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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