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The MIT Sloan Chinese Business Forum aims to develop, share and sharpen insights for teaching and research regarding Chinese firms that operate globally.\[1\] It  It brings together selected faculty, doctoral students and practitioners from MIT Sloan, its partner schools in China and elsewhere\[2\], and individuals from the broader academic and managerial community who are genuinely committed to the development of courseware for learning that is concept-based, problem-driven and action-oriented.
The Chinese Business Forum is a virtual community that hosts existing materials and creates dialogues for collective learning to generate a set of courseware\[3\]and provide the basis for analytical articles. All members of the MIT Sloan Chinese Business Forum shall be _active{_}contributors to our material building and are invited to have a monthly online meeting with key faculty at MIT as well as schools abroad.   Materials developed and posted on the China Business Forum sites\[4\] will be  
Materials developed and posted on the China Business Forum sites[4] will be "open-source" in nature and available for use under the Creative Commons License.\[5\] The final courseware products will be multi-authored and the authorship is determined by each individual member's contribution to the courseware development, as judged jointly by the Chinese Business Forum members.

Company Focus
Initially, the MIT Sloan China Business Forum will focus on two sets of Chinese firms:  1 
1) "consolidators" in the electronics industry such as Lenovo, TTE, and BenQ and           2         
2) automotive producers and suppliers.

Membership
Participation in the MIT Sloan China Business Forum will be based on a commitment to actively contribute to the Forum and the consent of the Forum members, and initially by the two lead MIT Sloan faculty members - Don Lessard and Yasheng Huang. See more recent news in the About Us section.