HELLMUT SCHUTTE is a professor of International Management at INSEAD and represents core faculty at INSEAD's Euro-Asia Centre. He started his career in Asia marketing fast moving consumer goods for a British-Dutch multinational in Indonesia. He also lived and worked in the Philippines and was a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. Schutte has conducted research, acted as a consultant, and taught management seminars for both Asian and Western managers in ten Asian countries.DEANNA CIARLANTE was born in the USA, but spent most of her ten years as a young adult in Japan. After graduating from Duke University, she spent five years in New York working with Japanese financial institutions.