Archive for October, 2009

Upcoming Event: CHaINA ’09

Saturday, October 31, 2009 19:39 No Comments

Just a quick heads up for those of you in the logistics/ supply chain field who will be in Shanghai this week. On Wednesday the 4th, the Supply Chain Council’s yearly event CHaINA will be going on all day at the Zhongshan Park Renaissance Hotel, and I highly recommend taking the time to attend (agenda [...]

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Developing a Sustainable China Business Model

Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:41 No Comments

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been out speaking to different groups about sustainability in China.  For me it is a topic that goes far beyond polar bears and solar panels, and when presenting recently on the characteristics of a sustainable program (in the NGO/ social enterprise sense), I put together the above [...]

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It’s All About Hope and Opportunity in China

Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:49 23 Comments

Earlier in the year while a few of my interns were inbetween assignments, I tasked them to get out of the office and do some street interviews.  Now, executing street interviews was nothing new for them, but instead of taking out a video camera and asking questions to our typical targets, I wanted to push [...]

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Google Infringes on Chinese IP. Ohh.. This Could Get Interesting.

Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:09 3 Comments

Walk down any street in Shanghai right now and you will find knockoff book vendors who have loaded up on the most recent titles.  It is the latest offering for an already saturated market of goods (DVDs, bags, watches, pens, etc), and becoming yet another issue that members of various foreign industry associations and governments [...]

This was posted under category: The Big Picture

UBS Lays Out Their China’s Big Four Themes. Forgets One

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 5:44 6 Comments

Working through my daily dose of analyst reports and journal articles, I came to UBS’s recent release The Four Big China Themes from Jon Anderson where he lays out the bank’s position on four of the key trends that they are following in China.. and closely. Always stocked with impressive graphs, and supporting analysis, this [...]

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