Publications
Publications
- August 2023
- HBS Case Collection
Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China’s Richest Town
By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
Abstract
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 313-103. The case is designed to give the students an understanding of the local Chinese entrepreneurial state and how foreign and Chinese firms have worked with it to create China’s richest small city. The major themes are—local state entrepreneurship and state-led capitalism without SOEs, Party stewardship of private economic development, ownership and compensation of land, the emergence and centrality of development zones, and the alignment of foreign and local interests (e.g., Taiwan and Duke University).
Keywords
Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; China
Citation
Kirby, William C., and Noah B. Truwit. "Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China’s Richest Town." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 324-020, August 2023.