Public Lecture

China: Rethinking Economic Reforms after 30 Years

April 23, 2009 / Philadelphia

Yasheng Huang

Prof. Yasheng Huang teaches political economy and international management at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. His book Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (Cambridge University Press) was selected by The Economist as one of the best books published in 2008. In collaborations with other scholars, Prof. Huang is conducting research on a range of research projects including production of scientific knowledge in China and India, on entrepreneurship, ethnic andlabor-intensive FDI. His research has been profiled in many publications,including the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Businessworld, Le Monde, Economic Times, Daily Telegraph, Bloomberg, Businessweek, and the Guardian. At MIT Sloan, Prof. Huang founded and runs the China Lab and India Lab, which aim to help entrepreneurs in China and India improve their management.

He has held or received prestigious fellowships such as National Fellowship at Stanford University and Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Fellowship. He is a member of MIT Entrepreneurship Center, a fellow at Center for Chinese Economic Research and Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University, a fellow at William Davidson Institute at Michigan Business School, a World Economic Forum Fellow, and a non-resident fellow for the OECD's global development outlook project. His other books include Inflation and Investment Controls in China (1996), FDI in China (1998), Selling China (2003), and Financial Reform in China (2005, co-edited with Tony Saich and Edward Steinfeld).

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