By GORDON PITTS, Toronto Globe and Mail

BOSTON -- The redbrick Baker Library at Harvard Business School is a shrine of U.S. capitalism, a hushed sanctuary where young managers have, for eight decades, prepared for glittering careers on Wall Street and in Fortune 500 companies.

Peter Swinburn, the new chief executive officer of Molson Coors Brewing Co., is the perfect metaphor for the global beer industry: a Welshman running a Colorado-based company with heavy Canadian ownership, which has a U.S. joint venture with SABMiller, of South African roots.

A weekly newspaper in China's Wenzhou province asked its readers: If you had to choose between your business and your family, what would it be?

Sixty percent of the respondents chose business, and just 20 percent chose family. Another 20 percent couldn't decide between the two.