Guanxi (The Art of Relationships)
Microsoft, China, and Bill Gates's Plan to Win the Road Ahead
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Beast from the East
November 8-11, 2004
This is a new kind of manufacturing in China. Not just shoes, socks, baby strollers. Now we manufacture MIT students, papers, and software.
-- HARRY SHUM, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA
Half a world away from the calm beauty of Puget Sound, there's a lab where Bill Gates's software dreams come true. At Microsoft Research Asia, the drive to succeed is as intense as the traffic that roars by its front door in unbridled fury. If the software megagiant's other facilities around the globe seem idyllic, this one, in Beijing, is pure street. Microsoft's mantra here: work hard to get in the door; work harder to survive; then work even harder because the real work -- that of creating the global future of computing -- is just beginning.
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