One Billion Customers : Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China

McGregor, James

ISBN 10: 074325841X / ISBN 13: 9780743258418

Published by Free Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Billion Customers : Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China
• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074325841X
• ISBN 13: 9780743258418
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2 Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Companies from around the globe are flocking to China to buy, sell, manufacture, and create new products, but as former Wall Street Journal China bureau chief turned successful corporate executive James McGregor explains, business in China is never quite what it seems. One Billion Customers offers compelling narratives of personalities, business deals, and lessons learned, creating a coherent pictures of China's emergence as a global economic power with a dog-eat-dog business climate that has turned bureaucrats into billionaires and left many foreign business executives with their pockets turned inside out.

About the Author

James McGregor is well known and respected in Chinese business, political, and media circles. A Mandarin speaker, he has served as a key adviser to both the U.S. and Chinese governments. As The Wall Street Journal's China bureau chief following the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, the chief executive of Dow Jones' China business operations during much of the roaring 1990s, and a venture-capital investor during China's dotcom boom, McGregor has negotiated every avenue of the labyrinth that is business in China. He is also a former chairman and a decade-long governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. He is a senior counselor for APCO Worldwide, and is member of the Council on Foreign Relations; National Committee on US-China Relations; International Council of the Asia Society; and serves on a variety of China-related advisory boards. He and his family live in Beijing.