company
Bower, Joseph L.; Dai, Nancy Hua; Shih-ta Chen, MichaelCase HBS-311074-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Fu Chengyu is the fifth CEO to lead China National Offshore Oil Company - an SOE founded in 1982 to exploit Chinese offshore deposits. In 2010 he is trying to decide how to drive further growth in a company that has grown 556 times in less than 30 years, with profits grown 2600 times. He believes that the way CNOOC has been managed, a blend of market orientation and concern ...Starting at €8.20
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Hang Lung Properties and the Chengdu Decision (A)
Macomber, John D.; Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-210089-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project cost might be in excess of $1billion US for over 4,000,000 square feet of building. Hang Lung Properties has enjoyed success in residential building in Hong Kong but has focused on very limited projects in China, no...Starting at €8.20
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The Hong Kong & China Gas Company Ltd.: Negotiating Joint Ventures in China
Sebenius, James K.; Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Samant, MedhaCase HBS-909028-ETo deliver 5-6 major new Chinese joint ventures annually, Hong Kong China Gas executives began extracting cross-border negotiating lessons from their 80 existing Chinese JVs. Chairman Alfred Chan and CEO Peter Wong knew that HKGC's growth strategy required significant mainland expansion through negotiating joint-ventures to run gas and water distribution systems in diverse urban and rural locations throughout mainland China--often in the face of ...Starting at €8.20
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy
Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Kirby, William C.; Wong, KeithCase HBS-308057-EAfter fifty-five years in the semiconductor industry, Morris Chang, founder and Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), was seeing a change. After four decades of regular double-digit growth the industry was still growing-but now at a much slower pace. In 2004, TSMC entered the China market, the world's second largest for semiconductors, by building a fabrication plant in Shanghai. Was China the market opportunity which TSM...Starting at €8.20
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Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China
Kirby, William C.; Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Manty, Tracy Yuen; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-309074-EHuang Teng founded Xi'an International University (XAIU) as a private institute of higher education in 1992. Throughout its ensuing years, the school filled a niche and met the demand of students who did not test into one of China's public institutions. In 2008, it was seeking to grow by aggressively pursuing opportunities in other provinces and municipalities. Huang's plan was to franchise his university throughout China. However, in pursuing th...Starting at €8.20
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Hang Lung Properties and the Chengdu Decision (B)
Macomber, John D.; Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-210092-EFinanceSecond phase of auction for a prime retail development parcel in Chengdu, China. Competition forces the firm to revisit all of its land purchase criteria. Hang Lung Properties is known for rigorous due diligence, for discipline in buying property, and for good understanding of market cycles. The (B) case reveals the firms assumptions in the Chengdu situation, as compared to what students had to derive on their own in the (A) case. The (B) case al...Starting at €5.74
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The Eli Lilly MDR-TB Partnership: Creating Private and Public Value
Trager, Alan M.; Droste Yagan, JessicaCase HBS-HKS239-EEconomicsIn 2003, pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly created the MDR-TB Partnership to fight MDR-TB, a form of tuberculosis. An estimated 450,000 new cases of this disease were reported each year, primarily in China, India, and Russia. The Partnership, an alliance of 14 public and private organizations, attempted to transfer technology to increase the supply of drugs that could cure MDR-TB; train health care workers to design successful strategies for ...Starting at €8.20
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International Agribusiness in China: Charoen Pokphand Group
Kirby, William C.; Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Manty, Tracy Yuen; Chu, Yi KwanCase HBS-910418-EThe world's leading Thai agribusiness corporation and largest agribusiness investor in China, CP Group, is facing another crossroads in China as the country starts to undergo rural reform. The issues at hand for Chairman Dhanin Chearavanont is how CP can balance its place as a key investor in China's burgeoning agriculture market with its unstated obligation to also provide guidance and expertise in food safety, technology, as well as jobs for ru...Starting at €8.20
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Corporate Avenue
Segel, Arthur I; Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Lau, DawnCase HBS-812056-EIt is the August, 2011 and Shanghai and China are in a real estate bubble. But the office leasing market seems to be still healthy. Camille Ping has a 2000 square meter tenant prospect, Advanced Furniture Systems, to move into Corporate Avenue, a new 67,000 square meter first class office building which is part of the Shui On Land Taipingqiao development in Puxi. The landlord and the tenant have agreed upon a letter of intent and Camille, also kn...Starting at €8.20