Western MBA programs in China
Here’s an interesting article about the business challenges facing Western business schools trying to make money in China.
Posted: May 19th, 2008 under Business & entrepreneurship, Recommended reading.
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The war for talent in China
I love it when a Google search takes me to a colleague’s writing. Frank Mulligan’s blog came up on the first page of a search on “aggregated china data.” Frank has a wonderful piece, “Winning the War for Talent in China,” coming out soon in Guanxi. Here’s a quick preview:
Step 4. Hire for Attitude
Everyone has […]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under Business & entrepreneurship, Issue by issue.
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The Trustful Business
“The Trustful Business in Respect of Price and Measuring,” says the sign. I’m not posting this because the English translation isn’t good, but because I loved the phrase, “trustful business.” This echoes so well what a colleague told me last week, kindly calling from Moscow to give me some tips for my Hong Kong […]
Posted: March 27th, 2007 under Business & entrepreneurship.
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China as a wine producer
Our February issue on “Small Business” highlights the fact that Chinese firms are competing with Western firms in every area, but it still came as a surprise to me to learn that China was by 2003 “the world’s sixth most important grower of vines and tenth most important producer of wine.” Given China’s trajectory in […]
Posted: February 13th, 2007 under Business & entrepreneurship.
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We have to walk the talk, too
At my company, Berkshire Publishing Group, we are not only publishing about doing business in China. We’re in the process of actually doing business in China ourselves, and not only with GUANXI. I am dealing with our first rights contract (to publish an English edition of the marvellous Black Horse Chinese Horoscope series that we […]
Posted: June 30th, 2006 under Business & entrepreneurship.
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