Chindia: How China and India Are Revolutionizing Global Business

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• ISBN13: 9780071476577
• ISBN10: 0071476571
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-13
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

Brings together reporting and analysis on China's and India's emerging markets, from the reporters of the world's most widely read business magazine Provides need-to-know information for people to plan for the future of their businesses Features an introduction from Engardio, as well as chapter introductions explaining how the stories fit together and concluding summaries of major points for each chapter

Author Biography

Pete Engardio is a senior writer for BusinessWeek, focusing on global business and economic trends. His groundbreaking stories have won numerous awards.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1 Introduction	1	(12)
Investment	1	(2)
Market Power	3	(1)
Industry Strengths	4	(4)
Business Culture	8	(2)
Social Challenges	10	(3)
2 The Rise of Chindia	13	(22)
A New World Economy	14	(9)
Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons	23	(4)
Why India May Be Destined to Overtake China	27	(4)
What's Next for China's Miracle?	31	(4)
3 The New Global Paradigm	35	(52)
The New Global Job Shift	36	(9)
The Rise of India	45	(10)
The Way, Way Back Office	55	(2)
For India's Tech Grads, There's No Place Like Home	57	(2)
The China Price	59	(11)
A Tale of Two Furniture Makers	70	(4)
Sucking the Life out of Hoover	74	(3)
Dipping a Yankee Toe in China	77	(3)
India: An Agent of Change	80	(7)
4 The New Corporate Model	87	(38)
Asking the Right Questions	88	(5)
Taking a Page from Toyota's Playbook	93	(5)
Ratan Tata: No One's Doubting Now	98	(6)
The State's Long Apron Strings	104	(2)
China's Power Brands	106	(8)
China's Free Range Cash Cow	114	(3)
TCL Multimedia's Global Agenda	117	(3)
"Survival of the Fittest" at China Netcom	120	(2)
Who's Got Performance?	122	(3)
5 The New Megamarkets	125	(44)
It's Getting Hotter in the East	126	(6)
A Thousand Chinese Desires Bloom	132	(5)
China: Go West, Westerners	137	(4)
GM and VW: How Not to Succeed in China	141	(3)
China: Let a Thousand Brands Bloom	144	(4)
Sitting Pretty in Shanghai	148	(4)
India's New Worldly Women	152	(3)
Getting the Best to the Masses	155	(4)
GE's Indian Adventure	159	(4)
How Cummins Does It	163	(6)
6 The Leap Ahead	169	(34)
A New Lab Partner for the US.?	170	(3)
High Tech in China: Is It a Threat to Silicon Valley?	173	(9)
China Ramps Up	182	(4)
Scrambling up the Development Ladder	186	(5)
India and Silicon Valley: Now the R&D Flows Both Ways	191	(2)
IBM's Passage to India	193	(4)
A Brain Trust in Bangalore	197	(6)
7 The Financial Challenge	203	(30)
The Great Bank Overhaul	204	(6)
Betting on China's Banks	210	(6)
Tiny Loans, High Finance	216	(2)
India: Who Wants to Build Some Roads?	218	(4)
Private Equity Pours into India	222	(3)
China's Bourses: Stock Markets or Casinos?	225	(4)
China Is a Private-Sector Economy	229	(4)
8 The Education Challenge	233	(32)
Trying to Tame the Blackboard Jungle	234	(5)
No Peasant Left Behind	239	(5)
India's Whiz Kids	244	(6)
India: Big Brains on Campus	250	(4)
The Other MIT	254	(3)
The Seeds of the Next Silicon Valley	257	(2)
A Whole New School of Thought	259	(2)
Making Waves in Guangdong	261	(4)
9 The Social Agenda	265	(30)
Waking Up to Their Rights	266	(6)
Hard Labor in Guangdong	272	(3)
A Blacklisted Labor Leader Speaks Out	275	(3)
Breakdown	278	(3)
India's Untold Story	281	(4)
The Digital Village	285	(7)
The Great Wail of China	292	(3)
10 The Ecological and Energy Challenge	295	(26)
A Big, Dirty Growth Engine	296	(4)
The Greening of China	300	(5)
Winds of Change in Inner Mongolia	305	(3)
A Big Green Opportunity in China	308	(2)
A Courageous Voice for a Greener China	310	(2)
Asia's Great Oil Hunt	312	(6)
How a Thirst for Energy Led to a Thaw	318	(3)
11 The New Competitive Challenge	321	(46)
Shaking Up Trade Theory	322	(7)
Fakes!	329	(11)
Did Spark Spark a Copycat?	340	(1)
Software: Will Outsourcing Hurt America's Supremacy?	341	(11)
Jobs That Could Swim Offshore	352	(2)
Does It Matter If China Catches Up to the US.?	354	(4)
America's New Competition	358	(5)
How to Level the Playing Field	363	(4)
References	367	(8)
Index	375