Business

Facets of a changing China: Fast fashion

February 6th, 2012  |  by  |  published in Business, zS Blogs

Facets of a changing China: Fast fashion

When walk­ing the streets of Shanghai, China's most glob­al­ized and inter­na­tional city, one can­not help but notice the num­ber of oppor­tu­ni­ties to shop. China is, as NYU Shanghai pro­fes­sor Dan Guttman put it when address­ing our Contemporary China course in the fall of 2011, “the land of one billion-plus cus­tomers.” China is home to end­less […]

Suits, the practical and the cute: The Chinese corporate dress code

November 29th, 2011  |  by  |  published in Business, zS Blogs

Suits, the practical and the cute: The Chinese corporate dress code

Sandra Go exam­ines Chinese office fash­ion, find­ing it a bit cuter, lac­ier and spark­lier than you might imag­ine com­ing from New York or London

Reverse merge with caution: Shell companies, IPOs and skirting US regulations

May 22nd, 2011  |  by  |  published in Business

Reverse merge with caution: Shell companies, IPOs and skirting US regulations

Ansel Parikh explores "reverse merg­ers," in which pri­vately held Chinese com­pa­nies skirt US reg­u­la­tions via shell com­pa­nies. Opportunity abounds, but investors should be wary.…

Intern Diaries: For the Shanghai skyline…

March 13th, 2011  |  by  |  published in Business, Internships, jobs & volunteering

Intern Diaries: For the Shanghai skyline…

For Emily Gong, the excite­ment of a Shanghai sky­line view more than makes up for the minor mis­cues and frus­tra­tions of her first day intern­ing at ChinaVest

Intern Diaries: Fraud-busting’s the name of the game

March 12th, 2011  |  by  |  published in Business, Internships, jobs & volunteering

Intern Diaries: Fraud-busting’s the name of the game

Ansel Parikh is help­ing the China Economic Review inves­ti­gate cor­po­rate fraud as a "vol­un­tary foren­sic accoun­tant and finan­cial inves­ti­ga­tor." Sound excit­ing? It is.

Hangzhou’s business-pleasure split personality

December 1st, 2010  |  by  |  published in Business, zS Blogs

Hangzhou’s business-pleasure split personality

David Shi cycles the scenic shores of his­toric West Lake before vis­it­ing local enter­prise suc­cess sto­ries Wahaha and Alibaba

Midnight Snack: Shanghai’s nighttime street food vendors

October 1st, 2010  |  by  |  published in Business, Magazine

Midnight Snack: Shanghai’s nighttime street food vendors

Adam Borowski explores the busi­ness of Shanghai street food, inter­view­ing ven­dors from three dif­fer­ent street food zones through­out the city.

China's economic nomads

May 12th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Business

China's economic nomads

House painter Yuan Shanguo is a floater, and he’s been that way for almost ten years. As China’s mega-cities on the east­ern coast blos­somed to an Olympic and World Expo cal­iber, Yuan, along with hun­dreds of mil­lions of young adults from rural parts of the coun­try, migrated to the cities for work; skirt­ing around legal bar­ri­ers and […]

Chinese Universities – Hotbeds of Conservatism

May 15th, 2009  |  by  |  published in Business

Andrew Hupert, NYU busi­ness instruc­tor and pub­lisher of Best Practices China, reports on the out­come of a dia­logue about the future of busi­ness edu­ca­tion in China between under­grad­u­ate busi­ness stu­dents from Jiao Tong University’s Antai College of Economics and NYU’s Stern School of Business.

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