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North Korea: The Final Frontier in the Global Supply Chain
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (more commonly known as North Korea) may not spring to mind as an ideal place for foreign investment. Numerous impediments present themselves to…
IBM Adds Remanufacturing Facility to its Shenzhen Factory
IBM is doing its parts to reduce e-waste in China, opening the first facility in the country that will refurbish and resell used computer servers – a potential $2 billion…
Cleaning Clean-Tech in China: Towards More Sustainable Solar Power
At first glance, solar panels appear to be the epitome of sustainability, generating energy directly from the sun without any waste products or greenhouse gases. What’s often overlooked, however, is…
The New Labor: Adapting Management to China’s Changing Labor Force
In general, Chinese workers are demanding more from their employers. In the past few months, a wave of labor disputes, protests and strikes have broken out, as workers call for…
Cleaning Up Apple’s Supply Chain: Whose Job is it Anyways?
For a firm that made nearly US$1 billion in profit a week in the first quarter of 2012, and a history of protecting their brand, one would think that Apple…
The Aftermath of the Thai Flood
Although the disastrous flooding in Thailand seems to have come to an end, the consequences of it for supply chains will be visible for months to come. For the huge…
Apple’s Explosive Supply Chain
Serious safety concerns around Apple’s supply chain continue to emerge after the recent weekend explosion in which local media said dozens of workers were injured. The blast recently happened at…
It’s Official: China Now Makes BMW for Export
Following the success of its 5 series sedans released in August last year (which have been a large contribution to the 45% jump in sales from 2009), BMW has become…
When the Wind Blows
The Opporturtunities are rising in China’s Wind Power Sector by Simon Zhang, Jacky Yu, Interchina China’s wind power market has grown at an annual average rate of over 90 percent…
Coal costs lead to power cuts in China’s southwest
Fluctuations in coal prices and insufficient logistics mechanisms may mean that parts of south and central China suffer severe power outages this winter. Many power plans will be unable to…
