Chinese Chic with Richemont

Since 1994, when Shanghai Tang was created, they have been paired with Compagnie Financière Richemont SA. Richemont saw Shanghai Tang as a fascinating concept, and one worth promoting. Shanghai Tang is the first luxury brand to come from China. They want to revitalize Chinese creativity and innovation and are creating a modern Chinese chic.

Today, Shanghai Tang has 39 boutiques from New York and Paris to Tokyo and Madrid. Their international design team creates modern, wearable and sophisticated Chinese-inspired clothing.

Shanghai Chic is one example of the innovative, high end companies that Richement, and its many Board Members, including Alan Quasha, supports and encourages.

New Study on Brain Trauma

Doctors and researchers at Mount Sinai seem to have found a fascinating connection. They are finding that many cases of seemingly unrelated social problems all point to the same origin – a blow to the head that was long forgotten.

These findings could have a major impact on the way that we look at alcoholism, homelessness and other social issues. Mount Sinai researchers, for instance, looked at 100 homeless men in New York. They found that 82% of them had suffered brain injuries during their childhoods.

Similarly, they looked at New York centers for alcoholism and drug abuse. After evaluating 845 patients, they found that 54% had once had a severe blow to the head. While some obtained their injuries after they were already drinking, the findings are still interesting.

This type of fascinating research interests the Brain Trauma Foundation, and Chairman Alan Quasha, a great deal. Creating more research and links between brain trauma and social issues could certainly lead to better care and ways to help people in need.

Find out more by reading the full article.

The Brain Trauma Foundation - a Model for Success

2% of the American population currently lives with some type of disability resulting from traumatic brain injuries. Alan Quasha, the Chairman of the Brain Trauma Foundation and the President of Quadrant Management, Inc., explained in the April, 2009 issues of Leaders what he has learned working with this organization.

One experienced he’s learned from the Brain Trauma Foundation is that you don’t have to be a large organization to get results, and that you can do a look of the work by creating virtual organizations. After collaborating with the best neurosurgeons and brain researchers in the world, they created evidence-based guidelines which have now been adopted by all the surgeons. They were able to show in their research that these guidelines for operating procedures would save 50% of the people who had TBI.

As Quasha explains, “To us, the only acceptable outcome is a good outcome, which is when somebody can go back and work and lead a very healthy life, which has happened with my son. That has been very meaningful to me, and we’re very proud of the impact we’ve had.”

Quasha on Rising to Leadership

In a recent interview with Leaders magazine, Alan Quasha explained what keeps him looking so young and what allowed him to be so successful starting at a young age.

For his health, he said that he was on the squash team at Harvard, and actually we on three national championship teams. This, he believes, has had a positive impact on his health, even years later.

With an entrepreneurial nature, he branched out very young and started his own law firm, after practicing for another firm for a short time. After completing one of his first leveraged buyouts, he had to focus on making the company work. Commuting from New York to Canton, Ohio each week, Quasha learned a great deal about changing traditional business practices to make them more efficient and competitive, turning a company around, and more.