Category Archives: Management

Chanos Would Short Sell US-Listed Chinese Companies

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Richard

As some say, “China bubble, what bubble?” Jim Chanos, well-known for his pre-blowup Enron predictions, told Bloomberg: “The bubble is really on the other side of the world,” he said in New York. “What my team found, they actually came … Continue reading →

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Podcast Audio — Avon, China and the FCPA

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Richard

Door-to-Door cosmetic sales in China meets the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and four executives discover what the law means for them in practice.

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Avon, Door-to-door Sales and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Richard

I once trained, as consultant for a German conglomerate in China, door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen (and women) in sales techniques: 15 cities over six months, approximately 500 trainees.  So that I might observe their skills, together we knocked on doors … Continue reading →

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The Return of Manufacturing to the US — Has China Had It?

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Richard

Small companies, generally speaking, should not source product in China. Aside from logistical difficulties, they don’t have the volume orders to command signficantly low price points nor even the quality control larger buyers can insist upon (and must fight to … Continue reading →

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It’s the Yuan, Again, and Again, and Again, and…

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Richard

More hollering about the value of the Yuan. This is simply Washington window dressing on the more profound problem to which none of the “best and brightest” supposed to be leading this country seems to care deeply enough about to … Continue reading →

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MI5: PLA and PSB “Gifts” to Businessmen Bugged

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Richard

Commercial espionage among nations should not come as a surprise to anyone involved competitive businesses. I am a proponent of the idea that American intelligence should practice it far more than we already do, which is either so brilliantly executed … Continue reading →

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Google CEO Criticizes Chinese Leadership at World Forum

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Richard

Breaking news at WSJ: Google CEO Schmidt at Davos: ‘We like what China is doing in terms of growth … we just don’t like censorship. We hope that will change and we can apply some pressure to make things better … Continue reading →

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Google Delays Phone Launch in China — Getting In Deeper…

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Richard

Google has announced a delay in China of the launch of mobile phones using its Android software. One must question this move as simply more Google shadow boxing. Despite its threat to remove web filtering, Google does not appear to … Continue reading →

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The Google Threat: Paper Tiger?

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Richard

Media is always a losing proposition in China. I was thrilled to read Anne Stevenson Yang’s forthright and accurate assessment of foreign involvement in Chinese media. Finally, a non-Chinese within China is willing to state the obvious to a public … Continue reading →

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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf — Just How Much Can an Animator Make Off Programming in China?

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Richard

While it is well-known that advertising revenue has made CCTV, the provincial and regional stations superb examples of the proverbial cash cow, we find out from “Li Lisi of the Creative Power Entertaining Co., Ltd. (Creative Power) in Guangzhou” how … Continue reading →

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