Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise

Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is the author the award-winning books Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism and Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. Prior to joining Cambridge, he worked at Cornell for over 7 years, and Harvard for over 11 years, where he developed an award-winning course on social entrepreneurship. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed academic articles and more than 50 Harvard business cases on topics related to sustainable business and has earned awards for scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association. Marquis earned a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan and BA in History from Notre Dame. Before his academic career, he worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as vice president and technology manager for a business unit of J.P. Morgan Chase.

James Heimowitz is the President of China Institute. He has 40 years of experience in building trust and understanding between China and the U.S.  James went to China as a student before it opened to the West, and has formed deep relationships in China over several decades. His background, education, and on-the-ground professional experience have come together to create a unique insight into some of the country’s most important initiatives. Prior to joining CI, James spent nine years at Hill + Knowlton Strategies where he was CEO for Asia, and Chairman, China.

He has also held multiple positions of leadership in Finance and Consulting, serving as Managing Director for Corporate Strategy at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, and Manager of the Boston Consulting Group’s World Wide Asia Team. Earlier in his career at Chase Manhattan Bank, he led a successful re-entry to China, opening a representative office in Shanghai and a branch in Tianjin - the bank’s first in China since 1949. James is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on numerous boards of companies in the media, finance, technology and China sectors.