Leaders At Alibaba, Youku, And Baidu Are Slowly Shaking Up China's Corporate Culture

Three top Chinese tech companies--Alibaba, Baidu, and YouKu--are remaking the country's moribund, hierarchical corporate culture with an injection of new ideas from the West.

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What is the sound of three hands clapping? I found out at noon on a Thursday in September, while walking through the headquarters of the e-commerce titan Alibaba in Hangzhou, China. On the fourth floor, a massive work space is filled with hundreds of headset-equipped salespeople sitting under yard after yard of fl...

[Source: Fast Company]