All Roads Lead to China:

Over the last month or so, I have spoken to a half dozen or so people leading firms (large and small) who have hit the proverbial wall. Wits are at an end, the bottom line isn’t looking good, and a process of deciding what the “next step” should be in underway. Some, particularly those in [...]

The last few months have been filled with labor issues, and while the Foxconn issues received perhaps the most coverage, the recent Reuters Factbox: China Labor Strikes led me to ask one of my interns to see what else she could find in a couple hours on the internet… and it was clear that beyond [...]

I guess it is only fitting that this become one of the last hot questions to be pondered in the public domain these days.  After all, there is a cleantech war underway (which China is winning), there is talk that the world needs to move away from the USD, and the Moody’s of China saw [...]

Over the last few weeks, a united front of sorts has begun to develop around the issue of whether or not China has erected a new wall, a wall meant to prevent the penetration of foreign economic interests within China’s domestic market. Consisting of chambers of commerce (American and European), multilateral agencies (WTO and WB), [...]

If there is one thing I have learned through my experiences in interviewing candidates, it is to do whatever you can to try and understand what will be their motivating factor. Are they only looking to get a couple years of experience, if you are lucky, before they apply to grad school? Are they still [...]