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Startup Asia:
Top Strategies for Cashing in on Asia’s Innovation Boom
By Rebecca A. Fannin
(Wiley: October 25, 2011)

INTERVIEW AND BOOK SIGNING

Asia’s innovation hot spots are fast emerging as first-choice destinations for bright, young entrepreneurs as the Silicon Dragon entrepreneurial revolution moves beyond China into new frontier markets. Throughout Asia, technology hubs are forming to rival the original Silicon Valley. Startup Asia author Rebecca A. Fannin gives a close-up view into the key growth trends shaping venture capital and entrepreneurship in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Singapore, Taipei, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. She shows how a new generation is no longer looking to the West for cues but is instead crafting its own local business models and succeeding in tackling the risks of doing business in Asia’s developing markets. The book features a foreword by Kai-Fu Lee, founder of Innovation Works and former President of Google China.

The Interview will be led by Professor Ronald Schramm of Columbia Business School.

In What the U.S. Can Learn from China, Ann Lee adopts a counterintuitive approach and suggests taking a look at America’s greatest competitor for answers on how America can stay competitive well into the next century. From Confucian philosophy to governance to foreign aid, she details the policies and practices that have made China a global power and outlines those that may be incorporated into the U.S. capitalist political system. Filled with sharp insights and thorough research, the book adds much needed nuance to the debates over China’s role in the global economy and as a rising world power.

Ann Lee is currently an adjunct professor of finance and economics at New York University and a senior fellow with Demos. She was an investment banker and a partner at two multi-billion dollar hedge fund firms. She has provided consultation to influential policy officials in both the U.S. and China. Ms. Lee graduated with honors from University of California, Berkeley, won a fellowship to Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. She was born in China and raised in the United States.

The book’s forward is by Ian Bremmer, President and Founder of Eurasia Group, a leading global political risk research and consulting firm.

In Copycats, Professor Oded Shenkar challenges the stereotype of the role imitation plays in business and reveals that imitation is as critical to business prosperity as innovation. Savvy imitators generate huge profits by emulating investments made by first movers in areas such as R&D costs, marketing, and advertising. China – criticized as a copycat economy – has prospered through forming a distinctive imitation business culture and practice. How powerful is the role of imitation in China’s fast growing economy? Will the notion of imitation eventually spur innovation, and if so, how? What will be the impact of the tightening and enforcement of intellectual property rights?

Oded Shenkar is the Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management and Professor of Management at the Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, where he heads the international business area. A top scholar in international strategy, he is also a prolific author, and his work has been cited in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Economist.

Join us for a provocative and captivating interview and book signing. The Interview will be led by Professor Yu Zhou at Vassar College’s Asian Studies Program.

As the cracks in the Western economy grow deeper, China’s economy keeps growing. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, economist and internationally best-selling author Loretta Napoleoni provides a much-needed evaluation of the Western economic and political system and a comparison between the economic performance of two distinct models of development: Western and Chinese. Based on first-hand reporting from China during frequent visits in the last several years, Napoleoni argues that we are witnessing the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of “communism with a profit motive?”

Loretta Napoleoni is one of the world’s leading experts on money laundering and terror financing, and as Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, she brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks. She is a regular media commentator for CNN, Sky, and the BBC, and advises several banks on strategies to counter the current crisis. A former Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics, she has a PhD in economics and a Masters of Philosophy in international relations and one in terrorism.

Join us for a captivating interview and book signing. The Interview will be led by Morelli, Massimo, Professor of Political Science and Economics, Columbia University.

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“This is a book to read before one begins work in China and to come back to once there. With its comprehensive analysis of challenges and insightful recommended responses, it efficiently points executives in the right direction and helps them avoid the errors that others have made. It has the potential to five any executive a flying start to executing a China strategy.” – from the Foreword by Dominic Barton

Longtime China scholar Kenneth Lieberthal brings to bear a unique combination of experiences as former top government official, political scientist, professor of international corporate strategy, and many years of consulting. In Managing the China Challenge, he explains China’s priorities and how its political and economic systems actually work, making clear what foreign companies must master in order to succeed in the Middle Kingdom. In straightforward language, with numerous examples to back up the argument, Lieberthal cogently presents not only how to benefit from doing business in China, but also how to avoid the serious risks that the endeavor entails. The implications Lieberthal lays out for corporate strategy are wide-ranging and critically important.

Join us for a captive interview and book signing with Kenneth Lieberthal, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution. Interview is led by Virginia A. Kamsky, Chairman, China Institute.

FREE Corporate Members / $40 Members / $55 Non-members

Continental Breakfast Included ~ Reservations Required ~ Tickets are Non-Refundable