Can China Lead?: Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth

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A book for anyone doing business in China Most literature on doing business in emerging markets has focused on why to enter these markets and how to build your business once you get there. But with the rapid changes that globalization has brought on, what's needed is an updated look at the current difficulties of doing business in these regions-and in China in particular. Why is it so much harder for companies to operate there today even from just a decade ago? Three of the field's foremost experts, all Harvard Business School professors, explain the rapidly changing context and challenges of the region.

Regina M. Abrami is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), Director of the Global Program at the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. Prior to this, she was a member of the Harvard Business School faculty for eleven years, and chair of its inaugural international immersion program. William C. Kirby is the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University. He is Chairman of the Harvard China Fund. He has served as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. He is an honorary professor at Peking University, Nanjing University, Chongqing University, Zhejiang University, East China Normal University, Fudan University, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and National Chengchi University. F. Warren McFarlan is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, as well as the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. He is concurrently a guest professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management and codirector of the school's China Business Case Center.

ADVANCE PRAISE for Can China Lead?: William V. Hickey, retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sealed Air Corporation-- "Can China Lead? is a thoughtful and well-written perspective on the development of modern China, its emergence as an economic power, and its future outlook. This is a must-read for anyone doing business in China today and anyone interested in the leadership challenges that China will face going forward." Rodney Chase, former Deputy Group Chief Executive and Managing Director, BP plc-- "These Harvard and Wharton luminaries have written a challenging and disturbing assessment of modern-day China while brilliantly illuminating the country's traumatic twentieth-century journey. While the authors express real doubts about China's readiness to embrace a world leadership role anytime soon, this book will help all of us understand China just a little better." Karen Mills, former Administrator, US Small Business Administration-- "Entrepreneurship may be America's 'secret sauce,' but it's an essential part of China's heritage as well. From a deep historical understanding, Can China Lead? asks what will happen when the Chinese and American entrepreneurial economies face off in a global marketplace." George Yeo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Singapore-- "The authors doubt that China can lead the world, admitting that China may not have any such ambition in the first place. Analyzing the country's deep contradictions, this book will teach you how business is done in China--and it does so brilliantly." Tom Lee, Hughes M. Blake Professor of Management, Foster School of Business, University of Washington; former President, Academy of Management-- "One of the best books on China that I've read in a very long time."