Harvard Business Review on Doing Business in China

by Harvard Business Review

Home to a quarter of the world's population, China, with its rapid growth, expanding openness, and developing consumer market, has become a hotbed of opportunity - and risk - for today's multinationals. Harvard Business Review on Doing Business in China offers a timely and insightful analysis of what it will take to successfully do business in twenty-first-century China.

Genres: Business, Management, China

204 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2004

Reviews

[Lis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This has different authors, so even the bad parts are at least over quick. It's really not bad, it was just that, again, it's a book I wouldn't have normally picked up. I needed some background on doing business in China for an MBA class that took place there. This seemed like one of the least painful on the subject, and it was.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since I am not particularly interested in doing business in China, I wasn't super interested in the business aspects of the book; though, those were somewhat interesting. I was more interested in the cultural side of how business is done. I have lived in China for a long time, but didn't understand that certain products sell better here because they are more readily available.

I found the fact about beverage companies using glass bottles rather than aluminum cans a fascinating difference in culture and availability of raw material. I never fully understood, for instance, why grocery stores sell the big bottles of beer rather than the single-serve aluminum cans in a case. Now I know why. It is both cultural and economic.

[Ana Maria · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too old concepts :(

[Alberto Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful tool to learn about the Chinese business mind.