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Pandemic: Economic bubbles are bursting – Kevin Morse – Cairn Spring Mills from 2020-07-10T19:29:02
Cairn Spring Mills is a company that surprisingly is growing during the pandemic. The company is a varietal flour mill that produces a high quality locally sourced product. While other companies ha...
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#Pandemic: How the virus is changing business in China – Marcus Lu from 2020-06-19T22:22:20
The #Covid-19 virus is changing accepted business norms around the globe. In this episode of Business Class, we spoke with #MarcusLu as he sheltered-in-place at his home in #China. With deep insi...
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Pandemic: Applying MBA degree skills to a crisis - PJ Van Hecke – The Reading Room - Bangkok from 2020-06-12T22:13:40
In this episode of #BusinessClass, we return to Thailand for an #MBA review of the business skills needed to face this financial crisis. We spoke with PJ Van Hecke, a 2018 graduate of the #USCIBEA...
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Pandemic: Craft Beer, Corned Beef and the Corona Virus – Janet Lighter – Boundary Bay Brewery from 2020-05-29T00:49:53
The moment the St. Patrick’s Day Parade was cancelled, Janet Lightner - General Manager of Boundary Bay Brewery - knew they were in trouble. In this episode of Business Class, we move to the Micro...
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Pandemic: “Globalization will become regionalization.” - Narongchai Akaransee Ph.D. - Thailand from 2020-05-22T15:18:25
In this episode of #BusinessClass, we look at how the #Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the ASEAN nations, particularly #Thailand. We turn to #Dr.NarongchaiAkaransee, a former Thai government minist...
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Pandemic: On the virus timeline, "China has a two-month lead." Jim McGregor, APCO China from 2020-05-15T15:43:45
It’s always difficult to know what’s happening inside China. In this episode of Business Class, we hear first-hand information and analysis on China’s Covid-19 response from Shanghai resident, Jim ...
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Pandemic: #Cricket and #Covid-19 - Jasdeep Pannu – ESPN India from 2020-05-08T14:09:42
Millions of sports fans across the Asian sub-continent are watching the results of Jasdeep Pannu working from his living room. In this episode of Business Class, we speak with the Head of Digital...
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Pandemic – What happens when the world is suddenly moved online? - Paul Wilson - Google from 2020-05-01T14:45:46
Overnight, the Covid-19 pandemic moved much of the world’s business and business interactions online. In this episode of Business Class, we talk with Paul Wilson, Managing Director for Google Cloud...
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Pandemic - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of China’s Covid-19 response. – Clay Dube – USC from 2020-04-23T15:26:05
Are the numbers coming out of China real? Will China record any positive GDP growth for the year? Will global companies change their strategies to remove the China bottleneck in their supply chains...
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Pandemic: The movie business is going to need a rewrite. Devin Mann – Iconic Talent Agency from 2020-04-17T18:06:02
Business Class originates in Los Angeles, the home of the entertainment industry. In this episode, we look at how Covid-19 has brought the entire industry to a standstill. Movie theaters are empty,...
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Pandemic: How does a business survive when demand drops to zero? – Peter Guyer, Athena Foods from 2020-04-10T17:12:41
Business Class begins a series of interviews to explore the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In this episode, Peter Guyer, Founder of Athena International Foods gives insight on the effect the vi...
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Carlos Ugarte may be the man who saves you from traffic jams of the future – Carlos Ugarte - Cintra from 2020-03-16T18:37:47
Cintra is one of the world’s largest infrastructure building companies. In this episode of Business Class, Carlos Ugarte, Global Head of Corporate and Business Development, explains how a project ...
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E-commerce in China. When $67 Billion in sales makes you #2 - Jasmine Liu - JD.com US from 2019-12-23T23:41:53
The battle lines are being drawn in the world of global e-commerce. JD.com is the #2 online retailer in China with a staggering $67 billion in sales. In this episode of Business Class, Jasmine Li...
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Indra Uno - Indonesian Socialpreneur from 2019-11-09T17:02:24
At heart, Indra Uno is a consultant. He did a case study of his country and came up with a powerful set of findings:
• manufacturing jobs are leaving for less expensive locations
• unemplo...
The man who brought Intel to China and Mao threw into prison. Twice! - Sidney Rittenberg from 2019-10-31T16:44:47
Sidney Rittenberg led an exceptional life. He tumbled into the swirling waters of history as the communist revolution swept Mao into power. He was a friend of Mao. He was also a prisoner of Mao. ...
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Climate change is a fact in Singapore - Masagos Zulkifli – Minister for Environment, Singapore from 2019-09-11T00:47:45
In this episode of Business Class, the subject is climate change and business. Interviewed by USC’s Dick Drobnick, Singapore’s Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Masagos Zulkifli exp...
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“Think of the digital transformation as Industry 4.0.” Sri Manchala - CEO, Trasers from 2019-08-12T01:25:07
According to Sri Manchala, CEO of Trasers, “This is where the game begins.” Sri and Trasers are digging in deep to help companies understand the Digital Transformation. Trasers has recently comple...
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The Digital Transformation "This is hand-to-hand combat.” Bob Zukis from 2019-07-15T22:04:13
Bob Zukis sees two corporate worlds. In one world, a company is smoothly navigating the Digital Transformation and using these new tools to connect with customers and advance their business. In t...
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What Lord Nelson tells us about business strategy - Carl Voigt - USC Prof. of Management from 2019-06-18T21:28:35
How does the Cold War inform business strategy? What truism about strategy did Lord Nelson understand to win the Battle of Trafalgar? Carl Voigt, Professor of Clinical Management and Organization a...
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Will oysters survive in the ocean of the future? – Bill Dewey – Taylor Shellfish Company from 2019-05-29T16:45:54
Climate change forces an industry to adapt of die. Business Class spoke with Bill Dewey of the Taylor Shellfish Company about being one of the first industries that had to face the impacts of clim...
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Palau - The farmers and the fishers - Negotiate a merger - Faustina Marugg, Minister of State from 2019-05-10T21:19:59
Palau is a small island nation. It’s northern island -Babledoab - is mostly trees, rivers, farms and some small villages. And yet, on the very northern tip of the island are two groups using clas...
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“In Palau, the environment is the economy.” – Steven Victor - The Nature Conservancy from 2019-04-04T21:08:53
In this two-part series, Business Class explores the business policies on the small island nation of Palau. We hear that choosing to protect the nation’s environment is a long term business decisio...
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On the rise of the New Economy in China – Fan Bao – Chairman & CEO, China Renaissance from 2019-03-07T17:46:06
Business Class speaks with Fan Bao of Renaissance China in Shanghai, about what he terms the New Economy of China. This economy has no state owned enterprises and represents half the economy of Ch...
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“This is not a trade war. It’s a tech war.’ – Jim McGregor, Chairman APCO China from 2019-01-29T08:06:54
Jim McGregor, the Chairman of APCO China and former Wall Street Journal Bureau Chief has been working in China since 1990. When he says, “The US and China are at a fundamental turning point,” it p...
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Focus on SE Asia - Why a hot startup chose Singapore – Krish Sridhar – CEO, Know from 2019-01-16T23:53:36
Krish Sridhar is building a company that sees 2 billion potential users. The goal, “Connecting the top floor with the shop floor,” in places where the only technology is a smart phone. Know, is a ...
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The Entrepreneuring of Singapore, Inc. – Paul Meyers, Start-Up Ecosystems Builder, consultant to ADB from 2018-12-17T21:48:13
Any mention of Singapore and business has to take into account the policies of the Singaporean government. In the case of entrepreneurs, the government has taken its foot off the brake and is stepp...
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“This is the new abnormal” – Danny Russel, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State from 2018-12-05T23:25:03
Danny Russel has seen diplomacy in action. As the Assistant Secretary of State under John Kerry, he had a ringside seat. Now, watching punches being traded in the trade war between the U.S. and C...
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Beijing and D.C. wonder what the other is thinking – Kevin Rudd, Former PM Australia - Part 2 from 2018-11-19T15:53:50
In Part 2 of this Business Class conversation, we look at the backstory of the US -China Trade War. Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister says “I worry that the lines of communication are s...
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Trade War ‘China can concede or double down’ Kevin Rudd, Former Australian Prime Minister – Part 1 from 2018-11-01T17:21:51
Kevin Rudd is the former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia and also happens to be a China scholar. He feels that, “2018 is a watershed for US / China relations.” In Part 1 of this ...
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The Devil and the Digital Transformation - Bob Zukis from 2018-10-08T20:09:36
Bob Zukis wants people to understand the digital transformation. He wants people to understand that a successful business needs a trained technologist in the C-Suite. With social technologies show...
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I was building companies from the ground up – Christopher Darnell - CEO, The Human Baton from 2018-08-23T14:12:19
Chris Darnell likes risk and has “a high capacity for ambiguity.” Good traits for an executive whose career path includes being CFO of the Microsoft Cloud as well as an entrepreneur in Sub-Saharan ...
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In network security “The bad guys are always ahead.” - Kazu Yozawa - CTO, NTT Security from 2018-08-03T15:39:58
Kazu Yozawa is the Global CTO of NTT Security and thinks we live in a scary world. This is the world of network security, where threats can range from a teenager forging a user code on a piece of ...
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U.S. – China trade from the Chinese side from 2018-07-02T19:16:56
“What’s the difference between this U.S. president and others” -QiWei Chen
There is a question inside China about how this president is different from other U.S. presidents. Dr. QiWei Che...
When is it a Trade War? - Part 3 “Raising tariffs violates our WTO obligations.” - Wendy Cutler from 2018-06-14T18:38:57
Wendy Cutler spends a lot of time thinking about trade. She was the Chief Negotiator on the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement and the Lead Negotiator on the TPP Agreement. We spoke with her just as t...
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“When is it a Trade War? – Part 2 - “I wasn’t surprised with this trade war.” - Clayton Dube from 2018-05-31T15:03:15
In the first year of his presidency Donald Trump largely avoided trade issues with China. As the second year unfolded, Clay Dube notes that the President seems to have returned to the attack mode p...
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“When is it a Trade War? – Part 1 - “Trump says “trade battle”, I say trade war.” - Baizhu Chen from 2018-05-31T14:56:29
Economics is front page news around the world as trade pacts are dismantled, tariffs are threatened and trade wars suddenly appear on the horizon. Baizhu Chen, noted USC China expert takes us insid...
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Gary Locke thinks the US has more to lose in a trade war than China from 2018-05-03T04:35:16
Gary Locke, former US Ambassador to China, Secretary of Commerce and Governor of Washington has experienced trade issues from all angles. He sees threatening tariffs more as a political gesture, t...
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Constructing A Career - Part 2 from 2018-04-18T14:43:49
How do you align a career with your own motivations? When do you pivot your career? How does extra training such as an MBA impact your strategy?
In Part 2 of the Constructing a Career ser...
Constructing A Career - Part 1 from 2018-04-02T21:10:03
Where does an MBA fit in a career plan? How do you plan a career? How many steps does it take to reach your goal? In this episode of Business class we begin a series that will take a deep look int...
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Bill Zarit says the environment for foreign investment in China is deteriorating from 2018-02-27T17:54:04
In this episode of Business Class, Bill Zarit, the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, describes the monumental economic shifts that are taking place. He sees Chinese investmen...
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Wayne Forrest sees Indonesia beginning to turn toward the world of entrepreneurship from 2018-02-07T22:36:46
Wayne Forrest has been President of the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce through many of the country’s business and political cycles. He’s been integral to Indonesia’s relationship with inte...
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Jim Castle with his view from Indonesia, sees the US surrendering the market to China from 2018-01-18T05:47:59
Jim Castle, who describes himself as ‘an accidental businessman’ established CastleAsia in 1980 which has given him a unique view of the shifting of economic power from west to east. Through Cast...
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Yosuke Honjo wants everyone in North America to drink his green tea from 2018-01-06T02:36:12
Ito En sells over $4 Billion USD of tea annually in Japan. In North America Ito En hits $300 million. In this classic international brand building story, Yosuke Honjo, CEO and President of Ito En...
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Business Class Podcast – USC IBEAR brings real business to MBA students from 2017-12-01T00:54:50
There is book learning and then there is taking your knocks on the street. The students who enroll in the USC IBEAR MBA take their knocks all around the world. The International Business Consultin...
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Business Class Podcast – Alfred Fung connects game design and his MBA from 2017-10-27T03:13:47
Alfred Fung starts speaking about his gaming with the absolute that it must be fun.
He traces his love for gaming to his childhood, but credits his entry into the business to the MBA he receive...
Dan Ping Mu solves business problems in China from 2017-10-20T19:50:09
Dan Ping Mu faces challenges for her consulting clients in China head on – and then looks at them from all angles to find the right solution. Her goal is to keep things moving ahead by presenting ...
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Marcus Lyu and the shifting of China’s industry from 2017-10-04T23:12:17
Marcus Lyu runs hard commodities trading in Asia for the 100 billion USD, Swiss head-quartered energy trading firm Mercuria. In this interview in Shanghai, Business Class again looks at a changing...
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Jim McGregor in China, “From bicycles to Bentleys.” from 2017-09-18T15:34:33
Jim McGregor engages in a spirited interview on issues facing foreign companies doing business in China. Speaking with Dick Drobnick in Shanghai, they cover topics from finding employees, to produ...
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Nat Rothschild on business and being a Rothschild from 2017-08-31T20:38:32
Nat Rothschild has a storied family name that defined banking for centuries. Nat spoke with Dick Drobnick while taking part in the USC IBEAR MBA 40th anniversary two day seminar. The conversation ...
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The USC IBEAR MBA at 40! from 2017-08-16T21:06:21
the 40th anniversary of the USC Marshall IBEAR MBA program, in a conversation with three of the past and present program directors.
The IBEAR MBA was one of the first business programs i...
Gary Rieschel - from biology major to MBA to Intel to Cisco to Softbank to running a VC in China from 2017-07-26T16:06:11
Careers are made one opportunity at a time. Gary Rieschel racked up wins all along the way in his move to be the Founder of Qiming Venture Partners in China. Qiming’s record of 59 out 60 investment...
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Paul Wilson describes his hands-on experience in an emerging Myanmar from 2017-07-01T19:49:48
Finding himself at the right place at the right time, he used his MBA and military training to build Four Rivers a successful Myanmar-based consulting company. His view of Myanmar’s past is that it...
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George Drysdale talks business from Philippine bananas to major league baseball from 2017-06-13T21:49:49
Making generational business decisions is George Drysdale’s goal when selecting an investment. Buying, operating and improving is his long term goal. He puts this strategy to work on a four squa...
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Ron Somers front row seat to a developing India from 2017-05-15T21:24:55
Ron Somers has a long term bet on the success of India. With a career focused on large scale projects, he has experienced the country’s advantages and challenges first hand. This Business Class con...
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Edwin Soeryadjaya at the center business in Indonesia from 2017-05-02T16:52:23
Edwin Soeryadjaya of Saratoga Capital describes being a ‘forced entrepreneur’ and gives a unique look inside business in Indonesia.
The task of building a business and rebuilding an empire...
Ambassador Robert Blake - How Indonesia epitomizes the complex trade issues facing the U.S. from 2017-04-17T16:34:11
Former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, Robert Blake, takes us from local politics in Indonesia to the Trump Administration.
Who will be the new governor of Jakarta? The new president of Indo...
In Jip Yang - Managing the world’s best selling brand of spirits from 2017-04-06T20:13:20
In Jip Yang goes in depth on building long term international business partnerships.
According to the New York times bestseller, The Drunken Botanist. “More Jinro soju is sold each year th...
Patrick Yoon - International banking in a local market from 2017-03-15T23:33:56
Patrick Yoon, Managing Director at Standard Charted in Seoul, explains the path an international bank must take to do business in Korea. As one of only two international banks in the country, Stan...
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Andrew Wylegala - Opportunities for US Business in Japan from 2017-03-02T23:04:45
In an interview that took place outside of a Starbucks in downtown Tokyo, Andrew Wylegala brings new thought to US companies doing business in Japan. Regulations have been streamlined. Japan has ...
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Bringing Back the House Call – Medical Startup Heal - Part 2 from 2017-02-16T17:31:51
Business Class Podcast - Greg Drobnick, USC Alum and Co-Founder of Heal, talks about how technology is taking us back to the future and helping fix our broken healthcare system.
In this pr...
Creating a $30+ million healthcare startup - Heal Part 1 from 2017-02-01T20:03
Business Class Podcast - Greg Drobnick, Co-Founder of Heal, describes how the Heal App is recreating the world of your doctor making a house call.
In this presentation we listen in on Greg...
Investing in China - Jack Wadsworth of Morgan Stanley from 2017-01-17T22:29:27
Business Class Podcast - Jack Wadsworth of Morgan Stanley, talks venture funds and the realities of investing in China.
In this phone interview, Jack Wadsworth who developed Morgan Stanley...
Sidney Rittenberg - Part 2 - Deal Making from 2017-01-06T17:08:36
Business Class Podcast - Sidney Rittenberg: Deal making from Maurice Greenberg to Craig Barret to Deng Xiaoping. First hand insight on the business etiquette of international deal making and the me...
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Sidney Rittenberg Part 1 - Power & China from 2017-01-02T21:11:49
Part 1 – Sidney Rittenberg discusses China and the nature of power. A man with an amazing life that has ranged from being a private translator for Mao to helping unlock the deal that brought Intel...
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Early in to China – Ronnie Chan from 2016-12-20T22:34:23
Expert Insight into the world of business.
In this edition of Business, Ronnie Chan, Chairman Hang Lung Properties Ltd, Co-Chair Asia Society, Trustee of the University of Southern Califor...