Speakers Corner
March 15, 2010
How Google lost its self-inflicted struggle
Google announced publicly it would no longer censor its search engine a China, a requirement for any internet company working in China. The option of Google reversing its stance seemed also a rather remote possibility. But Google made it in the past few months even worse, explains Kaiser Kuo to the Mercury News, by further damaging its already impossible position.
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Fischer, Bill
Professor at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Travels from: Lausanne, Switzerland
Bill Fischer is a Professor at IMD [the International Institute for Management Development] in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he specializes in issues relating to corporate strategy, particularly in technology-related organizations, and in the management of operations and technology, as well.
He first began working in China in 1980, in Dalian, and in 1998 and 1999 was the President of the China Europe International Business School, a 50/50 joint venture between the European Union and China, located in Shanghai.
He is an engineer by training, an American by citizenship, and lives in Lausanne. In 1999, Bill received the Silver Magnolia Award, Shanghai's highest award for foreigners.
Travels from: Lausanne, Switzerland
Bill Fischer is a Professor at IMD [the International Institute for Management Development] in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he specializes in issues relating to corporate strategy, particularly in technology-related organizations, and in the management of operations and technology, as well.
He first began working in China in 1980, in Dalian, and in 1998 and 1999 was the President of the China Europe International Business School, a 50/50 joint venture between the European Union and China, located in Shanghai.
He is an engineer by training, an American by citizenship, and lives in Lausanne. In 1999, Bill received the Silver Magnolia Award, Shanghai's highest award for foreigners.
