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EXECUTIVE DIALOGUE
The China syndrome
Aug 31st 2005


It is said that no chief executive can face shareholders now without a “China plan”. Our Executive Dialogue gives some guidance on how to formulate one

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laingneng
Neng Liang [Bio]
Director of Executive MBA Programme, China Europe International Business School

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"Before 1994, there were no MBA degrees offered in China. So most of those Chinese [executives], whether they had a state-owned enterprise or they developed their own private firms, or those people who were working for multinational firms, they had a very different business education."

Ahmad
Sameena Ahmad [Bio]
Asia Business and Finance Correspondent, The Economist

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"In general, Chinese firms are looking for one of two things abroad. Natural resources is one... Some of the biggest deals, some of the most successful deals, overseas have been by big-resources companies trying to secure extra assets. And the second reason, which has been more high-profile, has been access to Western markets."

mark dixon
Mark Dixon [Bio]
Chief Executive, Regus Group


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"Many of our customers are coming to that stage now, where they've done the coastal cities and they've done Beijing. They want to move inland, to where the population is and to where the real growth is now coming."

Simon
Denis Simon [Bio]
Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Levin Graduate Institute

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"I strongly believe that eventually China, by virtue of having its own vested interest in protecting the intellectual property of its own firms, will begin to become much more diligent in the way that it enforces its overall intellectual-property regulations."





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Websites
The Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce has a biography of Denis Simon. China Europe International Business School has information on the research of Neng Liang. See also Regus Group.





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