Author

Chris is the Sinyi Professor at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and the author of The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socialize Costs. His earlier books include the award-winning Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism and Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise, which was a Financial Times Best Book of 2022.

Prior to joining Cambridge, Chris was the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University, and before that spent 10 years as a professor at Harvard Business School and he also worked for 18 months at Harvard Kennedy School as a Professor of Social Innovation and Public Policy. Before returning to academia, he was a Vice President and Technology Manager at JP Morgan Chase.

Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise

Topic Discussed

  1. Book Inspiration
  2. Red Tourism
  3. Huawei and Maoist Principles
  4. Interesting Findings from the Research
  5. Pros & Cons of China’s Political System
  6. Xi’s Emphasis on National Security
  7. Western-Educated Younger Generation
  8. Advice for Foreign Companies

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