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Growing up in St Louis Missouri offered a life very different than that I have found in Shanghai.  Very. Yet, it is a city that shares a lot in common with some of the more interesting, and successful cities, I have found in China. Located at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, St. [...]

A few weeks back UBS’s ASEAN regional economist Ed Teather put out the piece of research Six questions on ASEAN’s links with China (email me for a copy) looking at trade, investment and policy links between ASEAN and China by working to answer the following the questions: Which countries in ASEAN have the highest export [...]

Following up from my recent posts A Few Rules for Succeeding in China and  What is China’s Obligation to Make Firms Feel Comfortable?, and the fact that Google’s decision to finally pull the trigger has driven so many to question why Google did it.. and whether or not it was the right move…I felt the [...]

A lot of discussion these days about how China is clamping down on foreign firms, restricting markets, and acting downright unappreciative. Perhaps it is a simple case of miss communication, and China just playing a bit hard to get, or perhaps the relationship has hit that 15 year wall where it needs a trip to [...]

One of the more common “China” questions asked over the last years has been “When would China begin exporting brands?”. There have of course been the anecdotal exceptions like Haier and TsingTao that people hold up as successful cases, and there was some talk that Chinese firms would leverage their cash positions to scoop up [...]

Hello everyone. As you know, for the last 9 months I have had the privilege of teaching a project based course to 193 MBA students on sustainability at the China Europe International Business School. Split into 35 teams, they have been focused their research projects across 25+ separate issues, and for the last 2 months [...]

Among all the chants of “being ready” (or was that Beijing Games?) and the billboards counting down the seconds between now and what is sure to be an event to remember, I have one fear…. that Shanghai’s metro is just not going to be able to cope with all the traffic. It is a concern [...]

Earlier this morning, the following tweet came across from HBS Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter: 1st rule of success in life: Show up. 2nd rule: Speak up. 3rd rule: Partner up. 4th rule: Never give up. It was a well timed tweet as (1) I had just returned from an opening ceremony in Chengdu to launch [...]