Mark Greeven

Key themes of self-reliance, diversification, and technological leapfrogging are likely to emerge amidst a return to familiar policies against the backdrop of a changed world.

The world’s second-largest economy will need to balance domestic reforms with its global ambitions as exporters brace for a new set of tariffs from US President-elect Donald Trump.

Global leaders should know where China stands with generative AI and what strategic actions make sense with an eye to the future.

The New Materials sector in China is currently dominated by foreign multinational companies, but the Chinese government’s strategic focus on the sector is encouraging home-grown challengers.

The market share of Chinese independent brands has risen from 35.8% in 2020 to 56.1% in the first five months of 2024. Read on to see which are succeeding and how they are doing so

Food and Beverage - CCTI 2024 - I by IMD

China’s new retail revolution will completely transform how the world thinks about retail and digital innovation. But is the world ready yet? In this book, the authors share an insider’s perspectiv...

Companies like Alibaba Group or Recruit Holdings create advantages by leveraging partnerships, investments, and alliances to continuously adapt their offering to a changing customer base. We call t...

China’s new retail revolution will completely transform how the world thinks about retail and digital innovation. But is the world ready yet? In this book, the authors share an insider’s perspectiv...

As an international B2C fast fashion e-commerce platform established in Nanjing, SheIn's business model seems to be more superior than Zara. It is faster, it has more products, the price is lower. ...

China’s BYD has pulled ahead of Tesla, becoming the world’s biggest maker of fully electric vehicles (EVs). The shift reflects more than the fortunes of the two companies. Tesla’s dethroning shows ...

Prepare for the future as 2026 AI trends reshape business. Discover how to judge if your organization is AI ready with insights from IMD professors and researchers.

Everyone talks about ecosystems these days. Partner networks, platforms, digital marketplaces—the language floods boardrooms worldwide. Yet most ecosystem initiatives fail, not from lack of ambitio...

China’s next Five-Year Plan drives a shift toward tech sovereignty, vertical AI, and global ecosystem leadership, reshaping global industry rules.

Reuters US autos journalist Mike Colias discusses his new book Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles, which explores how the development of electric vehicles is ...

They threaten traditional car industries but are good for consumers and bring investments. The region will have to recalibrate its strategy. This is the third in a limited Opinion series on the Chi...

AI has taken a strong geopolitical stance in recent years, which has strategic implications for leaders looking to use AI Vendors to power their digital transformation.

Xiaomi’s rapid EV rise shows how future readiness and agility are reshaping the auto industry – a challenge traditional automakers can’t ignore.

Global supply chains are fragmenting, AI adoption is accelerating at breakneck speed, and traditional organizational pyramids are too rigid to keep up with markets that shift overnight. Most compan...

What began as a trickle of milk tea and hotpot outlets has become a flood. Chinese food and beverage brands – names like Mixue, Haidilao and Chagee – are expanding across South-east Asia at some of...

Artificial intelligence is turning a corner. For years, progress has largely been driven by sheer scale – more data, more computing power as well as bigger models. However, the scaling strategy is ...

When policymakers start using internet slang to describe the economy, it is a sign something is not right. The word neijuan was once used by Chinese students to depict burnout from seemingly pointl...

Labubu, the bug-eyed elves from Beijing, might just be the unlikeliest face of global brand disruption. But the viral figurines, sold in blind boxes across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, are helpi...

OpenAI’s November 2022 launch of ChatGPT caught Chinese technology companies completely off guard. Overnight, firms like Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, once competitive with global players like Googl...

China’s shift from reaction to reinvention is a long-running transformation built on policy foresight and internal restructuring, which global turmoil and the tariffs war have only served to intens...

When Chinese Premier Li Qiang addressed the World Economic Forum’s “Summer Davos” in Tianjin, China, his message was clear: China must become a “mega-sized” consumption powerhouse. Not just the wor...

A decade ago, few outside China had heard of the inland city of Hefei. Today, it’s become a bellwether for how globalization is being rebuilt from the ground up. In just 10 years, the city's GDP mo...

In 2016, China Resources Beer (CR Beer)—the world’s largest beer company by volume—stood at a crossroads. The Chinese beer market had peaked. Consumer tastes were shifting dramatically toward premi...

Innovation to fuel competitiveness continues to be the holy grail of business success, yet despite billions invested in corporate innovation labs, design thinking workshops, and R&D centres, most o...