By 2025, China and India will be two of the world’s four largest economies. By then, economic ties between them should also rank among the ten most important bilateral ties worldwide. The Silk Road Rediscovered is the first book ever to analyze the growing corporate linkages between India and China. Did you know that:
India’s Mahindra is the fifth largest tractor manufacturer in China?
Tata Motor’s Jaguar Land Rover unit is the fastest growing luxury auto seller in China?
India’s NIIT is the most influential IT training brand in China?
China’s Huawei has its second largest R&D center in Bangalore…
Many multinational corporations think of China and India largely for off-shoring and cost reduction and limit their marketing to the wealthiest few. With such shortsightedness, the opportunity of the century will pass them by, argue business strategists Anil K. Gupta and Haiyan Wang. To help business leaders develop robust global strategies in the age of China and India, the authors uncover the surprising range of the hidden opportunities and challenges presented by these emerging giants. They reveal the secrets to capturing the hearts, minds, and wallets of consumers there and to leveraging the complementary strengths of each country to achieve…
The rapid emergence of a multipolar and highly integrated global economy is making globalization the single most important issue facing companies today. In this new era, virtually every industry is a global industry and every business a knowledge business.
Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, and Haiyan Wang are among the most distinguished experts in the field of globalization. In The Quest for Global Dominance, they present the lessons from their twenty-year study of over two hundred corporations. They argue that, in order for a company to create and maintain its position as a globally dominant player, executives must ensure that…
It’s obvious that emerging markets are facing severe headwinds. 2015 will be the fifth consecutive year of slowing economic growth. However, today’s events are not necessarily a good guide to longer-term trends. In analyzing the trajectory of emerging markets, it’s critical to look at the broader context in at least two ways………
Just five years after its launch, Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker, has become the world’s most valuable startup. Its market value of $46 billion (as of June 2015) is larger than that of Uber, Snapchat, or even Palantir…..…
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rightly picked “Make in India” as the most important plank in his drive to help accelerate the country’s rise towards becoming an economic superpower..…..…
When President Xi Jinping welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to China on Thursday, both leaders will be well aware that, by 2025, their nations will be two of the three largest economies in the world. Geopolitical tensions notwithstanding, economic imperatives demand that collaboration between the two giants help mitigate historical mistrust and future rivalry..…..…
Chinese president Xi Jinping’s visit to India this week will likely be the most significant meeting between the leaders of China and India since Rajiv Gandhi’s visit to Beijing in 1988. Indeed, India’s leading business daily has gone so far as to suggest that Xi will bring along with him commitments to invest $100bn over the next five years..…..…
There appears to be a growing drumbeat – almost always by non-Chinese observers – about China’s imminent rise as an innovation superpower. Just in the last five years, leading American media have carried headlines such as “China poised to become innovation leader,” or “Danger: America is losing its edge in innovation,” and “When innovation, too, is made in China”…….…
The past decade has witnessed a steady, though largely groundless, drumbeat of warnings about how the West is losing its innovation edge. The first such warning appeared soon after the 2003 report by Goldman Sachs predicting that in the long run the BRIC emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – will eclipse the industrialised nations..…..…
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