How were 400 impoverished shoemaking families from a village in southern India transformed into entrepreneurs whose products go toe-to-toe with international competitors?

How Chinese family companies stand to last?

By helping companies communicate real-time with colleagues and clients worldwide while keeping travel costs down, four-year-old G-Net now reigns as China's largest “web meeting” service provider. Founder Chen Xuejun (EMBA 2004) shares his big plans for the company's growth.

In 1803 napoleon Bonaparte famously said, "China is a sleeping giant and when she awakes she shall astonish the world." From the point of view of the country's transportation infrastructure, there is substantial evidence that an awakening of astonishing proportion is currently underway. The significant advances in China's domestic transportation systems -- including rail, highways and roads, river transportation and air capacity -- are running in parallel with important changes in China's economic management systems and the development of the country's first legal structure.

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In this article I am ultimately looking at what Six Sigma training programs and the tool sets of Black Belts (BBs) and Green Belts (GBs) lack in two ways -- from the standpoint not only of what exists in formal definitions and published reports but also from my own experiences and discussions with practitioners.