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Clinton Global Initiative: Does It Really Make a Difference?

September 26th, 2009

Note: While this blog is almost entirely China focused, the following post wraps up coverage of the Fifth Annual Clinton Global Initiative Meeting and does not address US-China business or development issues. To my regular readers, I promise to have something China-related for you soon! Robert Frank, Senior Writer for the Wall Street Journal has [...]

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The Fifth Annual Clinton Global Initiative Meeting, Calvin Chin and Qifang’s New Commitment: A Collaborative Interview

September 25th, 2009

(Calvin Chin, Founder of Qifang. Photo by Elliott Ng) Social enterprise has rapidly become the business model of the future, whether bundled into traditional corporate structures or formed by entrepreneurial not-for-profit organizations. At this year’s Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, it certainly appeared that nearly every nation in the world was working to harness social [...]

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Jack Ma: Small is Beautiful

September 23rd, 2009

Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma took the stage at the Clinton Global Initiative Fifth Annual Meeting on Wednesday as one of the headline participants for an afternoon plenary session, “Harnessing Innovation and Development,” moderated by Matthew Bishop, American Business Editor for The Economist. “Nobody believed that China would get into the internet space,” Ma claimed, [...]

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