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Explores some of the economic and political tradeoffs that need to be negotiated by a firm seeking to influence industry structure. The setting is the nascent personal computer software industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1993. Microsoft has to localize its software products for use ... More

As in most emerging markets, a significant portion of the Indian private sector is dominated by extensively diversified, often family-owned or controlled, business groups. This case examines the strategy and structure of one of the largest business groups in India, at a time when the economy is goin... More

This chapter describes the corporate success story of General Electric in linking China and India in corporate symbiosis, providing one blueprint for the West's re-engagement with China and India.... More

This chapter examines connections forged between China and India over the last two thousand years and moves into the present to consider recent efforts to create commercial and political links between the two countries.... More

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This chapter shows how China is expanding its hard power-won through military and economic domination and illustrated most dramatically by its insatiable quest for oil-and discusses the implications of that expansion for Southeast Asia and the rest of the world.... More

This chapter looks at the turmoil and deep inequity of the health care systems in China and India, where great divides in medical access exist between rural and urban areas.... More

In this chapter, the author visits some of China's and India's poorest villages-plagued by casteism in the case of India, and the government's inconsistent policies in the case of China-to illuminate the difference between the two countries in the development of rural economies.... More

This chapter looks at how Chinese and Indian attitudes about their diaspora of fifty million and twenty million respectively have affected the development of financial markets.... More

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This chapter examines how local entrepreneurs in China and India are building successful enterprises in very different ways, comparing the rise of one of China's leading companies, TCL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics, with the rise of Infosys, one of India's leading softw... More

This chapter illustrates how exchange does or does not occur in financial markets in China and India, profiling these countries' differing approaches to foreign investment and indigenous entrepreneurship.... More

This chapter considers differing attitudes to private property in China and India, and the effects of these attitudes on economic growth.... More

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This chapter examines the evolution of the Chinese and Indian governments over the last half-century and the political legacies each country struggles with as it opens up to the twenty-first century.... More

Today's economic projections suggest that in less than a generation China and India will become the largest and the third largest economies in the world. Yet the U.S. remains woefully uninformed about the past and present of both countries. This chapter seeks to clarify what's happening in China and... More

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TrustCreating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing CountriesEntrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries the developed world has built up customs and institutions like enforce... More

China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and money--of Western business. In Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces driving China's and India's trajec... More

Describes a leading fast food operator/franchiser trying to consolidate and standardize its operations worldwide and focus its efforts on a few key markets. Lends itself to a discussion of how global the fast food industry is, whether Tricon's new international strategy is consistent with industry s... More

Discusses one of General Electric's flagship divisions--the world's leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging equipment. Provides an opportunity to examine a multinational confronting massive technological and demographic changes around the world. Genomics has created a global opportunity by ma... More

Illustrates the challenges of managing a global business enterprise. A rewritten version of an earlier case.... More

Follows the decision by ICICI (one of India's largest banks) to expand internationally in June 2001.... More

Relates to Microsoft's expansion in China and India in the period 1993-2007 and the strategic issues faced by multinationals in emerging markets.... More