Alibaba has fired the employee who in August accused a manager of rape in apparent retaliation for her story going public. The victim, surnamed Zhou, alleged that her manager raped her after a boozy client dinner. Her accusation...
Tech companies’ toxic cultures are the latest focus of China’s resurgent #MeToo movement. In an essay posted on internal Alibaba message boards and later leaked to the public, a female employee alleged that a client assaulted...
According to census figures released this week, China’s population is more educated than ever. More than 15% of the recorded population had completed tertiary education, a 9% jump from just a decade earlier. But for...
There are many causes for anxiety in Chinese society today: a weak job market, a stressful work environment, food safety issues, poisonous air, the list goes on. Tencent News recently produced a video profiling young, urban...
High-level corruption is in the news with the recent downfall of former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai. But bribery on a much smaller scale is sometimes part of the risk of doing business in China. As part of an effort to stamp...
The Economist reports on increasing numbers of women rising to the top of the corporate ladder in emerging economies, including China: ZHANG YIN (also known by her Cantonese name, Cheung Yan) was the eldest of eight children of...
The New York Times looks at initiatives to train Western business executives in the nuances of Chinese corporate culture before setting up shop in the country: Western executives flying into China for a week of back-to-back...
From The Atlantic: Not long ago I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I’d never heard of. No experience necessary—which was good, because I had none. I’d be paid $1,000 for a week, put...
The following document was reportedly found on the wall of a Zhejiang businessman’s office, and has since been circulated widely among Chinese bloggers. Twenty-two Rules for Businessman from Zhejiang Province 1. Persist in...
Knowledge@Wharton has produced a report on the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and its impact on corporate social responsibility in China: This massive earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, not only left 70,000 people dead and...
AP reports on seminars for Chinese employees to help them “think outside the box” and foster their innovatiion: While the state is spending billions of dollars on technology parks, research grants and art programs,...
A new study written about in the Harvard Business Review says that China’s capitalists are deeply influenced by Mao Zedong thought: Our research on the practices and attitudes of Chinese CEOs offers abundant evidence that Mao’s principles continue to influence top executives: All but one of 15 CEOs we interviewed told us they often turned […]
April 15, 2004 “China’s standards development process continues to be unclear and lacks transparency, planning, and open channels for international input. There is an unmistakable tendency on the part of the Chinese...
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