NOLASIA - Tulane Students Blog about Business in Asia

Are American Hospital Systems Setting their Sights on China?

Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic are some of the most reputable hospital systems in the world. Situated in Cleveland, OH and Rochester, MN, each hospital system treats people from around the world on an annual basis. Last year, Mayo Clinic treated patients from 137 countries while Cleveland Clinic welcomed patients from 170 countries2,3. Both hospitals […]

Home Ownership Among Chinese Young Adults

Recently I had the chance to meet with a group of five Chinese students close to my age while visiting Xiamen University. We discussed our backgrounds and I was interested to hear that all five of the students had moved to Xiamen from other parts of China. I learned that all five students owned their […]

China’s Building Sprawl & GDP, both Huge

Upon arriving in the incredibly vast country of China, I quickly realized everything operated on a different scale, a much, much larger scale that is. The great state of Texas likes to claim, “everything’s bigger in Texas”, and while this may be true for their steaks and ten-gallon hats, it is most certainly not true […]

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NOLA to Attract More Chinese Tourists?

Xiaosong Gao, the most popular and renowned composer, music director, writer, director, once said on his talk show program that New Orleans is his favorite city in the U.S. for the Cajun food, jazz music, French-style architecture, and welcoming southern people. However, despite historic 10.5 million visitors visiting New Orleans in 2016 and the city […]

IP, China, and President Trump’s Tweets

Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in China By: Miss Tomi M. Suzuki According to the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, an estimated annual $225 billion to $600 billion is lost every year due to ineffectively protecting intellectual property. In order to do business in China, government regulations require foreign firms to partner with […]

Dark Underbelly of Chinese Shadow Banking Beginning to Spiral Out of Control

Dark Underbelly of Chinese Shadow Banking Beginning to Spiral Out of Control By Gregory L. Tuttle The Lending and Financing of China’s Extreme Growth In order to fuel GDP growth, lending is imperative. Lending helps expand operations and finance projects that companies cannot internally fund. The source of these funds is becoming more reliant on […]

China’s Upcoming Social Credit System

Establishing Trust in China in the 21st Century In the Chinese culture, trust has traditionally grown out of time-consuming efforts of establishing personal relationships. In the modern world the Chinese tradition can be inefficient. In the developed world, credit rating systems for finance have been instituted. The Chinese government hopes to make social interactions more efficient […]

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Is Shanghai the place for your next business venture?

As a woman, I am inspired by the number of small businesses women are constantly starting in the United States. On my visit to China, I noticed many women led the operations of local stores that my classmates and I ventured to. Currently, women comprise nearly 47 percent of the workforce and one-fifth of all […]

As China’s Manufacturing Wages Rise, Will Companies Go Elsewhere?

Most of us are used to seeing the phrase ‘Made in China’ on our goods on the consumer side and business side while shopping. With all the manufacturing and jobs that have been created in China, more and more people have seen increases in their wages and spending power. Wage Growth China’s wages have […]

Environmental Regulation in China: A Shifting Paradigm

Environmental protection and regulation have become increasingly important topics in recent years. As the public has become more concerned with issues such as climate change and the pollution of air, water, and soil, world governments have started to focus more energy on developing plans to combat such issues. Even China, a country that has historically […]

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NOLASIA is a fictional consulting company made up of students in the Tulane MBA, PMBA, and MMG classes on international strategy & marketing, and doing business in Asia.

On this blog individual students share their blog posts related to the classes.