DiligenceChina

Right now consultants are moving to Shanghai because “they don’t want to live in airports anymore”. Traveling from the East Coast to China more than a few times a quarter is simply too taxing and time consuming. (LA – China is like a bus ride. They don’t even have time to […]

5 years ago, ex-pat managers in China were likely to be entrepreneurs or employees of big multinational corporations. The common factor was that the China-based manager was a China specialist. Running and managing a China operation was a huge, mind bogglingly complex endeavor, and the typical ex-pat had his hands full just trying […]

Two easy-to-miss news stories to start a wet, gray, cold Shanghai Monday. Business-week has discovered that 20 months in a pay-as-you-go executive MBA program doesn’t turn timid Chinese public-school lambs into commercial lions. The stats are nice, but the article doesn’t break new ground.
On the other hand, the venerable […]

I recently sat down with a very ambitious young American who helps international investors execute their China plans. Dan Turgel, Director of WAT Property and Investments said one thing that really stuck with me. “Sometimes Americans don’t do China well on a small scale.” It reminded me of something […]

I’ve been talking to a few different people about second locations for a business and expansion plans lately. There are no 2nd Cities anymore. Everything seem to be lighting up, and old rules are rapidly changing. Suzhou and Hangzhou are already developed, overcrowded markets. Qingdao has been on everyone’s A list for […]