“Chinese Art & The Tao” Dazzles At The Grand Palais Exhibition: Paris Journal

"Chinese Art & The Tao" Dazzles At The Grand Palais Exhibition: Paris Journal Viewpoint by Andrew Scharf, Head of the WCW Group On this glorious Spring day, what could be better than a walk through the Tuileries gardens on “The Way” to the Grand Palais in order to revel in a sumptuous spiritual exercise of viewing an exhibit which features a survey of 2 millennia of Chinese philosophy. There are floating clouds, incense burners from Kung Fu films, and a jade tablet featuring the Mountain ...

News/Leadership: INSEAD To Hold Asian Conference To Tackle Global Economic Shifts

News/Business Education/Leadership: INSEAD To Hold Conference To Tackle Global Economic Shifts by the WCW Editorial Team The global economic shift has highlighted how governments and corporate institutions are trying to grapple with an accelerated shift in economic change. What the current economic climate has taught us over the last year is that we must have the reflexes to tackle the unexpected. The problem in many Western countries is the dilemma between economic growth and job creatio...

News/Entrepreneurship: “Where East Eats West” – Doing Business in China

News/Entrepreneurship: Aimee Barnes conducts an exclusive interview with entrepreneur, Sam Goodman on how to launch a successful business in China for expatriates by Aimee Barnes In today’s uncertain economic climate, China has rapidly become a land of opportunity as more Westerners leave behind their home countries to chase after the potential for success in the East. China is now a formidable world leader in technology and manufacturing, luring both talent and innovation from all point...

Special Report/Comment & Analysis: What Makes China Uniquely “Cool”

News/ Discussion/ Comment & Analysis: Aimee Barnes examines - What Makes China Uniquely “Cool?” Can China’s “Coolness” Be Exported? Viewpoint by Aimee Barnes A recent interview with Jenny Bai, Founder and CEO of The Red Connect, explored the potential to export China’s brands and pop culture to the Western market. Given recent investment trends, it is apparent that China is preparing to stake its claim in new territories- and the auto industry has perhaps been the most obvious indicator o...

News/ Sustainability: China To Focus on Renewable Energy

News/ Sustainability: The Chinese Government vows to make substantial commitment to alternative energy sources by By Kari Cameron, Voice of America China is battling air pollution and high costs for imported energy with an aggressive focus on renewable energy. The Chinese government says it will have 100 giga-watts of wind-power capacity by 2020 — enough to power more than 60 million homes. That figure is more than three times the target the government laid out just 18 months ago. "...

Sustainable Energy: UL Launches New Services for Wind Turbine Certification

News/ Sustainable Energy: UL Launches New Services for Wind Turbine Certification This article has been provided by the courtesy of Gopi Rengasamy Product safety testing and certification company, Underwriters Laboratories (UL), announced that it will soon begin offering the testing and certification of wind turbines in accordance with new UL standard requirements for safety. "This new, expanded service will enable manufacturers to apply for system certification, which covers elect...

Special Report: Kyoto Action & Eating for a Cooler Planet

Special Report/ Sustainability: Dennis Shibut examines the impact of excessive meat eating on the planet and its resources by Dennis Shibut From its start, Kyoto Action has claimed that excessive meat eating is one of the four primary causes driving global warming. In December 2008, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) issued a major study on the impact of massive herds and livestock have on global warming and environmental degradation. In the study, entitled„ Livestock's Lo...

Business Education: Tuck Organises Insights into International Markets

Business Education: Tuck Center for International Business offers alternative field studies by the WCW Editorial Team Despite the current state of the economy, MBA students at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth opted to take a different approach to the usual Spring Break pattern of fariente on Carribean beaches. Three groups of first- and second-year students opted to spend their their recess in China, Kenya and Japan, exploring the business perspectives and cultures of countries t...

Comment & Analysis: Why US Businesses Should Care About Corruption in China

News/ Comment & Analysis: Aimee Barnes explores the dilemmas for American business operating in China Viewpoint by Aimee Barnes, Business Strategist It is my opinion that the single largest obstruction to China’s global development is not their environmental degradation or their guang gun conundrum or the widening gap between rich and poor, but corruption, which both feeds and bleeds into virtually every other hurdle that the country now faces. It appears that China’s President, Hu Ji...

News: 2010 World’s Fair – Shanghai Making-up for Lost Time

News: Frozen for decades, Shanghai on the threshold of becoming the city of the 21st century by Jeffrey Simpson, from Globe and Mail On the third floor of Shanghai's Urban Planning Museum, a display of what the city will look like in 2020 takes most of the space. Viewers circulate around the outside of the gigantic mock-up, with its wooden buildings, designed neighbourhoods, port complexes, rivers. Everything about the display is staggering - its size, presumption, ambition - but then st...