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How Amazon and eBay influence the purchase decision making process

March 17, 2014 By Zhang Kaifu

As we buy online, little do we realize how online buying platforms such as e-commerce websites influence our purchase decision making process. Each time you buy something online, you don’t realize that your choice is not yours alone. Throughout the buying process your decision is influenced—both at a conscious and subconscious level—by an online procurement […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Consumers, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Videos Tagged With: Amazon, E-Commerce, eBay, Online Privacy, Online Shopping, Search Environment, Shopping, Slider

“17% of Global Innovation is Coming From Emerging Markets”

February 11, 2014 By Neelima Mahajan

Texas A&M’s Venkatesh Shankar on how emerging markets are reshaping the global innovation architecture. The year 2007 marked a major turning point for General Electric Corporation (GE). For the very first time, in GE’s more than century-old history, the company earned more from its operations outside of the US, than within. That, as the company revealed, […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Connections, Conversations, Emerging Economies, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Management, Q&A, Strategy, Videos Tagged With: Business Strategy, Emerging Markets, GE, Innovation, MNCs, Slider

How The Environment Impacts Creative Thinking

January 13, 2014 By Major Tian

CKGSB Professor Juliet Zhu explains how environmental factors such as color, lighting and noise impact our creative thinking processes and productivity. Not all of it is intuitive. Getting stuck while coming up with the punch line of your carefully orchestrated marketing plan? Try this: change the desktop image of your laptop to the blue sky and […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Creativity, Management, Videos Tagged With: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Environment, Productivity, Slider

David Cameron’s Visit: Boosting UK-China Trade Ties

December 11, 2013 By Major Tian and Neelima Mahajan

  Sir Victor Blank, former British Business Ambassador and Chairman of CKGSB’s European Advisory Board, talks about the significance of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s three-day visit to China to boost UK-China trade relations. British Prime Minister David Cameron sent a clear message during his three-day visit to China last week—UK means business. He brought […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Chinese Economy, Conversations, Finance, International Trade, Q&A, Videos Tagged With: David Cameron, Joint Ventures, Sir Victor Blank, Trade, Trade and Investment, UK-China, UK-China Trade, Victor Blank

Towards Better Decision Making

December 5, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan

Look at your typical day. There is one thing that you constantly do from the time you wake up in the morning to when you go to bed at night: take decisions. These range from seemingly inconsequential things such as opting to have cereal instead of a bagel for breakfast, to big-ticket decisions such as evaluating […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Management, Q&A, Strategy, Videos Tagged With: Decision-making, Left Brain Right Stuff, Mindset, Strategic thinking

Counterfeiting: Good or Bad?

November 18, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan

Is counterfeiting always bad? China is undoubtedly the world’s biggest market for counterfeit products. From fake Louis Vuitton bags, to Prada purses, Adidas sweatpants, Nike sneakers and Rolex watches—you can buy them all for a song in huge multistoried markets across China’s cities. How does the prevalence of counterfeits impact brand owners? Should the likes […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, China, Consumers, Conversations, Intellectual Property, Know China, Marketing, Q&A, Retail, Videos Tagged With: Branding, Counterfeits, Intellectual Property, Marketing, Marketing Mix, Slider

Philanthropy For Community Impact

November 12, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan

Brian Gallagher, CEO of United Way Worldwide, on more meaningful philanthropy, and measuring the impact of and enforcing accountabilty in philanthropy projects. As a charitable organization, United Way Worldwide (UWW) enjoys two unique advantages: the benefit of scale, and the ability to organize and manage community impact projects locally. UWW, a 125-year-old institution now, is […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, C-Suite Interview, Conversations, CSR, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Videos Tagged With: Corporate Social responsibility, Philanthropy, Slider, Venture Philanthropy

What Plagues FDI in Retail in India?

November 5, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan

    FDI in retail in India is a prickly issue. For years, the proposed policy to allow foreign retailers to set up shop in the country was in limbo. Finally in 2011, the government eased the rules governing foreign direct investment (FDI) in both multi-brand retail as well as single-brand retail. Foreign retailers were […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Connections, Conversations, Emerging Economies, Know China, Policy and Law, Q&A, Retail, Videos Tagged With: FDI, Retail, Slider, Tesco, Wal-Mart

The Pro Bono Evangelist: an Interview with Aaron Hurst

October 30, 2013 By Melody Tu and Major Tian

  Aaron Hurst is a man with a mission. Hurst, CEO of Imperative and author of The Purpose Economy, is out to reinvent corporate philanthropy. In 2001, Hurst launched Taproot, a company that aims to make pro bono service a part of every business. The idea is simple. Many non-profit organizations face a major handicap […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, CSR, Q&A, Social Good, Videos Tagged With: NGO, Non-Profits, Pro-Bono, Slider

Unleashing the Purpose Economy: A Chat with Aaron Hurst

October 15, 2013 By Melody Tu and Major Tian

  Even though the information industry is still in its prime, discussions about the next driver of the global economy are already picking up steam. Terms like the ‘sharing economy’, the ‘feedback economy’ and the ‘green economy’ have been coined, predicting that social networks, Big Data, and alternative energy would be the next big thing. […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Management, Videos Tagged With: Purpose Economy, Slider

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