Regina Abrami is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Immersion Experience Program (IXP), a field-based learning opportunity allowing MBA students to extend leading ideas in management theory to real world situations. She is also on the executive committee of Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a Faculty Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
She also designed and now teaches the second year elective course, “Doing Business in China.” More
Julian Chang
Julian Chang is the Executive Director for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Asia Programs at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The Asia Programs bring together public and private sector Chinese and Western leaders to enhance public policy research and teaching on Asia.
Julian is co-founder and Senior Partner at the Cambridge China Group. Comprised of world-class China and Asia thought leaders at the Harvard Kennedy School and other leading universities, CCG provides client-focused assistance on navigating through the business and political environments of China. (http://www.cambridgechinagroup.com/index.html ). He is also a member of X-RG, a Hong Kong consultancy that develops and implements China strategies for leading international companies. ( http://www.xrg-china.com/ )
His professional and academic focus is Chinese outbound investment. He is co-founder of the Kennedy School’s annual ‘China Goes Global’ conference, and he is currently leading a Harvard-based leading a team looking at the nature and dynamics of the outbound investment activity of Chinese enterprises – large and small, state and private. He is co-editor and contributor of China Rules: Globalization and Political Transformation. And, he is a visiting professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, where he works on projects relating to Chinese enterprises going global.
He first visited China in 1977 and returned to work there in the mid 1980s. Since 2001, when he took over the daily management of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Asia Programs, he has made several trips a year to China and Asia.
Besides China Rules, he has co-edited and contributed to
- Economic Reform and Cross-Strait Relations: Taiwan and China in the WTO; and
- Presidential Politics in Taiwan: The Administration of Chen Shui-bian.
Julian earned his BA from Yale and his PhD from Harvard University in political science with a dissertation on political marketing in China.
Joe Christian
Joe Christian is a real estate partner at DLA Piper in Hong Kong. He specializes primarily on institutional real estate investment in Korea and China and on representing foreign investors and operators in the senior housing industry in China. He is now also focusing on outbound investment in real estate from those countries.
He brings to his Asia practice 30 years of experience in the acquisition, management, and disposition of real estate assets in all of the major markets across the United States and overseas, representing institutional investors of all types – public and private pension funds, investment advisors, endowments, foundations, REITs and insurance companies. Joe’s expertise encompasses all aspects of real estate law, and he is also highly experienced in equity and debt financings, as well as matters relating to the management of real estate portfolios, including ERISA and general fiduciary matters. He also has over 10 years of experience in representing institutional investors in the senior housing sector.
Joe began his Asian practice in 2001 with the representation of a U.S. developer in a joint venture with a Korean property company in the acquisition and financing of New Songdo City, a 1,500-acre master-planned, new city, in Incheon, Korea. At the outset, he negotiated a Korean joint venture agreement between his client, Gale International, and POSCO Engineering and Construction for the ownership of the project, and a Land Supply Agreement between the venture and Incheon Metropolitan City. Since then, he has represented the Gale/POSCO venture in negotiating numerous other agreements and financings for the project, including further agreements with the Incheon government and agreements relating to the golf course at the project (with Jack Nicklaus) and the retail mall (with Taubman). After several years of traveling back and forth from the U.S. and living for a time in Korea, he moved permanently to Asia in 2008 and currently lives in Hong Kong. Since moving to Hong Kong, Joe has handled other significant transactions in Korea: for US-based Pinnacle AMS Development, the development of privately owned and financed housing for US military families in Pyeongtaek, the site to which the US Forces Korea headquarters is being relocated from Seoul; for Taubman, development and management agreements for a 500,000 sq ft retail mall in Seoul, part of a large mixed use project being developed by AIG; and for Chadwick International, licensing of Korea’s first international school in New Songdo City.
In China, drawing upon his years of experience in the senior housing sector in the US, Joe has been working with several US-based investors and operators in their entry into the nascent senior housing industry in China. Joe has also represented Yihai Property, a well-known and highly respected Beijing-based property developer, in negotiating joint ventures with a US-based hedge fund and with a PRC-based private equity fund, both with respect to a large, mixed use project in Wuhan; the Harvard Business School in its lease of premises in Shanghai, Pudong District, for an executive education facility; Morningstar in its lease for premises in Shenzhen; and Piper Jaffray in its real estate activities in Hong Kong.
He came to DLA Piper from WilmerHale, where he had been a partner in the real estate group since 1994 and chair of its real estate capital management group. Before that, he was a senior executive and counsel at Copley Real Estate Advisors (which merged into AEW Capital Management in 1996), one of the country’s largest real estate investment advisory firms.
Joe is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy (US), the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (Hong Kong), the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (Hong Kong), the Urban Land Institute – Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), where he serves on the Executive Committee, the Pension Real Estate Association (US) and the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (US). He is also an active member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, where he is a member of the Real Estate Committee, and the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce.
He has been listed in every edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2005 and in The Best Lawyers in America in 2008 and 2009. He is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell, its highest rating, and is a New England Super Lawyer.
Joe earned his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, and his B.A., cum laude, from Catholic University of America.
A speaker and writer on U.S. and Asian real estate issues, Joe recently lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s program, Strategies for Winning Chinese Real Estate Investors, on how to do business with Chinese and how to structure their outbound investments.
Preston Scott Cohen is professor and chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is also founder and principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. of Cambridge, MA.
His architecture encompasses diverse scales and types of buildings including houses, educational facilities, cultural institutions and urban designs for private owners, institutions, government agencies and corporations.
In China, he has completed several projects, including the City Library in Datong, below, and is one of the most influential architects working there today. More
City Library, Datong, China
Brett Goodwin
Brett Goodin is Chairman of Blenheim Investments, a boutique investment management and advisory group servicing a select group of clients. He is active in China and the wider Asia Pacific region in the financial services sector as an entrepreneur and senior management advisor.
Until his retirement from the company at the end of 2009 Brett was the President and CEO of Fidelity Investments, Asia Pacific, responsible for the growth and management of all of Fidelity’s extensive activities and business interests across the Asia Pacific
region.
He was also a member of Fidelity’s Global Operating Committee, a Director of the Board of Fidelity’s international holding company, and a Director of numerous other Fidelity companies and listed funds. Before moving to Hong Kong and then Tokyo to run Fidelity’s Asia Pacific businesses in 1997, Brett was based in Fidelity’s international corporate headquarters where he was Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary for the Group, and also head of the international headquarters office.
Having practiced law in numerous jurisdictions in the financial services sector for a number of years, Brett also brings a depth of knowledge and insight on the legal and compliance frameworks evolving in the Asian region.
Lou Jianbo
Lou Jianbo is associate professor of law and Co-Director of the Center for Real Estate Law at Peking University. He is also a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Beijing Committee
Professor Lou has been teaching and researching on real estate law and commercial law at Peking University since 2005. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Cambridge (2000-2005), England, as Lecturer of Chinese Commercial Law.
His courses: Legal Issues in Real Estate Finance, Legal Issues in Real Estate Development and Transaction, Advanced Studies on Real Estate Law, Introduction to Commercial Law, Advanced Studies on Commercial Law, Legal Issues in Financial Derivative Transactions, International Financial Law offer basic and advanced-level study of real estate law and commercial Law at Peking University Law School. He also teaches Chinese Civil Law in English for the International Chinese LLM Law Program of the Faculty.
Lou’s primary research has focused on developing an understanding of impacts of laws and regulations on real estate industry, and the private law issues about financial transaction. Current research projects focus on contract and property law issues in financial transaction, housing law, and eminent domain take-over of agricultural collective-owned land.
In addition to being a member of the 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Beijing Committee, Lou also sits in the board of the Commercial Law Society of the China Law Society, and Beijing Real Estate Law Society.
Lou received his LLB and LLM from Peking University, and a PhD from Queen Mary, the University of London.
Amb. Sungnam Lim
Ambassador Sungnam Lim is a diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) of the Republic of Korea. Much of his 27-year career has focused on the relationship between South Korea-United States and, more recently, on the North Korean nuclear issue.
Ambassador Lim is currently Deputy Chief of Mission at the Korean Embassy in Beijing.
During the recent tensions with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, he served as Director-General of MOFAT’s North Korean Nuclear Affairs Bureau. At the same time, he represented South Korea at the Six-Party Talks as deputy head of its delegation, with rank of ambassador. Besides his role as negotiator, he also chaired the Working Group for Economy and Energy Cooperation, which developed the quid pro quo assistance for North Korea’s denuclearization measures.
Ambassador Lim has held several key posts relating to the United States. As Assistant Secretary to the President for National Security Strategy (his second assignment as presidential advisor), he played a crucial role in quelling the tumult between Seoul and Washington in 2006.
He has also served as Political Counselor in Taiwan, and as a Korean delegate to the United Nations, where he dealt with Middle East issues, including Iraq, at the UN Security Council.
Ambassador Lim earned a BA and an MA in international relations from Seoul National University. He also earned an AM in political science from Government Department of Harvard University, where he passed his comprehensive examinations but has not completed his dissertation requirement for the Ph.D degree. He is currently a Visiting Research Scholar at the Graduate School of Law and Politics of the University of Tokyo, on paid sabbatical from MOFAT.
Besides Korean and English, he speaks Chinese and Japanese. In his leisure time, he enjoys playing golf and visiting museums.
Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught Business, Government and the International Economy in HBS executive programs, and has also taught Human Resource Management; Leadership, Values, and Decision Making; and Business History in the Master’s Program. More
Adlai E. Stevenson III is a former US Senator and Chairman of SC&M Investment Management Company.
Stevenson is a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean war, former Clerk to a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and former Partner in the law firm of Mayer, Brown. He served in the Illinois House of Representatives 1965-67, winning a Best Legislator award from the Independent Voters of Illinois, and as Illinois State Treasurer, 1967-70, where he quadrupled earnings on the investment of State funds while cutting the budget each year. In 1970, he was elected to the unexpired balance of deceased Senator Everett Dirksen’s term in the U.S. Senate and was re elected in 1974, both times by record breaking margins. He retired from the Senate in 1981. He was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois in 1982 and 1986.
With Deng Xiaoping and Senate Delegation to China
In the Senate Stevenson served on the Commerce Committee (Chairman of the Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space), Banking Committee (Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Finance) and Intelligence Committee (Chairman, Subcommittee on the Collection and Production of Intelligence). He served as the first Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee and Chairman of a Special Committee which led the first reorganization of the Senate since its Committee system was formed in the early 19th Century. He also served as the most junior member of the Senate Majority’s Policy Committee.
In the Senate, Stevenson co-authored the energy legislation of the mid 1970′s, including legislation to establish the Department of Energy, fuel efficiency standards, emergency natural gas pricing and projects for development of alternative energy sources. He authored the Stevenson Wydler Technology Innovation Act and companion Bayh Dole Act which spurred the cooperative research and the technological innovation which followed. He authored the International Banking Act and conducted the first Congressional in depth studies of terrorism, introducing the Comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Act of 1979 with predictions of spectacular acts of destruction and disruption and an international terrorist scene.
An attempt to distance the US from the settlements policy of the new Likkud government of Israel led to his defeat in the 1982 election for Governor of Illinois. Though the election was virtually tied and evidence of widespread election irregularities, including a failed punch card system for recording votes, was presented to the Illinois Supreme Court, it denied his request for a recount by one vote. He was renominated by the Democratic Party for Governor in 1986, but candidates of the LaRouche cult were nominated for Lt. Governor and Secretary of State, forcing him to resign the nomination and run as a third Party candidate. He won 40% of the vote, thus ending his active political career.
Since living in London in 1945-6 where he attended Harrow School, Stevenson has traveled, worked and served in many capacities in more than 80 countries. His private sector career has focused on international matters, especially international finance and East Asia. He organized the HuaMei Capital Company, the first Sino US financial intermediary and remains a director. He is a past President of the US Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, former Co-Chairman of the East Asia Financial Markets Development Project, former President and Chairman of the Japan America Society of Chicago, former Chairman of the Midwest US Japan Association, a Member of the US-Korea Wisemen Council, Member of the Advisory Board of the Korea Economic Institute, Member of the US Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and Chairman of the Midwest US China Association. He Chairs the Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy and serves on the boards of other civic and business organizations.
Stevenson is the author of The Black Book which records American politics and history as his family knew it over five generation. Starting with Abraham Lincoln in central Illinois, it ends in China with an Epilogue on the life cycle of nations and empires. He seeks to recall the values which created his country and draw lessons for the future. Stevenson has lectured widely, authored numerous articles and is the recipient of many honors, including Japan’s Order of the Sacred Treasure with Gold and Silver Star. He is an Honorary Professor of Renmin University, Beijing, PRC.
Stevenson manages a farm near Galena, Illinois and maintains an office and home in Chicago. He is a graduate of Harvard College, ’52 and Harvard Law School, ’57. He and his wife, Nancy, have two sons, two daughters and five grandchildren.
Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (retired), where she joined the faculty in 1981. One of the first tenured women at the Harvard Business School and the youngest woman to receive an endowed chair, she earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University and her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago. She has been a featured columnist for BusinessWeek.com and for Fast Company Magazine.
Professor Zuboff’s most recent article is “Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism” (McKinsey Quarterly, September 2010), derived from her work over the last decade with new enterprises geared to the emerging challenges of individualized distributed commerce. Her work on distributed capitalism builds on the research published in her book, The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism (Penguin, 2003), co-authored with her husband, former Chief Executive and philosophy Ph.D. Jim Maxmin.
Long before the economic crisis of 2007-2008, this far-reaching multi-disciplinary effort integrated history, sociology, management, and economics to explain how today’s business models have reached the limits of their adaptive range. The Support Economy anticipated many of the dynamics at the heart of the financial meltdown as it chronicled the institutionalization of zero-sum adversarial conflicts between consumers and businesses.
Today’s consumers have moved beyond mass produced goods and services to instead seek individualized relationships of advocacy and support that enable control over their lives and meaningful channels for voice and influence. The chasm that has come to separate new people and old organizations is filled with frustration, pain, and mistrust. It has also ignited the next wave of wealth creation on a global scale, as new principles of distributed capitalism combine with distributed technologies to meet these new needs.
The Support Economy has been praised and translated around the world. Many now credit it as providing a prescient and comprehensive analysis of the underlying dynamics responsible for the worldwide economic crisis. It was selected by strategy+business as one of the top ten business books of 2003 and ranked number one in the “Values” category. BusinessWeek named it the “number one idea” in its special issue on “Twenty Five Ideas for a Changing World”. Inc. magazine described The Support Economy as “the new new thing” in its special anniversary issue on entrepreneurship.
The book has also been featured in dozens of other magazines and newspapers including the Economist, Fast Company, the Financial Times, the Times of London, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post and Across the Board (The Conference Board) as well as in major publications in Germany, Italy, India, China, Brazil, Croatia, Japan, Canada, and South Korea.
In 2006, strategy+business named Professor Zuboff among the eleven most original business thinkers in the world. She was featured in 2004 as a “Creative Mind” in strategy+business, described as “a maverick management guru…one of the sharpest most unorthodox thinkers today.”
From 2003 to 2005, Zuboff shared her ideas on the future of business and society in her popular monthly column “Evolving”, in the magazine Fast Company. From 2007 through 2009 she was a featured columnist for BusinessWeek.com.
Professor Zuboff’s work has been showcased on CNBC, Reuters International, and the Today Show as well as in Fortune, Inc., Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, CIO, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and many other news outlets. Bostonia Magazine voted her one of the “Five Smartest People in Boston”. She has been heard on over 200 radio shows, including top coverage on NPR’s Marketplace, TechNation, Sound Money, Morning Edition, BBC, and the BBC World Service.
Author of the celebrated classic In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988), Professor Zuboff has been called “the true prophet of the information age”. In the Age of the Smart Machine won instant critical acclaim in both the academic and trade press—including the front page review in the New York Times Book Review– and has long been considered the definitive study of information technology in the workplace.
In 1993, Professor Zuboff founded the executive education program “ODYSSEY: School for the Second Half of Life” at the Harvard Business School. The program addressed the issues of transformation and career renewal at midlife. During twelve years of her teaching and leadership, ODYSSEY became known as the best program of its kind in the world.
Professor Zuboff has published dozens of articles, essays, book reviews, and cases on the subject of information technology in the workplace, as well as on the history and future of work and management. Her scholarly monograph “Work in the United States in the Twentieth Century,” appears in the Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century (1996). Her lectures on “The Information Society” are featured in the Smithsonian’s permanent exhibition on “The Information Age”. She has served on editorial boards including the Harvard Business Review, the American Prospect, and Organization.
She serves on the boards of the Legatum Center at MIT, The Natural Resources Council of Maine, and The Heartwood Regional Theater Company. She has been awarded research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Professor Zuboff lectures, leads seminars, and consults to businesses and governments around the world. Some of her recent presentations include The Bankinter Future Trends Forum (Madrid, Bilbao), Fortune Brainstorm, The Specialty Schools and Academies Trust (UK), The Exelon Corporation, The Performance Theater (Budapest), The Finnish Academy of Sciences, The University Continuing Education Association, The TechNation Summit, European Consumer Day (Zurich), The Senior Human Resource Managers Global Forum, The Knowledge Management Network, The Service Innovation Consortium, The Discovery Companies, Demos (London) , The Economist CIO Forum, the CRM Forum, The Sloan Leadership Conference, The Triple Bottom Line (Canada), The National Consumer Council (UK), Sogetti (Amsterdam), and General Electric.
Shoshana Zuboff has delivered major invited addresses at Cambridge University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, The London School of Economics, The European Information Systems Society, The Royal Society of Arts , The British Computer Society, The Smithsonian, The American Society for Training and Development, The National Education Association, The American Management Association, and many others.
Professor Zuboff lives with her husband, Jim Maxmin, and their two children on a fresh water farm in mid-coast Maine.
