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Outrageous Ambition: Duke University
Kirby, William C.; Wang, YuanzhuoCase HBS-318043-EDuke University had grown from an one room school house in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke's leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the development of the university as a whole, building up programs in interdisciplinarity and initiating ambitious projects in internationalization. Under the leadership of President Richard...Starting at €8.20
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Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (C)
Kirby, William C.; Wang, YuanzhuoCase HBS-318091-EThis case updates Wanxiang Group's activities since 2012, focusing on its electric vehicle strategy and a transition of the group's leadership.Starting at €5.74
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Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy
McFarlan, F. Warren; Abrami, Regina; Kirby, William C.; Manty, Tracy Yuen; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-308058-EWith an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic changes in China to succeed as a global leader in the auto parts industry, and to develop into a broad business conglomerate. Beginning in 1994, when it first began its operations in the United States, Wanxiang started to expand its role as a parts supplier into a discerning acquirer of distressed c...Starting at €8.20
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Wangxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy, Teaching Note
McFarlan, F. Warren; Abrami, Regina; Kirby, William C.; Wong, Keith Chi-hoTeaching Note HBS-310089-ETeaching Note for [308058].Starting at €0.00
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Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B), Teaching Note
Kirby, William C.; Zendell, Erica MTeaching Note HBS-314139-ETeaching Note for 313096.Starting at €0.00
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Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion
Kirby, William C.; Truwit, Noah B.Case HBS-323101-EKnowledge and CommunicationOn December 6, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Executive Chairman Mark Liu outlined the company's ambitious plans to invest $40 billion to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in Phoenix. The event also celebrated the passing of The Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act of 2022 (CHIPS and Science Act), which aimed to inject $280 billion in financial subsidies and inc...Starting at €8.20
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Challenges of Launching a Start-Up in China: Dorm99.com
Kirby, William C.; McFarlan, F. Warren; Manty, Tracy YuenCase HBS-307075-EEntrepreneurshipAfter graduating from Harvard Business School in June 2006, Ken Pao and Bill Li were ready to fully commit to the Internet start-up they had been working on since they first stepped foot on the business school campus. They moved to Beijing, rounded out their management team, received venture capital investment, developed joint-venture partnerships, and set key milestones to create a full-impact product launch for their social networking Web site ...Starting at €8.20
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Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B)
Kirby, William C.; Dai, Nancy Hua; Zendell, Erica MCase HBS-313096-ESupplements the A Case 308-058. With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic changes in China to succeed as a global leader in the auto parts industry, and to develop into a broad business conglomerate. Beginning in 1994, when it first began its operations in the United States, Wanxiang started to expand its role as a parts supplier into a dis...Starting at €5.74
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Public Mission, Private Funding: The University of California, Berkeley
Kirby, William C.; Eby, Joycelyn W.Case HBS-317023-EUC Berkeley, long known as one of the leading public universities in both the U.S. and the world, has seen turbulent times recently. While student enrollment and costs have increased steadily in recent years, the school, which has been fiercely proud of its public mission, received ever diminished funding from the State of California. Although Berkeley survived the financial crisis of 2008 under the leadership of Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, new ...Starting at €8.20
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Huawei: A Global Tech Giant in the Crossfire of a Digital Cold War
Kirby, William C.; Chan, Billy; McHugh, John P.Case HBS-320089-EEconomicsBy 2020, Ren Zhengfei, CEO of Huawei, had transformed the small telephone switch manufacturer he founded in 1987 into a $120 billion telecommunications company poised to lead the lucrative rollout of fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks. However, an emerging U.S.-China tech war has jeopardized Huawei's prospects. The Trump administration is waging a global campaign to blacklist doing business with Huawei due to concerns in Washington about the...Starting at €8.20