Richard Baum's guest appearances

Richard Baum

WMAL

USC U.S.-China Institute Speaker Series (Audio Only)

USC U.S.-China Institute Speaker Series

The Buy Box Experts Podcast

Shelley Rigger

Alison Friedman

Perry Link

Geoff Dyer

Greg Anderson

Rob Schmitz

Jason Yuan

Rowan Callick

Christina Chen

Madame Mao

David Shambaugh

Jonathan Watts

Mike Chinoy

Ryan Pyle

Kevin Gallagher

OwlTail

Richard Baum is the Managing Partner at Consumer Growth Partners (CGP), a private equity firm that specializes in helping companies with high growth potential to sell or monetize their business. Richard is a Harvard Law School graduate and he studied Economics at the University of Michigan where he graduated magna cum laude.  Prior to Consumer Growth Partners (CGP), Richard spent over 15 years as one of Wall Street’s leading equity research analysts covering the specialty retailing sector at Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs, and Sanford C. Bernstein. In this episode… Are online marketplaces starting to replace brick and mortar stores? Retailers are moving into online marketplaces at lightning speed because of the extent of their reach but for Richard Baum, while they do offer convenience, products sold in physical stores still have an upper hand in key areas of the retail market such as product quality assurance and brand equity. Richard Baum is the Managing Partner at Consumer Growth Partners and for him, selling on Amazon is a great idea but it isn’t the end-all and be-all for the companies who are looking to sell their products. He also says that while big brands should consider getting into partnership deals with Amazon to protect their brand credibility, small businesses should focus on establishing their brand in Amazon’s volatile retail environment. Eric Stopper sits down with Richard on this week’s episode of The Buy Box Experts podcast where Richard talks about his perspective on the banning of adult product ads, what a non-Amazonable product is, why luxury items opt-out of Amazon, and what the future holds for the retail market in the next five years. Stay tuned.

Richard Baum is the Managing Partner at Consumer Growth Partners (CGP), a private equity firm that specializes in helping companies with high growth potential to sell or monetize their business. Richard is a Harvard Law School graduate and he studied Economics at the University of Michigan where he graduated magna cum laude.  Prior to Consumer Growth Partners (CGP), Richard spent over 15 years as one of Wall Street’s leading equity research analysts covering the specialty retailing sector at Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs, and Sanford C. Bernstein. In this episode… Are online marketplaces starting to replace brick and mortar stores? Retailers are moving into online marketplaces at lightning speed because of the extent of their reach but for Richard Baum, while they do offer convenience, products sold in physical stores still have an upper hand in key areas of the retail market such as product quality assurance and brand equity. Richard Baum is the Managing Partner at Consumer Growth Partners and for him, selling on Amazon is a great idea but it isn’t the end-all and be-all for the companies who are looking to sell their products. He also says that while big brands should consider getting into partnership deals with Amazon to protect their brand credibility, small businesses should focus on establishing their brand in Amazon’s volatile retail environment. Eric Stopper sits down with Richard on this week’s episode of The Buy Box Experts podcast where Richard talks about his perspective on the banning of adult product ads, what a non-Amazonable product is, why luxury items opt-out of Amazon, and what the future holds for the retail market in the next five years. Stay tuned.

What Retail Will Look Like in 5 years with Richard Baum of Consumer Growth Partners

Bored with language study but fascinated by Chinese politics, in 1967 Richard Baum "borrows" a set of secret Chinese Communist Party documents that Taiwan intelligence had somehow brought to Taipei. These materials revealed the fierce struggle waged between 1962 and 1965 over the direction of the party-state's Socialist Education campaign. Through the documents, Baum shows how Mao Zedong was pushing for a focus on class struggle, while his opponents, namely Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, were trying to keep the movement focused on rooting out official corruption. Working with another graduate student, Frederick Teiwes, Baum documented the ideological purity/effective performance battle at the center of the CCP that had eventually caused Mao to launch the Cultural Revolution in 1966.This is just one of the stories that distinguished political scientist Baum shared in an engaging presentation at USC on April 1, 2010. Discussing his just published, China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom, Baum also detailed a three-decade long rivalry with Michel Oksenberg which included a pointed limerick and a verbal brawl at the profession's annual conference. The scholar also sweated through a Marine inspection of his luggage and inadvertently leaked information about the president's 1989 plan to meet China's leading dissident.

Bored with language study but fascinated by Chinese politics, in 1967 Richard Baum "borrows" a set of secret Chinese Communist Party documents that Taiwan intelligence had somehow brought to Taipei. These materials revealed the fierce struggle waged between 1962 and 1965 over the direction of the party-state's Socialist Education campaign. Through the documents, Baum shows how Mao Zedong was pushing for a focus on class struggle, while his opponents, namely Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, were trying to keep the movement focused on rooting out official corruption. Working with another graduate student, Frederick Teiwes, Baum documented the ideological purity/effective performance battle at the center of the CCP that had eventually caused Mao to launch the Cultural Revolution in 1966. This is just one of the stories that distinguished political scientist Baum shared in an engaging presentation at USC on April 1, 2010. Discussing his just published, China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom, Baum also detailed a three-decade long rivalry with Michel Oksenberg which included a pointed limerick and a verbal brawl at the profession's annual conference. The scholar also sweated through a Marine inspection of his luggage and inadvertently leaked information about the president's 1989 plan to meet China's leading dissident.

Richard Baum - "Confessions of a Peking Tom"