All articles by William J. Holstein

China’s most recognizable brand has plans to overtake Apple and Samsung.

Corning Glass Chief Technology Officer David Morse explains how the company—through speed and customer focus in research, development, and engineering—has built a multibillion-dollar enterprise.

The Korean automaker’s explosive growth in the last few years — achieved through better quality, stylish design, and clever marketing — has made it a dynamic player in the U.S. auto industry.

To Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard Business School professor known for his histories of management knowledge, business schools are facing a crisis of global irrelevance.

The world’s largest beverage company has delegated major decision making to individual markets, but it maintains its global brand strategy through collaborative practices.

U.S. multinationals are looking to small companies and startups for the next big ideas.

Corning Inc.’s process for developing inventive products actually works, a claim that few companies can make.

Which manufacturing operations should return to the United States?

With industries contracting and jobless rates among manufacturing workers skyrocketing, community colleges have become the new home of retraining programs.

As cost cutting narrows the field of business journalism, it has become more difficult to put out a corporate story — or take one in.

The Obama administration’s focus on digital patient records to minimize medical errors and improve efficiency has promise, but will face significant obstacles.

The CEO of Applied Materials offers a road map for the adoption of solar energy technologies in the United States.

Lenovo’s ill-fated ambitions reveal the difficulties China faces in developing and managing innovative global corporations.

Nirmalya Kumar, a professor of marketing at the London Business School, argues in a new book that although the world economic crisis may have taken the bite out of some Indian companies, most will adapt and emerge globally.

In a brutal sales environment, retailers and manufacturers, led by the auto industry, are finding that smarter marketing — not better products — may be the best way to a customer’s heart.

Japan’s little-known trading companies are buying startup technology businesses in the U.S., hoping to catch the next wave of American economic growth.

To take advantage of market growth in developing countries, U.S. multinationals are turning to non-Americans to head their operations.

Beijing is mandating an increase in home-grown R&D, but Chinese companies face long odds in meeting international standards of innovation.

Peter Felix, president of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, discusses the new effort by multinationals to hire local executives in foreign locales.

Extending supply chains to low-cost nations may make economic sense, but disruptions from natural catastrophes can drown the gains.

Facing mounting competitive pressure, India’s biggest firms are reshaping themselves as multinationals.

How John Deere bucked industrial trends to become an international growth star.

CEOs must learn to manage the media if they want to influence how their stories are told.

The numbers may be rosy, but the U.S. export initiative is still hobbled.

Corporate governance expert Nell Minow explains the relationship between outlandish severance packages and the risky financial instruments linked to subprime mortgages.

As governments wrestle over safeguarding intellectual property rights in China with no solution in sight, more and more companies are taking the problem into their own hands.