An MBA in the US is a big risk for Chinese businesspeople forgoing income for two years and paying high fees.Then there's the question of returning or not to China.
The rapidly gentrifying western edge of downtown Minneapolis,Minnesota is still dotted by the sort of small manufacturers that drove the US and world economy for much of the 20th century. One of these - National Purit...The rapidly gentrifying western edge of downtown Minneapolis,Minnesota is still dotted by the sort of small manufacturers that drove the US and world economy for much of the 20th century. One of these - National Purityoccupies a single-story combined warehouse and office space just north of the Farmer's Market. For eighty years,展开更多
Wet piles of old cardboard are stacked on both sides of a loading platform, leaving just enough room for a truck to stop between them. Zhang Guanan, the stocky general manager of the Liudian General Paper Mill Factory...Wet piles of old cardboard are stacked on both sides of a loading platform, leaving just enough room for a truck to stop between them. Zhang Guanan, the stocky general manager of the Liudian General Paper Mill Factory, stands in the middle of the space. Behind him is the roar of a paper mill and a long flatbed truck leaving a warehouse loaded with twenty-eight giant rolls of carton board destined for a展开更多
As China's shipbuilding industry, in a bid to become the world's largest vessel producer, prepares to go head to head with its Asian rivals, a Sino-Japanese joint venture company based in Jiangsu Province may ...As China's shipbuilding industry, in a bid to become the world's largest vessel producer, prepares to go head to head with its Asian rivals, a Sino-Japanese joint venture company based in Jiangsu Province may well be providing the model for future展开更多
An American businessman with over ten years experience in China opens his wallet in the back of a Shanghai taxi. Inside are several blue and green Shanghai Public Transportation Cards stacked like credit cards. “At m...An American businessman with over ten years experience in China opens his wallet in the back of a Shanghai taxi. Inside are several blue and green Shanghai Public Transportation Cards stacked like credit cards. “At my wife's office, the vendors show up and hand these out as gifts,”he says as he hands one to the driver. “She can accept them because [the company's] gift policy limits gifts to two-hundred yuan, and the vendor only puts two-hundred yuan on the card.” He opens the door and steps onto a busy street frequented by Shanghai's foreign business community. “Now you tell me: is that bribe? For two hundred yuan? I don't think so. It's a gift between business partners. It's China,you know?”展开更多
A shipping container full of French wine arrives at the Port of New York and is loaded onto a railcar.Several days later, while being transported through downtown Chicago,the container explodes, spreading radioactive ...A shipping container full of French wine arrives at the Port of New York and is loaded onto a railcar.Several days later, while being transported through downtown Chicago,the container explodes, spreading radioactive debris through a densely populated area.In response,the President closes all ports in the展开更多
Christmas is coming,and companies in China,both foreign and local,are doing their best to follow trends in the West and turn the festive season into a monumental spending spree.
文摘An MBA in the US is a big risk for Chinese businesspeople forgoing income for two years and paying high fees.Then there's the question of returning or not to China.
文摘The rapidly gentrifying western edge of downtown Minneapolis,Minnesota is still dotted by the sort of small manufacturers that drove the US and world economy for much of the 20th century. One of these - National Purityoccupies a single-story combined warehouse and office space just north of the Farmer's Market. For eighty years,
文摘Wet piles of old cardboard are stacked on both sides of a loading platform, leaving just enough room for a truck to stop between them. Zhang Guanan, the stocky general manager of the Liudian General Paper Mill Factory, stands in the middle of the space. Behind him is the roar of a paper mill and a long flatbed truck leaving a warehouse loaded with twenty-eight giant rolls of carton board destined for a
文摘As China's shipbuilding industry, in a bid to become the world's largest vessel producer, prepares to go head to head with its Asian rivals, a Sino-Japanese joint venture company based in Jiangsu Province may well be providing the model for future
文摘An American businessman with over ten years experience in China opens his wallet in the back of a Shanghai taxi. Inside are several blue and green Shanghai Public Transportation Cards stacked like credit cards. “At my wife's office, the vendors show up and hand these out as gifts,”he says as he hands one to the driver. “She can accept them because [the company's] gift policy limits gifts to two-hundred yuan, and the vendor only puts two-hundred yuan on the card.” He opens the door and steps onto a busy street frequented by Shanghai's foreign business community. “Now you tell me: is that bribe? For two hundred yuan? I don't think so. It's a gift between business partners. It's China,you know?”
文摘A shipping container full of French wine arrives at the Port of New York and is loaded onto a railcar.Several days later, while being transported through downtown Chicago,the container explodes, spreading radioactive debris through a densely populated area.In response,the President closes all ports in the
文摘Christmas is coming,and companies in China,both foreign and local,are doing their best to follow trends in the West and turn the festive season into a monumental spending spree.
