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• Supplement | HBS Case Collection | January 2018 (Revised May 2018)

  Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company’s Global Strategy (C)

  William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang

  This case updates Wanxiang Group's activities since 2012, focusing on its electric vehicle strategy and a transition of the group's leadership.

  Keywords: strategy; electric vehicles; leadership succession; Strategy; Management Succession; Global Range; Auto Industry; United States; China;

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  Kirby, William C., and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company’s Global Strategy (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 318-091, January 2018. (Revised May 2018.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | February 2018 (Revised April 2018)

  Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise

  Michael Chu, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai and Yuanzhuo Wang

  This 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 a SOE and then to a SOE under mixed state-private ownership.

  Keywords: state-owned enterprise (SOE); competition; traditional chinese medicine; Yunnan; Yunnan Baiyao; consumer health; enterprise transformation; Transformation; Health; Business History; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; China;

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  Chu, Michael, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai, and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 318-078, February 2018. (Revised April 2018.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | July 2004 (Revised March 2018)

  Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century

  Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron

  Concerns the growth of multinational trading companies in the first global economy. Examines two Scottish-owned merchant houses, Jardine Matheson and James Finlay, and shows their changing trade and investment strategies as well as their use of an organizational form later known as business groups. Also demonstrates the role of ethnic networks in globalization during this historical period. A rewritten version of an earlier case.

  Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Trade; Social and Collaborative Networks; China;

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  Jones, Geoffrey, Elisabeth Koll, and Alexis Gendron. "Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Case 805-010, July 2004. (Revised March 2018.)  View Details

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