[Assam] Harvard Business School: China: The New Entrepreneurs

Thu Oct 19 17:24:33 PDT 2006

Can the Chinese whiz kids  teach Assam to become competitive in business -- World Bank can't?

  Umesh

HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu> wrote:
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

  Highlights this Week    
   Report from the Field: In China, the New Entrepreneurs  
   First Look: Corporate social responsibility ratings, MGM Grand, more  
   What Do YOU Think? How Do We Respond to the "Dependency Ratio" Dilemma?  
   Research & Ideas: U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
==============================   New on the Site  Report from the Field: In China, the New Entrepreneurs  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5523.html
When a delegation of Harvard Business School faculty visited Chinese entrepreneurs, they came away with something unexpected: the start of what could be a fundamental rethinking of how entrepreneurship works.
  First Look: Cutting-Edge Faculty Research  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/firstlook/index.html
Analyzing firms that deliver corporate social responsibility ratings ... MGM Grand's bid to learn more about nongamers ... How does Bang & Olufsen thrive in the iPod era? 
  What Do YOU Think: How Do We Respond to the "Dependency Ratio" Dilemma?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5539.html
Online forum OPEN until Thursday, October 26. Without knowing it, we have already heard a great deal about "dependency ratios." We can expect to hear a lot more, both at the level of nations and individual firms.
  Research & Ideas: U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5454.html
The United States and Germany continue to top an annual review of the business competitiveness of 121 countries, which is compiled by Professor Michael Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. While India climbed in the rankings, China fell.
  Most Popular Stories  Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4834.html
  U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5454.html
  The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5489.html
  How Do We Respond to the "Dependency Ratio" Dilemma?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5539.html
  Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5480.html
  Best of Faculty Q&As  Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5470.html
In many nations, consumers enjoy vast protections that are relatively new on the scene. Why the rapid rise in consumer protectionism? Why do these efforts vary from country to country? A discussion with professor Gunnar Trumbull on his new book, Consumer Capitalism.
  Working Paper Spotlight  Cartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5537.html
by Jeffrey Fear
For better or worse, cartels have shaped economic and business history since the late nineteenth century. Big business must recognize how, up until the 1980s, the activities and influence of cartels affected technological development, corporate strategy, and organizational change.
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