Research White Paper Series
Where Guanxi Matters: The Modern Chinese Financial Sector
China’s Evolving Financial Sector and Its Global Importance China’s financial services sector has experienced burgeoning growth in the past two decades. Hong Kong and Shanghai rank among the top 10 Global Financial Centres in 2023, according to the Global Financial Centres Index 33. By the end of 2022, the country’s financial institutions had a total of […]
Space Tourism Isn’t Science Fiction Anymore
The Growing Space Tourism Industry Have you ever imagined reaching for the stars, space walking on the moon, and watching Earth rising with a cup of coffee at a space hotel? For most people, getting to the space is nothing more than a dream. Although space travel sounds futuristic, it is turning into reality. Virgin […]
A Handbook for the Modern Entrepreneur
The Formidable Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs in 2023 The unprecedented socio-economic changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have changed the business landscape around the world and in China. At the same time, pandemic-related challenges spurred the emergence of new technologies. Entrepreneurs actively responded to the rapid economic changes by coming up with innovative solutions and […]
The Unstoppable Rise of Sustainable Investing
Investing in the Era of Climate Change We live in an era of the unprecedented and rapid warming of the global environment due to human activities. So far, global temperatures have already risen by 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and the world has also witnessed a rise in the number of extreme weather and […]
Managing Supply Chains in the Post-pandemic New Normal
COVID-19 and Supply Chains: Where Are We Today? The global economy has faced a series of extreme shocks over recent years, ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to the U.S.-China trade war and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These dramatic changes have had far-reaching effects on globalisation, leading to a fundamental reversal of multilateral trade openness and […]
Retail Marketing in the Digital Era
The Unstoppable Rise of Online Commerce in the New Normal COVID-19 has done much to change the purchase habits of consumers around the world, especially by significantly accelerating the adoption of online commerce. Around the world, retail stores shut down as countries entered lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus during the start of […]
Retail Marketing in the Digital Era
The Unstoppable Rise of Online Commerce in the New Normal COVID-19 has done much to change the purchase habits of consumers around the world, especially by significantly accelerating the adoption of online commerce. Around the world, retail stores shut down as countries entered lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus during the start of […]
