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Can China Lead the Way To a Better Environment?

ArticleApril 10, 2017

Just a few years ago, China was a major obstacle to a global agreement on climate change. But the attitude of the government has changed, to the delight of all. But it will take more than good will to clean up and it will be a long time before the smog lifts. In this sense, the idea that China will be a ‘Green Leader’ anytime soon says more about how far they have to go than how far they have come. Yet in recognizing the problems and directing investments towards new technologies, China has stumbled upon a realistic expectation of leadership in the energy technologies of the low-carbon future.

Clifford Chance and CKGSB Host Seminar on China’s Transformation and its Global Implications

NewsMarch 30, 2017

CKGSB Dean Xiang Bing speaks with a select group of global business leaders, partners and government officials on ‘China’s Transformation and its Global Implications’ at a Clifford Chance seminar in London.

Clifford Chance and CKGSB Host Seminar on China’s Transformation and its Global Implications

NewsMarch 30, 2017

CKGSB Dean Xiang Bing speaks with a select group of global business leaders, partners and government officials on ‘China’s Transformation and its Global Implications’ at a Clifford Chance seminar in London.

Private Thirst: The Flow of Private Investment in China Slows to a Trickle

ArticleFebruary 13, 2017

In China, SOEs dominate industries like petroleum and telecom, while less money is flowing to private enterprises.

The Talking Cure: Pay Attention to Counter Narratives

ArticleJanuary 16, 2017

Telling and retelling stories is one of humanity’s most durable characteristics: Harvard linguist Michael Witzel has argued that most of the world’s mythologies grew out of a single set of stories first told in Africa 130,000 years ago. Yet what is the future of corporate storytelling? Although our penchant for storytelling may not change any time soon, the storytelling used inside the corporation does seem to be shifting in two ways. First, storytelling is becoming recognized as a trainable skill. Second, and possibly more importantly, the Internet is making it increasingly difficult for companies to control a single version of their own story.

The Talking Cure: How to Choose the Right Story to Tell

ArticleJanuary 11, 2017

Executives have long understood the business value of a ripping yarn. Different consultancy companies will have their own take on what makes a good story. Yet whatever the scale of your literary ambitions, there are some fundamental rules seem to apply. First you start with good material and you need to identify what is and isn’t a story. A story is something that begins with a time-marker and is also always visual. Don’t use the “S” word. Don’t say “I just want to share a story with you.” Well, in business, that’s like death. Instead, say: I’ve had a really interesting experience. And remember to be sincere.

The Silver Age: China’s Aging Population

ArticleOctober 17, 2016

Unlike its developed counterparts, China is aging before it gets prosperous. Its population structure is like Japan’s of the 1980s, while its per-capita GDP level has only reached that of Japan in the early 1970s. By far the biggest issue is China’s low birth rate, which declined sharply in the 1980s as a result of the one-child policy. In reaction to the problem, China started to relax its family planning policy since 2013, allowing a family to have two, but so far the results have been lukewarm. Is it too late to climb out of the demographic trap?

Uber-Didi Merger Ends a Fierce Rivalry for Market Share

ArticleSeptember 7, 2016

The battle for car hailing market share has ended with Uber merging its Chinese business with Didi Chuxing.

Build Your Career and Build Your Personal Brand

ArticleAugust 31, 2016

In today’s busy workplaces people have bigger departments, more turnover, and operate in an environment of continuous change, which means that management has less time to get to know you and your capabilities. If you want to get ahead, coaches and other talent management experts say, you can’t wait for your boss to nurture you. Instead, you need to invest more time both developing your own capabilities and making sure decision-makers appreciate your talents and see your potential. How do you build your career and ensure you get the chances you deserve?

China’s Real Estate Market ‘Very Healthy’, Chan Tells Breakfast Parley

NewsJune 21, 2016

China’s real estate market, often depicted as headed for a sharp downturn, is in fact in very good shape, a leading Hong Kong entrepreneur told a full gathering of senior executives at CKGSB’s New York office.

Will Ant Financial Become Wildly Successful Like Taobao?

ArticleMay 24, 2016

Currently the most valuable fintech company in China, Alibaba’s Ant Financial owns a myriad of businesses: China’s largest payment tool AliPay and a variety of financial services in areas like banking, funds, insurance, credit scoring systems, etc. With over 400 million active users, it has ambitions to expand further into the Chinese hinterland as well as into global markets—something never done by Chinese financial companies before. How will Ant realize its elephantine goals? What is the logic behind its diverse businesses and which one is the focus? Can Ant become the Taobao of the financial industry? We offer some answers.

Disruptive Innovations – Bridge the Gap, Ignore the Competition

NewsMay 5, 2016

CKGSB Assistant Dean Zhou Li shares his views and observations concerning the three main sources of disruptive innovation facing universities: technology, consulting firms and the clients themselves.

Standing Apart From The Trans Pacific Partnership

ArticleMarch 20, 2016

Asia is seeing growing rivalries—and also the enduring influence of the US. In the post-war years it was perhaps easy to take for granted the deep and vast sway held by the US in Asia—from its significant role in the Asian Development Bank to its closeness to regional powerhouse Japan. China’s recent rise has reconfigured the terms of politics, economics and trade in Asia—and the world. That has informed the US’s much-discussed ‘pivot’ to Asia, a key plank of which has been the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). Are China's prospects in trade and regional influence hampered because it is not a signatory of the TPP?

Henry Mintzberg on Rebalancing Society

ArticleFebruary 8, 2016

Henry Mintzberg was once called the enfant terrible of management thinking. It’s not hard to see why. The author of books like The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning and Strategy Safari, Mintzberg has always put forth radical ideas that sometimes rub people the wrong way: he wrote Managers Not MBAs, a scathing critique of business schools and MBA programs, while working at a business school. More recently, Mintzberg has trained his guns on an unlikely topic: society and politics. His latest book, Rebalancing Society, talks about how dangerous the lack of balance between the public, private and the plural sector (civil society) really is.

Luxury in China: Bling it On!

ArticleJanuary 12, 2016

As the number of high net worth individuals in China increases, people are developing a taste for luxury. According to The Hurun Report, a magazine known for its annual “China Rich List”, the number of dollar billionaires in mainland China surpassed that of the US for the first time in 2015, with 596 to the US’s 537. As a result, luxury pastimes from the West, such as car shows, auctions, yachting and polo, are making their way into the country. Even services like finishing schools are flourishing. What’s interesting is that these so-called Western luxury pastimes are taking on Chinese characteristics.

The Economic Slowdown in China: When China Sneezes…

ArticleDecember 16, 2015

As Asia’s heavyweight, adjusts to the so-called ‘New Normal’, the question arises of how countries across the world will deal with increased exposure to a China that is no longer posting the dizzying growth rates it once was, and which some experts feel is on the verge of a significant economic slump. While some like the UK are only now forging major economic links with China in earnest, others have been hitched to China’s economic growth for years. So when China does sneeze, who catches a cold? We give you the lowdown of who’s at risk and who’s not.

When East Buys West: The role of the CEO in an M&A

ArticleOctober 28, 2015

Few direct actions of the CEO can have as much impact on a company as the decision to make an acquisition.

China’s Food Imports: Hunger Games?

ArticleOctober 19, 2015

Until recently, China had largely fed itself. Yet now the tables have turned, transforming China into the largest food importer in the world. Changing food consumption patterns in China have seen increasing demand for foreign consumer food brands outpaced by even faster growth in demand for imported agricultural products and feed stocks. This has happened despite a continuing stated policy goal of food self-sufficiency. The result has been an evolution in land use within China, greater integration of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in global wholesale markets and a subtle shift of emphasis away from self-sufficiency within China, towards prioritizing the security of the Chinese supply chain.

Chosun Biz Interview with Wu Qun: Insight from the Balinghou Generation

NewsAugust 8, 2015

“We are different from the previous generation with regard to our enthusiasm towards overseas expansion.” That’s the view of CKGSB student Wu Qun, the vice president of Jiangsu Yuyue medical equipment & supply Co., Ltd and a leading example of China’s post-1980s generation making their own way in the world.

CKGSB Prof: Government’s Improper Response Intensified China’s Market Disruption

NewsAugust 1, 2015

During an interview with Chosun Biz, one of most influential business media in Korea, Professor Liu Jing pointed out that the reason for the current market crash is quite different from former financial crises in 2002 and 2008, since the backdrop of problems can be traced to the boom of margin trading, including short sellers.

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