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When China opened its markets to foreign investment, no one was more eager to go in than John-Paul Ho. Before the communist takeover in 1949, the company his engineer-businessman father ran was the local partner of American companies operating in China. Ho, a Harvard-trained applied engineer and...
A master's degree from Stanford and a Harvard M.B.A. didn't help return Huang to the Marxist fold. Nor did an exercise in entrepreneurship when he co-founded General Wireless (now known as MTone), one of the first mainland-owned companies to receive venture-capital funding in the mid...
Still, Huang cautions that investing in China is perilous. "I've undergone re-education three times," he says--during the Cultural Revolution (when he was sent to farm peanuts in the countryside), when he went to the U.S. to study and when he returned to China and realized that all...
Steel companies don't usually help spark political revolutions. But then Ukraine's Kryvorizhstal is no ordinary steel firm. With annual production of about 7 million tons, it is by far Ukraine's biggest steelmaker, accounting for 20% of output, and one of the country's most valuable companies. Last...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON By Ron Chernow Here a few things you didn't know about Alexander Hamilton. He was born illegitimate in the British West Indies. At 14 he was broke and virtually an orphan--his mother was dead, his father gone. But by 22 he was an aide-de-camp...