The Asian countries are more integrated because they are conscious commercial competitors and therefore, I think, stimulating the reforms in all three countries.

How much should state-owned listed companies pay senior executives, and what role should stock option-based incentives play in making sure these big cheeses both work hard and feel adequately compensated? CEIBS Professor of Economics Zhu Tian has recently had a lot to say on these topics, publishing two articles in the Chinese media in July.

General managers looking to boost prof its and retain valuable employees need to keep several principals in mind: partnership, social community and internal networking. So finds CEIBS Associate Professor of Management Terence Tsai and two colleagues from Taiwan and Beijing. Their research underscores the importance of treating employees like equals and working together as a cohesive team. As pointed out by Prof. Tsai et al, “the organisational capability developed through partnership and internal networking [impacted] the ability of the firm to retain people, to control the organisation, to cope with external uncertainty, and to outperform competitors.”

Prestigious journal Corporate Governance named CEIBS Professors Ding Yuan and Zhang Hua as the authors of the "2007 Best Paper" for their article "Private versus state ownership and earnings management: Evidence from Chinese listed companies." The paper was published in Corporate Governance: An International Review,Volume 15, 2007.

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.