My theory of China Business Competency for American business: given that business with China is in our lives, not going away, and getting harder to deal with, one would think business people with China skills would be valued players on the strategy team.
Meaning, Gap will execute successfully depending on their ability to hire talent from the existing competition, who have amassed decades of China merchandising skills and operating data.
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Ricardo Correa, the owner of Paramont Asia, which sold more than 35m pairs of ladies' shoes last year, moved to China in 1995, prompted by the combination of price pressures in Brazil and a shortage of skills in China.
Home-grown exporters, especially privately owned ones, are honing their skills in China's cut-throat markets.
The Hollywood power broker has lately turned his marketing skills on China, which is expected to surpass the U.S. box office by the end of the decade, driven by a boom in cinemas across the country.
There's no getting around it, the BRICs have come out of the global financial crisis remarkably well, especially China, whose diplomatic skills at the recent G20 Summit in Cannes impressed all who were there and left the American delegation rather nervous.
Born in Hangzhou, China, he perfected his English skills by talking up tourists at a local hotel.
We think China has the will, money, skills, technology and desire to build its reactor fleet in the coming decade.
In future, Hong Kong's competitiveness will be judged mainly by its ability to sell China services such as finance and management skills.
LatticePower, started by a physicist with skills and experience honed in China, is a good example of this new trend with its breakthrough technology for making a highly efficient source of light.
The lack of sophisticated management skills to scale young businesses in China has been one of the limitations for Chinese startups.
Haier and other exporters first sharpen their skills by competing with multinationals in China, then export to developing nations and smaller economies.
Henry Paulson is clearly a capable man and, but for his ties to China, would bring to Treasury stature and skills that are much needed.
It is evident, even without prejudging the case of the colourful Mr Yang or questioning the business skills of Mr Zhou, that China will find the best managers for its companies only when it chooses them from the widest possible pool.
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China and the United States bring extraordinary and complementary skills to the table.
Many other companies would simply outsource the same components to China or South Korea, both nations with abundant skills in machining precision hydraulic components.
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China will need to have the same level of skills in strategies and vision regarding marketing within the automobile industry, as has been the case in manufacturing.
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The deal is an indication of how reformists in central government intend to use foreign capital and management skills as a way to shake up China's banks.
In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, which is serialising his book, Mr Brown said spending cuts by UK and other western governments could adversely affect the skills and technology needed to win business in China and India.
We can help them reach out to China and other parts of Asia that require a special set of skills and knowledge, more so than Europe.
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The low-skilled jobs also serve China well as Chinese rural migrants have opportunities to move up in life and gain some skills.
These "haigui, " or sea turtles as they are called in China, hit the employment sweet spot with "both the cultural connection and the language skills, " according to Lance.
Of course China also has an innovation policy and is investing heavily in the development of design and creativity skills.
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Is it possible that China's local carmakers have grown so quickly that they have not developed the necessary depth of skills?
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Match your skills and interests to growth areas such as manufacturing and IT in emerging markets such as China, India, Russia and Brazil.
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The couple, who paint porcelain, bone china and enamel boxes, fear their trade will not survive beyond the next 20 years because the skills are not being passed down to future generations.
Better language skills, she reckons, are a product less of market demand than of a general enthusiasm for China.
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Djokovic clinched his third straight China Open title on Sunday, celebrating by joining a troupe of dancers to show off his "Gangnam" skills, and is aiming for a strong finish to a year that has tailed off somewhat.
"We looked around Asia and saw that China had the greatest need for management training, " says Rui Shujie, account manager at the Center for Business Skills Development, which began operating in Shanghai two years ago in affiliation with Arizona's Thunderbird school of international management.
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