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

One of the most interesting conversations I ever had was over drinks with a European central banker looking to learn about the reach of China. His core questions was “If China imploded, what could be the impact…. “, and for a couple of hours we worked through a few industries. How far their supply chains […]

While grading papers last year, I came across the following quote that a student of mine had mined from an interview that I thought summed up the current situation for a number of industries: “We’re willing to offer some opportunities to local companies. Why not? They are cheap. But it will only be limited to […]

In his recent piece for the Huffington Post entitled China 2014: Too Little, Too Late for Newbies, Tom Doctroff starts off with a bang 2014 will be the year leaders of consumer goods producers realize that it may be too late to enter China. If you haven’t established significant scale already, you probably never will. […]

There is NOTHING, and I repeat, NOTHING like having an executive open up at a conference about a crisis their industry is following. Particularly when they are attempting to make their company look better than the “others”, try to justify why it was “industry practice”, and then lament that all the back doors to “diffusion […]

There are few things that investors like seeing more than an announcement that a firm plans to enter China. Especially when there are customers willing to spend 410,000USD to be the first owner! So, big news is that Tesla has just opened their first store in China, have sold their first car, and on their […]

If history is a guide for the future, than GSK (and others) really should have paid more attention 5-6 years ago when SIEMENS was caught up in a similar scandal involving their medical equipment.  Sadly they didn’t and a few months ago when the story broke that they were under investigation, it was clear to […]

Couple of weeks back I was speaking to a group of 50 aspiring entrepreneurs (University students and fresh grads), I was asked to speak about what it takes to succeed in China as a (serial)entrepreneur. Setting aside how one defines success (scale, financial gain, awards, etc), there were four things that I felt entrepreneurs needed […]