Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, wants to see more women in the corner office. Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, has turned herself into an evangelist for women. Sandberg, who regularly ranks on various lists of the most powerful women in the world, believes that there is no such thing […]
Global E-Commerce: China’s Jingdong Steps Out
Jingdong, China’s second-largest business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce site, recently went global. It debuted its English-language global site in October 2012. The company ships to 35 countries across the world, including places in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Shi Tao, Vice President (Retail), Jingdong, hopes that in 2-3 years, the company will clock yearly revenues […]
How can Chinese Companies compete in Global Markets?
Durairaj Maheswaran, the Paganelli Bull Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, sees the globalization of companies in terms of a “Five C” model of competitive advantage. In simple terms, this model examines how a company’s core benefit, competition, culture, corporate structure and country of origin impact its globalization strategy. As Chinese companies look […]
The Creative Life: An Interview with TCL’s Li Dongsheng
Founded in 1981, the TCL Corporation is one of China’s largest consumer electronics groups. The group has been a pioneer in the globalization of Chinese companies. With the purchase of a majority stake in French television producer Thomson SA in 2003, TCL embarked on a globalization strategy which has allowed the company to become the […]
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild on E.L. Rothschild’s investments
In 2003, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild set up E.L. Rothschild LLC, a privately funded family investment company to oversee a variety of the Rothschilds’ global investments. Today E.L. Rothschild has made a number of investments in a diverse bunch of sectors across continents. In this interview, Lady de Rothschild, […]
Bottom of the Pyramid and Beyond: The Thinker Interview with Stuart Hart
In the year 2002, C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart published a groundbreaking article in Strategy+Business magazine that introduced to the world the idea of the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP). The idea, which says that the poor present a vast untapped business opportunity, and if companies serve the poor, they can help eradicate poverty and […]
The Thinker Interview: Jeffrey Pfeffer on Human Sustainability
Organization behavior expert and Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer on the poor state of human sustainability in organizations In a career spanning more than four decades, there is one thing that Jeffrey Pfeffer has never done—mince words and sugarcoat advice. Pfeffer, the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate […]
Growth Engine: China’s Search Giant Baidu
In a little over a decade since it came into being, China’s first homegrown search engine, Baidu, has become a formidable internet giant. Today Baidu commands over 85% of the Chinese search market, and in terms of marketshare, it is counted among the top three search engines globally. It has also started to create a […]
Consumer Behavior 2.0
Wharton’s David Bell elaborates on the possible directions e-commerce in China could take in future. The rise of online shopping in China is dizzying. With cyber consumption accounting for $36.56 billion in the first quarter of this year, purchases have risen 40.9% compared with the same period last year. Analysts predict that the country’s e-commerce […]
‘Creating’ Creativity
A recent global IBM CEO survey says that the majority of CEOs who participated believe the key to navigating today’s uncertain economic climes is creativity. Creating an innovative workplace is an essential part of business today, but implementing practices that actually nurture creativity is much more difficult than supporting it in theory. Many in the […]
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