Commencement: End of One Journey, Starting Point of Another
Jieying Zheng
December 9, 2009
Back in the USA after my internship with Volans, I was delighted this week to have received an amazing amount of curious enthusiasm from the... More...
Former Chinese Google CEO’s innovative cluster attracts 40,000 applicants
Jieying Zheng
November 11, 2009
Dr. Lee Kai-Fu has left Google China, with the ambition of launching an innovation incubator –Innovation Works (创新工厂)– with the backing of top IT... More...
“The Power of Unreasonable People” reaches global Chinese speaking (中文繁体) community
Jieying Zheng
November 2, 2009
Harvard Business School Press, the publisher of “The Power of Unreasonable People”, published on its Taiwanese website a Chinese (traditional) transcript of John Elkington’s interview... More...
What does the past tell us about the future?
Jieying Zheng
October 19, 2009
A recent project at Volans involved developing future scenarios for a major company’s sustainability advisory council, imagining what the world might look like in 2097.... More...
Happy Birthday, PRC—and here’s the challenge for the next 40 years
Jieying Zheng
October 1, 2009
Today—1 October—marks sixtieth anniversary of People’s Republic of China. This year is also the tenth anniversary since Chinese rural villagers, representing more than 60%... More...
Innovation from both ends: linking the government with social entrepreneurs
Jieying Zheng
September 22, 2009
Last Friday, Volans organised a workshop on social entrepreneurship at the Hub King’s Cross London, bringing together representatives from both the UK government and... More...
Some reflection at the beginning of my Volans journey
Jieying Zheng
August 27, 2009
Further into the second week of my Volans journey, I am taking John’s advice and jotting down some bits and pieces around the “soft” side... More...
Does social entrepreneurship exist in China?
Jieying Zheng
August 26, 2009
…was an interesting question that I was recently asked. This reminds me of a field study in China with my MBA classmates in May... More...