Tag:cultural impact on mergers & acquisition
Brazil and China: Increased Investment, But Not Increased Understanding
As these two leading emerging economies draw each other into an ever closer embrace – one of the first overseas trips by Brazil’s new president, Dilma Rousseff, was to China – few doubt that the world is witnessing the birth of one of the great commercial relationships of the future. But far from being a [...]
Read MoreA Business Executive’s Guide to Milan
Unlike many Italian cities, Milan doesn’t insist that you fall instantly in love with it and pay homage for ever more. That, as with many successful affairs of the heart, can take rather more time. Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D., CEO of Universal Consensus knows this. Why? Because she lived there for three years (she was [...]
Read MoreTourist Board Wooing South Americans
The Turks and Caicos Tourist Board and Grace Bay Resorts, operator of Grace Bay Club and The Veranda, recently attended the Leading Hotels of the World Showcases in Brazil and Argentina to help bring more business from Brazil and other South American burgeoning economies to the Turks and Caicos Islands. LHW is a prestigious luxury [...]
Read MoreLife-Lessons: Can Facebook Escape Google’s Fate in China?
What do Google and News Corp have in common with Facebook? Both of these companies entered China refusing to accept the political nature of these industries. They thought they could negotiate it. Or manage it. They thought they could move things in the right direction over time. Both invested money and years of effort and [...]
Read MoreWhy a BMIA Analysis of Wenzhou Economics in China Can Help Western Banks
What are the Wenzhou dynamics that are influencing Chinese investment in the west and encroaching about Western banking share in these deals? Due to both Wenzhou’s cultural and geographical remoteness and its lack of natural resources (land, minerals, etc.), the Chinese central government has left the people of Wenzhou relatively autonomous. Away from the center [...]
Read MoreThe Battle between Chinese Suppliers and Western Customers
Universal Consensus clients have been lamenting about the growing difficulty of doing business in China. Apart from the insatiable bureaucracy, the cost of labor is continually rising, significantly reducing one of the most attractive components of doing business in China, and encouraging some of our clients to consider their manufacturing needs elsewhere in Asia. Last [...]
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