CHINA PERSPECTIVE
Edu/Travel Log China 01/09

MBA Candidate- Kristine Bowers takes notes on her amazing winterim term with the Thunderbird School of Management's travel, lecture and learn program. Kristine encapsulates learning, her thoughts and responses to her experience. (Names of speakers have been removed.)


Each of our speakers today all brought very unique stories, experiences, and advice to share with us.  There were a few common themes throughout, the most important clearly being that if you want to do to business here, you should learn Chinese.  And if you want to work in China, get on the airplane and come here.   Something that I have realized since arriving has been that no matter what you know about China, no matter what facts or how much of the language you can speak, you really don’t know China at all until you come here.  And even then you have a long way to go. 

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