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Virtual Education

July 8, 2020 By Mable-Ann Chang

The COVID-19 crisis turned taking online classes from being a mere option to becoming an absolute necessity. What does this mean for businesses working in the education technology sector?

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Digital Economy, Innovation, Society, Technology Tagged With: Education, education industry, Online Education

Out to the World: More Chinese Students Studying Abroad

August 1, 2016 By CKGSB Knowledge

More Chinese students are studying abroad than ever before, here are the numbers. Chinese students are studying overseas in much greater numbers than ever before. Statistics shows that in 2014 alone, more than 459,800 Chinese students went abroad, heading to mostly the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK and Japan. Two-thirds of 4.5 million chose […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Culture, Demographics, Know China Tagged With: Education, Higher Education

Countering Supplier Power: Can an Employee be Too Good?

March 9, 2016 By Brian Viard

Managers instinctively think about the threat of competitors because they can push down prices and lower profits. But there are other threats to profits that managers should not ignore. One of these is the threat that suppliers can pose. This idea was formalized and called “supplier power” by Harvard economist Michael Porter in 1979. The idea is that even with little competition a firm can still lose profits to a supplier that has significant bargaining power. But the situation gets even more complicated when the people bearing the supplier power are its own star employees. What should a company do about that?

Filed Under: All Articles, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Management Tagged With: Education, Employee Engagement, Management

How Embedded Education Can Solve Many Problems

November 16, 2015 By Neelima Mahajan

In every country, there are vast populations that need to be educated about something, like say personal health or hygiene, but it’s hard to do that because they are too poor, too busy, too old or just plain shy. The challenge then becomes: how do you reach out to them and achieve the desired outcomes. A concept called ‘embedded education’ can help here. Embedded education, or the practice of educating people through encounters that they already have with existing delivery systems, might just prove to be more effective than traditional mechanisms. So don’t be surprised if your barber starts educating you on hypertension the next time you get a haircut.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Social Good, Society, Videos Tagged With: Education

The State of Philanthropy in China

May 18, 2015 By Chris Russell (Additional reporting by Milo Zhang)

Philanthropy in China doesn’t exactly have a good track record. What are the chances that the country will turn it around?

Filed Under: All Articles, Know China, Social Good, Society Tagged With: Bill Gates, Charities, Education, Environment, Healthcare, Jack Ma, Philanthropy, Slider

Homeward Bound: Chinese Sea Turtles Return to a New Reality

May 5, 2015 By Colin Shek

Long the purveyors of advanced skills and knowledge, Chinese sea turtles, or overseas returnees, are now finding a different environment back home.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Connections, Employment, Globalization, Know China, Talent Tagged With: Competition, Education, Employment, Hot Issues in China, Multinational Company, Slider, Talent

Leta Hong Fincher on the Pursuit of Marital Property in China

October 6, 2014 By Suzanne Edwards

Author and researcher Leta Hong Fincher on the confounding phenomenon of women forfeiting their property wealth in China.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Conversations, Culture, Demographics, Know China, Policy and Law, Q&A, Society Tagged With: Demographics, Education, Gender Inequality, Hot Issues in China, Housing, Marriage, Policy, Property, Slider

Innovation with Chinese characteristics

January 18, 2012 By Christopher Beam

Around the world, the October death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a collective moment of mourning, admiration, and reflection. In China, another element was added to the mix: self-flagellation. Why, lamented many commentators, has China failed to produce its own Steve Jobs? Former Google China chief Kai-Fu Lee, writing on Sina Weibo, blamed an […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Innovation, Know China, Manufacturing, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: Apple, Education, Huawei, Steve Jobs, Technology

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