China: The Decoupling Is Here
The banning of Apple’s iPhone is an unmistakable signal that the inevitable future has arrived sooner than anyone thought. Here’s what CEOs should do now.
The banning of Apple’s iPhone is an unmistakable signal that the inevitable future has arrived sooner than anyone thought. Here’s what CEOs should do now.
The stakes and the risks are far larger in China than Ukraine—and so is the complexity. The time to start planning is now.
Small and mid-size companies will be key to creating long-term change, Revere Copper chief says.
With the U.S. considering downsizing the economic relationship with China, CEOs should consider current tensions only the beginning of a long-term process.
Robert Kuhn, a reformed investment banker with personal relationships at the highest levels of China’s leadership, shares his thoughts on what CEOs need to know now.
Fred Davidson was stifling in the unbearable heat that midsummer’s day in 2002. Temperatures in the corrugated steel warehouse late that evening hovered around 100
We’ve reached 10 years of economic expansion and yet, many CEOs seem to be anxious. The biggest worry rhymes with Smariffs, but that’s hardly the only concern. Amid this darkening mood, Chief Executive Editor-in-Chief Dan Bigman shares a few reasons to be optimistic.
Douglas Gerber has been in Hong Kong since his days with PepsiCo—the culture was vibrant and he decided it was worth staying. Gerber, CEO of Focus One, talked with us about differences between high-performing leadership teams in the U.S. and Asia.
No episode in recent memory has highlighted the reality of business in Japan as much as the ongoing abuse of Carlos Ghosn, reminding us that the micro politics of planned economies can be as misguided as the macro policies that built China’s ghost cities.
Rowpar Pharmaceuticals CEO Dr. James Ratcliff is taking the company’s CloSYS oral hygiene brands into China—during a trade war. He talks with us about the challenges in doing so.
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