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No one can deny the significant opportunities that exist in the Chinese market. With average growth rate of 10% in the past 30 years, China, the world’s fastest growing major economy has just surpassed Japan as the world’s second largest economy.
The possibility of surpassing the United States, the world’s current largest economy by as early [...]

Adam Hanft is an ambi-practitioner. His focus is on the process by which currents, brands and events — – small and seismic — lodge in, and provoke, the political and consumer cultures. As a journalist, he is a frequent commentator on Marketplace, a columnist for FastCompany.com, and a contributing editor at Inc.com. He is also [...]

Born in China, Benjamin Wey came to the U.S. as a teenager on a full scholarship to Oklahoma Baptist University to study business management. Today he is the President of New York Global Group (“NYGG”), a New York and Beijing headquartered investment banking, venture investments and strategic consulting firm which specializes in advising China related [...]

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New York’s City Council this week approved a controversial office tower at 15 Penn Plaza, swatting away criticism that the project will obscure some views of the Empire State Building, the city’s defining structure.
But while New York — and the nation — are obsessed about whether a certain cultural center should go up in lower [...]

As we mentioned before, a good 76% of New Yorkers apparently think building a 1,200 foot tower two blocks away from the Empire State Building would be detrimental to the New York City skyline. But as The Empire State Building Company’s Times ad said, “There will be taller buildings in New York City…but they should [...]

CEOs worldwide must be terrified by the recent response to JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater’s choice of how and when to resign. Many have come to his defense, stating, “It’s hard working daily with people,” but did anyone ask if he still cashed his paychecks?
His emergency chute exit is the stuff movies are made of. [...]

IT could be her greatest role since “Mean Girls.” Disgraced starlet ankles Hollywood for Gotham, a humbling return to the city of her birth. Able to blend in among the city’s obscuring crowds, our starlet finds peace and — eureka! — a path to redemption. Soon, she wrangles a small, serious role Off Broadway that [...]

August 9, 2010 (New York, NY) – Manhattan real estate tycoon and President of Hirschfeld Properties, LLC, Elie Hirschfeld announces the acquisition of “Gray Scramble X (double)” (1973, Alkyd on Canvas), an original oil painting by Frank Stella (born 1936) valued at $2,000,000.�
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In 1973, the Hirschfeld family acquired the iconic Gray Scramble X (double) [...]

LeBron James could use some sound advice; that much has been clear since his much-criticized decision to announce that he would be joining the Miami Heat in a one-hour ESPN special that shot that network’s credibility and enraged the city of Cleveland. And now he’s getting some, from a most unexpected source: an Israeli rabbi [...]

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While it’s always a relief to be cleared of criminal allegations, for high-profile leaders like Al Gore, an acquittal in the court of law does not imply a similar outcome by the court of public opinion.
We tend to remember public figures for their mishaps and embarrassments.
Unfortunately, the media don’t always hold an “innocent until [...]