China
Weaving through Hyderabad's morning commute traffic on her scooter, Katie Hill found herself both exhilarated and apprehensive. The spectacle of so many people in trucks, cars, and motorcycles was a vivid sign of India’s economic progress. But the fumes from all the tailpipes created a haze on the...
Beth Cross is the founder and CEO of Ariat International. Based in Union City, California, the company makes footwear and apparel for riders and the equestrian lifestyle. Cross grew up on a horse farm in Pennsylvania, and moved to California to attend Stanford Graduate School of Business,...
An uncertain economy, coupled with financial accounting scandals, has shaken China's once thriving venture capital investment market. During the first 6 months of the year, venture capital IPO exits in China sank 42% to just 32 cases, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. The value of VC...
In 1986, Janet Yang landed in Shanghai as the top China advisor to Steven Spielberg during the filming of Empire of the Sun, a drama about an English boy who goes from living in a wealthy British family in Shanghai to becoming a prisoner of war during World War II. At that time, moviemaking in...
Across the industrialized world and across employers, there are huge variations in what Stanford economics professor Nick Bloom calls being-nice-to-people practices. These are policies that try to address the fact that men and women in today’s workforce are often struggling to balance their work...
In a relatively short time, U.S. shale gas production has lowered the price of natural gas in the United States to a quarter of the price in Europe and prompted some utilities to scrap plans to build coal-fired electricity plants. Meanwhile China is gearing up to apply the technology...