By Michael Tatarski From before dawn through the late evening, container trucks rumble down the Hanoi Highway to Cat Lai Port in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2, often creating traffic jams that back up for several kilometres. These trucks bring consumer goods such as electronics and apparel from the booming industrial parks of Binh […]

By Michael Tatarski Up until 2017, Vietnam had a relatively undeveloped renewable energy sector, with the exception of hydropower, which has been a major electricity source for decades. That year, the Vietnamese government introduced its first feed-in tariff for solar power, which established a set price for produced solar energy – and everything changed. Investors […]

By Brett Davis Vietnam has seen a steady increase in recent years of women executives in the top echelons of business. While it is not always an easy road, inclusiveness at the C-Suite level brings a diversity of approaches and thinking that helps companies grow. [C] Vietnam spoke to several women leaders to get their […]

Clichés usually become so because there is a kernel of truth residing within them. “It’s lonely at the top” is likely a good example. But it does not have to be that way for business leaders who can draw on the wisdom and support of those in similar rarefied positions. The role of the CEO […]

By Michael Tatarski In 2011, Chris Blank spent two days in a Ho Chi Minh City hospital after taking medicine from a local pharmacy. Tens of thousands of similar shops, often staffed by employees with little to no training, can be found throughout Vietnam. “After leaving the hospital I walked around and was looking at […]

By Mark Khan Did you know one of the biggest business deals in history occurred on a golf course? Mark Khan delves into the possibilities of big deals and big drives. In New York in 1901, the most powerful financier of the time, J.P. Morgan bought Andrew Carnegie’s steel company for $480 million, which would […]