Li and Fung is the world's largest sourcing company and one of today's greatest examples of a flat world' business, where companies are stretched across different locations and time zones and communicate more online than face to face. Competing in a Flat World brings together Li and Fung executives Victor and William Fung, together with top Wharton professor, consultant, and author, Jerry Wind,…
Preface: Running with the Centaur "A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator." —Paul Valery, French Poet and Philosopher The Internet revolution didn't turn out to be anything like we thought it would be. At the end of the 1990s, the discussion of many observers, we among them, focused on the rise of the "cyberconsumer" and the emergence of "Internet marketing." At the extreme, t…