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  • August 2023
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Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China’s Richest Town

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
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  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:4
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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.
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