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Stepping Out: The Globalization Strategies of Chinese Companies

ArticleFebruary 21, 2013

Chinese companies are globalizing on an unprecedented scale, but with mixed success. For the investors, it was all backwards. In early 2011, Chinese dairy producer Bright Food convened a meeting with outside investors and consultants. The company had mountains of cash, priceless connections and Beijing’s blessing. Having grown to become China’s second-biggest food and drink […]

Sir Tom Hunter and his Idea of Venture Philanthropy

ArticleFebruary 3, 2013

An interview with Sir Tom Hunter, noted entrepreneur, philanthropist and Scotland’s first billionaire. Sir Tom Hunter’s story is an inspiring one. The son of a grocer in a small mining village in Scotland, he started a business selling sneakers from the back of a van. From humble beginnings, he went on to create sportswear retail […]

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Business Blockbuster or False Fad?

ArticleJanuary 7, 2013

Tong Ren Tang is a household name in China. The pharmacy specializing in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been around since 1669. Legend has it that Tong Ren Tang was set up as the royal pharmacy for the palace of the Qing Dynasty. The dynasty came and went, but Tong Ren Tang withstood the test […]

Investment guru Sam Zell: “Any time you don’t sell, you buy”

ArticleSeptember 25, 2012

Billionaire investment czar Sam Zell shares his investing secrets in conversation with Liu Jing, CKGSB Associate Dean and Professor of Accounting and Finance Billionaire property mogul and chairman of Equity Group Investments, Sam Zell, made his first foray into the real estate market while he was still in college. His strategy was simple: buy cheap […]

The New Idea Factories

ArticleSeptember 25, 2012

GE’s past success in China hinged on localization. Its future, however, might be in reverse innovation. Rising oil prices and the global financial crisis have dealt a harsh blow to the global aviation sector. The Chinese aviation industry, however, is bucking the trend. It has become the second-largest aviation market in the world, second only […]

Getting ahead of the curve

ArticleMay 16, 2012

In the world of online retailers, Liu Qiangdong’s Jingdong Mall is a rare success story–a brick-and-mortar chain that made the transition to the internet. Earlier this year, Associate Professor of Strategic Management Teng Bingsheng looked into what has enabled Jingdong to stand up to giants like Gome and Jack Ma’s Taobao. Here’s what he found. […]

Asian persuasion

ArticleApril 30, 2012

China is crucial for the future of business development of the ASEAN region This was far more than a holiday in Cambodia. From talks of increasing integration to internal squabbles and the rise of ASEAN’s lesser-known members, the 20th ASEAN Summit in April outlined the growing importance of this economic and political cooperative. It also […]

Microsteps

ArticleApril 15, 2012

Wang Keqin’s office is not the polished workplace you might expect from a major Chinese charity. The space is borrowed, the furniture donated. As Wang expounds on China’s social problems, he whips out a tissue and scrapes a thick coating of dust from his desktop. And yet, thanks to Wang’s fresh approach to online […]

Innovation in China: still awaiting transformative leaders

ArticleJune 23, 2010

Innovation accounts for a sizable portion of economy-wide growth in productivity, especially in high-income countries. According to the 2011 World Intellectual Property Report ‘the Changing Face of Innovation’ recently released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), innovation-driven growth is no longer the prerogative of high-income countries alone. Low and middle-income economies including China have […]

New highs for Peak and Chinese Sportswear ahead?

ArticleMarch 30, 2010

This December, Peak Sport Products Co, a leading sportswear-maker and distributor in China, signed endorsement contacts with basketball players CJ Watson of the Chicago Bulls and Sam Young of the Memphis Grizzlies for a total of 12 National Basketball Association spokespersons. The company traces its roots to a start-up led by the 55-year-old Xu Jingnan […]

Succession tragedies: What Emperor Yang of Sui and Maurizio Gucci can teach family businesses

Professor AnalysisAugust 31, 2026

Separated by 1,400 years, both heirs diagnosed exactly what was wrong with what they had inherited — and both were destroyed by how they tried to fix it. Three principles for the generation now taking over China’s family businesses.

“Chinese Capability, Indian Brand”: An Entrepreneur on the Future of India-China Business

ArticleJune 23, 2026

Ashwin Rastogi belongs to a small group of business leaders who have operated at depth on both sides of the India-China corridor. An engineering graduate of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, he began his career in finance — as a summer analyst at J.P. Morgan, then in public and growth equity at […]

Connecting up the country: China’s high-speed rail

ArticleMay 28, 2026

As China continues expanding its most iconic infrastructure project, questions arise over whether connectivity and integration can outweigh mounting debts Nothing symbolizes the rise of modern China more than its high-speed rail network. More than 45,000 kilometers of track constructed in less than 20 years are already in operation—more than the rest of the world […]

Doubling down on China: growth strategies and brand identity

ArticleMay 18, 2026

Premium travel and bag producer Tumi’s head of APAC and Middle East discusses the company’s strategy to pivot towards China In this Q&A, Aris Maroulis, head of APAC and Middle East for premium travel and bag brand Tumi, discusses the company’s shift towards China and Asia, how the company has captured the market, and where […]

China 2026: A year of consolidation

ArticleJanuary 28, 2026

China has entered 2026 facing the combined weight of a slowing economy and intensifying geopolitical pressure. The ongoing property slump and weak consumer confidence make for a very different China to that pre-COVID. To top it off, trade frictions have exacerbated the gap between China and many other countries. That said, exports have been performing particularly well—perhaps too well—as 2025 saw China’s trade surplus pass a trillion dollars while China’s high-tech industries such as robotics and AI are innovating at breakneck speed. As a result, China’s stock market had a particularly good year throughout 2025. Needless to say, the challenges are […]

Selective Partners: India and China’s Bet on De-Risked Interdependence

ArticleJanuary 7, 2026

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in China in August 2025 for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit — his first visit in seven years — the symbolism was unmistakable. The meeting with President Xi Jinping in Tianjin produced tangible outcomes: resumed direct passenger flights, reopened border trade passes at Lipulekh, Shipki La, and Nathu La, and facilitated business visas. Yet these confidence-building measures, welcome as they were, masked a more complex reality. India and China are not returning to the pre-2020 status quo. They are instead constructing something new — a relationship defined by what might be called “de-risked interdependence.” What […]

Succession in Southeast Asian Chinese business families

Professor AnalysisJanuary 7, 2026

In July 2025, Shangri-La Asia, which is headquartered in Hong Kong and listed in both Hong Kong and Singapore, announced that its current board chair and executive director, Kuok Hui Kwong, would take on the role of CEO from August 1. The announcement marked a leadership change at the Shangri-La Group, which owns, operates and […]

China’s next Five-Year Plan: what’s in store?

ArticleJanuary 4, 2026

China’s leaders met in mid-October to discuss the blueprint for the direction the country’s economy will take into the future. The meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party saw them finalise the next Five-Year plan that will provide the clearest idea yet of how China sees its near-term path. The plan, the 15th since the party gained power in 1949, encompasses all the main themes that the party is focused on. For many outsiders, planning an economy the size of China’s in such a rigid manner may seem unusual, yet it is in line with the core ideology of […]

A billion dollar valuation ≠ success? A new period of change for global unicorns has begun

Professor AnalysisAugust 21, 2025

Structural adjustments in the unicorn ecosystem The total number of unicorns—a non-listed company with a market value of over $1 billion—globally continues to grow, albeit more slowly than before, and artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly the biggest sector for opportunity in the unicorn ecosystem at the moment, with the AI wave driving much of the […]

From Sensors to Smart Cities: China’s Digital Leap Forward

ArticleJuly 17, 2025

Across a rapidly growing number of Chinese cities, an intricate web of technologies—AI, big data, cloud computing, IoT, blockchain, digital twins and augmented reality (AR)—work in sync to underpin what is known as a “city brain,” the core of today’s “smart cities.” The “city brain” draws on a constant stream of data to better support city management and public services, such as shifting traffic signals in real time according to the flow of vehicles, regulating ventilation in skyscrapers according to the day’s weather or scheduling delivery runs for wheeled robots in underground, dedicated freight tunnels. And while all this may sound […]

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