Global Navigation is a peer-to-peer education resource for board directors of multinational corporations, with programs about growth markets worldwide and a particular focus on board-related issues involving China and Latin America. We are an affiliate of Corporate Board Member Corporate Board Member magazine.

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GlobalNav offers a series of conferences providing opportunities for peer exchange and board education about China and other areas of the globe.

GlobalNav publishes China Board Briefs, which are in-depth examinations of board-related issues in China, and Global Board Briefs, which examine issues around the world.

GlobalNav offers both a Latin American Peer Program for Boards and a China Peer Program for Boards. These programs will provide directors with a wealth of valuable resources about doing business in those particular regions.

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Business Globally
A quick take on a global business issue:

China Inc's Global Growing Pains

By Alan Wheatley, China Economics Editor, as reported on Reuters UK online on January 20, 2010

"It was a proper dressing-down for the boss from deepest China who had travelled to the capital to seek government help with overseas expansion.  Vice-Premier Wang Qishan publicly interrogated the head of Sany Heavy Industry Ltd Co, a big engineering firm, about his management capabilities, asking if he was sensitive to cultural differences and the difficulty of dealing with unionized labor in the west.  "If the other side's engineers resign, are you really going to send people from Changsha overseas, and make the whole company speak Hunanese?" he asked, referring to the dialect spoken in Hunan, a province of nearly 70 million people whose capital is Changsha.  The gulf that so exercised Wang - in a scene played out in public last year during the annual session of parliament - has since been on full display in a cultural and political skirmish between the Chinese government and the U.S. internet search engine Google. 

That row, over censorship in China, will hardly make western politicians and consumers feel more kindly about China or its corporations as potential suitors.  China's ambitions, and how they might be affected by the Google controversy, are likely to be a hot topic at next week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos and beyond."

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