Monthly Archives: May 2008

I have not written nearly enough about India on this blog, not because I am not interested and fascinated by the place, but because I just don’t know India; I only know a bit about China. This short 60 Minutes … Continue reading →

UC San Diego Professor and former Deputy Assistant of State responsible for China, Susan Shirk, has written an outstanding book, China: Fragile Superpower: How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise. Her book is so good and so well … Continue reading →

I have been watching and studying some of the US business schools who have entered the China MBA market for some time now (joint executive MBA programs are the usual market entry strategy). One such school is the University of … Continue reading →

This NY Times article will blow you away.

Westerners can be ethnocentric (see, e.g., my previous post and our comment discussion, Cultural Knuckleheads in the Global World); but let’s be fair — so can others, including the Chinese. And per Dr. Morris’ lecture with us we learned that … Continue reading →

A hat tip to Gary Chou for sending me the below link. I am a National Geographic subscriber, remember the below issue coming out and reading it, but I forgot to put up a post and the issue had since … Continue reading →

Nope. Not Shawn Kemp, the NBA player with loads of talent but not much production (that’s being kind). This “reign man” is Shaun Rein, an up and comer in the US and China business circles. Check out this recent 6 … Continue reading →

Cyclone in Myanmar. Quake in China. Many dead. Not good. Here is an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal titled, Does Being Ethical Pay? Companies Spend Huge Amounts Of Money To Be Socially Responsible. Do Consumers Reward Them For It? … Continue reading →

On the trip you will kick yourself when you find out a classmate bought the same thing you did for much less. You will have the chance to practice the negotiating skills that your professor in negotiations taught you first … Continue reading →

To introduce this post, click HERE to watch this 1:30 minute business card scene from American Psycho. In your trip prep materials I have given you lots of info about business cards. The who, what, when, why behind them, and … Continue reading →