It turns out there’s some element of truth to the Despicable Me movies where the villain is transformed from being Super Bad to Super Dad after he has to father three little girls. Now new research ha… More

Copycat China is notorious . Many Western companies hesitate to enter China or to bring in technology, because of valid concerns about loss of intellectual property.  This concern is even greater when… More

Legend Holdings, which holds the largest stake in PC maker Lenovo Group, is looking to the Hong Kong IPO market to raise as much as $1.96 billion. It could be the third-largest IPO in the city this ye… More

In my last blog, I discussed the fallacies of the good enough markets: it turns out that the risks are high and the profit potential is low. Hence, multinational players have to be very selective when… More

The middle market has become the battle ground between foreign and local firms in emerging economies. Many foreign investors have in recent years been earning healthy margins in the premium segment, y… More

A new research study co-authored by Director of the CEIBS Centre for Innovations in Supply Chains & Services Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management Zhao Xiande identifies the five key… More

Sustainability in China has been a topic of many conversations for years now. The failure of China and the US to come to agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009 focused even more attention on the top… More

Selling the family home is an emotionally charged process at every stage. Besides concerns about the new owners and any changes they might make to the property, family members may disagree on how to h… More

China’s Internet boom appears to have far more significant economic, social, and business implications than the US Internet bubble of the late 1990s . Hardly a day goes by without surprising news on d… More

In terms of automobile production and sales, China is No. 1 in the world, with about 22 million vehicles sold in 2013 alone. But can you name many Chinese car brands? With an overwhelmingly domestic m… More