Harvard Business School on Doing Business in China Book

Since I am not particularly interested in doing business in China, I wasn't super interested in the business aspects of the book; though, those were somewhat interesting. I was more interested in the cultural side of how business is done. I have lived in China for a long time, but didn't understand that certain products sell better here because they are more readily available.

I found the fact about beverage companies using glass bottles rather than aluminum cans a fascinating difference in culture and availability of raw material. I never fully understood, for instance, why grocery stores sell the big bottles of beer rather than the single-serve aluminum cans in a case. Now I know why. It is both cultural and economic.