James Farrer Only up to a certain degree foreign expats and Chinese are mixing in what has now become one of the largest expat societies in the world, Shanghai, says sociologist James Farrer of the Sophia University in Tokyo.The Shanghai expats society has been changing greatly over the past fifteenRead More →
via WikipediaHolidays are coming to and end in China and the working life is resuming again. Since we are running a global service, we never really have a holiday, but we did have been a bit silent here: there was anyway hardly anybody to talk to. But now the GoldenRead More →
Bill Fischer IMD-professor and former CEIBS dean Bill Fischer has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Bill Fischer is a leading authority on business and China. Apart from being a gifted storyteller, he has real stories to tell.With his broad IMD-network he is able to tap into the larger companies, dealingRead More →
Richard Kuslan The financial downturn in the US has interesting side-effects. Richard Kuslan, lawyer, blogger and speaker at the China Speakers Bureau has been invited by the insurer-in-problems AIG to explain their position in Asia.Richard Kuslan reports at the Asiabizblog: The text clearly shows that AIG is seriously concerned aboutRead More →
Mark Schaub He still drinks Chinese milk, says lawyer and author Mark Schaub in a discussion with Fons Tuinstra of the China Speakers Bureau on the ongoing milk melamine scandal in China. “The bigger companies were trusted too much and when it come to food security, you cannot trust anybody.”MarkRead More →
Paul French While China’s melamine milk scandal has been covered pretty well by the media, we tend to forget Sanlu’s foreign partner Fonterra, warns retail-expert Paul French of Access Asia in his weekly newsletter. “But what is interesting to us, is that the New Zealand dairy company Fonterra, which ownsRead More →
Image via WikipediaA few times per week, new speakers asked to be included in the China Speakers Bureau. That is possible under a set of conditions, one of them is filling in our application form. Most people get to us by email, suggesting that our application form is too muchRead More →
Mark Schaub What is happening behind the doors of the dairy industry? While the headlines of the milk scandal get more worrying by the day, very few people have a good insight in what is happening behind the doors of that industry.Lawyer and successful author Mark Schaub, and not surprisinglyRead More →
Arthur Kroeber “These after-the-fact administrative measures miss the point. Regulatory regimes succeed when systemic incentives make market participants behave. These incentives can exist only after separation of the Government from control of prices, company management and information flows.” Arthur Kroeber of the prestigious China Economic Quarterly points at the responsibilityRead More →
Howard French, highest newcomer At the China Speakers Bureau we publish each month a top-10 of the most-sought speakers. In August we did the first one, but since we were online for only a short time, the results were a bit dodgy. This month we see huge shifts.Number one, ShaunRead More →
the Magnolia award When I talked earlier today to our new speaker Charles McElwee at the China Speakers Bureau, I did not know yet we had an award winner amongst us. He modestly announced at his own weblog that he obtained the Magnalia award, the highest recognition the Shanghai MunicipalityRead More →
Charles McElwee The eminent environmental lawyer Charles McElwee has joined today the China Speakers Bureau. He brought an extensive knowledge and experience in the US environmental and energy law to China, when he moved to Shanghai a few years ago.Charles McElwee is a very much wanted speaker on this veryRead More →