LinkedInPart 3: Understand Your Partner (Read Part 1 & Part 2) “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle“ - The Art of War by Sun Tzu While it isn’t fair to call your partner in China an “enemy,” the overarching…
About Shailene Zhu
Shailene Zhu is a Senior Analyst for China thought leadership at Frontier Strategy Group. Ms. Zhu is based in Singapore where she manages the China thought leadership research for FSG and advises heads of Asia and heads of China on strategies for the region. Ms. Zhu has experience in corporate strategy, business analysis, and research and previously worked for MNCs including Ingersoll Rand and General Electric. She received her Bachelor’s degree at Shanghai International Studies University, studied at the University of Hong Kong, and speaks English, Mandarin, and Shanghainese.
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Partnership Models in China: A Marriage of Convenience Part II
Part 2: Understand Yourself (Read Part 1 here.) Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) aren’t the right fit for all companies. At the same time, there are a variety of alternative structures available to multinational corporations (MNCs) looking to initiate a joint venture (JV) or business…
Partnership Models in China: A Marriage of Convenience
Part 1: Understand Your Father-in-Law Amidst economic uncertainty and volatility in 2014, recently high M&A activity in China has brought a silver lining to the dark clouds. Chinese M&A deal values have reached a record high in the first half of 2014 and…
E-commerce Strategy Vital for B2C Companies in China by 2020
Over the last two weeks, I have been bombarded with e-commerce news from China. Amazon set up shop in China’s Shanghai free trade zone to give Chinese customers access to its products from its global supply chain and to help SMEs…
Preempting & Solving Future M&A/JV Issues in China Now
It is becoming particularly difficult to design partnership models in China, a market that’s rapidly changing and will be dramatically different in two to three years. However, given the size and scale of China, it’s likely that M&A will continue to…
Trace the Lights III: Using FSG’s Clustering Approach in China
Following up from my last blog post on China’s blueprint for developing 19 city clusters by 2020 from the New National Urbanization Plan, FSG has gone one step further and analyzed the clusters beyond the policy level to help MNCs craft…
Trace the Lights II: China’s 19 City Clusters by 2020
As outlined in China’s 11th five-year plan, the Chinese government has pushed for the development of regional city clusters, aiming to drive economic growth, strengthen transportation, and influence the pattern of migrants. For those less familiar, city clusters are comprised…