At service establishments in China that cater to many expat foreigners, people have name tags that read with familiar, Western names. “Peter”, “Jill”, etc. You know how sometimes people *look* like their names? When the service people here have anglicized names, it is very rare that people “look” like their names. At the front desk [...]
Springwise just posted about a new P2P lending service that’s starting in China called “ppdai”–> http://www.ppdai.com/. It’s wildly interesting to me how it works, as compared to p2p lending services in the Western world. In the US, we have the concept of personal credit histories and rankings, but here in China this does not exist. [...]
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Aneel Karnani, business school professor at the University of Michigan, has a firmly held opinion that the BOP market is much, much smaller than previously mentioned in CK’s book Fortune at the BOP. All I can say to AK is “stop hating on a brother”. Big whoop, Karnani. So the market isn’t $15 Trillion. It’s [...]
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Naked Innovation A few friends of mine (and recent alums) from the Institute of Design have written a book called “Naked Innovation: Uncovering Shared Theory and Practice for Creating Value”– I’m assuming the title is a riff off of Naked Economics, by Charles Wheelan. C’mon guys, you couldn’t have come up with a more “innovative” [...]
Red hot: Chili sandwich. Originally uploaded by quami77 Hi all, I am back from a 3 day sojourn to Hebei that I made with students from Tongji daxue and an extremely friendly member of the client team. I am tired right now and have many things to catch up with, but tomorrow morning I will [...]
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This post has been a long time coming, but I’ve been busy doing this that and the other for the past week. We visited Beijing recently, and took the soft sleeper train to get there. I really enjoyed the train trip, and would much rather prefer taking the train than a plane in China, given [...]
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