In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:

Niranjan Acharya, "Follow-on Biologics - Oppoertunities and Challenges in the U.S. Market

The pharmaceutical market in the United States is the largest in the world.  Currently, the percentage of GDP spending towards healthcare is the highest and is expected to be on the rise in coming years.  As a result, it is imperative to look for avenues to reduce the burden on the system. 

When compared to the overall pharmaceuticals market, biologics though, garner a minuscule share in prescriptions.  However, this equates into 15% of the market value, which is high compared to the number of prescriptions.  In his presentation, Acharya suggests biologics as one of the options to reduce the cost of healthcare spending and attempts to understand the overall opportunities and challenges for follow-on biologics in  the United States.

Xiaoyuan Shi, "Emerging Trends of Internal Audit in Risk Management"

The business world is becoming increasingly complex due to new, evolving and emerging risks.  Organizations are giving risk management more consideration, internal auditors are finding they can play important roles in risk management and may become a powerful promoter of enterprise risk management practices.  How can internal auditors shape their future?  In her presentation, Shi will introduce current internal audit activities and provide some insight into the direction of how internal auditors expect to perform in the coming years.  Shi will also provide her analysis of what is and what should be the role of internal audit in risk management. 

Guoqiang Zhao, "What Can China Learn from the U.S. Financial Crisis?"

The 2007-09 financial crisis triggered by the burst of the housing bubble proved to be the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  As boom and bust repeated periodically, Zhao has tried to find out the vulnerabilities in both the private and public sector that caused this recent crisis to be so devastating.  Zhao shares recommendations for the reform of the Chinese financial system. 

In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:

Sanat Deshpande, "Best Practices in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management"

The pharmaceutical supply chain is very complex and highly responsible to ensure that the right drug reaches the right person at the right time in the right condition to meet the medical needs to fight against disease.  Anything less than 100% service level is unacceptable.  The pharmaceutical industry is facing a series of challenges such as counterfeiting and cold chain management.  In addition to these challenges, developed countries like the United States are also dealing with the patent cliff and healthcare reforms.  There is a growing oversight by the regulatory authorities across the world to ensure patient safety when it comes to pharmaceuticals.  In his presentation, Deshpande will discuss the growth of the pharmaceutical industry focusing on the challenges faced by the supply chain and key areas where companies can improve for the future.

Ryo Masuda, "What Can the Cable TV Industry Learn from the Strengths of Over-The-Top Providers"

One of the biggest concerns for the cable TV (CATV) industry in the United States has been the competition with Over-the-Top providers (OTT).  OTT providers like Netflix and Hulu have been successful in penetrating its service in recent years by providing customers with TV content over the internet for a cheaper monthly flat rate.  Masuda has analyzed the current fundamental differences in service strategies of CATV and OTT providers and their customer behavior. In his research presentation, Masuda tries to answer the question – “Can the CATV industry really compete with OTT providers and what can we learn from those strengths to develop services in the future?” 

Wei Shi, "A Comparison Between the U.S. and China's Credit Card Markets - The Englightenment to the Development of ICBC's Credit Card Business"

Based on a statement of the basic information of China’s credit card market development and a comparison to that of the United States, Shi has researched the main problems that China’s credit card industry currently faces.  He has focused especially on the case for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) by studying market conditions, credit environment, management risks, and regulatory policy, as well as the reasons and causes of these conditions.  Based on his findings, Shi proposes suggested solutions that will help to further develop the credit card business at ICBC. 

How do we know that a person is what she claims to be? Or how do we make others believe that we are the person that we claim to be? Sociologists have explored these questions by focusing on face-to-face interaction in various everyday settings. This talk concerns the micropolitics of identification in a more formalized and institutionalized setting, specifically in immigration proceedings. Drawing on the literature on bureaucracy, presentation of self, migrant sending communities, and deviance, the speaker examines how immigration bureaucrats seek to establish migrants’ identities in contemporary immigration proceedings; how migrants challenge these dominant identification practices, notably through their involvement in various “illegal” schemes; and what consequences these micropolitical struggles have for both receiving and sending states. The talk is based on a study of the contestations over family-based immigration in South Korea, which have focused on efforts to establish the kinship and marital status of co-ethnic migrants from China (Korean Chinese migrants). The speaker will show how bureaucrats and migrants mobilize various types of “identity tags,” how migrants combine strategic and moral reasoning as they engage in these micropolitical struggles, and how these struggles influence not only immigration policies in the receiving state but also migration brokerage networks and gender and family relations in the sending states. The talk is based on Kim’s award-winning article in Law and Social Inquiry.

Jaeeun Kim is a postdoctoral fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University (2012-2013). Before joining Stanford, she received her PhD degree in sociology from UCLA (2011) and was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University (2011-2012). Her dissertation entitled Colonial Migration and Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea examines diaspora politics in twentieth-century Korea, focusing on colonial-era ethnic Korean migrants and their descendants in Japan and northeast China. Her dissertation has recently been awarded the Theda Skocpol Best Dissertation Award from the Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the ASA. Kim’s work has appeared in Theory and Society, Law and Social Inquiry, and European Journal of Sociology. Her article in Law and Social Inquiry, entitled “Establishing Identity: Documents, Performance, and Biometric Information in Immigration Proceedings,” has won the graduate and law students best paper award in 2011. After completing her fellowship term at Stanford, Kim will be Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University beginning in the fall 2013. 

Professor Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University and former Director of Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Harvard University Asia Center

Professor Qin Hui, Professor of History, Tsinghua University

Professor Andrew Walder, Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University 

Date:               Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Time:              10:15 am – 12:00 pm

Venue:            Stanford Center at Peking University, Langrun Yuan, Peking University

Language:      Chinese/English simultaneous translation will be provided. 

Deng Xiaoping, one of the most important figures in modern Chinese history, was instrumental in China’s economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s.  As the architect of China’s post-Mao path of economic reform and opening to the outside world, his legacy continues to shape the country’s present and future.  Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University and former Director of Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Harvard University Asia Center, will talk about Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, which has just been published in Chinese.  Professor Qin Hui, a leading historian and public intellectual will join Professor Vogel in a dialogue on “The Deng Xiaopeng Era: Historical Transformation and the Shaping of China’s Present and Future”.  The event will be moderated by Professor Andrew Walder, Stanford University Professor of Sociology and specialist on modern Chinese society and politics.