All Roads Lead to China: Business News, Analysis, and Insights from China

While grading papers, I came across the following quote: “We’re willing to offer some opportunities to local companies. Why not? They are cheap. But it will only be limited to those uncritical systems. For important systems, definitely MNCs will be still our first choice. I don’t think it is going to change in short term.” [...]

With crisis comes opportunity, and in China, where there are no shortages of crisis, many firms are beginning to see an opportunity to enter a market salivating for safety.  Leading the charge are a number of firms looking to bring their food to China, organic and otherwise, and with every crisis foreign firms benefit to [...]

In what may be one of the lasting victories for China’s nascent NIMBY movement, a couple of articles this week highlighted the fact that the number of cities to be monitored for PM2.5 air pollution will rise to 74 this year.. and 115 by 2015 Chinese city publishes vital pollution data – are other reforms [...]

An interesting article in the FT highlighting the findings of a report put out by HSBC and China Water Risk called No Water, No Power (download here)  highlighting the risk of water becoming an economic force in the medium term: “We think provincial water caps could force a change in the economic mix since 45% [...]

For readers who are interested in the topic of energy security in China, and understanding what is leading China to invest and build capacity in cleantech, energy efficiency, and a blue ocean navy, I recommend taking the time to watch the above Google HangOut. Led by Fons Tuinstra , Terry Cooke and myself spent about [...]

A couple of interesting articles came out in the last week that were focused on the drop off in luxury sales.  It is a topic that I have had several conversations on recently with luxury brand managers and BD directors in China, and while I am not a luxury expert by any means I thought [...]

Following up on my post last week Who Is Up for Another Round of Joint Ventures?, both Pfizer and Merck made an announcement that they have both entered into JV agreements with local firms to distribute their generic drugs in China” On Sept. 13, the world’s largest drug company Pfizer and China’s Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical [...]

Hi Everyone. Along time readers will know, I have been working at CEIBS for the last 4 years on one of the most innovative classes that exist in the MBA world.  It is a 4 month project based class where we partner our 200+ students with firms to develop (and execute) on projects that have [...]