handed in personally on lectures) Read the case Haier’s U.S. refrigerator strategy and answer to the following questions: 1. What were the drivers of Haier’s success in U.S. initially and why? 2. How did the competitors (Big Three) react to the Haier’s success? How are their strategies different than Haier’s? 3. Why do you think Haier built a new plant in South Carolina? Was it a wise decision? 4. What strategy (marketing‚ internationalization‚ etc.) Haier should follow in the future? This assignment
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Case 4: Haier Performance management (A) 1. What are the specific practices of Haier’s performance management system? What are the guiding principles behind those practices? Haier‚ being the world’s sixth largest maker of large kitchen appliances‚ had 4% global market share and strong positions in the production of washing machine and refrigerators. The key success behind was Zhang‚ the CEO who brought the company fortunes. Several innovative human resource management practices were introduced
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to other offers. One of the companies considering a bid was China ’s largest home appliance maker‚ Haier. Pros: Cons: Chinese government policy encouraged its large companies to acquire overseas brands and combine them into a single corporate global brand name. The Maytag bid would fit well with this national goal and with Haier ’s own stated goal of trying to make Americans feel like Haier was an established US brand instead of an imported Chinese brand. There was a growing backlash in the
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HAIER: TAKING A CHINESE COMPANY GLOBAL Group: 9 Hunny Agarwal (102) Hakim Datawala (115) G. H. Krishna (118) Sushant Mondal (137) Abhishek Parekh (142) Anirban Sengupta (150) Haier Group: Highlights Number one company by Asian Wall Street Journal China’s largest Home Appliance Manufacturer Largest Player in the compact refrigerator market worldwide Brand “Haier” is recognized worldwide Haier Group: Challenges Declining Profit Margins; from 9.4% to 2.6% Overcapacity of white goods in Chinese Markets
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The Haier Group The Company Haier Group started in 1984 manufacturing and selling refrigerators to the Chinese market. Under the leadership of Zhang Ruimin‚ Haier’s CEO grew a collective run factory into a global multi-national with over $12 billion USD in global sales. Haier produces a wide range of household electrical appliances‚ 15‚100 varieties of items in 96 product categories‚ and exports products to over 100 countries including Wal-Mart and Target. In just 20 years‚ Haier became the
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The management of workers and engineers at Haier may be characterized as the management of "a carrot and a whip." We may see some similarity between Haier’s management of workers and Taylor’s scientific management in the early days of capitalism in USA. Taylor’s scientific management encountered severe opposition of laborers and labor unions and thus was not so successful. Haier’s management has been well received by workers. Haier’s management has also been well received by product development engineers
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external analysis‚ China experienced growing economic development from late 1980s‚ which means demand outstripped supply in home appliance industry. Besides‚ China entered the WTO in 2001. Although Haier was faced with international competence‚ it also created more opportunities to infuse advanced technology and designs. For internal analysis‚ Haier was dedicated to gain competitive advantages in domestic market. To start with‚ good relationship with government is a good point. Specifically‚ Haier was
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particular‚ the very successful case - the Haier Group. This paper focuses on using a case study methodology to analyze Haier ’s survival strategy to compete with world giants. The following issues have been addressed to meet the respective objects: first‚ the Uppsala stages model and Haier ’s internationalization process; secondly‚ analysis and evaluation of Haier ’s strategic internationalization‚ using Dawar and Frost ’s survival strategy theory to compare with Haier ’s internationalization strategy;
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Case 1: Opening case: Haier of China Moves Overseas to South Carolina 1. What are the various strategic‚ market‚ and economic motives for Haier of China to set up manufacturing operations in the United States Strategic * Shipping refrigerators from Asia could take up to 6 weeks. * Opening Haier’s American factory is as much as a cultural victory as a business one. * Target‚ Wal-Mart‚ Costco and Best Buy * Cultural organization * Discipline of Chinese * Strategic business unit
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TO: Michael Jamal CEO‚ Haier America‚ Inc. FROM: Acquisition consultant DATE: July 15‚ 2008 RE: HAIER/GE Acquisition It is ironic and coincidental this memo comes on the heals of the massive Anheuser-Busch/InBev acquisition. The leak of our interest in GE Appliance by Wall Street Journal blog “Deal Journal” has not sullied our position or interest. It is strongly recommended Haier begin to line up financing for an asset purchase of GE Appliance. Louisville‚ KY-based
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