Selected business reading from newspapers and magazines

Unit 1 Business & Industry
Text A Start a Business
Text B Entrepreneurship in China-Let a Million Flowers Bloom
Supplementary Reading
Building Excitement-Can China Avoid a Bubble?
Unit 2 Capital Markets
Text A Banking Industry
Text B Stock Exchange
Supplementary Reading
American Stock Markets-Reversal of Fortune
Unit 3 International Marketing
Text A Business Planning-Marketing Planning
Text B Supporting Offline Campaign Launches With Online Marketing
Supplementary Reading
Online-coupon Firms-Groupon Anxiety
Unit 4 International Investment and Credit
Text A A Financial Marriage
Text B How to Promote and Regulate International Investments?
Supplementary Reading
Moving Toward a Global Currency
Unit 5 Business Elite
Text A The Resurrection of Steve Jobs-That Which Does Not Kill the Boss of Apple Seems to Make Him Stronger
Text B Ann Moore: The CEO of Time
Supplementary Reading
Steve Jobs and the iPad of Hope-Apple's Innovation Machine Churns Out Another Game-changing Device
Unit 6 E-Commerce
Text A In E-Commerce, More Is More
Text B The Alibaba E-Commerce Empire
Supplementary Reading
Online Shopping: Selling Becomes Sociable
Unit 7 Economic Globalization and Multinational Corporation
Text A Globalization vs. Economic Sovereignty
Text B The World's Top Choice-China Remains the Most Popular Destination for Foreign Direct Investment
Supplementary Reading
McDonald's Eyes Growing Presence in Local Market
Unit 8 Economic Regulations and Law
Text A U.S. Sets 21st Century Goal: Building a Better Patent Office
Text B Anti-trust Law Treats "All Firms Equally" Over 140 Cases Handled; Rules in Line With International Principles
Supplementary Reading
China E-commerce Giant Launches Campaign to Fight Online Piracy
Unit 9 Economic Crisis
Text A The Great Depression
Text B U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Supplementary Reading
10 Ways to Manage Your Money in Economic Crisis
Unit 10 Human Resources Management
Text A Capturing the State of Human Resources in An Annual Report
Text B The Tech Effect On Human Resources
Supplementary Reading
Risk Management and Human Resources Team Up to Cut Absence Costs
Unit 11 Advertising and Publicity
Text A Internet Advertising
Text B Beijing Tries to Push beyond "Made in China"
Supplementary Reading
The Harder Hard Sell
Unit 12 Training
Text A Training the Trainer
Text B Training Needs Assessment: A Must for Developing an Effective Training Program
Supplementary Reading
An Innovative Method for Role-specific Quality-training Evaluation
Unit 13 Corporate Culture
Text A What is Corporate Culture.'?
Text B Four Steps to Go Green Like eBay-Starting With Employees
Supplementary Reading
The Fall of a Corporate Queen
Unit 14 Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Text A The Corporate Responsibility Commitment
Text B Controversial Chemical Poses Challenge for Colgate-Palmolive
Supplementary Reading
Toyota Recall: Five Critical Lessons
Unit 15 WTO & China
Text A A Closer Look at WTO
Text B Now the Time to Build a "Golden Bridge"
Supplementary Reading
WTO Spirit A Win-Win for All
Key to Exercises
References