July 2009


COVER STORY [Premium content]

Outbound Investment

SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]

Banking

PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

  • (FREE) Consumption uncovered

  • Chinese consumption is not growing at the lightning pace retail sales figures would have us believe, but it is still a strong contributor to overall growth, says CLSA's Andy Rothman
  • (FREE) Cause for optimism

  • The delegation of China's FDI approvals to more amenable local officials is good news for foreign investors, says M1 Capital's Robert Abbanat

COMMENTARY

REVIEW

  • A real humdinger

  • Domestic appetites for auto M&As are growing, but the deals remain difficult
  • The break up

  • Where will China get its iron ore post-Rio Tinto-Chinalco?
  • Hat in hand

  • Geithner adopts a gentler tone in Beijing
  • Shopping spree

  • Soho China issues convertible bonds to build up its land bank

Capitalist Roader Fund vs. Red Dragon Fund

  • Holding pattern

  • The market reaches an even higher plateau, but our funds stay put

China Buzz

Fat Dragon

Politics & Society

  • Barely a squeak

  • Tiananmen 20: Western media pulls out the stops, Beijing takes no risks

Punditry

QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]

  • Staying connected

  • AT&T's general manager for Greater China says the firm is helping clients increase productivity during the downturn

SPOTLIGHT

  • The other Washington

  • The economic relationship between China and the US state of Washington is unusually well-balanced
  • (FREE) State of play

  • Bill Moriarty, managing director of the China golf division for IMG, on the evolution of Chinese sports

CULTURE

Book Review

Prisoner of the State

Travels to the West

  • Blue eyes

  • Graham Earnshaw walks west from Shanghai when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we find him on the outskirts of Wanzhou City, Chongqing municipality

MARKETS

The Diary

FOCUS

  • The prestige

  • MBA degrees can be good brands, but what do they represent?

Guest Word

  • Blameworthy

  • Business educators share a responsibility for the current mess

Report

  • Work, study

  • Part-time MBA programs are increasing their share of applicants at the expense of full-time programs
  • In the news

  • Brain drain

  • China has plenty of MBA students. Professors, on the other hand, are in short supply
  • Marketese

  • Putting the "I" in the IMBA
  • Degree or not degree?

  • Custom MBA hybrid programs move into the corporate training market
  • Beyond MBAs

  • There's more to studying business than an MBA degree

Q&A

  • Curriculum adjustments

  • Nigel Bannister, chief global officer of Manchester Business School, on the business education market

News briefs

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