The Road to Mandalay: RMA Group in Myanmar
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Global Business
CEMEX, S.A. de C.V.: Global Competition in a Local Business
During the 1990s, CEMEX went from being a basically home manufacturer of cement and equipped blend in Mexico to the 0.33 biggest organization withinside the hastily globalizing cement industry, with operations in North and South America, Western Europe, and Southeast Asia, in addition to a huge buying and selling operation. CEMEX’s first actions to internationalize …
Getting Brexit Done
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UK Government Digital Service: Moving Beyond a Website
In 2011, the UK created a new government agency known as the Government Digital Service (or GDS). Faced with significant budget challenges, multiple high-profile IT disruptions, and increasing demands to “modernize” government services, the government has given GDS the mission to advocate for a “digital culture” in government and, ideally, unleash a wave of cost …
McDonald’s: Is China Lovin’ It?
McDonald’s, the world-famous American fast food franchisor, entered mainland China in 1990, when Chinese franchise law didn’t even exist. In this once-closed country, whose market was not opened to foreign investors until 1978, McDonald’s had to adapt to an unfamiliar and rapidly changing environment. Not only did the food culture in China differ greatly from …
A Risky Business? A Case for GM Food
Technological and scientific innovations have opened many new lines of research and development in the food and beverage industry in recent years. Advances in biotechnology, in particular, have begun to produce new approaches and methods for the production, distribution, and consumption of food, with many more expected to emerge in the next decade. This case …
Midea Refrigerator: The “Go Global” Odyssey
In 2016, Midea Refrigerator was one of the leading Chinese refrigerator manufacturers and exporters. Despite its large global product market, the company’s development stalled. High export costs had become a disadvantage. Fierce global competition led Midea Refrigerator to choose Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as the next strategic move, and China’s One Belt, One Road initiative …
China’s Accession to the WTO
Additions The World Trade Organization: After the Seattle Protests.
Managing Failure: American Bankruptcy Law at a Crossroads
It introduces the basic principles and challenges of bankruptcy law (for both individuals and businesses) in the early 1970s, when the US bankruptcy system seemed to be failing. With record personal bankruptcy records and relatively rare successful corporate reorganizations, lawmakers had to decide whether the time was right to review the country’s bankruptcy law and, …
CEMEX’s Foundations for Sustainability
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