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2011
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Towards Improvement in Singapore's Transportation Efficiency and Environmental Impact

By: Benjamin Edelman

I evaluate the suitability of Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) for transportation problems in Singapore, and I propose short-term and long-term applications. View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Singapore

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07 Feb 2017
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Checking in with One Championship

As a student at HBS, Chatri Sityodtong (MBA 1999) lived on four dollars a day, teaching the martial arts discipline of Muay Thai and sending the extra cash home to his mother and brother in Bangkok. “Everything I owned could fit into a single suitcase,” he recently... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

December 2008 (Revised February 2017)
Case

Olam International

By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman

In 20 years, Sunny Verghese had built Singapore-based Olam International from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply Chain; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Singapore

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21 Mar 2014
Blog Post

East Asia MBA Market Update

valuable to firms even if they are not from China, though Mandarin would likely still be required. Singapore Singapore serves as the regional hub for private equity firms looking to invest in Southeast Asia.... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

20 Oct 2022
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Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

stage all those who wished to talk directly to the Ambassador. “More than 20 guests had the opportunity to chat in private and further dwell on the issues raised during her speech,” he says. “Such direct access to the Ambassador was unique and very appreciated by our... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2018
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Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia

last year, which enabled her to spend six months in Singapore and six months in Shanghai conducting on-the-ground research and engaging with business leaders throughout the region. “I am interested in how globalization affects domestic... View Details

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

educated workers about their rights. Policy also plays a key role, Abrami added. In the early years of state-building, Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew may have busted unions, but he also raised wages at the same time. Moreover, he decided... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Competition of Countries

advantages. Singapore and Japan offer great examples of successful development strategies. Neither country has any natural resources. Both started out extremely poor, but over thirty years put together strategies that successfully... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2006
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Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS

strategic vision and actionable ideas for their firms. Next month, the School will host a third offering of its Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered Learning for some seventy business-school educators from Singapore and Greater... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

equities? What were some challenging or surprising aspects? After graduation, I returned to Singapore and the finance industry and I’m currently working for Nomura Securities. Since my time back I had a chance to do work on the side with... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity

managing the incubators. You talk about Singapore as doing a good job at “setting the table” for entrepreneurial ventures. What is the secret of that country’s success? Singapore has been keenly aware of the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

26 Oct 2020
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A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

Clubs News Clubs News Alumni Consider Social Impact Leadership in a Warming World The HBS Club of Singapore and HBS Club of London cosponsored a lively virtual discussion, in late September to explore the ways companies can drive social... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

June 2021 (Revised December 2021)
Case

Suzhou Good-Ark Electronics: Creating and Implementing a Sage Culture

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Nien-he Hsieh, Susan J. Winterberg, Nancy Hua Dai and Shalene Gupta

Suzhou Good-Ark, a Chinese semiconductor implemented "Sage Culture" management based on traditional Chinese philosophy. Productivity doubled, turnover decreased, and employee satisfaction shot up. By 2015, more than 2,000 companies had toured Wu’s factories, and Wu had... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Philosophy; Leadership; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Performance; Semiconductor Industry; China; Singapore

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May 2016 (Revised April 2019)
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Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World

By: Geoffrey Jones and Essie Alamsyah

This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on... View Details

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13 May 2013
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Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…

HBS alum, Aaron Mitchell, MBA 2011, provides an update on his career post-HBS. Current Position: Lateral Recruitment Lead – Asia Pacific ResourcingCurrent Location: Singapore Tell us what you’re up to these days. When not home sharing in... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference

Singapore and built an alumni club from the ground up, serving as committee member, secretary, and president between 1970 and 1988. In 1994, Teo became publisher and chief executive of Far East Trade Press and moved to Hong Kong — a city... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Devtosh Khare

investments in a variety of Indian business sectors. After graduation, Khare plans to work in a hypergrowth, high-tech Silicon Valley company or in private equity in Singapore or Hong Kong before pursuing his entrepreneurial dream in... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell

24 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Internship In Action

and optimizing internal resources to increase profitability. Thanks to the empowering management at work, the amazing office culture, the great friendships, and the beautiful places I’ve had the chance to visit in the region, I could not have asked for a better, more... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

August 2020
Supplement

Sheena Gupta (B)

By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble

Sheena Gupta (B) provides a brief update to how Gupta is thinking about crafting her life in context of the COVID-19 global pandemic. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Health Pandemics; Singapore

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May 2019 (Revised May 2020)
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fidentiaX: The Tradable Insurance Marketplace on Blockchain

By: Alexander Braun, Lauren H. Cohen and Jiahua Xu

Three years ago, Alvin Ang and his partner founded fidentiaX in Singapore, with the ambition to create the world’s first marketplace for tradable insurance policies on blockchain. With a 26-page white paper, the start-up closed a successful fundraising round through an... View Details

Keywords: Blockchain; Insurance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Insurance Industry; Technology Industry; Singapore

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