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When East Meets West

July 6, 2020 By Mable-Ann Chang

Kevin Nolan is President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Appliances, a subsidiary of Haier, the world’s largest appliance manufacturer. Here he discusses the integration of GE Appliances into Haier and the opportunities it creates.

Filed Under: All Articles, C-Suite Interview, Manufacturing, Mergers and Acquisitions, Q&A Tagged With: GE, GE Appliances, Haier

Ting Lu, Looking Forward

December 8, 2019 By Mable-Ann Chang

Ting Lu, managing director and chief China economist at Japanese investment bank Nomura forecasts China’s economic development.

Filed Under: All Articles, C-Suite Interview, China, Q&A Tagged With: Economic Prospects

Bruno Roche on the Economics of Mutuality

December 4, 2019 By Mable-Ann Chang

Bruno Roche, chief economist and Catalyst managing director for global food producer Mars, explains how the “Economics of Mutuality” can benefit businesses all over the world   For more than five decades, Mars Incorporated—a multinational family-owned company, makers of iconic brands like M&Ms, Mars, Snickers, Dove, Uncle Ben’s, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Wrigley’s and more—has invested […]

Filed Under: All Articles, C-Suite Interview, China, Economics, ExpertSpeak, Q&A Tagged With: Economic Mutuality

The Advance of China’s IT Market

November 1, 2019 By Mable-Ann Chang

Jun Wu, founder of venture capital company AMINO Capital, explains the challenges facing China’s nascent information-technology sector Jun Wu joined Google in 2002 as a senior expert and was a major contributor in developing the Google Search Engine for Asian languages, later becoming a pioneer in combating internet search fraud. He also served as vice […]

Filed Under: All Articles, C-Suite Interview, China, Conversations, Finance, Q&A Tagged With: China Information Technology

Parag Khanna on the Global Power that is Asia

October 28, 2019 By Mable-Ann Chang

Parag Khanna, founder and managing partner of FutureMap, explains the importance of understanding geopolitics and multipolarity in Asia.

Filed Under: All Articles, C-Suite Interview, Conversations, Q&A, Technology Tagged With: Geopolitics of Asia, Multipolarity of Asia, Rise of Asia

How to Attract China’s Lucrative Tourism Market: An Interview with Jane Sun, CEO of Ctrip

July 1, 2019 By Dominic Morgan

Jane Sun, CEO of Ctrip, explains how China’s online travel giant is pushing into new markets and gives her insight on how countries can attract China’s lucrative tourism market Online travel giant Ctrip is one of the great by-your-bootstraps success stories of China’s technology sector. Much like its more famous rival—Jack Ma’s e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba […]

Filed Under: C-Suite Interview, China Tagged With: C-trip, Tourism

Unicorn Factory: Interview with GGV Capital’s Hans Tung

January 29, 2019 By Dominic Morgan

Hans Tung knows how to spot a unicorn. During his career, he has invested in 11 startups that have gone on to attain billion-dollar valuations, including Airbnb, Bytedance, Slack, Wish and Xiaomi. Tung is also one of the few venture capitalists that feels equally at home on both sides of the Pacific. A native of Taiwan, he moved to California aged 13 and began his career in Silicon Valley, before becoming one of the first VCs at a US firm to move to China full-time in 2005. Since moving back to the US in 2013, he has continued to invest in both markets.

Filed Under: C-Suite Interview, Conversations, Innovation Tagged With: Start-up, VC, Venture Capital

In the Express Lane: Interview with President of FedEx China Eddy Chan

December 13, 2018 By Dominic Morgan

Economic changes taking place in China are rippling across the world, causing rapid upheaval in global supply chains. Manufacturers are moving to lower-wage economies, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is creating a new web of trade flows and the rise of cross-border e-commerce is accelerating demand for goods from across the world. And then, of course, there is a possible global trade war to factor into the equation. Dealing with all this uncertainty requires ice-cool pragmatism, as FedEx’s China head, Eddy Chan, has learned.

Filed Under: C-Suite Interview, Conversations, Digital Economy, Logistics

Voice of the People: How iFlytek Came to Dominate the World of Speech Recognition

August 22, 2018 By CKGSB Case Center

For a company whose software speaks to more than half a billion people, iFlytek tends to keep its voice low. Founded by a group of researchers in 1999 and headquartered in the relatively sleepy eastern city of Hefei, the company was ranked as the 6th smartest firm in the world in 2017—just one place below Google—by MIT Technology Review. Over the past two decades, iFlytek developed software that can understand several Chinese dialects fluently—a feat Apple’s Siri still struggles with. It can transcribe it into text, and translate it into English instantly. In this interview, Jiang Tao, Senior Vice President of iFlytek, who joined in the firm at the very beginning, explains how the company reached this point and how it keeps hold of its world-class researchers.

Filed Under: All Articles, C-Suite Interview, China, Entrepreneurship, Q&A, Technology, The Chinapreneurs Tagged With: AI, Speech recognition, Technology, Voice recognition

In Search of the “China Way”: An Interview with Peter Cappelli

June 13, 2018 By Dominic Morgan

China is now home to many of the world’s largest and most dynamic private companies. But apart from a few exceptions such as Alibaba’s Jack Ma, little is known outside China about the intrepid entrepreneurs who built these business empires, often against astonishing odds. Professor Peter Cappelli at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and author of Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China’s Great Global Companies, is trying to change that.

Filed Under: All Articles, Branding, C-Suite Interview, China, Entrepreneurship, Know China, Q&A Tagged With: #Interview, Chinese Company, Entrepreneurship

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