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Creating Customer Value is Not Enough

April 1, 2015 By Brian Viard

The price you are able to command for your services doesn’t just depend on how much customer value you create.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Employment, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Supply Chain Tagged With: Brian Viard, Employment, Labor, Slider, Taxi App, Value Chain

Should the Liquor Tax in China be Higher?

January 27, 2015 By Brian Viard

Liquor tax in China is lower than in most other countries. Prof Brian Viard on whether there is a case for raising it.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Consumers, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Society Tagged With: Alcohol, Alcohol Tax, Brian Viard, Chinese Consumers, Consumption, Pricing, Slider

When your Bank Interest is a Basketful of Vegetables

January 13, 2015 By Brian Viard

CKGSB professor Brian Viard on why Chinese banks are resorting to paying bank interest through Mercedes Benz cars, iPhones and even vegetables.

Filed Under: All Articles, Banking, Economics, ExpertSpeak, Finance, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China Tagged With: Alipay, Banking Reform, Brian Viard, Interest Rate, Invisible Hand Revealed, Shadow Banking, Slider, Yu'e Bao

Railroaded? The Logic Behind Merging Two Chinese Train Manufacturers

December 9, 2014 By Brian Viard

Examining the possible reasons behind the merger of two Chinese train manufacturers, China CNR Corp. and CSR Corp.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Manufacturing, Mergers and Acquisitions, Winning in China Tagged With: Brian Viard, Competition, Invisible Hand Revealed, Mergers and Acquisitions, Railway, Siemens, Slider, Transportation

Learning from Market Entry: Keep Your Entrants Imaginary

October 28, 2014 By Brian Viard

What industry incumbents can learn from the forces that guide market entry.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Consumers, Digital Economy, ExpertSpeak, Finance, Internet Finance, Invisible Hand Revealed, Marketing Tagged With: Alibaba, Alipay, Android, Brian Viard, eCommerce, Foxconn, Google, Invisible Hand Revealed, JD.com, Marketing, Pricing, Slider, WeChat

Deciding to Invest in Something? Bear in Mind the Opportunity Cost

September 23, 2014 By Brian Viard

By using the principle of opportunity cost, Chinese companies can make better investment decisions.

Filed Under: All Articles, Economics, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Mergers and Acquisitions, Winning in China Tagged With: Brian Viard, Chinese Company, Iron Ore, Mergers and Acquisitions, Microeconomics, Opportunity Cost, Pricing, Slider, Volkswagen

Will Competition Work in Chinese Industries?

August 12, 2014 By Brian Viard

Can increased competition in Chinese industries help the country meet its goals for greater reforms? During last November’s Third Plenum, the party’s Central Committee unveiled a blueprint for reform to drive greater economic growth in China.[1] An important component of these reforms is an increase in market competition.While the Central Committee is perhaps thinking primarily of the […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Chinese Economy, Economics, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China Tagged With: Brian Viard, C-trip, Chinese Market, Competition, Economic Reform, Industry, Price Wars, Slider

Restrictions on New Car Purchases: An Economist’s Road Trip

July 9, 2014 By Brian Viard

Various cities across China are restricting new car purchases in an effort to curb pollution and traffic using either auctions or lotteries. Which of these two methods works better? In efforts to contain rapidly-escalating congestion and pollution, city governments across China are experimenting with numerous methods to pull cars off the road. Some of these […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Automobile Industry, Environment, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Policy and Law, Society Tagged With: Automobiles, Beijing, Brian Viard, Environmental Pollution, Hot Issues in China, Invisible Hand Revealed, License Plate Restrictions, Policy, Slider

China’s Salt Monopoly: Cracking Down on Illegal Contraband

June 11, 2014 By Brian Viard

China’s 2,132-year old salt monopoly and why it makes sense to finally end it. Early last year Taobao, Alibaba’s online marketplace, went through a cleansing process to remove contraband being sold by merchants on the site. What was this illicit item? Was it cocaine or heroin sale of which is prohibited under China’s Drug Administration […]

Filed Under: All Articles, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Policy and Law, Resources Tagged With: Brian Viard, Chinese Market, eCommerce, Government Control, Invisible Hand Revealed, Monopoly, Monopoly Pricing, Slider, Taobao

Box Office Sales: It’s all a Matter of Timing (Part 2)

April 17, 2014 By Brian Viard

Last time I discussed how important movie-release timing is to box office sales in the US and how studios play a game of “chicken” to obtain the choicest time slots. This time I talk about how differently things work in China. Last time I talked about how studios play a game of “chicken” when scheduling movie releases […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Marketing, Movie Industry, Strategy Tagged With: Brian Viard, Chinese Films, Invisible Hand Revealed, Movie Industry, Slider

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